meet the mannequins

it's time for u for to become acquainted with the famous girls who were the first to try on “toksic”.. meet little red riding hood, cindrella and cruella de vil (from 101 dalmations) :)
i’m sure you’re wondering now where they got their names from.. well it’s pretty obvious from the photo isn’t it??

little red riding hood.. well.. she’s red lol can it be any more obvious?? and she’s “adjustable in size” which basically means that she has a very low metabolism - whatever she eats affects her weight tremendously and well i'm sure that she actually ate all the food that was in her basket that she "supposedly" took to her grandma’s house!! (and she probably ate the so-called "big bad wolf too!!" lol :)

cindrella.. well.. the resemblance is obvious with the short hair right? and look at her leg! she dropped it off somewhere just like cindrella dropped off her shoe!

and finally, cruella de vil.. well we all know that everyone hates her cos she kidnaps puppies to kill them for their fur.. and well look at her in that photo.. she’s got the perfect body like a model and well, as bad as this may sound, a lot of people hate models don’t they? hmm no i take that back lol. “hate” is such a strong word.. they don’t hate them it’s just jealousy i guess.. i’m sure her two other fellow mannequins (red riding hood and cindrella) are jealous like hell too and would like to poke her..

so u see.. their names make perfect sense.. well to me at least lol :) and who knows, maybe i have a certain connection with walt disney’s characters cos we do share the same star sign after all (he’s a sagittarian too).. that means something doesn’t it?? :) (and i was talking about walt disney here and not the cartoon characters lol).

oh well, just wanted to introduce “the girls” to u all.. i felt like it was my obligation or somethin.. like i owed it to them for makin them try on clothes all the time even if they didn’t like any of them lol :)

meet mr & mrs singer

well its time to meet the famous mr & mrs singer (originally from japan): the proud parents of “toksic”; my mother’s best friends; my tutors; our overlock and sawing machines :)














i just felt like i had to introduce them to the world.. without them there would be no “toksic”.. (mr singer is on the left and mrs singer is on the right)..

well they’ve had their good and bad days of course.. they loathe silk for example and any stretchable materials cos they always seem to get stuck in them.. they still make me proud though :) and whoever said machines have no souls and no minds of their own is completely wrong :)

merci people :)

well i thought the best way to start this blog was to actually thank all those people who've helped my new fashion brand "toksic" come to life.. (check out my website www.toksicdress.com). i think this is just a formal way of telling you all that i owe you bigtime (okay.. thats an overstatement.. hmm.. a cup of coffee maybe? lol.. but don't quote me on that!) :)

first of all i'd like to thank my mum of course for literally makin the "toksic" items "come to life" (for those of u who don't know it, my mum's actually the one who sawed/stitched the clothes. she made my designs come to life! :) and i helped a bit of course ;) lol; my dad of course for his encouragement to start my own thing (and lil bit of money too lol); my brother rami for proving to me that yes u can start ur own thing at an early stage of ur life if u put ur mind to it (he owns oxygen productions; official partner of white, beirut); alistair jameson for his patience! and extreme knowledge (mashallah ;) ) with html and all that linking stuff for actually placin my website on the net; diana hawatmeh for her encouragement and support from the start and her help in coming up with names and logos for my brand; amaal mostafa for deciding to start something else (design-related) with me soon as she loved my work and thought that we could do some great work together someday (more on that soon inshallah) which in turn lifted my spirits of course :) ; melissa bayik for spreading the word about my website which resulted in a friend (whom i haven't told about my site yet) knowing about it from someone who heard it from someone who heard it from mel and in only a few hours! lol.. girls and gossip :) ; ahmed gamal for his thoughts and ideas from the start about brand names, exhibiting styles, etc; rhoda azizoghly for gettin really excited about my new brand - all the way from canada - and screaming excitedly in my ear when she first logged onto my website (miss u girl); samer issa for offering to put my website on the net using his expertise in flash ;) lol; raghda tantawi (in advance) for setting me up with a few exhibiting spots at hotels ;) ; nihal akmal for helping me come up with the tagline "dress to kill"; soha abdullah for makin me feel so good about myself when she asks me to join her shopping to give her tips and advice on styling; sara abdullah for her enthusiasm and for always being there to help out in any way possible by just makin phone calls to the right people ;) lol; and finally, last but not least, aisha al qasimi for suggesting places to sell my stuff at (despite the fact that she told me once about this place, (somewhere in burdubai) where i had to park miles away (cos of traffic of course), and ended up walkin (across a huuuge rounadabout too!) for at least 10 mins in the scorching sun, while i was fasting and thirsty as hell, only to find out that the place had shut down completely!! lol.

well i hope i didn't miss out anyone. if i did i'm so sorry but anyway a big thank u goes out to all my friends.. really.. (sorry for bein a lil cheesy lol).. but hey, i love u all!! ;)