I am slowly accumulating my personal robot collection – love staggering these little weirdos around my apartment. These were spotted at the Warhol exhibition gift shop, but you can find them easily on Taobao for very cheap.
Nom Nom
May 7, 2013
Kate Moss once said, “Nothing tastes as good as feeling skinny.” Clearly Miss Moss hasn’t eaten Strictly Cookies, Shanghai’s first and best company baking American style (read: chunky, hearty, heavenly) cookies, just like my mom never made (my family just devoured raw cookie dough straight from the blue Pillsbury tube).
While being dear dear friends with the founder Lexie Comstock is a curse to my inner thighs, the overall joy and cookie-related benefits of our friendship vastly prevails. And now Strictly Cookies has a new homebase, Nom Nom, located just outside the French Concession (yes, there is life worth living outside of the FC. You should try it sometime…), on a lovely stretch of Panyu Lu.
Shanghai’s uncontested cookie queen teamed up with Snow Maple Desserts – the food artisans behind Jiong Gelato – to create the cool cafe, which presents freshly-made gourmet dessert products- cookies, ice cream, milkshakes and Belgian waffles - in addition to take away food options, beer and wine, and alcohol-infused desserts like BOOZIE MILKSHAKES. YES.
Those with insatiable sweet tooths should head to Nom Nom to try the latest cookie of the month: Crouching Cookie Hidden Brownie. A bite of the brownie on the inside will send you flying through bamboo forests.
Alas, if you’re still set on being a skinny bitch like Moss – bikini season is around the corner after all – there is zero-calorie alternative: a rather excellent coffee for a steal (RMB15!). Hunker down here for a bit, and you can still get sugar high inhaling the smell of freshly baked cookies wafting in from the open kitchen.
Fashion footnote: how stellar is Lexie’s manicure? She regularly gets manis with some funky nail art at a little joint on Changle Lu, just west of Changshu Lu. Word on the street is this hole-in-the-wall spot also offers eyelash extensions that will have you batting Bambi eyes at everyone.
Flea Market
May 3, 2013
Those assiduous grasshoppers who have cleaned our their closets for spring – and are eager to to fill them back up again, like, STAT – should head to an intimate flea market at La Faubourg this Sunday from 1-6pm. There you can score some seriously cool castaways once loved by some of my exceptionally chic fashion friends. Everything will be under RMB300, including pieces from Bubblemood’s past collections. Compared to other markets, this one is more hush hush. Don’t expect vendors with baby food, bamboo bowls and blown glass. Just fashion and tipples – ideal hangover cures as well. Voila
Andy Warhol
May 1, 2013
Yesterday I scoped out the Andy Warhol exhibit at the Power Station of Art museum. To me, a solid hallmark of a good exhibition is that I walk out wanting to buy the artist’s prints, dress like his muse ( Edie Sedgwick, with her bleached bob, coal-lined eyes and wearing nothing but massive earrings, a mariniere and black undies) and ravenously fill the pages of my creative journal. This is the best art exhibition I’ve been to in Shanghai – one with a huge selection of works portraying the story of Warhol’s creative evolution. And, the Power Station itself is an incredible space with neck-craning installations and uninterrupted views of the South Bund and neighboring Expo graveyard.
No, you don’t have to exit through the gift shop, which sells Warhol coloring books.
Warhol’s sketches of the male form… in denim… with happy trails and heart tattoos.
The exhibition included Warhol’s ‘Time Capsules’ that showcased his younger work as an illustrator and creative director at magazines, as well general rockstar memorabilia from later in his life, including invitations to Studio 54 parties and hand-written notes from celebs thanking him for their portraits.
Warhol’s celebrity portrait photography has clearly influenced Terry Richardson and Juergen Teller.
Debbie Harry radiating total babe-itude.
Only in China… while the guard had stepped away for a bit, a few of us thought that this part was an interactive installation. It wasn’t.
Cyrielle Mohara
April 27, 2013
NAME // Cyrielle Mohara
TALENT // Cyrielle M designer/ organizer of The Flea Market/ model
HIDDEN TALENTS // horseback riding
WHY SHANGHAI // the opportunities that are given to young people, excitement and fast pace of life
A DAMN FUN NIGHT OUT // usually starts with a Japanese restaurant around Gubei area and then to a bar with good tunes for dancing all night
WHERE YOU UNWIND // my apartment
YOUR CURRENT SOUNDTRACK // Jojo Flores
LAST DVD YOU WATCHED // De Rouille et D’os
LAST BOOK YOU READ // my Chinese grammar book (I’m studying Mandarin at a university)
ADDICTIONS // tassels, colors, bracelets
ABHORRATIONS // People smoking around. Smoke always seems to come toward the non-smokers
THREE INSPIRING SHANGHAI FRIENDS // too many amazingly creative people in Shanghai
YOUR STYLE. 3 WORDS. GO. // with my mood
FAVORITE CHINESE FASHION LABEL // Oba (I love their coats)
CHINA’S BEST CONTRIBUTION TO FASHION // porcelain, especially when it’s on jewelry
CHINA’S WORST CONTRIBITION TO FASHION // copies
SHANGHAI ‘S INFLUENCE ON YOUR CLOSET // print, colors, mix
SHANGHAI’S BEST STORES/BOUTIQUES // Absoluter Boutique
SHANGHAI’S HIDDEN FASHION GEM // The Flea Market @Oasis Xintiandi and private sales
WEB INSPIRATION // I usually get inspired by people I meet everyday or my travels
STALK CYRIELLE // www.cyriellem.com ; CyrielleM (Weibo & Weixin); www.facebook.com/
Doggy bag
April 22, 2013
Between styling/shooting a lookbook and writing up a 1,000 word report on Shanghai Fashion Week F/W13 for major trend forecasting agency Stylesight this weekend, I didn’t have have a whole lot of time to dream up a mind-blowing blog post for Monday. This is last minute, and so admittedly, I am falling back on two fail-safe ways that will make you smile (unless you’re a total dick): cute dogs and good old fashioned gay fabulousness. Together. In a Louis Vuitton backpack no less. You are welcome. This impeccably dressed couple toting their teacup chihuahuas were spotted outside of the La Chambre Miniature show.
P to the S… I am giving a talk on Wednesday 8pm at The Apartment along with fellow hawt haute hyperlinkers Timothy, Denise and Jason. In good company indeed.
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