Killer Designers at Crimson Shadow

A few weeks ago, Rezzable showed the 'Passions of the Black Swan' - (vid) - a collection of fabulous gowns, skins, hair and accessories from some of the hottest designers on the grid. Tuli, Sn@tch, Nomine, caLLie cLine, Philotic Energy.. to name but a few. Basically, the designers had to come up with an item that was inspired by the Black Swan sim.

On Sunday, 19th October, through to November 9th, a new collection will be shown. This time, the fashion is inspired by the Crimson Shadow sim (which has been my favourite place in the world, for many reasons). I was delighted when Lokum asked me to participate in this collection, and so I've been busy the past week or so making something fabulous (I hope!). I can't tell you what yet.. but it's the biggest set I've ever made.

I can't wait to see what the other designers have come up with. Hopefully I'll be getting a sneaky preview when I put my vendor up.. but if it's anything like the Black Swan collection, it will be totally amazing. Fantabulous. Breathtaking.

If you haven't visited Crimson yet (why not?!) this would be the perfect time. More info on participating designers, and location pics, here.

Who the hell let me go shopping??

Oh boy. I shouldn't be allowed out. I found shoes to die for today.. I so want these in RL!



Found them in a store called 'DeLa*', they come in 11 colour combos and I would have bought the lot if they weren't L$400 a pair. So I settled on the red ones :)

Stuffage:

Shoes - =DeLa*= Sandal "Polina" Red (slurl)
Hair - ARMIDI Hair - Secret - Light Blonde
Shirt - ASH STYLE : plain shirts white (freebie! slurl)
Jeans - *LAST CALL Kimberly Cropped Jeans
Skin - (SdR) Lait tone: Chanteuse (cateye liner)
Bag - (CS) Hobo Bag - Patent Cherry (group gift - can I put this on my RL want list too?)
Belt - Crimson Shadow Valentines Set (see here!)

Crimson Shadow Fashion Show - Tues 4th Dec

Tomorrow night Crimson Shadow hosts a fashion show, featuring clothing by designers Moxie Polano and Forda Fairlane, and jewellery by yours truely! There is some beautiful clothing going to be on show - there are some georgeous dresses to see! Everything has a gothic theme, and it's all on sale in the galleria behind the catwalk. The show is on 12noon to 2pm, then repeated later at 6-8pm SLT. I'll be at the earlier one hopefully!

SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Crimson%20Shadow%20Rezzable/199/223/26

See you there! <3

Cai's been shopping

I don't normally do fashion posts (mainly because there are a million and one fashion bloggers out there that can do it better than me!) but this I had to share.

For the first time, in nearly five years on SL, I bought a skin fat-pack. I'd seen the blog post from Nephi advertising new skin tones at Stella di Roccia - I'd tried demos of this skin line in the past but they were always too dark for me (I'm pale and interesting in RL - I tend to prefer my avi the same way!), so when I saw new pale skin tones I was so there!

And, wow, what can I say. As far as I'm concerned, absolute perfection. So I bought the lot *grins*

This is me in the Lait skin tone, Lucrezia (cateye liner) makeup. Because I'm not a fashion blogger, you only get to see my face :P And while I'm here, I might as well plug the jewellery, which is one of the sets I made for the Crimson Shadow collection. The beautiful dress comes from there too.

• Hair - Frangipani - Mostaccioli in Espresso
• Skin - Pixel Spa - Lait in Lucrezia
• Eyes - Pixel Spa - Adorable:Rose
• Dress - Crimson Shadow - Webbed n Lace Red Dress
• Jewellery - Crimson Shadow - Blood Vial Set
• Nails - TaP - French Pink
  

How cool is this?

I often get chatting with people I meet in my store. Sometimes it's a brand new noob that has crashlanded and wonders where the hell he is, sometimes an older resident that I've heard of via forums or designs, and it's just nice to put a face to names. Sometimes however, it's someone that is just bursting to design and get creative.

I met Riley Rothschild a couple of weeks ago; she told me she was just starting to design her own clothes and we chatted for quite a while. This morning I got a surprise package in my inventory - she's created a new dress based on my Looped set of necklaces... I'm lovin it!

It's a loud 'n' wild print, perfect for crazy parties... the dress has a funky 70's vibe to me, especially with the one-shoulder-asymetric design. I teamed it with my Looped jewellery (of course!), Mischief Bound hair from Playful Kitten, and pinkred Lollies from Shiney Things (although you can't see those in the picture). Skin is my usual Nimbus Sultry Liner from Sin Skins.

And just because I'm a narcistic tart who can't resist taking photos of herself (grins) here's another view:

If you'd like to see more of Riley's designs, her store is called Fashion Slave, and is in Bravehearts.

I'm truely honoured to think someone has gotten inspiration from something I've made, and in this case is especially fun since the Looped set was inspired by an item of clothing I'd bought. Design circles in SL! Hooooo!

And so, here endeth my first attempt at fashion blogging.