I’ve been waiting a while to write this post. In the last few years since starting university, I’ve thought about quitting blogging quite a few times. It just lost its appeal, mainly because, I admit, I cared too much about what others thought of me and I didn’t want to be known as this vain and superficial girl taking photos of herself the whole time. I had KNEON and photography and school, so I just always pushed blogging to the side.

In the last few months, however, I’ve rekindled a connection to this space, mainly because I now have a new direction in mind for my work and I just want to be able to curate it all into a space that makes sense visually. So I think it’s time for me to embrace change and rebrand the shit out of this little safe haven that has been my homepage since I was a 15-year-old noob.

The ‘Banana Finding Home’ story is quite a common one already, so I want to just take it up a notch and solely dedicate this site to documenting a brand new China I’ve gotten to know during this past year. I just want to introduce you to the beauty within the everyday chaos that I’ve seen every single day of living here, and the talented creatives without arrogance I’ve met who are pushing the boundaries on what is expected of the term “Made In China”.

I’ll be saying goodbye to China in a couple of days to head back to Vienna and then Edinburgh to finish my studies, but I want to continue this conversation that I started here, between the modern and the traditional, and between the East and West.

And, between one millennial to another, thank you for reading. I’ll talk to you soon in my next post, which I’ll be writing from good old Wien.

Love always, Vic

p.s. The braids are here to stay.

Chictopia‘s SS15 collection reminds me of that time in life when creating a world was much more interesting than living in the real one. It was not the greener side that fascinated me, but the pink, the purple, the yellow – the “unimaginable” side. Some might call this unprepared for the real world, but I call it the power to create an entire world.

I’m eager to introduce you guys to more Chinese designers and labels I’ve been discovering. This Friday, I’ll be working with London- and Beijing-based photographer Scarlett Casciello on a story featuring a series of Chinese designers for the August issue of KNEON. I’m egg-cited to be combining so many things I love into one big happy hotpot. Let’s see where this takes us.