Early Thanksgiving anyone?

I was invited to go to an early thanksgiving dinner this past weekend and it twas Lovely! They had mashed potatoes, the turkey..and a whole lotta Apple Pie!!! That right there is an apple pie! it was the biggest pie I have ever seen! Im pretty sure there are a million apples living in that thing.It was tasty though,gotta admit!With the caramel and whip cream on top....mmmmmm

Lined up all day!!!

So from 8am in the morning I did what I had never done before! I lined up for a store opening.But really it was the day Victor and Rolf collaboration with H&M came out! One of my favorite designers did a wedding concept colabo with H&M and it was also the opening day at the Beverly Center.I got there and I saw about 10 people outside the store still sleeping.In my head I thought "Wow, this is gonna be easy" THEN! A police officer approaches me and tells me to go down to the 5ht floor.The parking lot.That is where they are handing out tickets...I got there and there were lines on people!!Everywhere!!I was number 250....My friend met up with me and we waited till 12 to get in...We finally did and did some really good shopping!I got a tux jacket and the trench coat! I LURV IT!It was fun...until I had to stand in another line.....My friend calls me and told me Kid Robot is opening on Melrose, we should go check it out.Another Line was waiting for us.Not as long...but it was outside and chilly...So to waste time we took pictures.Here is me and Leo!

Finally!!

The beautiful Olivia was in town for PMX.And I went to see her perform but didnt get to see her till tonight.Finally! I thought I was going to miss her. Still didnt get to hang out much but at least I got to see her and chit chat. She is doing better than ever and everyone ahould watch out for her new album! Its gonna be good!She has been working so hard on it! She is like my sister! Iam very proud of her! CRITTERS!!!!tootluu
Cant wait to hang out agian! We always have so much fun together!

Happy Halloweeenie!!

Flava Flav, Prince, Shower curtain?? Yep! Everyone was there! Oh it was so much fun!I love how everyone gets so creative and actually dress' up.(Except for the cool people..) Hollywood was packed with people!Ive never seen so many at that late of a nite! And I have heard alot about the Gay Parade on Santa Monice. I was curious but I never made it...Maybe I will get to see it next year!Oh and for everyone who is trying to figure out who I was....
I have been watching the Give peace a chance DVD.And I cannot wait till the John Lennon vs the World comes out!
So I went as Yoko Ono and my friend went with me as John Lennon!It was great!
Couldnt stop laughing all night! Hope everyone had a Super Halloween! Its the best Holiday!One of my Favs!!

ANDi first shippment~!

Ah Yeah!Our first small shipment is out and in stores now!My friend and I did a really smal Tee shirt line and we had to pack them and do the productions all ourselves!(Thanks to my partner we got everything done on time!)And here we are packing them!Fred Segal Fun, Madison, Rex and etc....Im crossing my fingers that it will keep going! I learned alot form this expierience! There is so much that goes on!And I LOVE iT!

Hollywood!

My dad and I went to home depot and we took pictures of ourselves pointing to the hollywood sign!!hehehe
had to post it!

Its that time of the year!

Iam just settling into my new house and area.Took my dog for a walk and saw that there was a pumpkin patch on the corner ,so i decided to go get myself one. Here is my materpiece!Iam now ready for halloween!

Izayoi in Little Tokyo

I have been a big fan of theirs. Iam working in downtown LA alot and I like to go here to eat. Great food and really nice people!
This is the main chef. He is so sweet.Always says Hi to me when I go there! And the other day Take told my friend and I that the lunch was on him!All because I named his new born chihuahua PENNY! Gochisousama deshita! Thank you so much! It was delicious!!!

Zac Posen LOVE!

Was just going thru my closet and found one of my favorite sweaters all the way in the back thinking "YES!!!I didnt loose it!!I love this sweater!" It was a gift from Zac when I went down to meet him in his office space in NY. He is def one of my favorite designers he makes beautiful pieces. We did a mini fashion show when I went there. I tried on some of his things and took pictures.His family ws the kindest too! This was about 2 years ago when I first moved down here in the states. He has been doing so well and I wish him all the luck!What an adorable guy! He inspires me in so many ways.

Buddy!

These are pictures i took at a party in Tokyo last last time I was there. My brother josh came by. And I bumped into my friend Rina which I hadnt seen for soo long! Maybe 5 years! She had gone to London to work! Now she is back and better than ever! I love her! I have just been in the proccess of getting everything ready for fashion week coming up in LA and Iam also moving.So it has been super busy and super hard doing everything at once! I promise you when I get back in the game! I will also be better than ever! I took a few minutes and went strolling on the web to find some new Rin or Friedia fan sites and it made me really happy . I appreciate all the work you guys put into this and it makes me wanna do more! This last trip to Japan was hopefully a good one and I am hoping for good things to happen!

The next night I hung out with my friend Fumi took me out to eat Okonomiyaki! Which I love and miss everytime I come back to LA! Havent found a spot here yet! This place she brought me to was run by a family and they cook it for you. And when it comes time to add the mayo or sauce they do it from far away on to the hot plate! Its kinda hard to explain the exitement you get unless you see it for yourself!I tried taking a few PIX!!
And after that we went to her place and got my nails done by her friend Aki! My first Gel Nail!! Its not sculpter nail and it lasts twice as longer than normal! To all the girls out there! You must try it when you get to Japan! And go see my girl AKi!!!
Her nail salon is callen U-NO and it is in Ebisu 4-3-1 #706
call and make an appointment! She is really good!! 03-3444-1995

Day After I landed....

I arrived Japan at 4pm. It was raining and really cold.I found my way to my friends house and she took me out to eat yummy korean BBQ. It was soooo good! That night when we got back to the house I was greeted by a cute little doggie Mie chan and as soon as I saw my futon I passed out! The next morning still raining in Tokyo I woke up at 3am and again forced myself to sleep till 7. She was already awake and making breakfast! Something I have never seen before...Natto Toast!! Natto with Combu on Toast....I know it might not look that great..but it was pretty tasty! and of course dont forget your morning cup of tea!!

Happy HOUR!!!!

Happy Hour 1! This was in Pasadena and it was a little screening of alot of short films or music video’s or clips from different directors. Sponsored by Smuggler and Jakes pork and beans and many others. It was fun and somewhat inspiring. I love to watch short films and it makes me want to make short films myself. Hopefully I will get the opportunity one day.
Near the Pasadena movie theatre there was a Famima. Which is a Japanese convenient store that will be taking over America any time now!!They are popping up like pop corn!! They carry Japanese snacks, magazines even the little bento box’s that are just like the ones I used to live off of when I first moved to Tokyo! We decided to have dinner here and take pictures in front of the freezers light!

Happy Rosh Hashanna!

Happy New Year! I went to my very first Jewish New Year dinner! It was so much fun! We all sat down and did the traditional dipping the apple in the honey for a sweet year and eating the string beans to leave the enemy’s out of your life.. By the time we got to the actual meal…. I was stuffed. The food was amazing! And everyone was so sweet! Thanks for such a great time!
Hope this year will be a very healthy, full of laughter and a year that is filled with love!

BANKSYish

Has been a very busy week. So much to write and show! So lets start off with last week I went to the secret Banksy Art Show everyone has been talking about. He is one of my favorites! I have been following his work for quite some time now and to finally see it with my own eyes!! Was amazing! His silly yet deep graffiti’s are great! He had the warehouse downtown separated in to different parts so you can get a little taste of everything. I especially liked the video he did about how he put his work up in famous museums or the Paris Hilton CD he did…or even the Disneyland incident that I didn't know about. It’s pretty crazy that he could pull all of that off! And that he never shows his face or appears at his own shows! That's the mystery he leaves that I’m sure makes people more and more curios about it all.

Will be posting new pix very sooon!!

Hello everyone! I want to appologize for not keeping up woth the pix. I have been doing alot of traveling this month and working alot!!! Iam actually in Japan right now. I was here for only a day! I got in last last night and now Iam getting ready to leave!Crazy times!And it is always needed!As soon as I get back I have alot of pix to post!So check in again real SOOON!
Hope everything is well with everyone! tah tah for now!

Thanks agian Sab!

My friend from myspace did an amazing job fixing these pix! So I htought I would post them up!
And it seems like I will be going back to japan later next month for more work! will keep you all posted!
Life feels soooo good now!

1st Interview in 3 years!!

Iam very excited! Even if you cant read japanese..check out the web site! You can look at the pictures!hahaha
Its an online web magazine!
http://magazines.yahoo.co.jp/#
xoxoxofriedia

Little Miss Sunshine

It has been so long that I forgot what good movies were all about! I heard it was good.I didnt know it would be THAT good! This is a must see!It is a movie with all different kinds of characters that you conect with and understand. The whole time your watching the movie it gives you so many feelings its amazing when you reach the end.A feel good movie..in a way. And Steven Carrel...I love him!!!!So funny!This movie had no computer graphics,no strong violence,no sex scenes,no guns....and you know what.Its soooo much better than those movies.
And that twas my opinion!heehhe go check it out!

MOF

Been working on this line with my partner.And it will be coming out soon to the buyers..not in stores till early next year. We had to have a photoshoot for it for the look book! So my partner and I got to cordinate all the looks and tell the model how to move and all.It was fun being behind the scene! I cannot wait to see how the look book comes out!We spent our whole Saturday working on it.We had a good team so it went smoothly. Iam very excited about the whole thing!

Mon chan!!??

Went to do my hair again. It was Masaki's last week there! He is moving back to japan and opening up his own salon! which I am happy for, and at the same time sad to see my friend move away.I hope to see him when I go to japan! His room mate came over to keep us company and he had brought his buddies in his bag.One was of a bear sleeping, and the other was this monkey.
His name is Mon chan.He is a super monkey with a cape and everything. I think he has had him for quite some time now. He also makes Mon chans bed at night! Its his pet!

Pyramids and enqlinators...

Umm..I know you cant really tell whats going on so let me explain...One of the reasons why I have not been able to keep on the blog is because I have been traveling so much. Here are one of the places I just got back from..last night.Las Vegas! We stayed at the Luxor Hotel and this is a picture from the 13th floor of all the hotel rooms on the other side! The hotel is a piramid!Instead of elevators there are enqlinators (not quite sure about my spelling) They are elevators that go sideways!!Yeah, weirdest expierience ever. The way the hotel was made was so facinating to me.I had to share it with you guys.Vegas has very interesting buildings everywhere.Its amazing just to go there to look at them.Oh!and dont forget the outlets!!

Right ON!

Got to hang out with one of my favorite designer!Miyashita!The sweetest man!! He IS the man of Number (N)...Him and his team were here in CA (and all around) for inspiration for their next collection! We all had drinks at the standard laughing and talking. And we went to Cha x3 on Santa Monica. It was soo much fun! They are such great people!We were all aroud the table looking at this months Harpers Bazar (i think it was..) because he had heard that Karl Lagerfeld talked about N.N! They said the knew he would come and buy their jackets but he never said anything...And now its all in writting! Its an amazing line and they just started the Paris collections..its one of those lines that you cant keep your eyes off of! they ROCK!!Number (N) is YUMMY YUMMY IN MY TUMMY<3<3

Fishy Friedia!!

AHAHAHAHA!!! When I first saw this I could not stop laughing! My friend J.B said he saw a dream of me being a fish! And when he was going thru all the pictures he saw it and re-touched my face to look like me in his dream! Look how creepy!!!AGHHHH!
I just had to post it! Thanks J.B!!!Your pictures are always cool!

Heading out to see a Dog Fashion Show!

A black tie event was one of the fun things that happened the first night in NY. Everyone was wearing their best clothes and shoes for their love of their pets.Auctions were going on for raisng money for pounds and dog shelters.All for a very great cause! And the fashion show was really interesting! The new next thing with pets is for the owner and their pups to be wearing the same things! There was also a contest going on with new young student designers.And the boy who won (his clothes were the cutest and most out there!) said his inspiration was underground Harajuku kids!!Go Japan!!!
I didnt get to take any pix at the show, and here is one before I left in my hotel room!Notice the REDest bed I have ever seen in the back!!

New York Pet Fashion Week!!

So here is the reason why I have not been on here for sometime now. I just got back from New York! I launched my dog clothing line!!!YEAH!!! Its named CARAMEL after my doggie.He is my muse for this line.Something cute and yummy like caramel..without forgetting about the stickiness!!! Here is one of the most popular designs.
I did alot of pet press!!PupStyle.com,Petworld,Animal Planet!!And some dog magazines!So you better watch out!

Iam back in sunny ca!

Had a wonderful very successful trip to japan.it was a packed trip!had alot to do ,got to meet with alot of people.Iam very excited!good things are coming, I can feel it!Havent posted pix..but i got to see the secret Yeahx3 show at undercover office, hung out with jun.bumped into fujiwara hiroshi.gave me some words that i take with me.went down and hung out with oka from medicom toys!and my pals at onegram!we love silas and pam!!my best best buddy for a long time Justin davis got to hang out alot and actually went window shopping!thant was great!saw skeshin chan(designer for neighborhood) told him we would hang out..never got to..and a few more things i didnt get to do that iam upset with myself.....like saying hi to everyone at metal burger...HI!! Iam sure i will go back again soon! I miss everyone in japan already!Such great people!i got really inspired..iam ready to put it all out there now!!!

Superman Returns..Friedia Returns!!!

This was sent to me by my myspace friend.Thanks again! She had found it on wire image. this was about a week ago in japan. i saw some pictures in the newspaper and alos in the japanese web sites! It was a good movie. The graphics were cool. I came up with a few cool idea's...(sorry my geaky self..)Just thought I would post it..Iam now back in the game!!!!

Eco Driving!

I was walking around Daikanyama the other day and saw they were showing this new bike thats coming out and that you can ride around town with it for 30 min! It looked like fun, needed a rest from all the shopping..so i took the offer! I had so much fun! This bike was great! It was light weight, very quiet, doesnt use gas you just need to charge it up....And sont forget its soo small! you can take it around in your car! I entered to win one of them! Im gonna be crossing my fingers because that would be great to have when I come back to Japan to ride!!!
check out their blog!
http://www.daikanyama.ne.jp