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Cowboy sweetheart

Lili B. — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:12:11 +0000

I love this pleated skirt from the new shop Tokidoki. Notice it’s not made of prims ! It’s sculpts. The skirt is part of a dress, so it has a baked-on shadow from the top that goes with it (not worn here). An alternative version of it without that shadow would be nice so the skirt can be worn more easily with other things. Tokidoki’s a small shop yet, run by four months old avatar Maya Levane, but it has already a collection of well made articles, including this cute owl handbag.

Credits. Hair: Eha (Salut Erin), Glasses: Epoque (Vintage McMillan), Top: COCO (cocoro Lemon), Skirt & Bag: Tokidoki (Maya Levane), Free socks: Library, Boots: Hoorenbeek (LimerDesigner Limonaxit).

Just flutter away

Lili B. — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 19:44:13 +0000

A little preview of what’s to come at the fourth session of Designers United, which will kick off on September 4th, with Narcissus as the theme. The skins from Très Blah are gorgeous, and I’m featuring here also hats from tram and Picnic, earrings from Whippet & Buck, an awesome dress from &bean and part of the rope outfit from RunoRuno. For more sneak peeks, check out on The Young Urban. Olivia Connaught has beautifully photographed some of the many dresses that have been made exclusively for the event along with Hallie Galli.

Credits. Hair: Armidi (Liam Olivier), Skin; Très Blah @ DU4 (Julliette Westerburg), Boots: Hoorenbeek (LimerDesigner Limonaxit). 1. Hat, Collar & Leggings: Tram @ DU4 (moca Loup), Necklace: Atelier AM (aya Huldschinsky), Outfit: &bean @ DU4 (Keiko Morigi), Gloves: Royal Blue (Marni Grut). 2. No longer available headpiece: Mercury (Wilhelmena Whitfield), Blindfold: Picnic @ DU4 (nyasyousa Oh), Jacket & Socks: Fashionably Dead @ DU4 (Toast Bard), Bra: Lovelace (Launa Fauna), Skirt: Mijn.t @ DU4 (Mijn Seoung).

The list of participating designers this time around is simply huge: 82 designers ! I’ll be in it for the first time, too, with a few items of my own. The whole crew counts Plastik, HerbaLys, Veschi, [Glow] Studio, Ohmai, Pig, Chantkare, BOOM, Tacky Star, Tiny Bird, Magic Nook, Tee*fy, caLLie cLine, Couverture, /me, Whippet & Buck, MonS, Boing Fromage, Surf Co., DADA, House of Fox, Hair Oh, Mocha, Doppelganger, Oi Ei, LoQ, LaGyo, Clematis, Violent Seduction, So Many Styles, Izumiya, RunoRuno, JMMai, nordari, Très Blah, &Bean, Oyakin, equus, Dollita, North West, Waffles, LGFemme, Aoharu/ANEXX, Narwhal, December, Marcopol Oh Studios, Milk Motion, Royal Blue, Meghindo’s, Split Pea, Modern Gypsy, Mijn.t, Morantique, Tram, Adjunct, NSD, DUBOO, Picnic, Node, This Is a Fawn, LMK, Scribble, Deviant Girls, ::fore::, Kyoot, Twosome, Beetlebones, napoliy, Fashionably Dead, tomoto, MayoNaise, Theosophy, Turnip, Shade Throne, Balaclava, dfo, ORTA, Epoque, Boudoir, La Petite Morte, Y’s House, Singing Moth, and LINE.

Fake goods

Lili B. — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 17:14:21 +0000

Credits. Hair: Maitreya (Onyx LeShelle), Free Preview VIP Skin: Dutch Touch (Iki Ikarus), Gatcha scarf: M+M (Fujiko Ling), Neck pouch bag: CONCRETE FLOWERS (Lynaja Bade).

An open book

Lili B. — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 21:21:20 +0000

Had to jump on this little dress from Tee*Fy, plus it’s only 75L , and oh, I think these boots are my new crush ! I regret the lack of demos at Hoorenbeek, but I don’t regret buying those. They’re gorgeous and a new wardrobe staple to be sure. ❤

Credits. Hair: Maitreya (Onyx LeShelle), Project Themeory Dress: Tee*Fy (Azure Electricteeth), Belt: Emery (sunami Beck), Rings: Theosophy (Trace Osterham), Free leggings: So Many Styles (Irie Campese), Boots: Hoorenbeek (LimerDesigner Limonaxit).

Cherry cherry, boom boom

Lili B. — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 12:56:24 +0000

Nearly forgot, ’tis sales time at LeLutka now !

Credits. Retextured free group hair: LeLutka (Thora Charron), No longer available free group skin, Earrings: CREAMSHOP (SAZAE Yoshikawa), Popcorn hunt prize necklace: CONCRETE FLOWERS (Lynaja Bade), No longer available shirt: Last Call (Ginny Talamasca), Shorts: DP*YumYum (toraji Voom), No longer available armwarmers: Untone Quilt (chocolat Yifu), Wrist strap: SOLE (shouko Kanto), Tights: Veschi (Alla Ruff), Bag: Bare Rose (June Dion), Ballets: Milk Motion (Marie Lauridsen), Free foodie thing: Meriken co. @ Some festival I forgot the name of (Yaszi Mornington).

Don’t call my name

Lili B. — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:11:23 +0000

Maitreya has a 50% sale going on until the 22nd ! Also, Royal Blue is reopening with a new collection that will be released in bits over the next few weeks, starting today.

Credits. Hair: Nylon Outfitters (Nylon Outfitters), Eye-shadow: Cheap Makeup (Stella Semaphore), Jacket: Royal Blue (Marni Grut), T-shirt: Milk Motion (Marie Lauridsen), Skirt: Maitreya (Onyx LeShelle), Anklet: Magic Book (Ayumi Cassini), Boots: J’s (JB Gazov).

My love is like candy

Lili B. — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:04:33 +0000

These platform pumps newly released by Gos at Shoe Fair are, as is to be expected from this brand, thoroughly scripted to let you customise every part of the shoe, giving you a choice of two colours (black and red) and several metals for the buckles. I also like that instead of having a separate pair with built-in invisiprim, you only get one pair of shoes where the invisiprims can be turned off from the on-touch menu (it’s in the extras). All around well-thought out, and superbly sculpted shoes !

Credits. Hair: Nylon Outfitters (Nylon Pinkney), Top & Free bow: Epoque (Vintage McMillan), Earrings: Yummy (Polyester Patridge), Wrist leather straps: Ha @ The Dressing Room Blue (Trixi Wuyts), No longer available skirt: Madsy (Kimberlee Miles), Leggings: LG Femme (Lucifer Berman), Socks: Magnifico (Magnifico Miggins), Pumps: Gos (Gospel Voom).

Running in circles

Lili B. — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 12:57:13 +0000

A bunch of new stuffs here ! Starting with these incredible shoes from Magnifico available at Shoe Fair. I love the design and make of these very original wooden platforms. Now although I’ll admit I’m not very adept at matching skin tones to begin with, I happened to think the tinting HUD was perhaps a little limited in that it didn’t offer too many presets. Also, an alpha layer with these would have been welcome, but I managed to use one that came from another designer to use instead of the invisiprims that came separately*. Also, I wish resizing might have been part of the features included with these shoes as I would have liked to resize them to fit my avatar better. Just little things, but other than that I had to present these because they were one of the most original designs that came to my attention at the Shoe Fair.

Also, and this will come as no surprise, I got me one of the new Très Blah skins. These are probably going to blog themselves over the next few days. If you’re more into darker skins, there’s now a fourth tone, really dark, that was added to the collection. Each skin comes with several colours of eyebrows and the freckles come on an additional tattoo layer. The skins are also very affordable at 600L a pop and 4000L for a fatpack of 10 make-up options ! Oh and at the store you’ll also find eyes and nail polish ! Twenty colours for just 75L.

And finally, these are the ultimate peacock feather earrings, not only for being deliciously oversized but for also being entirely sculpted. So, no alpha flickering issues with hair !

Credits. Hair: Kin (Kin Keiko), Skin & Nails: Très Blah (Julliette Westerburg), Earrings: tram (moca Loup), Shirt: COCO (cocoro Lemon), Dress: So Many Styles (Irie Campese), Bag: MayoNaise (Tomoyo Breitman), Bangles: Atelier AM (aya Huldschinsky, Leggings: Fishy Strawerry (Fae Eriksen), Shoes: Magnifico (Magnifico Miggins).

* I was surprised to see so many new releases at Shoe Fair that didn’t come with a 2.0 alpha layer version. I think at this point, every new release should offer it !

As if we care

Lili B. — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 04:41:49 +0000

Shoe Fair 2010 is upon us ! It starts tomorrow, the 7th, at noon SLT, with many, many designers of note, counting: Drakke, Lassitude & Ennui, Shoe Fly, Swansong, Anexx, Aoharu, Ingenue, Felicity, Courtisane, Coquette Noir, Lazy Places, Bax Coen, Reel Expression, S@BBiA, Pixel Mode, Sakka’s Studio, Decoy, 24 Shoo-Shoes, Nova, Zaara, Image Reflections, Cherry by House of London, Mentine, Reek, J’s, Kookie, Mayden Couture. There are 4 sims in all, at random, here‘s a slurl to one of them. Watch out, it’ll be packed. And here are a few sneak peeks of some new releases available at the fair.

Credits. Free antlers: [kik] (as001 Littlething), Necklace: BOOM @ ALBERO Summer Gatcha Festival (Aranel Ah), Exclusive Stumblebum Brigade sweater: Whippet & Buck (Dakota Buck), Panties: Lovelace (Launa Fauna)

Music is the victim

Lili B. — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 16:39:36 +0000

Yesterday Vintage McMillan put on the most fabulous and engaging fashion show performance I have seen on SL. The collection was presented in numerous parts, each set to music — Lady Gaga all the way, of course — along with minutely choreographed dancing and stage installations. Beyond the fashion, I was most impressed with the all the fun, but also the hard work and coordination that went into the performance as I watched it unfurl flawlessly, for a solid straight two hours, mind !

The closest thing to a real life concert show made in SL, I enjoyed every minute of it, and so here are 6 and a half of them I threw together in a machinima. I think there was something sweetly eccentric about putting all this together for an audience of about 10 people, as I only started filming on the spur of the moment and there had been no prior plans to record this at all. But, here goes ! And, watch out for the upcoming Epoque collection to be released sometime next week.