TBT: Throwback Thursday: Fashion shoot with Hermes for My Place magazine

Shooting with a fav crew--photographer Dino Busch, makeup Natasha Moor and model Ana--we ran around Pacific Place doing this autumnal shoot. The Hermes looks was gorgeous. 

 

Behind the scenes of a shoot

Model, assistants and a half-dead photographer. He got food poisoned the night before shoot - and still completed the job. Committed. Well, he should have been committed! ;0)

 

How the Cookie crumbled... My Trials and Tribulations with the Most Beautiful Tuxedo Cat in the World

My cat Billyjean looks like an adorable little ball of harmless fluff but is in fact a neurotic, volatile, hyper aggressive lioness-beast wrapped into the tiny little body of a tuxedo cat.

Every few weeks, we've had to take the cat to professional groomers, at considerable cost and effort, where it takes three people and a prayer to hold her down to trim her... claws... talons. When we've tried at home, its usually turned into a bloodbath. A record nine groomers have sent regrets that they are no longer able to meet our cat's urgent mani-pedi needs as medical insurance wouldn't cover acts of God or feline.

A longtime believer in throwing money at problems, we've chauffeured the cat to different groomers studded around the island of Hong Kong. The first few times, when she was but a kitten, we took her to the groomers in Kennedy Town and Cookie the dog (right - seen here with Linda Markova, who came to help contain the damn cat), came bouncing and wagging along to come play with Billyjean. My wide-eyed kitten had one look at the joyful pupper and instantly met her arch nemesis; she went ape-shit.

She scratched the dog, tried to bite him and hissed and snarled her way. If you've never witnessed a hissy-fit, it's quite a sight. As witness to a domesticated kitten morphing into a feral wild cat numbed me into a motionless, petrified waxwork figurine of a self I didn't recognise, I've never been more shocked in my life. Mind you, the cat is a fraction of the size of the dog. Linda had to hold the dog up and away from the cat to save him. She comforted the brown fluff all day while, once nudged into motion, I tried to hold the cat back with restraint and cajoling.

Since then, recognising the scent of Billyjean, every time we went back thereafter, the dog hides under the furniture, trembling.

Billy's mostly unapologetic... about everything in life in general... Our last visit resulted in the owner giving us a full refund and asking us to never come back.

Cats. Not just a bad musical.

To quote Edith Piaf , "Non, Je ne regrette rien."

I regret nothing.

Also, Go away. 

Jewellery Shoot

Styled by Tasha Ling, shot by Olaf Mueller.

TBT to shooting Linda Markova for the jewellery supplement in Prestige magazine.

Forgot who did the makeup... probably Karen Yiu... cause she did majority of our shoots. Cause she's the best.

Sophisticated Sisters: My Place magazine shoot: 2016

Cover shoot for My Place magazine.

With photographer Dino Busch, styled by Bhisan Rai with hair and make-up by Natasha Moor. Models, Linda Markova and Ana C.

Location, all around Pacific Place, Hong Kong.

Ana C - easily my favourite model in Asia. So stunning, so versatile and such a kind person. Linda... er... well, Linda's Linda. If you know... YOU know! #aggressivenutjob