Breaking Chocolate Apart, Literally
Pure chocolate does not survive beyond two weeks, said chocolatiers and Food Network experts at the New York Chocolate Show. Naturally, they meant two weeks after it is made, not two weeks from when it...
View ArticleA Sweet’Art Affair: To Remember or Repeat?
When speaking with strangers, it can be easier to engage with impeccably or uniquely dressed ones. Similarly, prior to consuming a dessert, it is far more enjoyable to gape at a well crafted and...
View ArticleChocolate Devotion
Some things are a staple in life. Brushing your teeth without yawning. Checking the crawling time in a meeting. Turning a warm pillow around to sleep on the colder side. Quirks and dramatized habits,...
View ArticleSpread the Red
No matter where I see the color red, its appeal is undeniably addictive. Conquer-worthy. Love. Sin. Sky. Rose. Berry. Blood. Eye. Heart. Brick. Sand. Sauce. And so in the city of Berlin, steaming with...
View ArticleLookbook Legacy 1: Diving into the Deepest Blue
Your eyes choose what they want to see. As I have said before, the world feeds them daily. Every eighty six thousand four hundred seconds of a day. Shut eye or glaring vision included. And yet, as we...
View ArticleA Horse Powered Costume Drama
Thud – The pounding gallop of stallions. Ping – The clinking of champagne glasses. Crash – The explosion following a victory. Soundless – The splintering of a daydream. There exists a feeling in all of...
View ArticleLove for the Double Entendre
Hear with your ears, but listen with your mind. Taste with your tongue, but eat with your eyes. This bright and airy shop with the double-entendre name – financier is a type of spongy, rich almond cake...
View ArticleLookbook Legacy 2: Ferocity
In the days of yore, mainstream fashion casted a calm, alluring, almost fairy-tale like mystical spell on mortals. Fancy, flowing fabrics, crisp and clean cuts, ornately designed embroidery and...
View ArticleLookbook Legacy 3: Let your Clothes Tell a Story
Why celebrate a birthday, when you celebrate the entire month? April is birthmonth for me. Follow the hashtag on twitter, tumblr, and instagram to catch my eats and adornments of the month! I’ve always...
View ArticleSoaked (and Fried) in Red Light
Nothing like warm light, hot company and bohemian chic food on a chilly San Francisco night. Since catching up with an addictive personality is critical, the location of conversation comes secondary....
View ArticleBirthmonth: A time to create history
April is my birthmonth. For why celebrate only a day, when inching towards the day itself, everything seems enchanting. And the days after are spent recovering from liquid infusion or at the gym...
View ArticleTreasures of the Luxury Sail in the Persian Gulf
To think it started as a sail rising from the ocean, like the birth of a new era, or the dawn of a sinking ship. Yet, being the Persian Gulf in all its opulence, it was actually the enigmatic structure...
View ArticleEn Vogue: Where Adventure turns Glamorous
It sounds like an oxymoron to breathe the words hike with fashion, or to utter life-threatening danger with breaths-stopping runway. For when was the last time that adventure turned vogue? That a...
View ArticleLate Night Luxury in London
It seems that on my crusade for all things opulent, shimmering and luxurious, I meet a lot of strangers that are body beautiful but leave lots to be desired in soul. And just like how we meet strangers...
View ArticleThe Science of Burnt, Bitter Chocolate
Imagine juxtaposing mystical, comical and aspirin-inducing memories of science laboratories, with my delectable, exponential addiction to chocolate. Gastronomypix made the right, paradoxical choice on...
View ArticleLookbook Legacy 4: 10 tees every guy should have
Is fashion really just an induced epidemic? I’ve often wondered, considering my affinity towards shopping, and exploring a shopaholic’s mind. What’s the first thing you come face to face with in a guy?...
View ArticleA Crafty Artist by Night on South Beach
Your eyes will show you my face, but it’s your mind that will tell you my story. Imagine an illusion so poignant that it blurs the lines of visual consciousness, outdoorsy interiors, and surreal...
View ArticleA Lazy Voyeur by Day on South Beach
Your lifestyle is either scintillating or treacherous when you watch the sun lick the night away. For dawn is that strange time when the lamp goes out, but the light does not. Stumbling out of bed...
View ArticleShades of Grey at New York Fashion Week
Come New York Fashion Week, the city transforms into a telescope into the future of fashion. In a city of thousands, a kaleidoscope of people emerge at a central, inspiring hub of succulent...
View ArticleSparkling Midnight Menswear at New York Fashion Week
Amidst the ruffles and lace and wedges and sparkle of fashion week, it’s always nice to see a sliver of menswear dedicated designers. And one can only hope of the day when menswear and womenswear...
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