The mothership has never made too many demands on the way I dress.  Ever since I wrecked the bathroom tie-dying t-shirts at the age of 12 and ruined her trousers by customising them with ribbon (I THOUGHT they were 'spares'...*blush*), she probably knew there was never going to be any other way but the experimental fashion route.  She does wince a little sometimes but she's never made too many comments and for that I'm forever grateful.   

Still, sometimes I do aim to please and I just KNOW that if she saw me in Lorena de la Torre's clothes, she'd be pretty chuffed.  Her only 'wee' complaint is that I don't seem to wear enough tailoring as befits a 24 year old (supposedly, that's 'ollllllld' in my mother's eyes...).  However, Torre's pieces is tailoring that doesn't age and isn't overly severe but most of all, there's a simultaneous 'togetherness' and 'quirkiness' about the pieces that would reassure my mum into thinking 'Oh, that's rather fun ('dut yee' in Cantonese...) but it's still quite smart!'.  Not that you would need to force me to wear Torre's AW08 collection, which I coo-ed over whilst in Souvenir today where she is stocked.  The fabrics are really well judged for the particular cuts of the garments and it is exactly the sort of tailoring that I'd love to wear but can never seem to get my hands on.  Definitely something I would not mind wearing for a few dim sum lunches...