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.