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Dream Weaving.

“To be great at something requires a pinch of madness,much repetition,and a strong dose of passion coated with a varnish of obsession.” Drawing by Nancy.Z “Black Birds”, 2012 “Red”, 2012 “Alice”, 2012 “Lady Ginkgo”, 2012

Sporty style could be fun!

    To be honest I could be very unorganized when it comes to training. Usually friends said to me ” You do need to shape yourself, although you look skinny. Women need to build some muscles, it made them look sexy and healthy.” Yah I…

The east is Red.

   Red in the eastern culture has many different kinds of meanings. As you feel, it could be happiness, love, anger, or evil. In the horror stories, many demons in wear red to attract humans; in the sword movies, many classic roles in red to…

General-II

  It was not the first time I dressed in a military style, my inspiration came from the age of Napoleon. During this age all the European General’s military looked very decorative, elegant yet wearing this outfit showed leadership and position. Especiall Napoleon was very arrogant,…

Unexpected.

   It seems very typical or strange even for me to make a random post but this time it was a bolt of inspiration. Walking down the road as we wanted to find a place to shoot for my outfit (ps:this trench coat I wear everyday…

Black cat!

  Most of time I talked about art,history and other type of cultures in my blog, but actually I prefer dressing witty chic style during daily time. Generally my inspiration of outfits come from different eras or exotic cultures, but sometimes I could be inspired by just…

An Exotic explorer.

   Actually I didn’t plan this outfit for shoots, it was just a daily outfit for going on the street to collect drawing inspirations. But I love this series of pictures, so that I didn’t draw illustration this time, just share the pictures with you….

Little black dress.

  As a shade, black has so many possibilities to be. It could be elegant, could be negative, could be mystery or could be unknown, unlimited or any other neutral feeling. So does white, people usually said white is a new black, actually these 2 contrast…

A riverside romance.

   However flapper dress and flats won’t show women’s body shape properly, it still gives  us relaxing and confident image. For example usually I went out for collecting drawing references, I won’t wear high heels to torture myself. But it doesn’t mean dressing up is unnecessary, currently…

In the mood for Retro style.

   Have talked a lot about ancient traditional Chinese inspirations, some of my readers gave me suggestions,”Nancy, why don’t you dress something like Cheongsam? It is the most typical Chinese ethnic outfit.” I agree to half of it, cheongsam is one of the most famous…