{"id":16373,"date":"2012-09-10T11:59:53","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T15:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/modacycle.com\/?p=16373"},"modified":"2012-09-10T11:59:53","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T15:59:53","slug":"not-by-jenny-lai-a-creative-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/2012\/09\/10\/not-by-jenny-lai-a-creative-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Not&#8221; by Jenny Lai &#8211; A Creative Beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>story by Seth Friedermann<br \/>\nphotos by Aeric Meredith-Goujon<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/notaligne.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jenny Lai<\/a> has a strong vision of what she wants her clothes and the women who wear them to look like, and in her debut show it shined. Unfortunately, so did some of the common errors that befall novice designers. There were fit and fabrication issues that might hold her back from retail success with this offering, but should she take those lessons to heart, and she could have a bright future. In a landscape dominated by same, safe, same, Jenny Lai&#8217;s whimsical yet highly technical work was a jolt of energy.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16432\" title=\"12-sep06a-0395\" src=\"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/12-sep06a-0395.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/12-sep06a-0395.jpg 600w, https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/12-sep06a-0395-175x116.jpg 175w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16433\" title=\"12-sep06a-0443\" src=\"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/12-sep06a-0443.jpg\" alt=\"\" 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some of the common errors that befall novice designers. There were fit and fabrication issues that might hold her back from retail success with this offering, but should she take those lessons to heart she could have a bright future. For in a landscape dominated by same, safe, same, Her whimsical yet highly technical work was a jolt of energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,733],"tags":[917,916,910],"class_list":["post-16373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-shows-and-events","tag-not-by-jenny-lai","tag-jenny-lai","tag-spring-2013"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16373"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16447,"href":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16373\/revisions\/16447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}