Weekends are a good time to go out shopping and over the past weekend we popped by Tangs (Orchard) here in Singapore to check out if they have any new tokidoki apparel in store. We weren’t to be disappointed because they do have the tokidoki Nautical series already (yes we’re really behind time here in Asia!).

I fell in love with this grey terry cloth halter featuring a really cute tokidoki pirate monkey! With a big tokidoki pirate star on the back too! Awwww…

This would be perfect for those outings at the beach where you lounge about in your bikini, do a bit of a swim with no need for a towel coz your tokidoki top is already made of it! The material is quite soft and not scratchy at all to wear.

Besides the material, the top is also embellished with a few tokidoki details. In front you have a tokidoki pirate monkey holding onto a yellow rope and making heart patterns along it. Along the back of the top, there’s a bigggg tokidoki word made out from the rope as well as a sparkling tokidoki pirate star stitched on as well (like a patch).

Can’t resist taking more photos of the tokidoki monkey!

Tempted? Well, if you want to get this gorgeous top, it will set you back SG$105! (*sobs*) Tangs Orchard also have 10-30% off a couple of past tokidoki apparel so you might want to check them out at the Playlab corner on Level 3.

As promised, here’s the first of our videos featuring Simone Legno at the Singapore Toy and Comic Convention. We shot this video on the Preview Night outside the event hall where the artists (including Simone) were drawing on the big wall mural. We were also checking out his cute cap, tokidoki clothes and the awesome tokidoki x Onitsuka tiger shoes. Hehe.

We do have a couple more videos lined up for you, so if you want to stay updated on when those are up, sign up for our RSS feed!

P.S. Just a reminder that our Tokidokizens Giveaway is still on-going so keep those comments coming!

P.P.S. Also thanks to TOYSREVIL for linking us up on their tokidoki post! *waves back to TRE*

Finally this is what we have been waiting for. The STCC’08 online art auction has gone live! The minimum bid for the tokidoki Art piece (as seen above) is at SGD$70 SGD200. Please note that this is a blind bid - meaning that you submit to STCC, the maximum amount that you will be willing to bid, the person with the highest bid wins. Bidding starts at 6pm, 1st July and ends at 6pm, 8th July (GMT+8).

Good Luck tokidokizens, may the best fan win.

(edit: as at 7pm (GMT+8) the minimum bid has been changed to SGD200 - I guess there was too many bids for charity… but we have no idea which one/s yet.)

On Sunday (Day Two of the Singapore Toy and Comic Convention), Tokidokizens got an unexpected surprise/treat at being able to go for lunch with our favourite designer, Simone Legno of tokidoki. Thanks to our friends at Queen’s Couture, I was able to join them for a short lunch after the “Live Art Demo” session at a quiet Japanese restaurant somewhere in Millenia Walk (away from the crowds at Suntec).

Along the way, Simone was stopped by a few fellow tokidoki fans who wanted a photo together him. He was very obliging and posed with them. From our small bits of conversations and my own observations, Simone is indeed quite friendly, down-to-earth and easy-going in person. He did not say no to anyone who wanted a photo or an autograph even in the crowded event hall.

I must say that I was quite tired out from the past two day’s activities so it was actually a tussle for me to stay coherent and not be too awestruck to speak during lunch. However I wasn’t as tired as Simone himself, having only had an average of four hours of sleep every night he’s been in Singapore coupled with jetlag! So I’m very amazed and totally respecting his professionalism - he could still gather his reserves of energy to appear at all the activities and autograph sessions at the convention. Kudos to him!

Lunch was a pretty quiet affair peppered with the occasional conversations. As it was in an informal setting, the subjects talked about revolved around the usual things you would find of a lunch amongst friends - food, weather, work etc. Being Italian, Simone appreciates good food and would cook at home for friends and family when he’s not traveling around the world. Since this was not the first time he is in Singapore, Simone has tried quite a few of our local delicacies though he couldn’t recall what they were (except for chicken rice!).

I did ask him whether he expected the overwhelming response that he got when he was here and Simone said that he was quite surprised at the popularity of the tokidoki brand here in Asia. In fact he did not expect to see his products flying off the display cases as quickly as they did (Simone thought that he would have to ship half of them back)!

By the end of the lunch, we took some photos and I got him to sign my tokidoki SANDy and Skeletrino before walking back to the convention. At the event hall, I shook his hand and thanked him (he thanked us for our support as well) before Simone had to rush off for the final autograph session for the day. What a great way to end my weekend escapades at the convention!

p.s. I’m still a bit awestruck… so pardon me if this sounds a bit incoherent…

p.p.s. We’ll be posting some videos we took over the weekend at the “Live Mural Art” session soon. Stay tuned for it via our feed!

Missed out on our other STCC updates? Read all about it here!

• tokidoki@STCC 2008 - Preview Night
• tokidoki@ STCC 2008 - Day One
• tokidoki@ STCC 2008 - Day Two

Fellow tokidokizens, a quick reminder to you all that the tokidoki x Onitsuka Tiger shoes will be available at CK Tangs, Singapore, on the 2nd July, from 11:30am onwards!! Don’t forget to share pictures of your kawaii new shoes with us!

*Thanks to James for writing in and sharing the news.