Category Archives: Expos, Fairs and Fundraisers

First Date/Second Date

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Modern Gypsy’s newest collection is full of interesting and avant garde designs. The Dovetta dress is, in my opinion, the most arresting – or the most likely to get you arrested since it doubles as a deadly weapon. In jest, I said it was a First Date dress, but then decided to explore the idea further – styling it for a First Date with an unknown quantity, giving it a hard-edged, remote styling. I added tintable leggings from Fashionably Dead and a belt from M.A.II.K.I in a bright cerise.

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Luckily for this imaginary date and me, the prims detach for a more comfortable Second Date. I switched to a red belt from Lelutka and ditched the leggings.

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If the Shoe Fits, Wear It Again & Again

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I love the playful look of the Magnifico Plateau shoes. In particular, the blue ones with that beautiful shade of blue that reminds me of the Melmac dinnerware at my uncle’s cabin on Lake Kabetogama. I suppose associating shoes with dinnerware is a bit odd, but that dinnerware reminds me of family picnics, playing with cousins, tramping through the woods and hours of fun on the lake.  Just about everyone had Melmac dinnerware at their lake cabins because that stuff was indestructible. You know, Mad Max and all the post-apocalyptic survivors may lack for a lot of niceties, but they would still have Melmac. Here I am enjoying some music while wearing a great top from Eldee and capris from artilleri.
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Dreaming Of The Shoe Fair

Style Notes:

***Bold R Denotes a Review or Promotional Copy***

  • Skin – Adam N Eve – Jasmine – Tone 2 – Lilac R
  • Hair – Exile – Carly – Ash R
  • Top – Friday – Gatcha from Shoe Fair – Twofer Top
  • Jeans – Sn@tch – Vintage Virgin Jeans
  • Shoes -A-Bomb – Khitten Heels R

Yeah, it’s a shortie. I’m sleepy. Give me a break!

Quick Look: I Gatcha

Poses from I Love Olive

posted by Gidge Uriza

Elusyve said I had to go to the Albero Gatcha Festival -and since she’s a fucking giant who might squashe me, I went.

She also said I had to wear everything I got immediately, which meant I was walking around wearing many boxes. I think this might’ve been some mean elf trick on her part.

But since I had never been to nor patronized any sort of gatcha, you know, like Ron Burgundy would say – WHEN IN ROME.

I can’t actually wear everything I got at once.

That just means there will be another post.

You lucky suckers………

Style Notes:

All obtained at the Albero Gatcha Festivale

  • Sksin – showfunky – olga – just pink
  • Hair – Katatonik – yello – jamz hair
  • Headphones – Katatoniki – cupcake headphones
  • Top – Sysy’s
  • Pants – Teefy’s Lacy Blacky
  • Necklace – BOOM – Gumball Necklace – Ink
  • Bracelets – Loulou & co
  • Pen – I dunno. I got a pen somewhere

And I has an other post to do eeeee! This was fun!

Expectations 9:Hippies,Yippies and Sn@tch

posted by Gidge Uriza

Nothing said Summer of Love quite as well to me as this patchwork dress from Sn@tch and since I was determined to wear something hippie festive with this hair from EXILE – Miranda in Ash for the Summer of Love festivale.

If you are old enough, you know that they called them both yippies AND hippies however hippies caught on and that’s the one everyone remembers.  I just remember the yippies because my Grandma was forever going on about the “damned dirty yippies”. Continue reading

IFW10 – The Best Laid Plans

International Fashion Week is winding to a close and so are my highlights of some of the lovely designs on offer there. I could not miss out on showing you the lovely Milena dress, an IFW10 exclusive, since MiaMai is a long-time favorite of mine and always produces luxurious and beautiful gowns. The Milena is no different. It has a back that dips into the Tropic of Capricorn and a bodice that dips to the Tropic of Cancer and entire continents of ruffles.  Now as to those best-laid plans….

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IFW10 – Lusts of the Flesh

In addition to getting a concentrated does of high fashion and raising funds for charity, events like International Fashion Week also introduce us to new creators – perhaps not new to the grid, but new to us. This IFW10 I discovered more than one new-to-me designer, but only one was also a new-to-me word – Convoitise. So I had to look it up and while it can mean covet or desire, I had to go with the last one for the blog title in light of the micro-mini but macro-sexy dress from Convoitise.

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IFW10 – Balancing Act

Today’s the last day of International Fashion Week, which come to think of it, should probably be International Fashion Long Weekend or International Fashion Four Days. I wish it were a week – which would give me more days to spread out my posts about the designs I want to highlight – so I am not posting 4 times in one day. But I suppose there’s reasons for a shorter event – events like these are often balancing acts of meeting competing needs such as finding good times for people from around the world to participate in an event that spans every time zone.  So in honor of all the concerns of designers, customers, bloggers, models and anyone else that must be juggled by event organizers, I thought I would shoot this dress from Orage Creations in Olive Juice’s Ball Pit – where there are many balls in the air – and they are in very delicate balance.

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IFW10 – All the Pretty Little Horses

Hybrid Ansar sent me the best gift in Second Life on Friday – a notecard full of places she likes for taking photos that I will be incorporating into my own notecard. When I put on the La Memoire dress from Aleida for International Fashion Week, I wanted shoot it someplace really different and found that at Drill Factory where high in the sky there is an inspired merry-go-round that is the Merry-Go-Round of  Dreams.

It’s an amazing site and I will definitely go back to explore the many hubs and stations of this galactic carnival at Drill Factory.

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