Fashionable Asians of the Week

New Year means New Blog Features, here's the first ever Fashionable Asians of the Week post! I decided to dedicate every Friday to highlighting Asian celebs looking fashionable and chic in the past week. I hope everyone has a great weekend and enjoy the post!

Singer/Actress Stephy Tang at an event with Taiwanese boyband Lollipop in a chic puff sleeve sweater, black overalls and suede fringe booties

Hong Kong actress Bernice Liu ringing in the new year at the Olympian City mall event in a long blue jumper and black sequined jacket.

Bernice again, celebrating her birthday at a Cole Haan event, I am loving her shoes!

Maggie Q at the 2011 People's Choice Awards in a figure flattering and shimmery one shoulder black dress

Hong Kong actress/host Samantha Ko at the Performing Excellence Award Presentation Ceremony showing off her goods in this strapless heart shaped number

Actress Kim Ah Joong at the press conference for new Korean drama "Sign" in what looks like a tweed dress and black ankle booties

Taiwanese singer Ding Dang at an appearance for a cosmetics brand in a bubblegum pink Lanvin-esque dress and major platform heels

Asian Celeb Inspiration: Barbie Hsu

This week's celeb inspiration is 34 year old Taiwanese actress Ms. Barbie Hsu (Da S = Big S). Many know her from a tv show called Meteor Garden (based on the Japanese manga Boys Over Flowers), which started the whole "idol drama" craze in Asia. Or from the singing duo ASOS which consisted of her and her younger sister Dee Hsu. I heard Barbie recently got engaged/married to a handsome millionaire (EVERY GIRL'S DREAM! LOL), so that re-peaked my interest in her and I knew she was very involved in the fashion industry so I just had to dedicate a post on the natural beauty. Congrats to Da S for finding love!

With younger sister Dee (Xiao S = Little S) as the spokeswomen for Taiwan's Vogue Fashion's Night Out

Barbie looks so gorgeous and natural while taking promotional wedding photos with costar Peter Ho. I want that to be my princess wedding dress!

Da S knows the right way to rock the boyfriend blazer with a jumper attending the Shanghai Film Festival with actor Shawn Yue in a stunning one shoulder Elie Saab gown
Barbie with Andy Lau promoting their movie Future X Cops (which was a really good movie btw)
With actor Huang Xiao Ming for their Elle Magazine shoot, the red stands out so nicely against her porcelain skin!
Attending the Christian Dior Resort 2011 show in a Dior dress and Louboutin shoes

If you follow Asian entertainment, you'd probably notice that a majority of the Chinese/Korean/Japanese, etc actresses and singers have pale skin. Skin whitening to Asians is the equivalence of what tanning is for Americans; only a lot less aging. So the next time you plan on visiting a cancerous tanning bed, remember there are people out there wanting to be as pale as you because to them, that's beautiful.

Award Show Fashion: 47th Golden Horse Awards

It's time to play Best Dressed/Worst Dressed again, this time with the actors/actresses at Taiwan's 47th Golden Horse Film Awards (their version of the Oscars). Overall, I wasn't very impressed with the selection but I was extremely happy that one of my favorite Taiwanese actors, Ethan Ruan won Best Actor! Congrats!

Best Actor Ethan Ruan looking oh so handsome with his bowtie ;P

Li Bing Bing (previously featured Fashionable Asian) shined in this sparkly blue number

Model and actress Lin Chi Ling in this elegant embellished gown
Hong Kong's best actress Kara Hui looks amazing in this floral gown, very age appropriate and distinctive

Zhang Jing Chu looked adorable in this 1950's Betty Page-esque floral dress

Television host Dee Hsu (Xiao S) always brings the diva attitude and looks fabulous while doing so

Nicholas Tse, this guy is always flier than a G6 ;P He's so badass he's not even wearing a dressshirt ^.^

Xu Fan

Model Lin Ruo Ya

Janine Zhang

Xie Xin Ying

Loving Vivian Hsu's sparkly shoes

Tiffany Hsu (Ethan's girlfriend) in what I like to call the "I just pulled this fabric off the curtain rod and made it myself" dress, it's way too safe and cheap looking :T (I admit I am totally hatin' on her for dating Ethan lol)
Silvia Chang in an Ang Lee and Jackie Chan sandwich
Li Bing Bing in her second dress of the night

Ady An (I thought she was Zhang Ziyi at first)

Gan Wei

Vivian Hsu, the knot adds interest but it looks oversized and unflattering
Lu Li Ping may have won Best Actress but not Best Dressed, the ruffles on the sides are unnecessary
Apparently Li Yi Jie can still fit into children's clothes

Poor Elva Hsiao, this looks like it was made of trashbags or recycled Northface jackets, either way it is very unflattering and messy
Bowie Tseng, it's not always the camera that adds 10 lbs, sometimes the dress can do that too... just saying ladies you gotta try things on before you buy them

More pictures over at: Roast Pork Sliced From a Rusty Cleaver

Let's agree to disagree, which dress was your favorite/least favorite?

Award Show Fashion: 45th Golden Bell Awards

Last night was the 43rd Golden Bell TV Awards (Taiwan's equivalent to the Emmys) Major congrats to previously featured Fashionable Asian Rainie Yang who won Best Actress!!

Here's my fashion rundown of best and worst dressed of the night:

Amanda Zhou looks gorgeous in this feathery mini with added sparkle! The whole look is just fun and feminine, simply gorgeous!

Tian Xin in an elegant Ferragamo gown

Rene Hou's 2nd dress of the night was a definite win

Rene Hou in her sparkly red carpet number

Stephanie Xiao
Best Actress winner Rainie Yang with costar Show Luo (my man! lol) Rainie's dress was a bit plain so I think that's why she added the leather sleeve gloves(?), but I think she would've been better off without them!

Actor Ming Dao and his date

Hu Ying Chen played it safe in this classic gown

Singer and actress Amber Guo in a drapey metallic dress only she can pull off

The cut of this dress is quite flattering on her, the peek-a-boo lace gives it a little extra something

Chen Hui Ling in a dress perfect for her size

Don't know what the feathers are about but this dress is classically sleek, can't go wrong with it

Nancy Sit in a sari, went to the show with her daughter

The bottom of Bianca Bai's dress looks gorgeous but the top part looks unfinished

Although the bottom part looks a bit messy, I really like the one shoulder look

This dress is just a bad wedding gown with leftover tulle from a prom dress, too much poof!
I forget his name.. well, I guess it's a her now but the dress is cut way too high

Actress Xiu Qin wins worst dressed of the night, an outfit that is screaming for some serious fashion help! This dress would've looked better without the tail; the hair and dress looks too prom for an award show
She may not have wrinkles on her face but there are plenty on her dress! yikes!

I know the hosts of the award show are just trying to look silly, but this is just a disaster...

Let's critique together! Let me know who you think deserves best dressed!