Happy New Year

It's coming up to the new year, and I've been privileged to meet more warm, kooky, talented people than I could shake a stick at, and some have become great friends. So Marni and I would like to wish everyone a safe and spectacular New Year, best of luck to everyone in 2008, and we hope you all get smashed and make out with someone you won't regret in the morning. Cheers!

It was the Coat

I'd had a few drinks before I received a folder from Tenshi with some cute coats. My first thought was they were bright and woman-pimptastic. I decided I'd wear one out that night, show off my little score, and some blingy bitch at this club tried to pull my coat off of me. She only wanted to try it on but I was drunk, and people getting in my personal space pissed me off. Next thing I'd dragged her outside by her hair and we were half slapping, half scratching each other. Some random guys appeared, must have been with her. One of my girls handed me a knife. I swear, if I hadn't been wearing the coat, this wouldn't have happened.






The next night, I thought I'd try my luck again, this time with the pink. I was heading out with some model friends, one of whom lent me their new designer dress. The bar was crazy, men were everywhere and all us girls were up for a good time. I thought I was smokin until some random came up and asked me straight out how much. I asked 'For what?', and he put his hand on my leg, above my knee. He started to slide his hand up my thigh and in that splitsecond I threw my drink on him and we left. I swear, if I hadn't been wearing the coat, this wouldn't have happened.





Third night out, I lent my girl Ames the black coat. I'd had enough trouble. With that coat Ames looked incredible, and she knew it. Always up for a good time, Ames was on a high tonight, and didn't stress about taking a few samples from work and dishing them out as party favours. As we moved from bar to bar we ended up at some dive where Ames was meeting the guy. We tried to get her to leave, she always wrecked herself and took god knows what, but tonight, feeling a natural and at least half-medicated high, she had her eye on the guy. They went out back, and it wasn't until we herd yelping that we ran out the back door and there she was, needle in hand, standing over the guy who had 5 minutes ago been swapping her saliva and was now writhing on the ground. "Son of a bitch", she panted. "Tried to manhandle me". She'd stabbed him in the cheek with the needle, and at that point we were too shocked to do anything but stare. I swear, if she hadn't been wearing the coat, this wouldn't have happened.


But damn, the coat looked hot.

Whore for the Holidays

To suit the varying moral compass in your wardrobe, here I present you with three choices of gorgeous holiday wear, one of which is bound to relate more closely to your personal taste and conservatism, or lack of.

The Innocent



Dress by Heart Cupcakes

Whether unknowing or intentional, The Innocent dresses in attire mostly favoured by fantasy and whimsy. She has a wardrobe that would match a teenage girls, including what was hot when she was an actual teenage girl. Modesty abounds in the height of the collar, length of the skirt or sheerness of the top. No confusion here, fellas. This little thing makes it clear she's a good girl, and while she may be a party to a little flirting, she's got those good intentions, and doesn't have the faintest idea why you would think she's here for anything but the intellectual stimulation.


The Tainted But Hopeful Soul




Dress by Heart Cupcakes

Somewhat jaded by her one tragic experience, The Tainted but Hopeful Soul still believes in love, but has become more of a realist. She knows that it doesn't always happen, that love thing, and she may even laugh in your face if you seem a little too hopeful about finding it, but deep down she knows there is that chance of someone coming into her life that just gets her. Flaunting her sexuality but holding her feelings close, The Tainted But Hopeful Soul has hardened her personality upfront, but still lets her true self show to those she can trust, if you can win it.


The Femme Fatale





Jacket by Casa Del Shai

When a Femme Fatale walks in the room, you know it without turning around. The mood changes and the men sense the friction. Always to be handled as if dangerous , there are two kinds of Femme Fatale, and if you handle one the wrong way, prepare for war. One, The Vixen, a fiery temptress who's in the game for the trophies and men are just throwaway things. Fun for the night, but you'll never get that second date. It's skin deep baby, she's in control and she's having the time of her life. The other is The Broken Virgin. The less pleasant of the species, this former innocent is so damaged she believes the endless temptation of men and fulfilment of a strangers fantasies will make her whole, and watch out if you for one second make her feel. Sex is pure game with the Femme Fatale, she's all about the pleasure but don't expect she'll remember your name.

Merry Christmas

Marni and I wish you all the best on the holidays, be safe and hope you all have a wonderful silly season.

Dude Looks like a Lady prt 1

With the fashion on SL shifting more recently in a direction that I’m to be honest not always fond of. I have decided to take a look at an underblogged subject.

MENSWEAR

Although don’t expect my avi to grow a beard anytime soon (At least not a new one I did take to wearing a handle bar moustache in march…)

Menswear on SL is known for being ignored but with current real life catwalk trend all favouring an androgynous look I want to reflect that trend through my avi.

As you may also have noticed my avi now has grey hair (that’s no recent but it is pretty much permanent) I became sick of being YET another blonde.

The Suit:Jacket and Trousers: Shai

Shirt: Laundry (this shop is one of the best inexpensive men’s wear shop 50l a shirt!)

Boots: Last Call VAMP

Hair: Brian from ETD (yup even men’s hair J )

TAP : feline skin in almond

Marni

xxx

Sympathys and Best Wishes

Me and Eyva would like to wish all our best to everyone who knew ginny in RL and in SL, his talent amazed us all.

I remeber having a very brief conversation with him about using lightwave, the fact that such a busy person had time to talk and explian even offer so tips on using the program shows that Ginny had time for everyone.

He will be missed and not forgot

Marni and Eyva

Solid Gold on a Saturday Night

Hardcore night on the town? Get crazy. Don't worry about rules, you can clearly see we don't abide by them here either.



Dress: Casa Del Shai : Deepchild Dress in Black Gold
Skin: miw : Gutter Girl Purple in tone 7
Shoes: Armidi : Vidalia Pump in Turquoise Croc
Hairstyle: Kin : Emi in Black
Necklace: Fashionably Dead : Stone Necklace
Bangles: Turnstyle : Choco Bloo



Dress: Pampered Princess : Party Cheeta in Sunshine Skirt
Jacket: Mimikri : City Cat Jacket in Black
Shoes: Armidi(yes, again) : Vidalia Pumps in Turquoise Croc
Skin: miw : Fruitloops : Neptune
Hairstyle: Armidi : Roxy in Smoked Nutmeg
Necklace: Miam Miam : lucky Charms Necklace



Dress: Veschi : Le Poufe in Blue
Skin: Karamia : Marcelle in Medium
Hairstyle: Creamshop : Vanilla
Shoes: Periquita : Plenty Jane
Stockings: Veschi
Necklace: Chapeau tres Mignon : Satyr

Sabbatical

To everyone who does read the blog, Marni and I will not be blogging very much if at all for the time being as we both struggle with harsh reality. Hopefully at least one of us will post something once in a while, but for the immediate future we're both caught up in our own projects. Well, just letting you know we're not dead...now go shop!

Elegance

Maria Gherardi does beautiful things with silk, and Romance at Sunset showcases her talent with the silk texture, as well as her eye for that something extra as the detailing on the waisted belt and asymmetrical semi-transparent additional skirt show. My choice if I had to pick one colour was the olive, although all of the colour tones though are rich and pleasing to the eye. The prim skirt has a gentle flow and hangs well on the body, the length indicative that the dress is designed for a wide range of events, and therefore not destined to sit in the closet waiting for that themed or black tie only event.


When you do dress up, and find with that gorgeous dress you've picked out you need to find a special piece of jewelry, Muse has a considerable range of exquisitely designed finery to complete any outfit. By far the most unique and stunning collection is the Chatelaine Shoulder Brooch and Chain, as it sits unusually around your neck and beautifully highlights the decolletage. This is the most impressive work I've seen as the diamond set in silver wafers, the feather off set, and the large but delicately constructed chain all just appear to be art.

My hair was pulled together by Coif, and if you haven't seen the selection of crazy, elegant, fun, bizarre styles to choose from you're missing out. Disco Goddess was my first investment, and I'm loving every shade of it. Each style comes with all colours, so no more later regret you wish you'd gotten that perfect style with more options. For pure foot pampering, I chose Armidi's Gisaci Vidalia Pump in Turquoise Croc. Don't stop at the shoes there, though. A large street houses many of the departments that Armidi service, hair, accessories, clothing, and cosmetics.


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The List

Skin: Minnu - DarkSkinGloss - Nature Minnu Model Skins

Hair: Coif - Disco Goddess - Brown COIF

Jewellery: Muse - Chatelaine Shoulder Brooch and Chain - Silver Muse

Dress: MG Fashion - Silk Collection - Romance at Sunset - Olive
MG Fashion at Portucalis

Shoes: Armidi Gisaci - Vidalia Pumps - Turquoise Croc Armidi


Accessories: Earrings - Muse - Elle Bead Earrings - Rose Muse

Time Travel to to the fashionable and beyond.

It’s a worry we all have I know I myself was once afraid too however, should you fit yourself falling into a black hole, time vortex or just walk into the wrong sort of phone box (I do it all the time myself almost a daily occurrence) and then find yourself in rather a different time you always want to look your best lets face it a few hundreds years is no excuse you should always be prepared for the worst.

No I’m not going to claim to be the world best authority in historical accuracy so please don’t comment going “OMG I can believe you used those cuffs so not 1830 more 1850 how could you be SOOOOOOOOOOOO wrong”

Anyways I was using a telephone box round the corner from my shop but as soon as I pressed the Dial Tone it felt ever so odd, there was a far off voice quoting film lines too me “I don’t think were in Kansas anymore Toto”. How I managed the power of time travel is still beyond me maybe it was my slightly clichés space age jacket or that fact that I’m clearly wanted in all time zones. We may never know…..

Hair- Armidi the Milano II in orchid
Jacket - Mimikri City Cat Silver Jacket (this designer is a brillant up and comer)
Gloves - TaP
Ring - P.C's limited jewlary expo collection black pearl
Shorts - Candy Apple from G.L.A.M (there old)
Socks- Maitreya
Shoes -Crisis Sculptie pumps
Skin - Loveys peach
(and bedroom lashes by Cake are worn in ALL shoots)

As you can see I landed in ancient Egypt….. and of coarse such savages should be greeted with due care therefore its best to have that “played down” chic. Don’t draw attention to ones self and try and blend in.

This is my somewhat played down outfit

Hair – Amidala Style from Curl Up and Dye
Top (worn tucked in yes they come in all layers which RULES) – Sh*t Happens
Jacket – Part of the Nicky Ree Tang Gold Dress
Skirt- X3d Tulle Gown from the Wicked collection.
Skin- Tap Vivant Feline in almond

Next up I thought id jump a few years to the 17^th century (*ish*, don’t shoot me costume genius’s). It was a cold night so I thought it play up my chic appearance, bright colours are a must rich gold’s and luxurious reds. But seeing as everyone and their mother had them on and I wanted to wow my fans I toned it down. I’ve already had a higher opinion of people who run from the bandwagon screaming and flailing their handbags wildly.

Outfit – the Virgin outfit from wardrobe trunk
Hair- Coif by Paulie (yes its unrealised biatches)
Skin – my favourite skin I own I seriously can’t take it off! Draconic Kiss Theresa
Shoes- X3d Virgin flower shoes

Now to the future because “hey who wants to be soooo last century?!?”

Clearly ruling the catwalk 100 years from now will be Viking space cyborgs, there hot you know you like them :P

I’m actually rather in love with the Prim work on the suit its fairly easy to mod as well so well worth the 1k lidon if you intend to push the boat out with you wardrobe. The fact it was pink was the icing on the mechanical cake.

Hair - BrunHilda by BLEACH
Space Suit The Girl Power 3000 Special Edition "EVE" Mech Suit by Cyberpunk Apocalypse
Skin - MIW Dawn in Pale

Now Children what was the point of this post? In fact any of my blogging? It’s been observed I have a slightly somewhat eccentric fashion sense I’m fond of wearing odd combinations whether they work or not. I cant help but notice one the fashion feed and in world people are clinging far too lovingly to there jeans and sparkly tops now as great as this party classic is don’t you think in a world without rules and fashion boundaries we should ALL be pushing the envelope?

Have fun and burn those party time jeans!

Marni
xxx

Poll: Designing from RL Creation

This poll is mainly talking about a specific RL design that someone in SL creates a direct copy of, by which I mean you wouldn't be able to tell them apart if one wasn't virtual. Do you believe the SL designer owes it to their customers to inform them if their latest release actually existed already? Or perhaps the two realities do not have crossover rights or obligations?

For more information I refer you to a piece on SCD about designing off a well-known creator . Do you also believe all logos are sacred and copyright? Or do you think that aspects of logos in RL are fair game in SL?

New CRAP

Colder weather is coming fast for all you northerners, and while we down below set to fry in the months of spring and summer, many operators are donning their charges in the thick, woolly offerings designers have whipped up for realtime seasonal changes. I tried to resist because just thinking about woolly coat warmness makes me sweat, but Tenshi Vielle had a big surprise for me and once I saw what it was, well sweat be damned.

You may recognize her from such productions as Shopping Cart Disco, and her previous flirtation with design, which I have dubbed That Which Shall Not Be Named, well Tenshi has turned her eye back towards designing clothing and accessories and coats are where it begins baby. Yes, Tenshi's making CRAP. I can safely say that because that is the name of the label, no doubt to start one step ahead of the haters, and to show she's got a funnybone. Also, she's a friend and surely we get the first dibs on messing with that name. Right?



I've taken some hard and fast shots of two coat creations, the one above being the Olive Prim Parka, which is actually spot on because it is olive in colour, yes, but it's also made entirely out of PRIMS. That's right, no jacket layer, no shirt layer, no underwear layer, just prims. And they're copy/mod, so back em up and move em around because although you may be smarter than me, I had to do a bit of a mod effort to get the front bumps covered.



This little beauty is the Plaid Coat, ironically enough, and is also a set entirely created with prims. I love the shade of the pattern, but once again lil old me had to take 5 minutes to get the front to sit right on me, without modding my shape. You be the judge if I pulled it off or not.

There's more in store, this is just the beginning of madames' grande plan, and I should tell you that prices will be very reasonable, as nothing will be over 125L. The coats will be available for 100L each and you can expect some avant garde and just plain cute fun from Tenshi soon. If you happen to be near Mischief Cove, you may decide to wander of the pier and down to a cute bazaar off the beaten track. You may soon see a storefront there, and that's all I'm saying.

And excuse to Take arty photos

Now some may say these are more Flckr territoriy but a) iv forgoten all of my sign in details and b) Im promoting the use of arty photos in blogging today.

Without further ado


They original piont of this post was about me turning my SL hair colour to ETD's nickel but it sort of got lost, ill do the intelligent post tommorw!

Marni
xx

Old Gravy Review!

A few of you will have noticed that I have said before I will accept review copies, and some vendors have taken notice although I takes a lot for me to blog something. So dont be affended if i dont, also i WILL be honest if your seems dont match i'l say, or post yet another badly spelt blog entry telling readers so send at your own risk.......

Old gravy is a brand I knew about a long time ago and ill honestly say iv not been there for a while, my style changed and iv grown out of quirky punk clothes. I was pleasantly pleased on a re-visit though.

Now I picked one of the outfits to blog in all honestly the other one wasn’t my cup of tea. This pop it outfit has some really cute qualitys, I also bought hair and a pose from old gravy for the blog.

The Pop it outfit comes with jeans and a nice slightly cropped blue jumper with hood. The cherries on it are rather cute and the bright colours fun. It’s a shame there’s not slightly more detail on the top. The jeans textures are rather rocking and the seems match so it defiantly ticks most of those requirements.

I rather liked the hair they sell there this is the saltine style in blonde. With the retro bandana (the hair has a tone o colours and is so worth it)

My favourite thing about this gem of a shop is the poses! When I first knew about the shop they didn’t do poses but I fell in love all over again once I found them. A much less known alterative to Reel Movement poses (which are rather over used).

Defiantly worth a stop by.

Marni xxx

Anorexia in a world without food

Anyone who familiar with my last posts will probably look at this and think why is the girl who writes the puff pieces that have me laughing into my earl grey tackling this?

It’s a subject that’s rather close to home actually for me I believe the best way to start this post is to tell you all in RL I am a recovering eating disorder patient I wont go into the full details. Hearing my Sap story isn’t what this is about.

Second style recently published a blog on the shape of avis in SL, the majority of metaverse residents are 6 ft about a size –2 and blonde. Healthy.

http://blog.secondstyle.com/2007/09/no-anorexia-second-life.html

I cant go on other people accounts and I doubt second life had a lot to do with the beginning of my illness but I do think that seeing my avi (we all now she used to need fairly good meal) is highly likely to have no helped. Seeing an entire race of people who its and oddity to be short, or unfounded to be anything over a UK size 10.

I don’t know were we can go from here I do know that all our avis need to start having a more healthy image, id love to think in a few months time we’d have a more open minded grid with someone like swirly cyclone leading a “ Prim Food for all” campaign.

You might call me a hypocrite my avi is still very thin, but you would be amazed at how many people are affected by something like an eating disorder in there lives. I’m thin I’ve always been thin. Even now the validation from typing that gives me a buzz. How ever that hasn’t stopped me from putting myself and my loved ones through hell.

The RL fashion industry is far too big to tackle the issue in second life we have created the fashion industry its not to late to change peoples outlooks. We need and industry that’s about clothes and how when you put on a certain outfit you become who you want to be, not about looking ill, And I honestly don’t know who’s brave enough to make the first move towards it.

Marni

xx

SHOCK HORROR

You’re probably thinking, we haven’t heard any updates on my shopping hiatus, well bloggers and readers, ladies and flamboyant gays. I have to admit something to you. This is hard to say but its official I’m not perfect: P. Difficult to come to terms with I know, but take a deep breath and take a few minutes to read through and re affirm yourself with all that is good!

I made a promise not to shop for a month, this was a plan that reached about 2 weeks (a long time for me might I say I did hold through about 5 ETD updates, several fashions shows and new line of nylon skins) how ever when I won part of the shockwaves water fight prize my err balance slipped. Slipped and few thousand in the general down direction, the drug found me again on a cold cold night. I was depressed I was low what was a girl to do. With no one online to hold me back my right mouse button clicked to that pie chart menu and I could hear the ca-ching sound. And a magic blue box saying things we delivered. It was like being reborn. Angels are less euphoric.

Anyways I’m sure the shopping economy will be back to normal by now, I only stopped briefly in order to work out if there a single shop in SL iv not been to, simple answer is not that I know of.

*Coming soon to a blog feed near you, the aftermath of binge shopping the dread inventory sort!*

Bombshell

While I experiment and lately seem to be on a dirtier kind of style binge, it's been nice to slip back into a polished look every now and then. Cleaner lines, subtler colours, maybe even more photorealistic styles just make me feel happy when the blend of an excellent texture and craftsmanship lifts something from 'pretty' to 'stunning'. I've found a couple of items that fit that category the last few days, and would like to share them with you.

The title is exactly how I would describe this hairstyle, and funnily enough is the name of it, from Armidi. Seeing the coverage on SCD I had to check out the sim myself, and was directed to a small piece of land with this hair available with a few others, which they had debuted at the Hair Fair 2007. Looking closely at the textures involved, I'm in pure amazement at the quality, it looks almost like each prim piece was uniquely highlighted, and the thickness of the hair gives it the realistic appearance of depth and weight. They have been hyped since the building of the store began, with more exposure probably about to bombard the feeds, but this is completely warranted. They rival ETD in quality, sheer value for money and colour tones available.

It so happened I was looking for a darker skin tone to play with, and the mocha tones of the hair motivated me to find some demo's, through which I decided to get a fatpack from Minnu. While I have some of the paler tones , and love them, once I tried on the darks I got that little rush, where I think i should be ashamed I feel so alive just by shopping, but the skin was so well highlighted and the makeup so well drawn I got shivers. The last time that happened was when I finally came across Lovey's. Although Minnu is not cheap, at 1150L per skin it's definitely worth the indulgence and i would recommend if you like one, to splurge and get a fatpack. Anyone who makes skin gets my utmost respect.

While I was buying the hair, I noticed the Elephant Outfitters had a sale there also. I picked up the Preppy Polkies set from a section by Rummage for 90L, thats full price as it is new stock, which seems very cheap. You can split up the sweater and top, or wear them together, they all come on the jacket layer. You may also notice I'm wearing the Karamia shorts again, I can't find too many shorts that I want to wear everywhere, but these and Savvy's Lucas shorts are just my cup of tea.



Not so secret but awesome to behold are shoe creations by Maitreya, noticeably the Enchant Leopard selection I couldn't walk away from. Take a look at the heel shapes and tell me they aren't the most well-crafted shoes you've ever seen. The pattern makes more sense close up, where I would assume the work was painstaking, because it looks seamless and has a real kind of suede fabric appearance.

Also worth mentioning are the Heart Shell Screens by Corduroy. The team behind the name have created some wonderful clothing and furniture items, including this screen and more to choose from.

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Peek In The Closet

Finally getting some time to relax and explore, I found the lilolOops store at Reigner, which, as well as having excellent store build and layout, has a fantastic collection of colourful and well-crafted clothes, shoes and accessories. You can also find tattoos and skins available, and I picked up a pair of these Purple Pea Leggings, as well as all the other colours and styles available.



While also on my travels I happened by Hubby's Boutique, where I came upon this grey corseted dress. The texture and drawing skills are very promising, and for a system skirt the seams at the waist blend incredibly well into the top. Distraction its what it's all about when it comes to system skirt waist seams, and Jessie Gervasi did an excellent job with this dress. It reminds me of a Last Call style, elegant but not boring.

Hair style was an easy choice, this long style by Kin is my favourite. It's a relatively simple design, but the huge choppy fringe was really appealing and Kin's textures are have a subtle depth to them. I've had these Misfit chucks from Old Gravy for a long time, and there is nothing they don't go with. They're chucks, wear em with anything!

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The List:

Hair: Kin - Emi - Black

Skin: Celestial City - Vogue Skin- Champagne - Fall - 4

Tattoo: Aitui Tattoo - Fallen

Dress: Hubby's Boutique - Nadia

Leggings: LilolOops - Purple Pea leggings

Shoes: Old Gravy - Misfit Chucks

Your votes

Congrats to Marni, who proved she has the inventory and just plain skankiness to win your votes as Trashiest Betch. The baby's due any day now but will that stop her from boozing it up at all hours at the local to find her baby a new daddy? Not likely.

Also congrats to Azar Kazan, who topped the list of reader entries with the all-too-familiar bling and bikini ensemble. She wins 1000L cash and her picture posted here as an advisory to others.



We will be having another theme off in a few weeks, we have a list up our sleeves but if you have any nutso ideas you'd really like to see, we're obviously not above shedding our dignity so email either Marni or myself.

Sculptie Goodness

So I had to jump on the bandwagon and grab this hoodie from Maitreya, the colour choices were perfect, and when I saw you could choose different hair colours to go with it, I couldn't walk away. The slouchiness of the hood is too good to be true, sculpties make everything a bit more liquid and flexible, and Maitreya have been one of the leading brands to show this. They get scupltie arms so perfect and the folds just right.



The shorts from Karamia are too perfect, I've bought skins from Kara Eagle's range before and the makeups are still one of my absolute favourites. In these shots though I had to go with one of Starley's Deviant Nation skins, I love how the eye makeup looks so dirty.

Old Gravy is also perfect for your dirty look, these shoes are one of a bunch of Chucks that Satine sells, there is also a huge range of hair, clothes, more shoes, and accessories to fulfill your filth needs.

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The List:

Hair n Hoodie: Maitreya - Jam Hoody Blue

Shorts: Karamia - Sailor Shorts Black

Socks: Shop Seu - Kushukushu Kutsushita - brown

Shoes: Old Gravy - Nautical Star Print Chucks

Trash Off!

This theme was all too easy to do, miraculously (or not so) we all had this stuff laying around in our inventories, and all of us wish to state upfront that we apologize to any and all designers we wear here, fortunately for this contest, it's all too easy to turn even the classiest of items into a ho-bag's outfit of choice.

Our guest star for this theme is Tenshi Vielle, blogger and fashion commentator extraordinaire. She foolishly agreed to be involved in our shameful contest, and we will see who indeed is crowned Trashiest Betch. We all had our own ideas of trash, and you can vote for your choice on the sidebar poll. Comments will be welcome, we are a shameless bunch and would love you all to expand on your ideas of trash.

Also, we're opening the contest up for readers' pics, if you dare. We will select the trashiest pic and the winner will recieve a prize of 1000L, perfect to shop your shame away. Just email your submissions to eyva.matova@hotmail.com and remember to hide the pink bits, either by clothes or poses, we're trashy, not porn stars. And please just one per person. Contest will finish one week from today, Saturday 29th September at noon.

With no further ado, I present your selections for voting, and may the biggest trash-bag win.

There once was a guitarist from Istanbul……

Day 4ish
Marni lay on the floor when word came into her head.

“Start wearing purple, start wearing purple for me now, all you sanity and wits will vanish is just a matter off time…..”

(theres a video here for fashion planet user youll have to look at the blog on your site click the link at the top!)

Its was if these dream words had floated to except in a catchy eastern European beat and a guitarist from Istanbul……

Instead of ignore these words Marni thought to her self to follow her vision and to in fact wear purple in the hope that the lack of shopping madness and withdrawal would pass.
Thats what all halucinating people need, a french man telling you to wear purple, on the up side marni did find a cute outfit and the world was good again!

Lots of love
Marnis left (and slightly more concered) arm

Product Info
-Skin Loveys Mulberry
-Hair KIN pale blonde Annie
-Arm puffs Veschi from the 80's girl outift
- Veschi purple scarf from the Le pouf outfit
-Lico Lico crown
-Lico Lico cross and check dress in purple
-Footless socks from maitraya
-Crisis Pumps
-Ballon from
What is marni doing?
http://styleadvisory.blogspot.com/2007/09/i-pleadge-alegence-to-my-handbag.html

edit : WHY DID YUMMY MAKE NEW JEWLARY? IM ROCKING BACK AND FORTH TO CALM MYSELF!!!!!!

Ivalde like cocaine

Going into Ivalde the other day immediately made me wish I'd crawled out of my hole to investigate it earlier. I have no idea how long this dress has been available but I nearly died from ecstasy when I saw it. Bias cut, system skirt abused wonderfully, excellent textures and colour, AND little extras like the sarong option tie off. I've been wearing the dress non-stop since I bought it, and the others I bought will eventually get their turn. It's hot but not slutty - for some reason I seem to dress like a prude and Berthe gives you some sexy AND class.



Indie Rainbow's vest was also easy to choose, I love his colours and cute store and it would be hard to maneuver the vest shoulders around the template minefield, but he's got it. Trust me, the poses don't do justice to it. I also fell in love at first sight with these White Orchid Heels by TOSL, expensive (like everything else seems to be getting nowadays), but worth it for the beautiful detail and you can just wear them with anything.

I've been, seen and conquered the Jewelry Expo, and hope to actually WEAR some at some stage, I'm planning to whore myself to Caliah Lyon for a discount on the feather-chain thing I wanted..I say discount because apparently I'm not worth the whole thing for free :( Seriously, pixel sexual favours will get you NOWHERE anymore. If only I wasn't a tightass...

Anywhoo, enjoy the quiet in the eye of the 12Avatar storm, and Next Week: Will anyone actually CARE who wins the calendar contest now everyone and their dog has participated/begged for votes/made judgemental comments about those who did enter? Research says....no.

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The List:


Hair - Naughty - Crave- Cool Tones Medium

Eyelashes - Minnu Model Skins - Catwalk Eyelashes

Dress -Ivalde - Berthe Red Dress

Shoes - Tree of Second Life (TOSL) - Flower Heels - White Orchid


Skin - Loveys - Chai - Peach

Bracelets - Cake - Flea Market Bangles (I know, again)

Tattoo - Aitui Tattoo - Fallen

Vest - Indie Rainbow - Classy Vest - Navy

Day 3

Day 3

Marni Grut stands on a pose stand looking at her dulling skin. Even if this fete is impossible due to her loveys peach tone glow, she defiantly has less of a pep about her.

Maybes its just because she’s stuck in last weeks duds with such a high turnover, often done by simple refreshing the fashion planet page (now don’t tell me that’s not fast food fashion).

Her shakes are setting in. I’m looking on waiting for the rocking back and forth clutching part of the paper couture fall line in her clammy hands.

Lets hope in a few days she moved on to doing slightly more productive things :D

From

Concerned onlooker

I pleadge alegence to my handbag.....

Lying on a pinewood floor, till receipts littered around boxes dishevelled and laying strewn on the ground. Marni Grut’s lying there fairly lifeless, drolling out of her open mouth still clutching her latest purchase the high now gone. It was painfully apparent that after a few of these dark episodes she needed help. Some people drink, some take drugs it was clear Marni shopped her pain away. The ching on linden’s leaving her balance was like heroin.

We told her she was in need of help and have made her write the following mission statement.

xxxxx

From and fashionable onlooker

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Now as my hands shake and I starts I shall leave you my dears and post my findings tomorrow.

THIS IS MY STAND AGAINST CONSUMERISM: P (well no but we all need a righteous excuse these days)

Marni Grut

Haute Couture? STOP USING THE WORD

The word couture is used a lot it seems, mostly as a PR tool to make a designer seem “a bit of an art ponce”, sometimes even in a vein hope to attract fashionistas to your label. However I hate to break it to a lot of metaverse residents but,

It’s actually impossible to have a Haute Couture brand in SL.

I can see a few puzzled faces out there at this statement. The term itself in fact is protected by French law and is defined by the Chambre de commerce et d'industrie de Paris. (Sofia Grey linked me to the wikipedia site when we got chatting about this topic)

There are so many flaws with people using this term for marketing for one a Haute Couture brand must design for clients and fit them all in house. (I think this rules a vast number of second life brands out, legal mumbo jumbo aside)

Secondly they should have a workshop in Paris, with more than 15 full time staff, again something id be surprised to here even if it was a sim called Paris :P

Thirdly each season a brand must produced 35 outfits and present them in a show to the French press. To date only 10 houses and three international house are considered couture.

The dry information bit over, my main issue with people using the term is that often its on clothes that frankly are nothing out of the ordinary and designers think the word will have people flocking to there clean anubas prim build.

Excuse my asshat face but i think you can see my piont, the RL image is from the Chanel FallHaute Couture Collection.

Im wearing a P.c Top from the amour dress, Form jeans, bettie page leg warmers (im in love with these atm) and tuxedo shoes from shiny things. (also not the dance troop Dandelion :P)

I honestly don’t think its for a designer to define there own work surely that’s for the consumers, if you want to be high fashion than wait for someone to praise you for it. If you want to jump on the Avant Garde bandwagon that seems to be moving about at the moment then by all means do just don’t say your producing couture and not be expected to be corrected in your use of langue.

Marni
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Peek In The Closet

It began with a simple exploration, Marni found this cute shop Kurotsubaki, in Koenji. Mainly kimonos downstairs, and if you venture up the stairs you find some Western style clothing. There I found this blue short coat and fell in love.


The coat itself comes on the jacket layer, and has lovely texture to it. The jumper is on the shirt layer and the collar is part of that. It is awkward that the collar is no copy, I had to fiddle around a bit to get it the right size for my chicken neck and not make it TOO big, but the result was worth the few minutes' work. What really made me snap this up right away was the angling of the sleeve prims and the bottom hem, the front of the coat is cut away from the straight corner into a more sweeping front, and the sleeves give that bit of frilly fun without overcrowding the rest of the coat. All wintery fun.

I immediately went for the Boho hair from Cake to accentuate the warm woollen look, it's been around for a while, but I only got it a little while ago and will use any excuse to wear it. Same for the Maitreya boots, here shown in Burgundy, the dusky suede is very warming and the folds and creases in the boots are very realistic. I still have to go and get more colours of the belt I'm wearing too, from Studio Sidhe. It fit perfectly and I recommend the store highly, I had the good luck to meet the owner, Faery Sola, and she's wonderfully warm and down to earth.

Back to the grind for me, we're changing the look up around these parts and if you have any content requests or would like to mention anything you wanna see more or less of, please do.
Next week, 50 Cent: Can a guy who makes albums about cars, money and bitches really have a heart of gold? Research says...no.

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The List

Skin: Canimal - Innocence - Light - Aerial02

Hair: Cake - Boho - Black

Coat: Kurotsubaki - Short Coat - Viridian Kurotsubaki @ Koenji

Bracelet: Cake - Flea Market Bangles


Belt: Studio Sidhe - Grey Suede Double Belt

Pants: Tres Blah - Og JuJu Jeans

Boots: Maitreya - Dune Boots - Burgundy

Peek In The Closet

It's an orange day, I happened to find a couple things around the grid and somehow they all had one thing orange, so I went a little nuts. Yay orange!



I had to finally make it to MG Fashion and grab some of the spectacular skirt sets, I'm in LOVE with the silken folds look and the tiny band waist is perfect. The texturing on all the pieces in each outfit is superb and Maria's colour selections are excellent.

Artilleri has a sale on now, but literally 10 minutes before it was announced I spent way too much on the new hairs and this cute Beatrix midriff shirt in orange. The prim collar makes it feel really fresh and the pattern feels very country, a great match. Don't even get me started on the hairstyles, the colours in the browns and blondes are my favourite in all of SL.

Veschi has so many bright, funky, quirky things out I'm already hoarding and these wedges are a highlight. There are so many colours to choose from and the chunky platform with the covered toe works well with outfits for almost any occasion.

I've been a slack girl, but I'm getting my shit together and we'll update more often, promise.
Next week, black tape: Can you make haute couture out of your stationery drawer? Recent trends say: Yes!

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The List

Skin: Minnu Model Skins - PaleSkinGloss in RedLips Minnu Main Store

Hair: Artilleri - Rita in Brown October Artilleri Sim

Tattoo: Aitui - FallenAitui

Top: Artilleri - Beatrix in Orange

Skirt: MG Fashion - Maria Outfit in Tan/Salmon MG Fashion at Portucalis

Jewelry: Left arm - Turnstyle Choco-Bloo Bangles Turnstyle at Imjin

Right Arm - Eye Candy - Woody Giraffe Set Eye Candy


Shoes: Veschi - Wedges in Orange Veschi Main Store

Feeding the Nudity

Burning Life has been marred somewhat by the nude statue drama, where a piece of art depicting a naked woman which was placed in a PG sim had been censored. There are other works of naked art on the grid , and more importantly, on other PG sims, but this was deemed broadly offensive. The reaction I can gauge seems to be outrage at a selective act of censorship and also disbelief of the Lindens' reaction to the enquiry made by the Burning Life Blog, which was basically Iridium Linden asking the artist who created the statue to alter it, to 'make the breast without so much detail'.

This got me thinking about the SL fashion feed, and the blogs it feeds from. We all check it, probably once a day, and a lot of us maybe more, but where do you do it? From work? Public transport? Designers post their creations, and fashion bloggers post their photos and opinions, and I'm curious where people's tastes are when it comes to nudity in the feed. Sure enough, a person's blog is their domain, and therefore they're free to fill it with whatever you like, but the question is, when your blog feeds into bigger resources like the fashion feed and the world of SL feed, should the blogger have to think of censorship of their own blog, or should blogs featuring nudity for reasons other than designer displays cut the size of the post shown on the feed? Alternatively, is it just plain arrogant and rude to assume that because you may not like it, it should be censored or cut to please your own personal tastes?

Particularly in the fashion feed, I noticed London Spengler's posts about new builds coming together and her choice to use naked photos. From what I could see, there was nothing offensive in the selected photos, and although I'm not keen to see women parading around naked in their new build for the sake of nothing but fun, and the nudity wasn't really related to the post, I wasn't offended she'd posted the photos. Is it unacceptable only because it isn't using nudity in a direct marketing exercise, or because you may be checking from a public place or workplace? Did the shots appear to some people offensive because it was two women nude? I'm not seeing any open discussion about it apart from a comment.

We see lots of nude displays for skin creators, although carefully covered in the sensitive areas. We see nude photos from fashion blogs, although not often, where a pose is the only tool used to conceal genitals. We all live, play, and create on an over 18 grid, and it's pixels, not flesh. It seems a matter of personal taste where some won't even stand for nudity in art that is displayed to the public whether in SL or RL (although no-one I have met in SL yet agrees with this), but a vast majority seem to either tolerate or celebrate nudity and are spread out on the spectrum of nudity for the sake of art, to nudity because it's natural and should never be censored or villified, We all seem so forward and open about SL being a place where everyone can just be. So I'd like to know, if anyone would like to contribute, where do you believe nudity belongs in the fashion feed in particular, but generally as well. I'll be posting a poll, but if you have a differing opinion or strong feelings about the subject, feel free to leave a comment.

Throw Together - Casual Saturday

I just threw on something casual but with a classy necklace to see me through shopping.




Marni found this great store Grandma, where I grabbed this white top and aqua knitted cami, they have some way out styles and patterns, great for eclectic mix and matches in your wardrobe. I also finally had enough spare money and time to have a good leisurely shop at Megg Demina's Chapeau Tres Mignon, where among her beautifully artistic hat creations she features furs and the gorgeous necklace I'm wearing. Finally, it wouldn't be casual spring (down under) Saturday without wearing something from Sand Shack, and the Hippie Skirt was perfect!

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The List:

Hair: ETD - Eva in Honey ETD

Skin: Lovey's - Chai in Blueberry Lovey's

Earrings: Muse - Elle Bead Earrings in Rose Muse

Necklace: Chapeau Tres Mignon - Satyr Necklace Chapeau Tres Mignon

Top: Grandma - B Lace Top and Cami Grandmas!

Tattoo: Aitui Tattoo - Cherry Blossom V.2 in Red Autui Tattoo & Piercing

Bangles: Model's Left: Cake -Flea Market Bracelet Cake
Model's Right: Earthtones - Giraffe Bangles Earthtones Boutique

Skirt: Sand Shack Surf Co. - Hippie Skirt - Foggy Bay Sand Shack at Artilleri

Shoes: Sand Shack - Delia Print Flats - Boardwalk.

*RED ALERT*

***This is a Red Alert***

Reports have broken out of highly unorganized waterfights across the grid. Teams of women can be seen (and a few men) with a colour ball in hand ambushing others and engaging in the throwing of water-filled balloons. These women have been identified but for National Security reasons their names cannot be released at this time. I was alerted to this situation by one Tenshi Vielle, and was sent to investigate.

The epicentre of the madness appears to be Sheep Island. A fountain beholds a HUD which enables the crazed women to form teams, and equip them with water balloons. It also gives detailed instructions to a prize of L1,000,000. I was able to descramble their code and can safely release to you the following:

Game Overview

The Second Life Shockwaves Water Fight game is a grid wide water balloon fight with the winning team receiving L$1,000,000!! This is a provocative game of individual skill, alliances, team play and strategy. Bring your friends and test your skills in the Shockwaves Water Fight Game!

Wave/game 1: from August 23rd 2007 to September 12th 2007
Wave/game 2: from September 20th 2007 to October 10th 2007
Wave/game 3: from October 18th 2007 to November 7th 2007


Crazed fashionistas, famed bloggers and high end designers have all been spotted running around the grid with glazed eyes and a hunger for their next victim. I was told not to enter Sheep Island as this is the most common place for teams to set their ambush, but managed to get undercover and into one of the sims designated a water zone, where 'players' have alerted all that there are fights to be had and victims to soak. I smuggled a picture out of the medical camp at Jessie, of Tenshi and I facing the frontline.



The government is at this time quiet on the issue, but a small insurgence team is rumoured to be mobilised to defeat the large gang of wandering wild women. Before I am cut short I urge all readers to go to Sheep Island and get involved. These people must be stopped! I must claim the prize money! I...

***End of Transmission***

The Fashionista - a Creature to be ware of

The SL fashionista can be picked out from a crowd; her cake bedroom prim lashes, framing her FD eyes. A soft glow being given of by her face lamp illuminating her loveys skin. Clutching he PC bag and tottering on her sculptie maitraya heels.

The true fashionista is a rare breed many impostors try to mimic the true creature in an attempt to join there heard. She shops alone and has a steely reproachable manner as she often talking in IM’s to her fellows. Its has been my experience whilst attempting to infiltrate this heard that these action are not meant in predatory manner. The permanent contact between the fashionista’s in merely a call to other telling them were the best products are for replenishing their inventories. The will later be found at a trendy watering hole swapping gossip and tips.

Once in the heard there is a hierarchy system those with the best plumage rank highest. Also newcomers to the flock will be treated with suspicion until proven to not be an impostor.

To catch a full-grown specimen one must have one of two things, a male avi with payment info on file whilst having a kind-giving manor or for a shop to catch a fashionista, to quote the godfather “make them and offer they can not refuse”.

The fashionista is similar to the magpie in the sense that they are attracted to shiny things, which they will hoard in there nests. Although in fact not in the avian family despite the spindly like appearance. They are in fact carnivorous epically around sales and special offers. If captured should be treated with care and allowed to read her favourite blogs.

Can be spotted in the desolate area often around tabalue or in the latest trendy shop.

Elegance in SL

“It is a sort of harmony that rather resembles beauty with a difference that the latter is more often a gift of nature and the former a result of art.” Genevieve Antoine Dariaux from the book Elegance

Although the above is a somewhat arty and ever so slightly pretentious quote, it’s rather true. Although the act of beauty in SL isn’t a gift its something you can happily purchase, the idea of elegance is something that I find is often over looked. It’s odd how in the metaverse the two are reversed.

So instead of another photo shoot I thought id invent the 10 rules of elegance for SL and possibly a few things in my opinion to consider.

1. Less is more, always
2. Pastel coloured shoes are tacky
3. Make sure all your prim attachments fit; it takes only a few minutes to do.
4. When going to and event re-bake as soon as you get there just in case of a Ruth visit. The shortcut is Ctrl+ R
5. Try and find an AO where you feet touch the ground…. It’s just not natural!
6. No bling script should make there way into you inventory unless you plan on a) wearing them ironically e.g some ghetto fabulous joke or b) becoming a Christmas tree.
7. Glitch trouser come with your prim skirts for a reason wear them.
8. Shorts with bare legs and heeled boots are so wrong. It just doesn’t work ether wear flats or put on some fun bright coloured tights for a trendy mix.
9. Cropped tops are the height of tart. Naked mid-drifts unless your at the beach just don’t work (I don’t care if I sound an old granny :P)
10. Androgyny is chic on woman in a virtual world its easy to make sure people know you a girl whilst rocking a tux.

These are my Views and just a few things to think about


Marni

Votes Are In

Thanks to everyone who participated in our little bit of fun, alas no winner is to be announced this week with Marni and I in a tie!! This just means we'll have to up the ante for next fortnight's theme off, which will be announced Friday. We loved getting pics from everyone, and our prize winner is Nicole Sautereau!! Nicole will receive a colour choice of Marni's Sunglasses, and a 500L gift card to Last Call.

Our prizes will vary each contest, so keep your eyes out, we're working on getting some great goodies for those who compete. We've also secured a daring guest to be involved in our next round, she's fun, she's a fellow blogger and you'll have to keep watching this space til Friday to see who joins the fun!

Syndicate(d)

I was at Queen Couture a while ago spying on the latest glamorous high fashion release and I met Tyreak Takashi, designer extraordinaire of fantastic urban clothes and AO's. He was wearing some great clothes and showing off his creations, he gave me the LM to his store the Syndicate, where of course I couldn't help myself.



This jacket was what popped out at me first, and I LOVE the hood. Polka dots and fur is genius. Although I couldn't get the neck to fit me right, it was advertised for men, so I think that's my bad. The jacket is so well textured, and the wrist and waist detail completes it perfectly. The hood was also perfect and didn't require any editing to fit.



The Under the Influence strings blew me away. It's such an original idea, and I have no clue what I'm gonna use it for but I had to have it, the wood is so well textured. There's a great range of belts available to, and while at that point I had already bought so much, I still had to have the padlock belt. Again, fitting to me was no problem.


This little bear, though, is the cuteness. Gloomy bear is his name and there are some different types available, this one was wearing a noose, and was my personal favourite. Hug him, carry him around, he's made to be loved.

There're so many more things Tyreak has made, typing AO's, accessories, shoes and a lot more, you have to check it out for some fantastic finds. He's also working on a main store which will hopefully be opening in a few weeks. I'll definitely be waiting for that, but until then I've included his current store locations for you to see for yourselves.

Visit In-World:
Plunder

The Pixel Cartel

Pull D'Vagin

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The List:

Hair: Aden - Rihanna in Black Random

Skin: Lovey's - Chai Mulberry (nekid) Loveys at Fashion Mode

Jacket: Syndicate

Glasses: Nylon Outfitters -Nylon Outfitters

Belt: Syndicate

Jeans: GLAM - Gold Jeans in Light Indigo Wash GLAM Main Store

Boots: Shiny Things - Sleek Laceup Boots 2.0 Shiny Things

PopFuzz Corsets 3 styles

When i ran into Miss Popfuzz and saw her wearing this corset set before it had even arrived on our shelves i knew i HAD to have it!I of coarse ended up with the fatpack, so here are the corsets in blue pink and gold in a few different outfits.

1.The classy look Aden Andy 3 hair in strawberry, loveys blueberry skin, foxy's cigarette and Tete a Peid sling back shoes. Popfuzz corset in blue

2.Vintage Vixen

This is a vintage look almost pin-up without being over "dressing up box", these shots show some nice close ups on just how well made this corset set actually is. Note the sculptie bows. Also i know for a fact the whole thing was handpainted with a mouse (yes i do mean that lace).
ETD Rachel chestnut, loveys cherry skin, stockings from Bettie's, corset as before.

3. a Little bit high fashion and a little bit punk

Now this is a look is you want to punk it up a bit, hot pink being colour of choice!
Kin Pur hair in pink , loveys bubblegum makeup, kyoot neck brace, socks from shop seu, Biker Boots from X3d.
Corset set as before.


Marni