Street Style, Designer Edition: Steph Hung
Once every month or two I hope to switch things up a bit and focus Street Style on a local designer who crosses my path. Steph Hung is the first designer I've decided to feature.
Her clothes are reinventions of something old made into something new. Although this isn't a new idea, I think Steph's designs show great imagination and attention to detail.
Featured Items: Zippered Dress, Braided Jersey Necklace, Pocket Cardigan, Silk String Necklace
Featured Item: Zippered Dress
Featured Items: Jean Jumper, Badge, Capelet, Tote
Featured Items: Tab Sleeve Jacket, Jean Vest, Lined Pouch, Belt, Necklace
Comments (40)
The first two are already, but the rest look like a Target ad. What is with the jean jacket and dress? I dislike both the colour and the cut. And I guess the cape is a little ridiculous.
oh my f***** lord...didn't know people wear table clothes here..please.. this is really embarrassing.. and disgrace, take it down please
as an fyi. these tight spandex pants are not for people with crooked thighs.. if you want to wear them, you'd better work out your thighs so they have a nice line.. not bended...and looks like she doesn't have any other pants to wear?
don't understand why you have to be so mean... if u don't like it just don't wear it... or at least be a bit more kind when posting... just saying
I agree with Joe. It's a style, maybe not your style. I'm glad we have variety and don't all wear identical clothes. I really appreciate re-salvaged clothes, and local designers. Thanks for featuring this designer.
This reminds me of a rack of polyester found at K-Mart, where someone has dared you to put together something that could pass on Queen West. Not form flattering, something seen from a bad 80's photo and entirely unoriginal. Sorry Steph Hung... this collection is a miss.
Maybe it's the model...I don't believe she would wear this fashion style. She only looks comfortable in the last picture; the others the clothes are wearing her.
if you sent this as part of your application portfolio to Parsons School of Design, it would go straight to the trash can...
Internet commenters... I just don't get it. Why do people feel that it's OK to say horrible, insulting and ignorant things when their name isn't used? I triple-dog-dare any of you to say this stuff to the designer's face. Also: if you're going to be so insulting, why don't you show us your superior work, so at least you can be a jerk with something to back it up with, rather than just being a jerk.
I really think blogTO should close anonymous commenting. Set-up a registration system where people have to give a valid email addy to comment, because there's nothing positive, useful, or enhancing in any of these comments. Not to say we should be censoring criticism, but this is just ridiculous.
I think the model is gorgeous, but one could go to value village and put together pieces like this without paying 'designer' prices.
Wow. Tough crowd. I appreciate this style. And I appreciate the photographs and the layout. Pics 1 and 2 are my favourites... I want that cardigan in Pic 2!!
And to Jack: Re: wearing spandex pants with "crooked legs". As someone who works with bodies and anatomy, I can tell you that she looks like she is a little over-extended in the knees. This is very common. It's structural (as in, that's the way her skeleton is) and no amount of working out will "fix" this. I have over-extended knees myself so I know first hand.
Back to the Fashion: Great job BlogTO, and props to the designer! :)
the design is so pretty... let's put it on the cover of the next Cosmo..and tell the whole world
There really isn't anything insulting here ( except for the part about the models legs; I have the same legs, I don't wear leggings!) -...people are giving their opinions/critiques. As an artist I'm used to criticism whether it's constructive or othewise...you listen and learn from it.
The Perez Hilton's of the fashion scene everyone, except way less popular and only on the Internet.
Don't pat yourself on the back too hard, there's a reason none of you are remembered without the tired 'internet-bitch' angle.
"I really think blogTO should close anonymous commenting."
Sure, but expect to be as dead as Torontoist with their clunkyass commenting system.
There are a small number of people who revel in being mean, a few others who say snarky things, but it isn't the majority of commenters. If it bothers you then start deleting the worst posts (jacks).
I like the tab sleeved jacket. Overall though, I must admit the designs seem fairly amateur, or a bit past their relevance. I do however think it's good to give press to designers of all scope and career level. Also, it might be about context here: if even one of these photos were part of the regular "street style" feature, I'm sure it would be picked as a favorite!
Treating the comments section of a blog post as a place to smear your foaming-at-the-mouth opinion in hopes of getting noticed is one step below scrawling on the wall above the urinal, so I hate to have to join in here. But seriously, people, are you insane? Again, it's your opinion, and you're entitled to it. But expressing yourself unequivocally doesn't make you sound authoritative. It just makes you sound like your brain doesn't have enough thoughts. So. If launching a screed of criticism without giving any aesthetic basis or viable critique is, by default, just a cry for attention, then lets work backwards.
1. No, they're not kidding. They put together a blog post. And who the hell is "Fashionist"? Are you a professional blog post commenter?
2. 'Oh my f***ing lord', indeed. Let's see now. Between the 'people wear this here' thing and the Parsons reference, I'd say Jack wants us to think he's from New York, or has at least been there once, and knows how much better NY is than T.O. Because he's got the same complex that every desperate, wannabe cognescenti from T.O. has about NYC. I am from New York. I've lived in both. I am writing this here in New York. My friends went to Parsons, and they would think these clothes are cute. Not mind-bending, but nice work. So Google another school and stop trying to sound informed. You don't have a clue what you're talking about. T.O. knows what it's about.
3. The clothes are cute. If Gavin McGuinness said that one of these pictures gave him "boners for miles", you'd be fawning over them. Maybe you're a vitamin-D deficient, internet-masturbating rube. I don't know. Sorry, that was rude. You're probably 13 years old. God, I'm so sorry. You're probably really fragile. Seriously, don't kill yourself just to prove a point to your parents.
4. Her thighs are gorgeous. Her legs are beautiful. Boners for miles, indeed."Crooked thighs"? Humans are not seagulls. Seriously, man, enough with the internet porn.
5. "Acid wash is not ironic, hip or fashionable." DS, you're obviously 47 years old. Only a 47 year old Mississaugan father of 3 would say that. Just because your daughter left her laptop open doesn't mean you should start fooling around with it.
6. That's all. So if you're fat, have bad skin, your friends are crap, and some bitch in high school who had nice clothes and was lucky enough to be as pretty as this model made you feel worthless, I'm sorry. I really am. Because the exhilaration of anonymously battering creative people on the internet will not fix you. Chris Martin will not fix you. I know, I know. They're just a name and a face on a screen. But they're actually real people who do things, unlike you, who doesn't do anything. You know that rut you're in? You'll never get out of it. Ever. You'll just keep combing blogs, looking for a hydrant to piss against under an alias. But nobody cares. Nobody reads your comments, except for me, and I don't care about you. I just wanted to set a precedent. I know how you're feeling, and yes. You're stuck being you forever.
the sartorialist this is NOT...see how this post should really look:
http://www.thesartorialist.blogspot.com/
Really, you're going to criticize the model's legs? Wow. New low.
I can't say I love all the looks, but I love certain pieces - hello, capelet - and that's kind of the point of the feature. I'm surprised at how many people want to shut out everything that doesn't match their own tastes perfectly.
^^yes. the point of these posts are street style, not your style.
These clothes are not my personal taste, but it's interesting to see what other people are doing and wearing and creating.
the negative nancys need to peace out and find some other outlet for their anger.
cheap. it always surprises me how there are those who think having "style" is mismatching cheap fabrics and so-ugly-its-trendy prints in a way that seems "effortless". it takes a lot of effort to deliberately look that bad, how sad.
Here's an idea... Stop feeding the trolls. Ignore them, they do go away after a while.
Not my style, but I love where you're going with this. Would love to see the array of designers we have in our city :)
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Getting basics like fulltext search, search for tags and comments working reliably would be a huge step forward already. ,
Getting basics like fulltext search, search for tags and comments working reliably would be a huge step forward already. ,
Getting basics like fulltext search, search for tags and comments working reliably would be a huge step forward already. ,
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