A Life in the Fashion Lane: Karlie's Kookies- My Recipe

A Life in the Fashion Lane: Karlie's Kookies- My Recipe: If you don't know about Karlie's Kookies by now but call yourself part  of the fashion industry, it's time you get with ...

When I grow up, I will get a Jack Russell terrier.

LMAO! Just had a really great chat with Zihui on Whatsapp! HAHAHAHHA!! I'll post up the screenshots when I have the time x'D

Took me long enough

Today is a rather sluggish day but I'm hoping to sort our my blog properly, been procrastinating it for so long, I have so many overdue drafts yet to publish! I really don't want to miss out any details of the great times I had in my youth haha!

Yesterday was really great cuz Pung actually came?? And hungout with us till it's pretty late even though he knocked off really late and he had to wake up at 5:30am the next day. Usually he'd have just given up and tell us he couldn't make it or he's tired haha! Probably cuz he couldn't believe that Putri was really "back" xD I feel so bad about lying but you know we do it cuz we miss him and want him to spend time with us instead of his bed. :D It's always nonstop laughing when he's around! Wish I had such humor!

Since we were having dinner at Tiong Bahru Bakery @ Raffles City, Putz and I took the opportunity to ask if they were hiring, and they were! They needed part timers! :D I was super duper happy cause the pay was pretty good and the shifts were flexible which is great! I'm going down on Friday after 4pm to meet with the manager for an interview, hopefully she/he is nice and I hope I get the job hehe! Pray I won't be too shagged out that I give up on my workout routine! T^T I WILL NOT! I SHALL PERSEVERE IN THE NAME OF CANDICE! LOL 

But Putri just told me that she's taking Billabong job which pays $6/hr, not enough to get me motivated to get out of bed, I'd rather run or workout haha! Well, there's good and bad, the good thing is that we can get off days on the same day, and the bad part is we can't work together, but oh well.

Anyway, I managed to ask Gabriel to come with me to the interview, well most likely. I was gonna call Maryanne, but I think I should just tell her later cuz she kinda bailed on us yesterday when she said she was gonna come to the Billabong interview with us to try to get the job together. But she didn't in the end cause she was SLEEPING??? and she turned her phone to "Do not disturb" mode. No wonder we couldn't get through!

So yeah, as of now I can only count on Gabriel to hope he can come with me to the interview. I wish I could call Abbey like when I applied for VS but she'd still be at work plus she's meeting Melvin on Friday so.. Yeah.

CANDICE SWANEPOEL INTERVIEW: BAZAAR MEETS CANDICE SWANEPOEL

Candice Swanepoel with the Bottletop x Narciso Rodriguez collection. Picture: Getty

When Cameron Saul and Oliver Wayman, founders of  Bottletop, were looking for a face to front their new collaboration with Narciso Rodriguez, never in their “wildest dreams” did they imagine that they’d find someone with which they had so much in common as Candice Swanepoel. Working with the blue-eyed blonde-haired model, best known for her work with Victoria’s Secret, is “a match made in heaven,” explained the boys when we met the trio in a Harrods restaurant.

The Bottletop Foundation was launched in 2002 to raise funds and awareness for education projects based in Africa and South America, and was followed by the Bottletop Fashion Company a decade later – which creates handbags made from recycled bottletops and aluminium ring pulls

“I had been looking for a charity to work with for a little while, but there was nothing that really spoke to me – if I do something, I really want to be involved and feel passionate about it,” Swanepoel told us. “And my agent heard about Ollie and Cam, she told me about what they do and the fact that they’re based between Brazil and Africa, two places that I really care about. Then I met them, was inspired by their energy and their drive to make it work.”

The model fronts their latest trio of spring/summer 14 handbags, designed by Narciso Rodriguez – one of which was named in her honour. But, as Saul and Wayman soon discovered, Swanepoel isn’t your average spokesmodel.

“I like to see everything first hand – I don’t just want to do an event in New York and London, I want to go to South Africa and Brazil and really be a part of it. To see where and how the bags are made and how they are helping people,” she said. “Luckily they are letting me be quite involved!”

Candice Swanepoel with Bottletop's Cameron Saul and Oliver Wayman. Picture: Getty

Earnest and compassionate, Swanepoel explained how a decade of working in the industry has taught her to be more selective about the jobs that she accepts and the people that she works with.

“For many years as a young girl I was just trying to make it for myself, earn money and have a great future. But now, I’ve earned money and I got to a point where I thought, ‘Do I really need to do this job, is it really going to change me or help me?’ So that’s why I was looking for something that would really feed me in a different way. I feel like a lot of celebrities feel a responsibility to do that – they feel like they have to - whereas I didn’t, it just organically became something that I needed in my life,” she explained. “Sometimes in my world you have to do things that are not really you and sell things that are not really you – but I don’t do anything that I’m not going to talk sincerely about. So it’s a real pleasure for me to do this.”

So how does she prevent herself from feeling overworked and underappreciated?

“It’s a business so people will try and get you to do everything that you possibly can – particularly when you're younger, it’s much harder. But I take a lot of inspiration from travelling and different cultures and seeing real life, so that’s what I like to do – I go and travel somewhere and purposefully don't stay in a nice hotel because that feels like work,” she said. “I try and do things that inspire me, and give me energy to go back to work and be a happy person. You need that to be able to work as much as we do. I took a month off for Christmas and New Year, and I know it sounds like a long time, but I come back better and stronger than ever and happy to work. You can see it in the eyes, your attitude – it’s a very personal job that we do. People are in your face all the time, and if you’re not right or you’re not happy, then it’s very difficult. So that’s how I continue! It’s good, now my projects are feeding my business as well.”

Source: Harper's Bazaar UK

Love this interview, more reasons why she's my role model in life. It's not just her looks, I grow to be a better person because of her.