Ruche's Summer Lookbook - "Under My Straw Hat"

The first part of Ruche's Summer Lookbook is finally here! I called it "Under My Straw Hat". Late last night I sent out emails to my newsletter subscribers and it had a typo! I wrote "stray" instead of "straw"...how embarrassing. So if you're a subscriber, sorry! =D

Here is a little sneak peek. You're going to have to visit the site to view the rest. =)









Once again, I got the privilege to work with amazing crew! My fav photographers - Stephanie Williams and her husband Isaac, beautiful models - Eleanor Goldfield and Amanda Smith, makeup artist/hair stylist - Devon Duff & hair stylist - Robin Lamph.

Of course with the new lookbook launching, there must be new items! Here are a few..more time come within the week!

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Ruche Summer Lookbook Preview

A preview of Ruche's summer lookbook. Stephanie Williams does her magic again.

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Another Photoshoot

I worked with Rodney Ray to style the gorgeous Katerina a couple weeks ago. The style is a little different than Ruche's romantic feel, but I still want to share with you all. There are so many different ways to wear clothing to get entirely different looks. That is one reason why I love styling. I always prefer to get the "Ruche" look in all my clothing, but you could always switch up your shoes, accessories and even hair style to get a different look.

Katerina is wearing the Masai Mara Safari Shirt Dress in brown and the Swedish pointy clog heels, both from Ruche of course.


Here are some pictures:







For a sexy business look, I paired her up with the whipped cream tank, cadette gray high waist buttoned skirt with the Swedish pointy clog heels.



Katerina is wearing the Flour mill knitted sweater in the pictures below.

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Photoshoot with Vasti

I recently styled a photoshoot with the talented photographer Vasti and beautiful Jessica Yu. Vasti wanted to do an Indie/Hippie concept.

Here are a couple of my favorite pictures from the shoot.

I paired Jennifer up with this white wrap shirt (available soon on ShopRuche.com), mustard seed ruffle scarf, black high waisted jeans, chili pepper cuff, and cranberry lace cuff, red braided belt (coming soon), and turquoise teardrop feather earrings.



The mango lassi dress was used here in a very rustic way with high vintage brown boots. You can easily pair this dress up with heels and nice jewelry for a more elegant look. Looks great for weddings!





I just love the colors in this picture:




The Boho look with the bloomsbury indian hippie tunic and some wooden jewelry.

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New Apparel Added!

I added new clothes! If you're a small, I recommend grabbing your size soon before they run out! A couple purses and scarves coming up later this week!

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Cute New Jewelry!

It is about time I add some jewelry...Enjoy!





More clothing, purses, and scarves coming later this week!

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Back from Hawaii!

I'm back from Hawaii...unfortunately. I wish I was still there. Oahu was awesome! Thanks for all the ladies that helped me plan my trip. I didn't get that many good pictures =(.

Here are a couple pictures. Please excuse the bad quality. We took all these with our point and shoot underwater camera.

Swam with sharks, I was in a cage of course. But WOW there were so many sharks! I could basically touch them..but I wasn't stupid enough to stick my hand out.



My fav thing to do - Pig out at the shrimp trucks!



Snorkeling at Hanauma bay. Look at this big zebra fish hehe



Horseback riding along the beach.



We hung out with some friends and locals. It turns out that two of our friends were in Hawaii the same time. We met the owner of 88 tees that weekend. She has awesome tees by the way! Very funky and "harajuku". Check it out here. She was taking out this Japanese popstar/actor named ka-kun so we hung out and had a couple drinks with them (Josh and I are in the back..I'm in the pink dress). Ka-kun kept insisting that Josh looked like Tom Cruise. I saw no resemblance LOL.




Other things I did: hiked Manoa Falls, ate lots of shave ice, sun bathed at the beach.

One HORRIBLE thing did happy on my trip however. We rented a Jeep wrangler convertible. Before hiking Mauna falls, I LOCKED my iphone inside of the glove compartment. I guess it is really easy to break into because when I came back, my phone was gone! When we went swimming with the sharks, we purchased a DVD of ourselves...those punks stole our DVD!!! I mean, I could have understood the iphone, but a dvd? That video meant a lot to us because it was irreplaceable. Well, I'm over it now though. I still had fun the rest of the trip!


chrissie- I did a lot of the things from the list you gave me! I had a plate lunch at Rainbow drive, Napples at Zipps, Ramen, had shave ice (3x). I missed out on a couple things but I hope to get to them next time I go. I went to Kailua but missed out on Lanikai juice =\. I did go to Boots and Kimmi and had the best macadamian pancakes. yummmy!
jeni - I didn't get to visit Cinnamon Girl, hopefully next time!
ali - I didn't get a chance to visit Fighting Eel this time either =(
r+v - Got my giovannis! We actually went out on a shrimp eating marathon! I tried about 4 of them LOL. Giovanni's still got my vote for the best GARLIC shrimp!

Vacation is over =(. Time to plan the next vacation. Paris? Italy?

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