My couture viewing glasses

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These are the glasses I was talking about in my couture post. I will wear them to look at spring 2011 couture too.

Jan Huling

Remember the Blythe doll I wrote about before, well once while I was looking for pictures of Blythe I found this, not the goth girl statue it's the Blythe that looks like an avatar.

I had to find out more about the artist so I typed Jan huling into the search bar and guess what came up? This! I was so inspired I made this. Then I sent Jan an Email with pictures of my Beading work. I asked her what to bead next and she said "that you can bead just about anything"So everybody go cover stuff in little beads!

Isn't fashion confusing?

Don't get me wrong fashion is all I ever think about I love fashion but it still confuses me. Like all the french names are so hard to pronounce just today I found out that I had been pronouncing Miuccia from Miuccia prada, Dolce from dolce&gabbana, Tisci from riccardo tisci and Givenchy all wrong. In high school I am defiantly taking french. Also I have decided to try to make 1 or 2 outfits for each fashion season so I was looking at the months in which different collections come out and I found that SPRING ready to wear comes out in OCTOBER and FALL couture comes out in the middle of summer. I think I will just make clothes when it makes sense like pre-fall in August and spring couture in may.

This picture reminds me I was going to do a little red riding hood magazine spread using fall 2010 couture dresses.

My latest designs

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This is my newest collection. Hope you like it I wish I could post more pictures but if you click on the picture in this post you go straight to my pictures on flicker and there's more there. Well I'm really happy with how it turned out. I will leave the inspiration anonymous. please tell me if you like it.

My new favorite designer (for now)

I used to dislike Miu Miu because The ill looking makeup in pre-fall 2010, The latest resort collection, the sporty inspiration in resort 2010 small things like that, but when I was looking for Miu Miu store locations on Miu Miu.com and I saw this wonderful video that completely changed my mind. Now Miu Miu is one of my favorite design brands. And if the video didn't change your mind look at the rest of the website, there's pictures, videos, It's great! I'll probably post new favorite designers soon, maybe I will post favorite designers monthly, or not.

Balenciaga VS. Blythe

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A while ago I discovered Blythe on Etsy and flicker. Blythe is a doll from the 70's that was made for one year only because it scared children with it's big head and eyes. Later someone discovered Blythe again and then they where remade and now Blythe is a collectors item.

So for my birthday I got an awesome book called Blythe style. It has beautiful and wired pictures of Blythe modeling costume clothes by designers like Gucci, Prada , John Galliano and versace. It's a great book get at the library if you can or buy it on amazon or Ebay.

So I was looking through the book at pictures when I noticed how much this Katsuhiko Hibino outfit looks like Belinciaga spring 2008. Doesn't it look Exactly the same save that it's made of Japanese candy boxes?! I will probably blog about Blythe more some other time.

safari necklace

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I bought this wood necklace at a garage sale for $.50. Well I didn't buy it I just walked past it, my sister bought it for my mom but it wasn't her style so I bought it from her. She'll give it to mom for free but I have to pay!? Anyway here it is.

I saw similar ones on the yokoo Etsy store. And Tavi has a necklace with almost exactly the same elephant! Maybe they where made buy the same person! So I would really like to know more about these necklaces, is there some famous person that made them that I don't know about yet?, or are they an ancient tradition from Africa? Where they a big fashion accessory from the 80's If you know anything about them please tell I'm very interested!