living dead redux

last night, my friend came over with Return of the Living Dead, which is an awesome punk/zombie horror flick from the mid-80s. the story revolves around a gang of punk teenagers, except for a random preppy girl and an even more random swing/mod kid. the leader of the crew is a hardcore punk dude named suicide, who has a girlfriend named trash (my favorite name in this movie, though, is Scuz.. haha). trash has the most amazing look ever! it took me a minute or ten to find a picture on the interwebs, because she's stark naked (save for full-leg grey leg warmers that would make american apparel weep) for almost the entire movie..

aforementioned grey stockings/legwarmers, scandalous black leather shorts, leopard tank top, vest that looks like a cross between michael jackson's thriller jacket and a star trek uniform, and what looks like full-arm fingerless gloves= totally badass


at first i dug her flame red punk hairdo, but up close it looks kind of grody because they obviously sprayed it instead of dyeing and gelling it, bleh. with her hair and the face designs, she looks like a cross between ronald mcdonald and a character from Dune or something. can you tell i like making cross-culture reference comparisons?


there was another character with a pretty cool look as well, named casey-- however, i couldn't find a picture of her.. aren't you supposed to be able to find just about anything on the interwebs? anyhow, she was wearing a robin's egg blue short knit dress that was off the shoulder and belted: very classic 80s, with a touch of punk with her blue "bird of paradise" updo-- my friend's way of putting it, which was apt enough.

all in all, a fun movie to watch-- makes me want to find more obscure 80s flicks to draw fashion inspiration from..

richmond holla shot calla

i almost fell over when i went to the NYLON website, and i saw my friend max on the homepage! i'm so happy that richmond street style is finally getting recognized, and it's all thanks to the rad girls at Rumors, casey and marshe. richmond is actually a lot more "scene" than new york in terms of condensation, since it's such a small town and the style revolves around the Fan neighborhood outside the vcu campus. some people think that richmond and hipster style in general is overdone and cliche (and perhaps it is), but the fact is it's just so much more interesting and varied than the traditional style, so people should just be able to dress however the hell they want, and good for them if they get featured in one of the raddest magazines around!


max and derrick= <3






i have a love/hate relationship with this city (long story, has to do with how awesome it is, which can be a bad thing for me sometimes), but it's so amazing that it's coming into its own as a culture mecca; it's no longer a college town that everyone leaves once they finish school, but rather a city in which young people have the opportunity to take the initiative and make a living doing what they love, and Rumors is the best example of that. casey and marshe work obscenely hard to run this miniature style empire-- and, incredibly, not even to make a profit but to put the fashion and the city that they love on the forefront. they fucking ROCK. the end.

update (promise for an update)

it's so damn hard to keep up with this when i don't have internet at my apartment. not that it matters anyway, i'm pretty much blogging to a wall once again. anyway, been busy sewing stuff for Rumors-- i had 5 garments and 4 of them sold within 2 weeks! they are demanding more so i'm obliging, of course. hopefully i will have 6 items to take there tomorrow and i'm going to take pictures. it seems like i'm getting some momentum on my line and i'm super stoked on it!

oh, and here's some photos from the local designer showcase at Rumors, which was my debut... and my dumb ass didn't take any of my stuff, so much for endorsing myself:

Animal Glitches




Let's Talk

rainbow brite

i forgot to mention that i bought this scarf from the state fair yesterday. i already have a really similar one, but i told myself that it was worth having the jarringly bright color combo. i'd be afraid to run into these guys on the street while wearing it, though, because i'm pretty sure that they exude some kind of gravitational force that causes any bright nearby object to fly off and stick to them like a magnet:

yeah, i'm going with that theory.

yellow fever

made this the other night and wore it out to a dance party. it looks BOMB with a black tube top and black leggings and i'll have it over a black turtleneck once it gets colder. i'm going to make another one out of the same materials for my line, which i'll hopefully be selling at Rumors soon.. i'm stoked.


i was hoping to take some outfit shots at the state fair today, but i don't know what i was thinking- it's the speedway.. i spotted about 800 hunting hats and a whole lot of camo in general, although ironically i was the only one rocking a mullet. here's a pic i snapped right before almost stepping in vomit:

purple haze

i've made plenty of garments, but almost all of them thus far have been modeled to a size 10 dress form, which in today's world is really about a size 4 (in other words, a size of the past for me) so i can't wear them. however, i took it upon myself to actually make a dress for my friend's wedding rehearsal dinner, and this is how it turned out:


this is a sketch of what the back was actually supposed to look like, but my stupid ass decided to go out the night before the wedding instead of staying home and finishing the dress. so yeah.. i was not packed at all when my mom picked me up, so i just threw everything into a bag, not realizing that i'd left the back piece at my friends house. i got really angry for a minute because i'm so idealistic when it comes to my designs, but i got over it, made do with it, and finished it 30 minutes before the dinner.
p.s. isn't kat the most beautiful bride ever? her dress was absoutely dreamy.

tanked

a quick question on yahoo!answers finally turned up the proper name of the movie that so heavily influenced my senior collection (considering i couldn't even remember what it was called): Tank Girl!
starring lori petty, not parker posey, as tank girl. i think it was the dark haired naomi watts as her sidekick, Jet, that threw me in the parker posey direction..

can you see the influence?



the first two are very tank girl-esque, but the last is more "mad max goes out for drinks", no?


this one is definitely one for the "beyond thunderdome" set. dress was made from the fabric of a skirt, and the vest from 2 sweatshirts left behind at my house from parties... don't leave your stuff at my place, or it will change form, heh heh:



this one was my favorite from the start! i will probably create a more wearable garment inspired by this design:


poor model was thisclose to a wardrobe malfunction with this half-assed bra thing: