[Feature] Xing KPOP Street Winner – KRISTIN!!!!

A few weeks ago, I’ve co-presented a contest that I’m sure most of you heard of. Thanks to our friends at Xing Street Fashion Project, their session 8 of their open shoot series was dedicated to KPOP FASHION! Being a fan of KPOP and the K-Fashion as well, we collaborated for this open shoot for ALL of YOU, KPOP fans to come show us and strut your stuff ala 2NE1, Big Bang, 4Minute, Wonder Girls, Super Junior and the many KPOP artists that I’m sure most of you love and adore. It was quite hard to choose from the entries since my co-bloggers had a bit of a hard time from the entries. However, we did get to decide on a winner and we have none other than Kristin Cornejo, who showed us a style of KFashion that most of us love! COLORFUL Fashion, they call it. Of course, we’re not saying KPOP is limited to “bling bling” colors but let’s just say that if you say KPOP Fashion, this is one of the elements that gives much impact to those who aren’t quite familiar on KPOP or KFASHION. So we met up with Kristin last Saturday where we did a mini-photo shoot plus we also asked her a couple of things.

And this was her winning piece for the contest,

What do you guys think? Neat, right? The outfit basically has the “colorful” element and one I personally liked about this outfit is how she layered her her clothes because KFashion is sometimes all about layering and mix and matching pieces.

Kristin is 19 years old, and among all of the KPOP artists laid out on the table, she likes 2NE1 the most. Like most of us, she learned about the group through their collaboration with fellow labelmates, Big Bang for the mobile company LG. I’m sure you all know the song “Lollipop” and yes, Kristin loves the colorful and playful mix and matching of clothes just like what 2NE1 and Big Bang wore in the music video. Well, she wasn’t a fan during 2Ne1′s earlier days but she learned to really like the group through the song, “I Don’t Care”.  Her favorite member of the group is Park Bom who is known for her chic yet “this girl got attitude” style in the group. Aside from 2Ne1 (HAPPY 1 YEAR ANNIVERSARY BTW!), Kristin likes Big Bang and 4Minute.

However, KFashion isn’t Kristin’s original fashion genre. She looks up to fashion icon, Vivienne Westwood because of the classy yet sassy styles of the Westwood line which I think KPOP Fashion is also influenced by. For Kristin though, KFashion isn’t a one time thing like most would thing, she thinks it’s more of a “spur of the moment” thing plus she believes that Kfashion, aside from being trendy, is a means of letting out your creativity without going too outrageous with your outfits.

What Kristin likes about KFashion is that it allows her not to be scared to try new things like the striking and colorful outfits. Of course, I asked her “What about the weather in the Philippines, how do you adjust to it?”, of course, we’re a tropical country and South Korea experiences 4 seasons and with summer being SOOOO HOT like just during our interview, it’s a bit hard to adjust to KFashion? Kristin says that sure we may not wear too much of the layered clothings but styles insprired from Girls’ Generation (Gee Gee Gee shorts) and a 2-layer top could do the trick.

*note: just make sure the fabric is cotton so it won’t be too hot. XD

Lastly, I asked her if there are any shops she’d recommend since not all of us can go on Yesstyle and spend a million on Korean fashion and online shopping may or may not be your thing. Kristin mostly gets her clothes from thrift stores which has unique finds from time to time. Of course, you’d just have to train that little eye on searching for the good finds. However, if the thrift shops aren’t your thing, she says a good source would be “Y.R.Y.S” – a clothing store which has very eccentric styles of clothing which can be easily mixed with other basic pieces.

Kristin, being our Best Style winner from Session 8 won an Etude House Moist Full Special Set (c/o yours truly) so if you want to strut your stuff and win an awesome Etude House prize from milkberry.net,  it’s never too late to join SESSION 9: City of Summer brought to you by the same team from Xing Street Fashion! I’m giving out another prize from Etude House and it’s very cute, I have one for myself and it really really smells good

Thank you Xing Street Fashion for doing the collaboration with me and of course, co-bloggers who helped me pick a winner and the friendly staff of Etude House (keep texting me, i know I have stuff I have yet to pick up XDDD)

—-sidenote: NEW LAYOUT? more in my next post: SUPER JUNIOR WILL MARRY U DAY!

Bring KPOP to KSTYLE!

Hey everyone,

As much as I am pretty hyped up with the surge of KPOP-related events and I have to admit, most of them a pretty tiring, here’s another KPOP related event that you should look forward to! Oh no no, it’s not another KPOP artist coming over but it’s more of like bringing your favorite KPOP artists to life through your own “street style”.

Huh? You probably don’t get what I mean. See, I love KPOP and I love clothes, shopping and I practically raid my closet every morning to find what to wear and since my choice of music is quite a good range of KPOP songs, the artists do influence me to dress up, ala Korean style.

And this video feature basically just shows how much I love and adore Korean fashion. I really miss the staff of Ka-Blog I was with during the shoot. Going back to the point, K-Street fashion has been a great influence on my own personal style and somehow, it made me learn a lot about clothes. Back then, I wasn’t really the most fashionable girl around and it took time for me to realize that mixing and matching clothes and accessories can be a form of art too…which made me wonder why I didn’t take up Fashion Merchandising.

So I know most of you love Korean Street Styles as much as I do (and because I love the Filipino KPOP Community because you all are pure awesome!) and with the help of our lovely friends from Xing Street Fashion Project, we present: XING KPOP ON STREET!

This event is seriously for everyone who has a knack for Korean Street Fashion. And OMG! Guess what, this is my first sponsored contest as well. So it’s not just an open shoot project, it’s a contest as well. Winner of the best KPOP Style Award gets a special gift set from ETUDE HOUSE courtesy of Milkberry.Net (Oh so KPOP much~!) and a special feature HERE on my blog and on the Xing Website as well. Cool or what?!

Here’s some details about the Open Shoot! :3

Date: April 10 & 24, 2010
Time: 1:00PM ~ 5:00PM
Theme: 4minute, Big Bang, GDragon, Girls Generation, U-Kiss, Super Junior, 2NE1.
Registration fee: P350.00php
*you have the option to pay it on location during the shoot or pay it full/half (P300.00/P600.00) in advance.
*registrants must be on time and expected to arrive at Coffee Bean (Drop-off area outside Gateway Mall)
*If registrants failed to show up on time without informing us about getting late, down payments will not be refunded/returned.

-Inclusive 3 (4R) photo prints and digital copies of 3 best shot + 3 Bonus photos & a chance to win a special prize from Milkberry.net and be  our featured for BEST STYLE of the Month.
-All photos will be post-processed at its best.
-Photography & Post-Processing by Chai Mungcal, Jaro Furosaki & Ciarra Del Rosario

So do register now, click on this link

http://xingstreet.multiply.com/journal/item/78