Pink Rock Candy – Top fashion trends, news and shopping of 2010

I’m way envious of people who can sew. My mom tried to teach me when I was in grade school, but the only thing I ended up making was sucky beanie baby-esque things for one my brother’s 1st grade projects. I have tons of patterns for clothes I was going to make, but that fell through; I can’t even figure out how to thread the bobbin anymore. My mom is a great seamstress. She has made dresses for both me and Blythe for homecoming and she made the skirt of my first prom dress after an unfortunate internet shopping experience. This envy tends to steer me to clothing companies that remake vintage clothes like the one Eve Chrust created called eve*lynn. I think being able to take something you find at a thrift store or Salvation Army and make it totally stellar is something everyone should learn to do. Eve started selling eve*lynn to classmates in 2004. She ran her business right out of her college dorm room, and just last year started her first RTW line. She likes to experiment with different fabrics like the fabric of a vintage tee, silks, and the ultra soft modal knit fabric. I think she does a great job of creating a unique rock-n-roll/city girl look.
Right now, in her webstore are tons of great looks. There is the super-rock Vintage Skull Sweater, which I adore. Since the sweaters are re-invented vintage sweaters, all of them are completely unique, and the hot skull design was created just for eve*lynn by graffiti designer Ezo. V-necks are always something I like to keep in my closet, so the Silk V-Neck Top really made me swoon, and the fact that it’s silk doesn’t hurt. If you want a little bit of leather without looking like a biker, (unless that’s what your going for) the Leather Trimmed Bell Sleeve Top is great. It’s perfect to toss over cute leggings or jeans (since it’s still a little chilly on the east coast). When I visited the webstore for the first time, the Vintage Overdyed Sweatshirt first caught my eye. It’s a v-neck hoodie with a chic vintage brooch. Many hoodies can be sort of manly, but the brooch keeps it very girlie. They also come in assorted colors which means you don’t know which color hoodie might show up on your doorstep. Eve is always creating new designs, so you never know what will show up. Make sure you keep a look out for some of her great new designs!

If you haven’t realized from the 165.3 other times I’ve said it, I absolutely love new things. It could be a new TV show, movie, band, clothing designer, food, or even the cute new guy that works and the drugstore down the street. Fresh things just excite me, and MySpace is a great way to find things I would never have known about in regular situations. Yes, these novel finds do come from lots of time spent lurking on the interweb, but that’s just a hazard of the job. On one of my lurking excursions, I found this great clothing brand called pH by Phillia. The clothes are a great mix between mod, space, and traditional asian dress.
pH by Phillia was started by Phillia Downs and bestie for life Nanako Mori. Phillia was originally an ultra smart science geek, like yours truly (she got her B.S in Biology and Genetics), and also like me, she found that her true calling was a more artistic one. With a little prodding from her friends and family, she started pH by Phillia and eventually got the thrilling chance to show at a fashion show. After a couple more fashion shows and a magazine feature or two under her belt, Phillia picked-up and moved to NY. Amazingly, this is her first official spring line and I love it.
I’m completely ga-ga over some of her mini’s. They’re really girlie and frilly, but still have the ability to remain casual. I’m a giant fan of accentuating my waist and the obi-esque bands in bright red are perfect for that. You can also see they’re signature equal sign on a lot of the bands which I find really fun. I love the allusions the science and math in the brand name and the clothing itself.

A few weeks ago I got a killer speeding ticket, and when I say killer, I mean annihilation. It was my first and I was totally scared; my hands were shaking so bad. I’ve sort of learned my lesson, but in the words of Ricky Bobby, “I wanna go fast!” My parents have taken to calling me Speed Racer and I was completely stoked when I saw some of their pieces were called speed racer. The dress and hoodie not only have an awesome name but they’re so cute.

You can buy the red-hot pH by Phillia goodies at Funky Lala. You can also be buddies with pH by Phillia on MySpace because who doesn’t need a new fashion buddy?

I have to take a break from fashion week and tell you guys about this fantastic designer Wendy Mullin. Wendy created her line of women’s and men’s clothing called Built by Wendy in 1991. Though she had been making clothing for almost four years, Wendy became well known for her guitar straps in the mid-90s. After she gained this notoriety, Wendy was able to expand on her first love of clothing making and opened her first store in “Little Italy” in 1998, and in 2005 she was able to open two more stores in Brooklyn and Los Angeles. Not only does Wendy make great clothes for men and women, she makes baby clothes, wrote her own sewing book called Sew U, and designed a line of sewing patterns with Simplicity called “Built by YOU”.
Wendy’s spring line is chock full of ultra-cute nautical style clothing. It’s ever so apparent how drawn I am to this style of clothing so you can understand my excitement when I found Built by Wendy. Though the entire collection doesn’t come out until 2/15/07, some clothes are available now. You can also take a peek at her spring collection lookbook to see what’s ahead. To stay updated on Built by Wendy you can sign-up for her newsletter.

I found this great online clothing store called Chica Boom. They currently have a few different lines. One is a pirate themed line, which makes me want to go pillage or something. There is the most stylin’ heart hoodie. It’s perfect for Valentine’s Day. (Who needs a valentine when you have a cute hoodie?) Chica Boom also has an amazingly cute cheetah print hoodie on sale. Even Seventeen agrees this is a store to keep an eye on. Some of their clothing as been seen in the August 2006 and February 2007 issues.