Avina x Galaxxxy Rocks!

I am thrilled to announce the newest opportunity in my life--a chance to be a spokesmodel along with one of my best friends Meggie (of SweetieCakes)--for the Japanese brand galaxxxy! I made a silly little promotional image using a print I hand-drew almost a year ago. I'm glad it's finally seeing the light of day now!

I have always loved the pop-culture references in their designs, bright colours, and of course, curvaceous women, and am so excited to begin work with them on some videos for their brand. They're hoping to create a stronger presence in America, and I'm super happy that they chose us to help with that. (Not to mention one of my idols, Kimura U, does a lot of their modeling!! She is the cutest!!!)

You can check out more of their awesome customer photos and behind-the-scene shots on their Instagram!

I've been hinting here and there on my Facebook, Instagram, and Tumblr that I have been working on a video for them, and they were really happy with it, so they'll be sending us clothes to wear in our future projects for them!!

This is what I wore--but don't let the dreamy filters of these stills fool you, the video was a lot more up-beat. I had a firm idea of what I wanted to wear, but then the temperature in Miami suddenly dipped to 5°C (40°F) out of the blue (just for that day too), so then all my previous outfits were thrown out the door for something a lot warmer. I swear, the next day it was back to the balmy beachy weather that's typical there.

galaxxxy will be uploading the video onto their official Youtube soon (eeep, I'm a little nervous, haha!), so I'll share the video when it's officially up. =3 Meanwhile, here are some .gifs I made from the video!

We filmed at the ever-awesome Wynwood Art Walk! There's graffiti on like, every wall, and it was a really awesome juxtaposition for the fashions we were wearing.

ファイト！

We even included some shots of my room and some of my clothes. I swear I'll take some better photos of my room later, but I think the .gifs make it look a lot cooler than it actually is, haha!

I'm absolutely stoked about this opportunity, there's really nothing I love more than fashion, and being able to represent such an awesome brand here in the US is so thrilling! It's really hard to do things from Florida especially--most everything goes on in New York or California, so I'm glad they were willing to work things out with us despite our location. I want to show that there's plenty of awesome things in Florida too (even though I spend a lot of time cursing it u_u;; )!

Especially because of all the family emergencies I had these past couple of months, this video was a long time coming, and I am so glad they were really patient with us. Meggie has some great news too! The tights she makes under her label are now being sold in Tokyo at galaxxxy's store. *A* How cool is that?

We're also going to be working on a couple super-secret collaborations in the future, I am so excited!

Bye for now!