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Crossing Cultures

Posted by Tippi | Dec 11, 2014 | Bridal |

Sometimes a wedding is not just a union of two people, but a blending of two cultures. When I first met Chloe and her then fiancé, Richard, they were in the midst of planning their church wedding in England. Chloe wanted a gown that celebrated her Filipino heritage while reflecting her husband-to-be’s customarily proper culture. Both traditions strongly reflect a love for the classic and romantic, which was a perfect description as well for their picturesque union in a little medieval church in the Oxfordshire countryside 🙂 From Manila to the UK–her strapless gown with a full trumpet skirt...

Antwerp: One Thing Leads to Another

Posted by Tippi | Dec 10, 2014 | Travel Stories |

The best thing about exploring new places is that one is technically never lost, simply because every turn is an exciting find 🙂 Oftentimes in discovering a place (in this case, Antwerp) we would be led down one street, and the next, and the next, by nothing more than a sense of wonder and an insatiable curiosity. And it usually started off by seeing something small but interesting… …like a lamp post overflowing with pretty flowers. Which led us down a street in the Old Town… …into a Palace on the Meir where we found some deliciously irreverent chocolates...

MoMu (& Me)

Posted by Tippi | Dec 9, 2014 | Travel Stories |

One of the places on my ‘must-visit’ list in Antwerp was the ModeMuseum (MoMu), or Fashion Museum, home to the collections of my favorite Belgian designers and the center for some of the best–in my opinion–contemporary couture. The museum itself, much like Antwerp, was not that big, but the fashion design concepts it holds and the impact of Belgian designers (and the early, famed, Antwerp Six) in the world of fashion has been nothing short of enormous. While we were there I was lucky enough to catch the “MoMu Now” exhibit which put on display pieces from some of...

Train Travel: On the Design Track

Posted by Tippi | Dec 8, 2014 | Travel Stories |

A lot of memorable things have happened in the couple of months since I last wrote, and today being a stormy day at home makes it the perfect day for a new blog post 🙂 In time for my birthday last October, Ito and I took a Eurail trip through Belgium and Germany (with a day trip to Amsterdam thrown in for good measure), to discover a side of Europe we hadn’t visited before. One of our travel idiosyncrasies as a couple has been a long standing fascination with train stations, mainly because we don’t have many (any?) in...

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