2012 AsianInNY Lunar New Year Celebration and Fashion Show was a huge success! We can’t wait to start preparing our next annual production: Moon Festival Celebration and Fashion Show. See you very soon!

Photography by our amazing friend Ken Lo!

Comedy/ MC: Victor Chu

Performance:
- Reni Mimura: Cosplay Singer
- Nina Sophia Mojares: singer/Dancer
- Rima Strauss: entertainer
- Martial Arts demonstration: Gao’s Kung Fu Academy

Three Fashion Shows:

- Menswear: NINH Collection by Ninh Nguyen
- Womenswear: FEARLESS DREAMER Collection by Meiling Chen
- Han Couture: special guest models: Baiyu(Vocalist) : Teresa Lee(PaperDoll band) : Le Zhang(Jazz singer)

* Handbag: Me Char Handbags by Charmaine Ho
* Jewelry: String Theory By Jing and Kallisti by Xing Xu
* Hair: Haruo Noro Salon (Sausan Helou, Karen Skolski, Janet Juhami, Yukari Shirakawa, Yuka Inada, Viviana Briseno and Eddie Ngai)
* Make-up: Wenya Chang (lead make-up artist of Haruo Noro Salon), Haruka Tazaki, Magaly Cochachi and Mariko Tou

Sponsors of AsianInNY’s Lunar New Year Celebration and Fashion Shows include Asahi Beer, Asian/Pacific American Heritage Festival, Bennett Media Studio, Bruce Cost Ginger Ale, Folli Follie, Greater Chinatown Community Association, Haruo Noro Salon, Italian Language InterCultural Alliance, Kallisti Jewelry, Learn Italy, Manhattan Portage, Me Char Handbags, Nom Wah Tea Parlor, Onassis Clothing, popchips, String Theory By Jing, and 247Feature.com.

AsianInNY held an appreciation party to thank all the performers, designers, models, hair/make-up artists, and volunteers who made our 2012 Lunar New Year Celebration and Fashion Show another huge success!

Photography by Jeffrey Grossman

Special thanks to all our sponsors and it’s your generosity that push us to do what we love to do: providing a platform for Asian talents and to share our rich culture! Thank you to: Asahi Beer, Asian/Pacific American Heritage Festival, Bennett Media Studio, Bruce Cost Ginger Ale, Folli Follie, Greater Chinatown Community Association, Haruo Noro Salon, Italian Language InterCultural Alliance, Kallisti Jewelry, Learn Italy, Manhattan Portage, Me Char Handbags, Nom Wah Tea Parlor, Onassis Clothing, popchips, String Theory By Jing, and 247Feature.com.

AsianInNY hosted our 2012 Lunar New Year Celebration and Fashion Show in time for New York Fashion Week on Feb 11th at Bennett Media Studio.

Photo by Robert Pilichowski

We are so honored to have a lot of supports from our generous sponsors for AsianInNY’s Lunar New Year Celebration and Fashion Shows including Asahi Beer, Asian/Pacific American Heritage Festival, Bennett Media Studio, Bruce Cost Ginger Ale, Folli Follie, Greater Chinatown Community Association, Haruo Noro Salon, Italian Language InterCultural Alliance, Kallisti Jewelry, Learn Italy, Manhattan Portage, Me Char Handbags, Nom Wah Tea Parlor, Onassis Clothing, popchips, String Theory By Jing, and 247Feature.com.

ASIANINNY CELEBRATES THE LUNAR NEW YEAR & NY FASHION WEEK – Year of The Dragon Roars to Life with Entertainment and Fashion Spectacular!

Photography by Vincent Chin

We are so honored to have a lot of supports from our generous sponsors for AsianInNY’s Lunar New Year Celebration and Fashion Shows including Asahi Beer, Asian/Pacific American Heritage Festival, Bennett Media Studio, Bruce Cost Ginger Ale, Folli Follie, Greater Chinatown Community Association, Haruo Noro Salon, Italian Language InterCultural Alliance, Kallisti Jewelry, Learn Italy, Manhattan Portage, Me Char Handbags, Nom Wah Tea Parlor, Onassis Clothing, popchips, String Theory By Jing, and 247Feature.com.

AsianInNY hosted our 2012 Lunar New Year Celebration and Fashion Show in time for New York Fashion Week on Feb 11th at Bennett Media Studio.

Photography by our good friend Kris Lau.

Three Fashion Shows:

- Menswear: NINH Collection by Ninh Nguyen
- Womenswear: FEARLESS DREAMER Collection by Meiling Chen
- Han Couture: special guest models: Baiyu(Vocalist) : Teresa Lee(PaperDoll band) : Le Zhang(Jazz singer)

* Handbag: Me Char Handbags by Charmaine Ho
* Jewelry: String Theory By Jing and Kallisti by Xing Xu
* Hair: Haruo Noro Salon (Sausan Helou, Karen Skolski, Janet Juhami, Yukari Shirakawa, Yuka Inada, Viviana Briseno and Eddie Ngai)
* Make-up: Wenya Chang (lead make-up artist of Haruo Noro Salon), Haruka Tazaki, Magaly Cochachi and Mariko Tou
* Show Director: Alice Chin
* Models: YiLin Hsu, Katelynn Mory, Anna Gu, Danni Wang, Akiko Saito, Akina Nolan, Mila Ugryn, Linn Yen, Hannah Jade, Wendy Chen, Yumin Tan, Will Cheung, PaiSen Wang, Jason He, Paige Lai, James Lee, Jun Jie Du, Steve Lin, Ibnu Firza, Eric Thai, Kevin Kreider, Kuang Chen, Raymond Kwai, Ming Zheng, Kel Liu, Ron Licas and Manyu Yun.

ASIANINNY Celebrates the Year of The Dragon Roars to Life with Entertainment and Fashion Spectacular!

Photo by award-winning photojournalist Mr. Corky Lee!

We are so honored to have a lot of supports from our generous sponsors and it’s your contributions that helped the 2012 Lunar New Year Fashion Show and Celebration possible!  Sponsors of AsianInNY’s Lunar New Year Celebration and Fashion Shows include Asahi Beer, Asian/Pacific American Heritage Festival, Bennett Media Studio, Bruce Cost Ginger Ale, Folli Follie, Greater Chinatown Community Association, Haruo Noro Salon, Italian Language InterCultural Alliance, Kallisti Jewelry, Learn Italy, Manhattan Portage, Me Char Handbags, Nom Wah Tea Parlor, Onassis Clothing, popchips, String Theory By Jing, and 247Feature.com.

AsianInNY hosted our 4th Fashion Shows in time for New York Fashion Week.  As a perennial favorite, this year’s fashion shows have gotten bigger and better.

Photography by Kevin Wo

The spotlight falls on models showcasing amazing Asian designers, including Meiling Chen’s FEARLESS DREAMER Collection, menswear designer Ninh Nguyen’s NINH Collection, Charmaine Ho’s Me Char handbags, “String Theory” jewelry by Jing He, and Xing Xu’s Kallisti Jewelry. 30 Models also rocked tresses and looks with amazing hair and make-up provided by Haruo Noro Salon.

A successful fashion show takes a lot of preparation and hair/make-up is the key when beautiful models walk out the runway. No one sees how hard hair stylists and makeup artists work at the backstage. Our shout out to all the 7 Haruo Noro Salon hair stylists (Sausan Helou, Karen Skolski, Janet Juhami, Yukari Shirakawa, Yuka Inada, Viviana Briseno and Eddie Ngai) who started working at 4:30pm till 10pm on AsianInNY’s Fashion Shows.

Also, our sincere appreciation to the beautiful make-up artists Wenya Chang (lead make-up artist of Haruo Noro Salon), Haruka Tazaki, Magaly Cochachi and Mariko Tou who have helped AsianInNY’s numerous shows.  We can’t thank you enough to make us all look so pretty on the stage!

Besides, thanks to our fashion show director Alice Chin who spent weeks working on model casting and organizing these shows for us. We love ya!

ASIANINNY CELEBRATES THE LUNAR NEW YEAR & NY FASHION WEEK – Year of The Dragon Roars to Life with Entertainment and Fashion Spectacular!

Photography by Sunny Kam

The Lunar New Year is a joyous occasion of enormous proportions in Asian culture. To celebrate, people surround themselves with good music, food, and company!  AsianInNY hosted a festive celebration of the Lunar New Year on February 11th, 2012 at Bennett Media Studio that drew more than 400 attendees.

A night of non-stop entertainment:

1. Two Fashion Shows:

- Menswear: NINH Collection by Ninh Nguyen
- Womenswear: FEARLESS DREAMER Collection by Meiling Chen

* Handbag: Me Char Handbags by Charmaine Ho
* Jewelry: String Theory By Jing and Kallisti by Xing Xu
* Hair/Make-up: Haruo Noro Salon

2. Comedy/ MC: Victor Chu

3. Performance:
- Reni Mimura: Cosplay Singer
- Nina Sophia Mojares: singer/Dancer
- Rima Strauss: entertainer

4. Martial Arts demonstration: Gao’s Kung Fu Academy

5. Special guests: Baiyu (R&B Singer) : Teresa Lee (PaperDoll band) : Le Zhang (Jazz singer/Composer)

Special THANK YOU to our SPONSORS for providing support to the event:

Asahi Beer, Asian/Pacific American Heritage Festival, Bennett Media Studio, Bruce Cost Ginger Ale, Folli Follie, Greater Chinatown Community Association, Haruo Noro Salon, Italian Language InterCultural Alliance, Kallisti Jewelry, Learn Italy, Manhattan Portage, Me Char Handbags, McDonalds, Nom Wah Tea Parlor, Onassis Clothing, popchips, String Theory By Jing, and 247Feature.com.

On Nov 19th late night, AsianInNY co-hosted the 2nd Annual Hello Taiwan Rocks! and welcomed hundreds of fans at Taiwan Center in Flushing New York.  Many people attended the concert where they not only got to enjoy some rock music but they also got to taste many delicious Taiwanese popular snacks including sweet sausage, pig blood cake and bubble tea.  Besides, the iconic drink of Taiwan culture, Taiwan Beer also sponsored the entire event.
“Hello Taiwan Rocks!” organizers including AsianInNY.com, Passport to Taiwan Festival, and Tai-Ke New York spent a lot of time and efforts in putting this event together at the Taiwan Center located in Flushing New York to wish to provide an opportunity for the indie bands to showcase their music and for the younger generation to unite, celebrate and network.  During the concert night, there were many special guests who showed up to support the event including representatives of Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York and and Cultural Center of TECO-NY.

The event provided a platform for the bands to perform while the fans got to listen to many amazing Taiwanese bands perform for a night of rock-and-roll, a cultural night to promote Taiwan and also an opportunity to get together before the Thanksgiving festivities.

This year the organizers introduced four terrific bands,  they are Coda Resistance, Bikini Carwash, Exit Clov and Torpid May.  The four bands totally brought down the house and gave the audience an unforgettable night to remember!

Hope to see you next year!

Amazing photographer Corky Lee documented AsianInNY’s Moon Festival celebration in New York City! 

Corky has covered the day-to-day lives of Asian Pacific Americans, and he’s been there to capture some historical moments in American history. For over 30 years, Corky has used his camera to ensure that the faces of Asian Pacific Americans and their experiences be included in American history.

His mission has been to document the incredibly diverse Asian American communities ignored by mainstream media. We’re so  honored to have Corky that night to support all the amazing Asian talents!  Thank you Corky!!