One Step Closer

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I am a little late to the party of celebrating the Fashion For Life Event but my ardor is no less because this is truly one of my favorite things to support in both lives. Everyone’s life has been touched by cancer, some more than others and for all of us it’s a journey.

I thought since lots of people have shared I would tell you the story of my Uncle George, who cancer took away.

He was a confirmed old bachelor (nudge nudge wink wink) who lived his life pretty full as a young man. He went to Cuba to gamble, he worked at 20th Century Fox as a hair dresser during World War 2. When I was very little he was diagnosed with prostate cancer, and told to say his farewells. Continue reading →

Lana

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I love Lana, the new mesh dress from Baistice. It comes in 6 fabulous color combinations and has lovely details such as the ribbon strap on the top which I mention since my hair is covering it up. The denim fabric is a great, practical fabric for travel and running around shopping. I like the polka dot belt with the read buckle – and decided to highlight it by wearing red accessories. Sissy Pessoa of Baiastice has a keen eye for details and this dress is a great example of her skill.
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Nature’s second hue must be pink then

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It’s the end of a truly surreal week, and I’m wearing a bunch of pink. I think the surreality was in part due to Spring and that whole US timezone change. It’s rough for my body to get adjusted to it, and I don’t think I will until we Fall Back in October, damnit. Still. Here we go, heading toward the blistering heat of a July afternoon. I’m wearing a new outfit by Nylon Outfitters, currently at Collabor88, standing in new poses from Lolapop! (so cute!), and wearing a pair of super dangerous hooved shoes with gun heels by Hate Me And Eat Me. Seriously, those shoes have it all.

Poses: Lolapop!
Socks: Hanauta check socks in pink
Eyes: Frick normalish eyes – diablo
Headband: u.f.o. dongbow hairband
Outfit: Nylon Outfitters Rosey Outlook in pink/pink – at Collabor88
Glasses: Crie Style Garbo
Tattoo: Wicked Tattoos: born evil
Skin: Fashionably Dead bird skin in winter 6
Hair: Clawtooth pretty words in dusty black
Boots: Hate Me and Eat Me zorongo boots in greycoat

Grasshopper, Grasshopper!

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Today is the day many of the faithful of Minnesota celebrate by wearing purple in honor of St. Urho who famously saved the grape harvest of Finland by uttering the phrase “Heinäsirkka, heinäsirkka, mene täältä hiiteen” (roughly translated: “Grasshopper, grasshopper, go to Hell!”) My family has made the pilgrimage to Menagha to see the famous statue of Saint Urho.

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Reminder: The Great SL Photo Hunt

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Folks have started hunting and adding their pictures to the Flickr Group, but there’s plenty of time to catch up. To find out more, check out the rules and list of challenges at The Great SL Photo Hunt tab in the masthead. The hunt is sponsored by It’s Only Fashion and Lazy Sunday.

Butterflies Are Free

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There’s a quote from Charles Dickens’ Bleak House that came to mind when I put this dress on. “I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies!” This Crazy Butterflies for Life dress from Orage Creations got me thinking about freedom – and what it means. FDR talked about the Four Freedoms; freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from want and freedom from fear. He wasn’t thinking of cancer when he talking about those freedoms, but wouldn’t it be a wonderful thing to finally come to a time when the word cancer does not evoke fear, but instead a confidence that it can be treated and overcome? To that end and working for that day, the designers for Fashion For Life, such as Orage Creations Elettra Gausman, are supporting the American Cancer Society’s efforts to combat cancer and create a future where cancer is no longer causes fear.

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The Softer Side of MiaMai

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When most people think of MiaMai, they think of Monica Outlander’s high fashion avant garde creations that flirt with androgyny. Produced with grand spectacle and presented with artistry and poetic insight, they are her hallmark. However, a truer hallmark, I think, is her great flixibility and range in design. She is not content to issue endless iterations of the same shapes and ideas, and truly does go back to the drawing board for new inspiration. Take this ultra-feminine and soft-edged flowing dress that she recently released at Fashion For Life. It is the antithesis of the sharply defined, hard-edged androgynous designs and yet, there are distinct MiaMai details such as the lush peacock feather collar that make it a cohesive element in her body of work.

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I Went to the Garden

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Cancer touches us all. We all have friends and family who have confronted cancer and struggled to overcome. It is perhaps the reason that there is such universal support for Relay for Life and for Fashion For Life, the shopping fashion expo that raises scads of money for the American Cancer Society and their global programs for research and support in the struggle against cancer. It will be two years in July since I lost my oldest brother to cancer and I went to the ACS memorial garden to spend some time thinking about my brother and cousins who have died because while we are winning battles, the war on cancer is far from over.

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There’s an Angel…

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Hello, everyone, and welcome back 🙂
After the big migration I’m back to blogging and I thought I’d start by showing you something absolutely gorgeous:

Angel from Ladies who Lunch is one of the most fabulous dresses I have ever worn in this Second Life of mine. It’s made of feathers but it might be rather reductive to call it a feather dress, in my humble opinion. It’s a mix of avant-garde, fantasy, romanticism, beauty. It puts a smile on my face, it makes me dream. I really enjoy wearing it. I think the name Angel fits this dress perfectly and not because it’s white, don’t you agree, Cajsa? 😉 It comes in various awesome colours and I chose it in white just because I was in a “white look” mood.

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FFL 2012

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Hello World! Tristan here with my first post!

I’d like to thank Gidge, Cajsa and the entire gang here at the Its Only Fashion blog for their warm welcome and all their timely advice. I hope that my style, writing, and photographic skills (or lack thereof) don’t embarrass them too badly lol.

Now, as luck would have it, this weekend was the opening of the Fashion for Life event. I was able to head over on Saturday evening and put this outfit together from items I picked up while shopping there.

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