NEWS #1

I have a brand new, bever-before-seen piece I’m working on as we speak in next month’s Gag Me With A Toon group show at WWA gallery. This is the most awesome news, because I’ve wanted to be part of this exhibition since it launched four years ago and now I’m finally able to dedicate myself to doing just that. I won’t spoil the surprise, but let’s just say I’m taking a beloved character I grew up with and doing very bad things to it. And look at all these cool cats I’ll be showing with:

NEWS #2

Not exactly news if you follow me on various social networks, but! I shaved 3/4 of my head and hawt damn do I love it. It’s aerodynamic and exaggerates my various alien features juuust enough. RAH.

NEW [thing] #3

I haven’t really shown you these yet: new boots. They’re by Sam Edelman and I wear them almost every day.

That’s all I presently have time for. Onward, to coffee!

                          

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Click here for a large slideshow of the entire Half-Light Beach editorial, featuring GHST RDR, or check out a 520-px one below.

Photogaphy: Lydia Hudgens // Featured: GHST RDR jacket and skirt , AllSaints gown // Model & styling: Zoetica Ebb // Most accessories: Miyu Decay

                          

It’s time! As promised, GHST RDR, my collaboration with Toronto’s future fashion pioneers, Plastik Wrap, is now live. Or undead – whatever! These two pieces are available for custom orders only, and at 189.00 and 149.00 CAD, you will agree this is one fabulous deal. And I don’t use the word “fabulous” in vain, ever.

Photos – Allan Amato | Hair – Adriana Mireles | Models – Zoetica Ebb and Ulorin Vex

It’s so gratifying to finally offer this jacket and skirt to you. Having only T-shirt and commercial merchandise designs under my belt of late, bringing this mini-line to life was an exciting new experience. Though fashion design is something I’d always been interested in, I hadn’t created clothes from start to finish since, eesh, college.

Lacking tailoring expertise necessary to create the outfit of my design-y dreams,  I knew that Plastik Wrap’s Adriana was my ideal partner. I’ve known Ada and worn her clothes for years now – they always, always fit just right. We began the collaboration back in November, when I sent her two of my sketches from 2006. A multitude of emails, a dozen fabric swatches, and several curious prototypes later, GHST RDR is real.

Here’s a look at the creative process behind the jacket. We went through several fabrics, sleeves, necklines and pleats, before arriving at the final version.

If my calculations are correct, Ada [pictured above] is the owner of at least four early versions of this thing. A glance over my inbox tells me it took roughly 100 emails to complete GHST RDR, start to finish – not a single meeting or phone call needed. Thanks to Coilhouse, I’m used to collaborating remotely, but still find this amusing and appropriately Of the Future.

Now, what are you waiting for? Go on, GHST RDR is ready for you and mama needs a new jet pack.

                          

Announcement time! On Monday May 9th, GHST RDR, my collaboration with Plastik Wrap, will become available for custom orders through PlastikArmy.com. We released this preview of the mini collection two days ago:

Photo – Allan Amato | Hair – Adriana Mireles | Models – Zoetica Ebb and Ulorin Vex

From Haute Macabre:

Titled GHST RDR, the tailored top and square skirt combo is inspired by strict riding jackets of the Victorian era, Anime and the dark punk aesthetic. Classic tailoring and details such as pleats, draping and structured sleeves are vivified with modern materials and adjustable straps.

From what we can see so far, GHST RDR summons visions of cyborg nuns, sexy assassins and art house aristocrats!

These designs had lived in my sketchbook since 2006, waiting. Waiting. After spending all these years in concept purgatory, they have finally been brought to life with the help of PW’s Adriana and Ryan, who helped flesh out the concepts and select materials for my first foray into full-fledged fashion design.

I’m very fortunate to be able to work with someone[s] as skilled and knowledgeable as these guys, and can’t wait for GHST RDR to come to you! Here is another image, while we stand by:

                          

Colder days are here in SoCal, which means 60s and 70s F, which also means it’s safe to dust off hats, sweaters and my beloved arsenal of arm-warmers. This might sound hilarious to those of you living in four-season climates, but believe me, after ten years in LA you’d be spending your “winter” days wrapped up Eskimo-style, too.

Or close to it. No jacket here, because this was a warmer day! And so:

COMPONENTS

• Knit hat – mine is from a random Koreatown shop
• Cowl neck sweater – mine is H&M, last fall. The cowl is a hood.
• Faux leather leggings – I think mine are F21
• Knit fingerless gloves – Mine are from SockDreams.com
• Combat boots – Ales’ boots I borrow sometimes
• Studded bag – mine is Zara
• Extra-long striped scarf – mine is from Tokyo

These vintage military boots actually belong to Ales and are a little too big, but I love them anyway because they make me think of Chaplin.

I’ve been wearing pieces of chain in my gauged ear piercings, because I like the look of long earrings, but hate the weight. This is a light, cheap alternative.

The vintage silver necklace wrapped around my writ is one of my favorite pieces of jewelry to date. It was a gift, and is made of hundreds of chain loops wound together.

All photos by Debbi Rotkowitz.

                          

After a few weeks of technical tweaking and bug-ironing, all three styles of my Dissociation T-shirts are now available over at Wiloh, just in time for the holidays.

It’s safe to say that I’m pretty excited.

When I opened the box of my sample T-shirts, a little wave of relief washed over me – they turned out to be AWESOME. I have to hand it to the shirt elves at Wiolh – they picked a truly incredible material and superior cut. UNFF. The bamboo really [seriously] feels like silk, and these are the softest, most comfortable tees I own.

It’s heartening to be part of something that helps people, too. For every tee purchased from Wiloh, a child in need will receive a brand new graphic tee through K.I.D.S., a collective that brings hope to children in need and their families by providing new products through a network of more than a thousand agencies.

Photographer Debbi Rotkowitz and I got together last week to quickly shoot the gray and white bamboo styles.

Gray Bamboo

Detail

White Bamboo with Scoop Neck

Sizing: I’m between US sizes 4 and 6, and I’m wearing a size Small in both the pictures

And there you have it. You can find my tees here, and anytime by clicking the Wiloh button in the left sidebar. And please, do take pictures of you wearing your Dissociation shirts – I’ll post them all here.

                          

Still busy, however! Last week, Clint Catalyst and I jumped into a rented Escalade, zoomed downtown, haphazardly strapped Clint into a chain harness [these things are unrelated], and attended what was likely LA Fashion Week’s best night: the Ashton Michael, Skingraft, and Anthony Franco triple threat show.

Coverage here, a few pictures below, and more after the jump. Do enjoy!

The upstairs lobby of the gorgeous LA Stock Exchange was transformed into a glowing bar, serving up popcorn, tiny cupcakes, candy and beglittered blue drinks.

Skingraft stole the show, opening with a stunning video montage.

Reportedly inspired by ghosts and Africa, this collection was decidedly more necro-futurist than Skingraft’s trademark aero-tribalist. See what I did there? SRS FSHN JRNLZM.

Last year’s military and aviation gear, feathers and buckles gave way to somber head wraps, leather hoods, and minimal draping, much to my delight.

It was a very special night, as evidenced here and here.

Once again, you can read my coverage of the entire show here and see the full gallery after the jump, below.

                          

The new Wiloh line launched on 10.10.10 as promised! If you’re just tuning in, Wiloh is a neat-o company that donates a T-shirt for every T-shirt sold to K.I.D.S. – Kids In Distressed Situations – in a ‘Tee for Tee’ Initiative.  Here’s my contribution to this project, Dissociation:

Right now there is just one style available on the site, with my art on a white America Apparel V-neck, but! We expect two more styles to arrive within a few days: a gray and a white shirt, with different necklines and a bigger print. Keep it locked right hurr for an update.

This is an exciting development for me, as I’ve been wanting to expand further into fashion for a while now. It feels good to add Dissociation to the various stuff I’ve designed for Coilhouse, as well as the Stratosphere Messenger shirt I made in collaboration with Plastikwrap. The folks at Wiloh have been a dream to work with, too. Additionally, I’m this month’s Featured Designer on Wiloh’s website and answer a couple of questions about my process, here.

                          

This is an outfit I wore last week to a shoot. When I take pictures of girls, it generally involves a lot of time spent crawling around on the floor and getting into all sorts of bizarre positions to get just the angle I want. This means very casual, verging on hobo, dress code. I don’t usually document these outfits, but it’s only fair that I do, every once in  while. Besides, I love hobo days.

COMPONENTS

• 3/4 sleeve thermal top
• Gray scoop neck T-shirt
• Drawstring wait cropped pants [Mine are from H&M, 2 years ago]
• Striped socks
• Knit legwarmers
• Jenny Holzer’s “Protect Me From What I Want” Keds
• Satchel I got on a Tokyo street corner

Zo, you might say, can one really wear legwarmers with pants? “Just view them as an extension of the shoes”, I’ll reply. Though I dig these Keds, the high tops just aren’t high enough for me.

MAKE UP

• Face: Bare Escentuals
• Brows: Sugarpill Poison Plum
• Eyelids: MAC Contrast
• Lashes: CoverGirl’s LashBlast Volume
• Lips: a random coral lipstick with E.L.F. gloss over it

                          

Last week, on the day I was leaving for San Francisco, photographer Lydia Hudgens reached out to me about shooting one of my Style Dispatches.  Though my bags were already packed, I’d literally just seen and dug her photos of my friend Gala, so I agreed. Which reminds me! Photographers: if you’re in LA and want to shoot one of these installments, email me. I’d forgotten how fun it is not shooting them myself.

In a way, I preferred it being done on the fly, actually, because this is just a real outfit I was planning on wearing, not something I hyper-styled especially for a shoot.

You’ll be pleased to hear that I’m still sticking to my Spartan Resolution, and not buying clothes in 2010. Strangely, more than halfway through the year, I haven’t really felt any pangs  of desire. It could just be the fact that I have a TON of clothes, or all the moving and travel and general turmoil of the year. Whatever the case, it’s been a fairly easy and interesting experience.

One thing I’ve found is that, even with such restriction, there are things in my closet I just don’t wear. So, unless I find a way to wear some of these things before the year is done, they’re going away forever.

During our shoot, intrepid Lydia and I hoped to find a way to break into one of the beautifully-decrepit condemned buildings near the water. In my experience, these types of massive, ghostly warehouses tend to have the best light beating through dusty, broken windows. Breaking in, however, proved impossible because of strategically-placed guards, so we found other neighboring locations.

COMPONENTS

• John Fluevog Dame Agnes shoes
• Holy leggings
• Taffeta dress. I love this dress so much – feminine and utilitarian and classic.
• Striped metallic scarf
• Bag by Junior Drake
• Disco ball bracelet from a street vendor in Koreatown
• Matching stainless steel bracelets from when I was a body jewelry polisher
• Assorted bangles
• Caffeine molecule necklace by Made With Molecules
• Black heart ring by Lydia Marcos
• Eye & brow makeup by Sugarpill

Even MOAR pictures below!

                          

Just a quick reminder that Turquoise Tart, the “Infect” section header for Coilhouse Issue 05, disappears from the shop in six days. Click here to go to get it now!

And while we’re all here, a preview from the shoot with Lydia Hudgens I squeezed in between raping and pillaging San Francisco:

• John Fluevog witch shoes
• Holy leggings
• Nylon dress
• Bag by Junior Drake
• Clear eyeglass frames

More to come!

                          

On Saturday, hawtt shot photographer Lou O’Bedlam and I set out for the hills [a block or two away from his place] to find the perfect fence. We were on a mission to capture a couple of new items for the Coilhouse shop.

I’d just gotten the hoodie the day before, and hadn’t had a chance to try it on before these photos, but now I CAN’T STOP WEARING IT. It’s a good thing I have several pairs of these leggings, otherwise we’d all be in trouble.

This is now my default post office/grocery store outfit. It may not be too different from my previous post office/grocery store outfit, which also consisted of canvas military boots, leggings, and an oversize top, but this one is personalized.

I still remember the AIM chat in which this Colihouse battlecry was born. I had originally envisioned the slogan being “Inform, inspire, infect – be your own architect!”.  Pfft. That is so obviously way too long. Evidently, the flatulent Commie rallying calls of my youth had a hand in my coming up with such a bulky motto. As a bonus addition to this, admittedly rambling, edition of Style Dispatch, I will demonstrate.

After a little web-scouring, I found a translation of the official list of slogans approved in 1977 by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union for the 60th Anniversary of the Socialist Revolution. First published in PRAVDA, it contains 73 KGB-approved ways to hail the Motherland and show your solidarity.

First, to put your collective ass into context, here is just one of the videos from the gargantuan parade held in 1977 Moscow to honor the anniversary. These spectacles were held and televised annually when I was a kid there in the 80s – I will always find them hypnotic, and wistfully calming, regardless of what they really stood for. Anyhow, this is October, and thousands of dedicated young gymnasts are about to perform, while the booming announcer’s voice reads off some of the slogans on the list:

A few of my personal favorites here, the rest after the jump.

Honor and praise to the historic Soviet people–the builders of communism, steadfast warriors for peace in the whole world! [LOL]

Communists! Be in the avant-garde of the national struggle to fulfill the decisions of the 25th Congress of the CPSU, be active organizers and teachers of the masses!

Long live the Leninist komsomol, the reliable assistant and fighting reserve of the Communist Party, the vanguard of the young builders of communism!

Workers of industry! Struggle for the further development and strengthening of the industrial power of our Motherland! Widen the road of new techniques and progressive technologies!

1. Long live the glorious 60th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution!

2. Long live the Great October Socialist Revolution–the main event of the 20th century, the beginning of the worldwide historic turn of humanity away from capitalism and to socialism!

3. Long live Marxism-Leninism–the triumphant banner of Great October, the powerful ideological weapon of the workers of all nations in the struggle against imperialism, for the victory of socialism and communism!

4. Long live the Leninist Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the inspiration and organizer of the victorious October Revolution, the experienced avant-garde of the working class, of all the Soviet people in the struggle for communism!

5. Let live for centuries the name and work of Vladimir Ilych Lenin–the leader of the October Revolution, the creator and leader of the Communist Party and the first-in-the-world socialist government!

6. Let live forever in the people’s memory the unparalleled achievement of the Leninist guard of October, the glorious Bolsheviks-Leninists, all those who fight for the victory of socialism!

7. Honor and praise to the historic Soviet people–the builders of communism, steadfast warriors for peace in the whole world!

8. Long live the heroic working class of the Soviet nation- -the leading force in the construction of communism!

9. Long live the glorious kolkhoz peasantry–active builders of communism!

10. Long live the Soviet national intelligentsia–active builders of communism!

11. Long live the indissoluble union of the working class, kolkhoz peasantry, and national intelligentsia! Strengthen the social-political and ideological unity of Soviet society!

12. Long live the indissoluble union of the Communist Party and the Soviet people–the source of further flourishing of socialist democracy, the guarantee of the complete triumph of communism!

13. Long live the fraternal friendship and the unshakable unity of the peoples of the USSR–a great achievement of October and the Leninist nationality policy of the CPSU!

14. Long live the Soviet Constitution, the basic law of the first- in-the-world people’s socialist government!

15. Citizens of the Soviet Union–strictly adhere to the Constitution of the USSR, the Basic Law of our life.

16. Long live the Soviets of people’s deputies, the political basis of the USSR! Increase the participation of workers, peasants, and the intelligentsia in the management of government!

17. Long live socialist democracy, guaranteeing genuine people’s power and social justice!

18. Workers of the Soviet Union! Struggle to realize the decisions of the 25th Congress of the CPSU and the grand program of the 10th Five-Year Plan! Forward to new successes in the construction of communism!

19. Communists! Be in the avant-garde of the national struggle to fulfill the decisions of the 25th Congress of the CPSU, be active organizers and teachers of the masses!

20. Soviet trade unions! Expand even wider the socialist competition to raise productivity and the quality of work! Long live Soviet trade unions, the school of management, the school of economy, the school of communism!

21. Young men and women! Persistently educate yourselves in communist convictions! Learn to live, work, and struggle as Leninists, as communists!

22. Long live the Leninist komsomol, the reliable assistant and fighting reserve of the Communist Party, the vanguard of the young builders of communism!

23. Long live Soviet women, fervent patriots, active participants in the labor and social life! Honor and praise to mothers, warmly giving their hearts to the education of their children, the future builders of communism!

24. Long live the valiant Armed Forces of the USSR, standing on watch to guard the victories of October and the peaceful labor of the Soviet people!

25. Workers of the Soviet Union! Struggle for the successful completion of the plan in the anniversary year 1977! Persistently achieve the raising of productivity, the effectiveness of production, and the quality of work!

26. Praise to the leaders of production, achieving great successes in the socialist competition for early completion of the 10th Five- Year Plan!

27. Workers of industry! Struggle for the further development and strengthening of the industrial power of our Motherland! Widen the road of new techniques and progressive technologies!

28. Workers of industry! Staunchly struggle to increase production of high-quality consumer goods! Renew their assortment and more fully satisfy the needs of the Soviet people!

29. Construction workers! Build quickly, durably, economically, and on the basis of contemporary technology! Complete new sites on time!

30. Transport and communication workers! Develop and perfect the means of transport and communication! Improve by all means service to the national economy, more fully satisfy the needs of the Soviet people!

31. Workers of the Soviet Union! Actively fulfill the agrarian policy of the CPSU! Hasten the pace of the mechanization and chemicalization of agriculture and of land reclamation. Unflaggingly develop the specialization and concentration of production on the basis of interfarm cooperation and agro- industrial integration!

32. Agricultural workers! Raise the effectiveness of agricultural production! Make better use of land, technology, fertilizer, and all material resources!

33. Citizens of the Soviet Union! Make careful use of our nation’s natural resources! Struggle for their preservation and growth!

34. Workers of trade and social nutrition, consumer services, and communal housing management! Bring into wider use progressive forms and methods of work! Struggle for a high level of culture in the servicing of the Soviet people!

35. Workers of government establishments! Perfect the styles and methods of apparatus work, strictly follow government discipline, raise responsibility and initiative, pay keen attention to the needs and requests of workers!

36. Workers of the Soviet Union! Increase in all ways socialist labor discipline! Improve the organization of production! Conserve raw materials, fuel, electroenergy, metal, and other metals!

37. Workers of the Soviet Union! Fervently preserve and increase socialist property–the fruit of the collective labor of the people, the foundation of the development of all of society!

38. Workers of the national economy! Persistently elevate professional craftsmanship, master economic theory, and contemporary methods of management and direction! In production, make wider use of proper organization of labor, leading experience, and the most recent achievements of science and technology!

39. Engineers and technical workers! Rationalizers and inventors! Actively struggle to hasten scientific-technical progress!

40. Soviet scientists! Raise the effectiveness of scientific research, strengthen the connection between science and industry!

41. Activists of literature and art, cultural workers! Carry high the banner of the party and national character of Soviet art! Give your talent and craftsmanship to the service of the people, to the job of Communism, create works of art worthy of our great Motherland!

42. Workers of the people’s education! Teach the growing generation in the spirit of the ideals of Communism, a responsible attitude to study and labor! Perfect the preparation of cadres for the national economy!

43. Workers of public health and physical culture! Improve the medical service to the people, more actively introduce physical culture into the daily life of the Soviet people!

44. Veterans of the Revolution, the war, and labor! Mentors of youth! Actively participate in the education of the young generation in the revolutionary, combat, and working traditions of the Soviet people!

45. Pioneers and school children! Fervently love the Soviet Motherland, persistently acquire knowledge and labor skills! Prepare yourselves to become active fighters for the task of Lenin, for Communism!

46. Fraternal greeting to the Communist and workers parties–unflinching fighters against imperialism and for peace, democracy, national independence and socialism! Strengthen the unity and close ties of Communists the world over on the unshakable basis of Marxism-Leninism and proletarian internationalism!

47. Long live proletarian internationalism–the tested and powerful weapon of the international working class!

48. Proletarians of all nations, unite!

49. Communists of Europe! Struggle to achieve the tasks put forth by the Berlin Conference of Communist and Workers Parties!

50. Fraternal greeting to the peoples of the socialist nations! Let develop and strengthen the peaceful system of socialism–the deciding force of the anti-imperialist struggle, the bulwark of peace, democracy, and social progress!

51. Long live the unity and close ties of the peoples of the nations of the socialist community! Let strengthen the indissoluble fighting union of the Communist parties of the socialist nations on the basis of the tested principles of Marxism- Leninism and proletarian internationalism!

52. Fraternal greeting to the heroic Vietnamese people! Let strengthen and flourish the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, an important advanced outpost of the forces of peace and socialism in southeast Asia!

53. Fraternal greeting to the courageous Laotian people! Let strengthen and flourish the Laotian People’s Democratic Republic, starting on the path toward the construction of a socialist society!

54. Fraternal greeting to the working class of the capitalist nations–a selfless fighter against exploitation and the domination of monopolies and for the rights of all workers, for peace, democracy and socialism!

55. Warm greeting to the peoples who have tossed off the colonial chains and who are fighting for the strengthening of independence, for the progressive path of development, for the restructuring (perestroika) of international economic relations on a just, democratic basis!

56. Fraternal greeting to the peoples who have achieved liberation from the colonial yoke and who are carrying on a courageous struggle to strengthen national independence and social progress!

57. Warm greeting to the peoples of Africa, struggling against imperialism and racism, against all remnants of colonialism, and for freedom and national independence! Peoples of the world! Strengthen your support for the struggle of the peoples of Zimbabwe, Namibia, and South Africa for the complete liquidation of racist regimes!

58. Warm greeting to the people of Latin America, carrying on a courageous struggle against the oppression of imperialist monopolies, against reaction and fascism, for free and independent development, for peace, democracy, and social progress!

59. Let strengthen the powerful, unbeatable union of the three basic revolutionary forces of our time–peaceful socialism, the international proletariat, and the national-liberation movement!

60. Fraternal greeting to the courageous fighters for people’s freedom, democracy and socialism who are suffering in prisons and fascist walls! Communists and workers of all nations! More actively involve yourselves in the struggle to halt terror and repression! Freedom for the prisoners of imperialism and reaction!

61. Fraternal greeting to the working class, to all workers and democrats of Chile, carrying on a courageous struggle against fascist reaction! Peoples of the world! Strengthen the solidarity with the patriots of Chile! Freedom to all the prisoners of the fascists junta!

62. Peoples of the world! Strengthen the efforts in the struggle for the complete liquidation of the results of Israeli aggression, for the establishment of just peace for all the governments and peoples of the Mid East, against imperialist interference in the internal affairs of Arab nations! Strengthen and develop friendship and cooperation between the peoples of the Soviet Union and Arab nations!

63. Peoples of European nations! Persistently achieve full realization of the Final Act of the Common European Convention, turning Europe into a continent of peace, safety, cooperation, and social progress!

64. Warm greeting to the people of Cyprus, selflessly defending their independence from imperialist encroachment! Peoples of the world! Demand the expulsion of all foreign military forces from the territory of Cyprus and the respecting of its sovereignty and territorial integrity!

65. Warm greeting to the working class, communists, and all workers of Portugal, carrying on a selfless battle for the preservation and strengthening of democratic achievements, for freedom and independent development of their nation!

66. Warm greeting to the working class, communists, and all progressive forces of Spain, struggle for the democratic renewal of their nation, for its freedom and independent development!

67. Peoples of Asian nations! Struggle for the strengthening of peace, cooperation, and good neighbor relations, for the ensuring of safety in Asia on the basis of the joint efforts of the governments of the continent!

68. Peoples of the world! Struggle for the deepening of the lessening of international tension, for its expansion to all continents! Expose the efforts of the forces of aggression, revanchism, and reaction–enemies of peace and the peoples’ defense! 69. Peoples of the world! Strive so that the unacceptability of the use of force becomes the law in international relations and nuclear weapons are forever banned! Strengthen the struggle to end the arms race and to achieve universal and complete disarmament!

70. Peoples of the world! Decisively speak out against the production of the neutron bomb! The design and production of new types of weapons of mass destruction must be halted!

71. Long live the Leninist foreign policy of the Soviet Union–the policy of peace and friendship of peoples, the unity of all forces struggling against imperialism, reaction and war! Strive for the complete realization of the program worked out at the 25th Congress of the CPSU for the further struggle for peace and international cooperation, for the freedom and independence of peoples!

72. Long live our great motherland–the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics!

73. Under the banner of Marxism-Leninism, under the leadership of the Communist Party–forward to new victories in the construction of communism!

                          

There was an epic party last weekend that I’ll tall you about as soon as I have all the images, but for now here is an outfit! Almost entirely gray, it features what might be my least comfortable and most fun pair of boots. Crazy-busy attempting to paint in acrylics, so just it’s the photos and a breakdown today. ZOOM!

The Components

• Gray knit shawl
• Ribbed scoop neck tee
• Skirt [my skirt was supposed to be high-wasted but is a size too big]
• Armwarmers
• Leggings – I couldn’t find the ones I’m wearing because they’re F21 from at least a year ago. However!
• Custom dog tag
• Custom wedding band
• Irregular Choice Diamontina Boots

                          

First things first. Ales and I thank you for all the wonderful, warm wishes and wedding congratulations. We’ve been going back and reading though the announcement‘s comments and, well, you guys are the best.

Second, it turns out I have no time to write this week either! D’oh. However! I have stuck to my Spartan Resolution, donated two massive bags of clothes to Goodwill, and am beginning to list stuff on Ebay in an effort to rid myself of Too Many Clothes.  Tons of really nice things at ridiculous, rock-bottom prices, because I want this stuff out of my apartment, NOW.

And third!

Me and Clint had the big fun at the Gen Art Alumni Celebration that kicked off LA’s Fashion Week, and the evidence is up over at Chinashop.

And last, but certainly not least, I have new hair. More or less. Of course it’s still blue, but now with streaks and varying color chunks throughout – wanted lighter hair for the summer. Actually, I asked for dusty, subdued colors but I ain’t gonna complain about mermaid hair. It will fade and I’ll do dusty the next round. Also, the photo below is a little on the dark side.

In the mix: azure, cerulean, sapphire, onyx, silver. This jewel-toned concoction took five hours to achieve and hell no, I didn’t do it myself. The ladies at Sirens salon on Melrose are to blame. How am I going to maintain it? No idea, but it will be fun to try!