La Carmina launched her LaCarmina.com blog in 2007, and has been reporting worldwide on alternative culture, fashion and travel ever since.
She is the author of 4 books (with Simon & Schuster, and Penguin Random House), appears on travel TV shows for networks like Discovery, CNN and Travel Channel, and is a SATW award winning journalist. La Carmina is particularly known for her dispatches on Japanese and Gothic subcultures in over 70 countries.