After living here for over a year, we still consider ourselves new to the city. This is probably because we generally stay within a 10 block radius of our apartment and only rarely travel beyond our own imaginary borders. Thankfully, all my favourite Shanghai people live relatively close and also live dat boMbA$$ ~FrEeLaNcE*LyFe~ ヽ(´Д｀)人(´Д｀)人(´Д｀)ノ My self-employed friends and I have to struggle each month or even week to stack that cheese (a girl’s gotta make it rain sometimes okay) but on the other hand, we have the freedom of calling each other up morning-of or day before and meeting up for 4 hour lunch meals or all day fun in the park.

My dear friend Hart of Shanghai Style File needed me to shoot her for an awesome “Day in the Life” post on the holy moly yoga site Lulu Lemon. Shooting Hart meant hanging out all day (in the c-c-c-c-c-old), eating pastries at Farine and ending post-shoot with a glass of wine! We shot a couple of looks in Fuxing Park (my first time there) and I couldn’t believe how much it reminded me of Paris when Jason and I would wake up early every morning and cross the Pont Royal bridge to le Jardin des Tuileries. When the weather warms up a bit in SH, we’ll definitely be scootering our way over to Fuxing park to hang out – the only kicker is that they don’t allow dogs ૮( ꒦ິ࿄꒦ີ)ა Oh well I guess Sumo will just continue sleeping all day and night at home!

The perfect break in between TOO MUCH walking while in Paris was stopping in at the KENZO HQ for a little tea time and to check out the SS14 marine inspired collection. I was so excited to see the collection up close in person to check out all the details that you easily don’t notice when viewing the collection on a computer screen or even if you’re sitting on the front row at the fashion show. The details are just that small and intricate! The super wonderful Aurore shared all the special things like the “caviar”-full fish bellies embroidered in a skirt or the rubber amusement part keychain details on a men’s shirt. This Spring, think loads of pastels and crazy all over prints like palm trees on textured paint-stroke-like fabrics and more throwback vintage Kenzo inspired big logo tops. Seriously, could Carol and Humberto be ANY MORE GENIUS? Don’t even get me started on the Opening Ceremony collection that just went down the runway last week..and zomg I couldn’t be anymore excited to see the KENZO AW14 show online in a couple of weeks!!

Thanks to my friends at Kenzo for all the love and excited to see what other GENIUS GENIUS things they’ll be coming up with soon! And now..I’m off to scheming to see how I’ll be able to get me one of these magic Kenzo heat sensitive mugs from the recent menswear show..hmmmm (;*´Д`)ﾉ