Kiko Mizuhara at the Cannes Film Festival Red Carpet

Kiko Mizuhara shows up at day two of Cannes Film Festival red carpet for the screening of Yomeddine (English title: Judgement Day)

With Wang Likun/Claudia Wang from Dior's weibo account

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Video from Kiko's IG stories (@i_am_kiko)

Wearing look 42 from the Dior Haute Couture Spring Summer 2018 show

Full list of celebrities who walked the red carpet on the second day of Cannes Film Festival can be seen here:

https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/festival/actualites/photos/on-the-red-carpet-on-may-9th

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Kiko Mizuhara Shows Support For KaoRi; Also Tells Her Experience Working With Nobuyoshi Araki

Disclaimer: I gathered the information below from sources written in Japanese, so it's definitely not 100% accurate. I would be truly grateful for inputs and corrections.


KaoRi, a dancer and a model spoke up about Nobuyoshi Araki last March. Many people misunderstood her relationship with Araki (it was strictly photographer-model) and she was flattered and pressured to be branded as Araki's muse that she didn't come into terms with Araki posting her pictures and using her name (such as 'KaoRi Sex Diary') without permission on his products. She felt that she was driven into a situation where she had no choice but to do it. She also had problems with stalkers, and she had to deal with the psychological and financial burden of moving places alone.

She tried to confront Araki about it, her attempts to call and to ask for a face to face meeting was ignored. When they finally had a chance to meet, she was being forced to sign a contract to allow Araki to use her name on future products - she refused and as of June 2016 (supposedly she had another 'muse role' shooting schedule) she was "fired".

She lost all self esteem and affected her work as a model because she felt powerless over her own identity.

(You can read more of it here: https://note.mu/kaori_la_danse/n/nb0b7c2a59b65)

Kiko Mizuhara showed her support and called KaoRi brave for sharing her story. She also shared an uncomfortable encounter she had with Araki before.

Brief Translation:

In my early twenties, I had to shoot topless (with my hands covering my chest). During the shooting, there was a lot of male presence; apart from the staff there were about 20 upper management who came to the shoot.
I felt really uncomfortable with having a lot of other people in the room, but I was told they had to be in the room to "check the quality of the shots". Since it it was work I felt that I could not refuse.

Araki, what is a woman's body to you? Your muse, Kaori, is it necessary to abuse her mentally?
I don't know if you are completely unaware of what you are doing. You've photographed me many times as well... but I don't feel any regrets for you.

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Forever21 Global Store EMS Shipping to Philippines

As a plus size person, shopping is hard although I admit it has gotten easier during the past few years. It's still somewhat hard to find clothes that aren't matronly or too professional. T-shirts and shorts compromise 95% of my wardrobe, and it's not easy looking for cute, casual clothes locally.

Forever21 has a local store but the price difference from the online store is a lot (considering their online store frequently does sales). I normally use a forwarder but sometime back, Forever21 launched a global online store so customers from can have the items shipped to them directly.

On a side note, if anyone out there wants to lecture me about the harmful impact of fast fashion just gtfo. Poor people also deserve things and it's not realistic to get just one or two fair priced quality item considering we all need to wear clothes everyday (and no matter how high quality an item is, it will wear out if you use it day in and out). 

Anyway, the selection on the global store is less than the US one, but I still wanted to give it a try since I would save some money on shipping (shipping is free for orders over $100 plus I would get the items much faster). That is until I learned that the only shipping method available is EMS, which I avoid because there's a chance that I'll have to pick up the items at the main office in Pasay. Fast forward to many months later, my clothes are either too beat up or too big (I actually lost a little weight lmao), and with my limited budget and a big sale going on, I decided to go ahead.

Delays often happen in the mail, but you can look at the table below to estimate when your EMS parcel will arrive

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I'm in Zone 2, and true enough my order arrived on Wednesday! I received my order in less than 10 working days

Here is the timeline:
23rd March - Placed the order
26th March - Got an email that the says my order was shipped
29th March - According to the tracking, it departed from Incheon and arrived some hours later at Manila
31st March - The item arrived at the inward office of exchange
4th April - The parcel was delivered to me

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Office Kiko Pop Up Store at Kiddy Land Harajuku

Office Kiko will have a pop up store at Kiddy Land (Harajuku Branch) from April 15 - April 27

There will also be a special event at the pop up store on April 200

For the first 200 customers who purchased over 6000 yen worth of items will have free stickers as well as a photo op with Kiko Mizuhara!

Outside of the event, customers who purchased over 3000 yen worth of items will also receive stickers, on a first come first serve basis (and until the sticker stock lasts).

Here are some of the items:

Available in a total of 4 designs priced at 4,980 yen each

Available in a total of 4 designs priced at 4,980 yen each

Available in a total of 4 designs priced at 5,680 yen each

Available in a total of 4 designs priced at 3,680 yen each

Available in a total of 16 designs priced at 980 yen each

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POBOX.PH Air Shipping Review 2018

I wanted to purchase some supplements but the local sellers I usually buy supplements from doesn't have them. I've seen other sellers selling them, along with those alarmingly cheap fake/expired 40 peso lip tints so I didn't want to risk it and decided to just buy them from Amazon.

POBox.ph - it's their 10 year anniversary this year!

POBox.ph charges $6.50 per pound or per volumetric weight (whichever is higher) for their air shipping service. They also have a minimum chargeable fee (3 lbs.) so minimum air shipping rate is $19.50 on top of the additional 10% of the declared value of shipped items. I'm not sure if they have different rates for certain items like gadgets.

Same drill as their sea cargo box: 

- purchase the items and ship it to their warehouse

- add the items to your account (item name, quantity, store purchased from, tracking if available, etc.)

- wait for them to mark the items as 'received'

- request for shipping

- wait for them to pack/box and ship your items

I didn't expect they would mark the items as received fast, so I haven't checked their site for a week. I feel stupid because it delayed my order (they marked the items as received 1 working day after the actual date). Anyway, once I logged in, I requested shipping via air and it took them around 2 working days to calculate the total amount.

Timeline:

15th February - all items arrived at the warehouse according to the tracking

16th February - items were marked as received

23rd February - kicking myself for not checking the website earlier, requested for invoice

27th February - date packed!!!

28th February - I haven't paid yet but they already marked the items as 'packed' so I paid through Paypal

8th March - I haven't checked back in a while again, and the items were marked as shipped but I had no idea when exactly, so I sent an email to ask them when my stuff was shipped and if there is a tracking number available

9th March - replied with tracking number from LBC (hmmm, so they just use LBC's ShippingCart?). They said it will be delivered to their office first, then they'll deliver it to my address
10th March - I tracked the item as received in their office, now I just have to wait for them to repack(?) and deliver the item
14th March - I received a text from FastTrackPH saying they're gonna deliver my package within the day, and they delivered my items in the afternoon

Came in this small Amazon box, around 10-11'' in length

Overall it was okay. I still prefer sea/ocean cargo shipping because you can't beat the price (and waiting a little over a month isn't that long). Obviously, if you want your items in less than 2 weeks, then go for air shipping. There might be cheaper/faster options available elsewhere though, so I recommend reading other reviews first to compare the prices.

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