Fashion. Is. Love.

Hunts will come + go, but the fashionista in me was so tickled by the name of the newest hunt organized by our friends at LP Design + Garage that I just had to shamelessly crib it for this post title. *double mwuahs Liberty Shinn + Slava Parkin*

The "Fashion Is Love" hunt kicked off yesterday here + there's tons of yummies free for the scooping (check the list of participating stores at the hunt blog site here). -- I was in a mood for neutrals, so I'm showing gifts that offer 2 takes on gray: slate + silver, both inspired by this free gray headband hair that's newly free at the Kik lucky board.
This first slate gray minidress by Sassy Kitty is clean + simple (I've been in a modernist fashion mood lately, so I left off the ripple skirt prim), which is also the perfect canvas to show off this oversized heart pendant by Garage. -- To this RL jewelry designer, this ruby-red gem is rather like collarbone candy. Yums.
This romantic dress by A&A Fashion swings waaay over to the other side of the style spectrum. Teeny tiny beading + a daringly asymmetric, lace-trimmed waist is what makes this daring concoction straddle that smexeh line between lingerie + clothing. I absolutely fiend for pieces that blur this stylistic line; plus the sheer fabric texture + hems trailing into the tummie make it tres couture. And don'tcha just love it when the color of a garment heightens the overall sense of a piece? This wispy, silvery color totally plays up the super-delicate feel of this semi-sheer look. To. Die.

I was also struck by these "Ladybug" pumps, which come courtesy of furniture (!) store MB-CreationZ. Their monthly subscribo gifts are always the cuteness + these pumps really do remind me of the kind of detail this store has become known for in their furniture. I'm diggin' this pretty sage green hue too. Awwws.
Oodles of *mwuahs* to all the designers for such awes gifties. Fashion. Is. Love. + fashionista kisses to all!

xoxo
ღTeshan2222 Wycliffe
(who heartily agrees that Fashion Is Love, in any life)
http://slexyfashionista.blogspot.com/

STYLING CREDITS

Fashion Is Love hunt: You are looking for a yellow gum thingee with a heart gem in it. Buy each for $0L; hunt starting point is here; hunt blog site is here.

Modern gray dress look:
Hair: Kik - Hair-Stella LB Prize - free (or pay $50L)
Dress: Sassy Kitty Designs - My Little Grey Dress - Fashion Is Love Hunt - free
Pumps: MB-CreationZ - Ladybug - Fashion Is Love Hunt - free
Necklace: Garage - Love-necklace - Fashion Is Love Hunt - free
Bracelets: Garage - Braided Bracelets 02
Earrings: Zaara - Urvi Earrings (colored) *gold*
Ring: Hanauta - Strawberry Ring - lucky board prize - free
Socks: LP Design - Anna socks long bw
Nails: Love Soul - Prim Nails+Ring - Fashion Is Love Hunt - free
Tattoo: V3 Tattoos - Flower Wrap
Skin: Redgrave - [*RG*] 11 Tan Skin -Zuri- /*bluesmoke
Eyes: Poetic Colors - Quicksilver
Lashes: Cake - Bedroom Lashes

Romantic gray dress look:
Dress: A&A Fashion Shop - Empire Dress silver - Fashion Is Love Hunt - free
Ring: Sigma Jewels - Aurora Ring (pink, silver) - Fashion Is Love Hunt - free
Bracelet: Acide - Chained Bracelet - Fashion Is Love Hunt - free
Hair: Kik - Hair-Stella LB Prize - free (or pay $50L)

Poses by: Marukin - $1L *mwuahs Val Southard*

Utopia, in Blue

Word to my fellow SL explorers: a truly spectacular SIM showcase has kicked off in honor of the World's Fair in RL. Linden Labs has donated 5 SIMs towards these "Utopia" builds, which feature creators like Bryn Oh and her lonely, eerie landscapes. -- Check out this half-drowned merry-go-round. Cool eh?
I just had to explore these in this sky blue bodysuit that's free courtesy of the Pig lucky boards. Some newish Truth hair + Laq redhead "Julie" skin + I was ready for my Utopian travels.
What I love about Bryn Oh's builds is the uneasy balance she strikes between the warm, rosy glow of nostalgia + the dark dread of futuristic horror. Spindly metal arcs + massive stone formations cut striking silhouettes against the sky. It's like walking thru sculpture.
The sounds are also striking. A whirring of metal here, a metallic slicing noise there. Enormous glowing blocks materialize out of nowhere for you to tread on. Everywhere, you are alone amidst isolated structures + pooling water. And that's just SIM 1!
As a caveat, these were shot on my own Windlight settings (since for whatever reason, Gavin and I couldn't get the recommended WL settings to work). I'm sure they look much more awes on the recommended. Le grrr.

All the SIMs are full of hidden secrets, like this phonograph tucked into a glowing sculpture, which plays "I'm In The Mood For Love" and a sweetly tinkling "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" while droning bees buzz all around your face (you can hear their ominous swarming sound).
A message from Bryn Oh, alongside egg-like formations of gestation and mechanized birth. I also loved how there was some utterly random trinket next to this that was $5,000L. Hee.
As a nod to the RL home to the World's Fair in Shanghai (in RL), the visual art theme centers around a Chinese folk tale of "The Whisper Tree," where you can whisper to a tree what's missing (each of the SIMs are "missing" something, from "sound" to "energy"). -- Check the Styling Credits below for a shot of the tree in Utopia 5, which I thought was one of the most spectacular of all.

We SLifers know that this is truly one of the most amazing things about SL: to lose yourself in this crazy metaverse of fantasy and imagination. It's all about the meta, baby.

You can see these spectacular SIMs thru (I believe) October, when they will be dismantled. *mwuahs* to Bryn Oh + all the other creators for creating something truly fantastic for us. Love + fashionista (explorer) kisses to all!

xoxo
ღTeshan2222 Wycliffe
(who lives for exploring, in any life)
http://slexyfashionista.blogspot.com/

STYLING CREDITS

Bodysuit: Pig - The Helendale Azur - lucky board prize - free
Socks: Pig - Knee Sock Mit Suspenders - Aqua
Skin: Laq - Julie - 04 [Peach] Glow skin
Necklace: TBP - Tahitian Pearls Necklace Gold
Lashes: Cake - Bedroom Lashes
Hair: Truth - Marcelle - copper
Earrings: Donna Flora - Violetta Earrings - $1L
Ring: Chuculet - My Sweep Ringpop - strawberry - $5L
Eyes: Negaposi - Lunar Eyes - Azur and Fairy Eyes - Azur
Bracelets: LP vs Garage - Connected bracelet [resize]
Poses by: With Love & Squalor - $50L Fridays sale

Take Utopian flight here: World Expo - Bryn Oh (this is just 1 build -- make sure to see all of 'em!)

Strumpet Mode

I was innocently strolling around the grid when my friend Rene Caerndow spotted me + called me a "tasty strumpet." According to Rene, the term "strumpet" means "like a sassy tart, but cuter" in (the Queen's) English. Lord love the British.

Here's what I was wearing that day, plus 3 other strumpet-y dresses, tattoos + jewelry looks that are nearly all free or $1L. And the background? Just the free kick-ass photo studio group gift from Lithium. Love!
This free purple minidress from LP Design is so fierce. The silver stitching detail + "open heart" buttie cutout (rimmed with cherry red) is just too much. In a good way. In the words of RL stylist supreme Rachel Zoe, I die.This much exposed skin screams for hawtie tats, and I remembered this striking freebie back tattoo from Cyanide. The thigh gun is the former I>3 Rien lucky board tattoo gift; there's an Ace card and gun on the thigh + the words "Power Doll" etched across the tummy. I totally heart sassy tattoos.

This black dress by Hyper Culture is one of the best finds on the Mix & Mingle Hunt (which ends today so hurry if you haven't grabbed it yet). I agree with Rene that the just-peeking-out buttie (from underneath the lace edges here) is very strumpet indeed.
The black canvas of this dress really makes your skin + eyes pop, and I have fallen in luuurve my new fave eye store: Negoposi. It is such a gem for anyone who loves shiny, glowy, luminous eyes like moi. And get this: all eyes are $30L each. Amazing! There are some really cool freebies/$1L gifts at the Designer's United II showcase (the dark "crow" theme is so lovely), like these $1L Djinn & Tonic earrings: check out the teeny tiny crow dangling from each oval faceted stone. Keeping it casual is a must when trolling the grid so I slipped on SoReal's meticulously detailed sneaks, which might just be the the absolute perfect carnation pink. The level of detailed texturing on these sneakers is simply eye-popping. (For me, SoReal does for sneakers what BAX does for boots: sets the standard to beat for super-realistic textural detail). Finally, I've been wearing these $1L tough-girl finger tapes by Luck Inc. to smex up everything.
Strumpet? I'll give you strumpet. *smooches Rene*These sexy, slouchy Miel socks + the fun Sey pumpkin handbag had me at first glance, so I gladly jumped on the orange-and-black bandwagon and created this look to go with. This triple mini-pumpkin ring is so adorable, and I also adore the mini candy corn earrings. It's a bit hard to tell from this pic, but the skirt on this striped Solange dress is really unique: the skirt is made of individual "feather"-like pieces that flutter out when you move. So pretty, especially with this unique "white ink" tattoo. Here's the black and gold version of the same SoReal sneaks too.
All this orange put me in a contrary mood, so I donned some silvery rocker hair + other silver stuffs. This shaggy 'do is just as suuuupaflexi as it looks.
Atomic's pumpkin hunt is giving away some gorges skins, but their bat tattoo gift is also supacool. I matchy-matchy'ed it with this Alyssa Bijoux bat charm necklace. And these free furry black booties with stiletto heels are just darling, especially with black slouchy sox.Back to the free Lithium photo studio for a sec: this thing is so awes. The graffiti backgrounds are tres smex and it comes with props boxes that you can move around. It also comes with 4 poses, but my boo Gavin McGinnis and I were having fun playing around with the Diesel Works Halloween gift (a super generous collection of past poses gifts), including some naughty couples poses. Here's Gavin and I proving once and for all that there's nothing sexier than sprawling out on barrels full o' toxic chemical laxatives.
Gavin won this "SHOW ME YOUR BEWBS" T-shirt from the Atomic lucky chair and thought it was funny. Personally, I was reminded of the signs that shirtless dudes liked to raise above their heads while clutching beer and shouting things at girls while zooming by in pickup trucks. On the freeway. In Arizona.My "Spidey-sense" tells me that I'll be embracing my strumpet identity often from now on. Thanks Rene! You da best gf. -- Oh and what's that I hear 'bout London? How it tries to be the NYC of the European continent? *foresees a NYC vs. London throwdown in the not-so-distant future*

Love + fashionista kisses to all!

xoxo
Teshan2222 Wycliffe
(who's secretly tickled to be called a "strumpet" in any life)
http://slexyfashionista.blogspot.com/

STYLING DETAILS:

Worn in all pics except with the silver outfit:
Skin: Laq - Jewel 05 - Nougat - Glow skin
Hair: 69 - Nina - Light Golden Brown
Sneakers: SoReal - Superstars - Pink/White and Black/Gold - $399L
Anklet: U&R Dogs - Cinderella anklet - previously free
Finger tapes: Luck Inc. - Finger Tapes Dollarbie - $1L

Purple dress: LP Design - lucky board gift - free
Pearl necklace + bracelet: The Body Politik - Tahitian Pearls - MM board gift - free
Black crows drops earrings: Djinn & Tonic @ Designer's United - Sorrow Sparrow//Salt n Pepper - Designer's United II showcase - $1L
Purple/pink star socks: Djunk - Star!socks pink - free
Crow tattoo (back): Cyanide - hunt gift - previously free
Gun thigh strap tattoo: I>3 Rien - "Power Doll" - lucky board gift - previously free
Eyes: Negaposi - Lunar Eyes - Indigo (Large Iris) - $30L

Black dress: Hyper Culture - Mix & Mingle Hunt gift - free
Black/gray striped socks: Peppermint Blue - Izumiya - PB Nov. Socks/G - free
Black pearls necklace: LP Design - Pearl Necklace (black) lucky board gift - free
Black pearls wrist bracelet (with rosette): Paradis - Streets Girl - lucky board gift - free
Eyes: Negaposi - Lunar Eyes - Indigo (Large Iris) - $30L

Orange and black dress: Solange - Halloween subscribo gift Halloween BOOM Pumpkin Spice - free
Slouchy orange socks: Miel - LO Refurbished Socks H'ween Colors (2-color pack special) - $100L
Pumpkin purse: Sey - lucky board gift - free
Candy corn earrings: Fri.Day - Halloween hunt gift -free
Mini-pumpkins ring: Kotolier - group gift - free
Pumpkin charm necklace: Heart & Sole - Black Widow hunt gift #12 - free
White imprint tattoo: Rainbow Chaser - Flowers Snow Tattoo - free
Eyes: Negaposi - Glass Eyes - Raven - $30L

Silver sequin top: Prim & Pixel Paradise - Crystale - Profile Picks rewards gift - free
Silver checkered shorts: Djunk - Moni bottom 3 - free
Tights: Twosome - Cozy Socks Crochet Black - group gift (join group + check Notices) - free
Booties w/ fur trim: Indie Rose - Tratan Jacket & Skirts - group gift (join group + check Notices) - free
Scissors dotted lines skin: &Bean - Babushka-ya-ya - Halloween gift (skull hunt gift on wall) - free
Bat tattoo: Atomic - Halloween Batwings (black) - pumpkin hunt (#11) - free
Bat necklace: Alyssa Bijoux @ Fluffy Bushy - Catty Pumpkin Prize hunt gift - free
Hair: Allie & Ali - "Rock Out" Hair Silver - Catty Pumpkin Prize hunt gift - free
Eyes: Negaposi - Lunar - Water (Large Iris) - $30L
Lashes: Cake - Bedroom Lashes - $100L
Finger tapes: Luck Inc. - Finger Tapes Dollarbie - $1L

On Gavin McGinnis:

"SHOW ME YOUR BEWBIES" T-shirt: Atomic - lucky chair gift - free

Black T-shirt (shown below): Ducknipple - "Okkels" - Make Him Over Hunt gift - free

Other items shown include:

Photo studio: Lithium - Graffiti Studio [L+U]PhotoStudio002 - group gift - free

Poses on top of toxic barrels, with Gavin McGinnis: Diesel Works - Halloween poses set gift (buy pumpkins at store entryway) - free

Other poses include those by: Long Awkward Pose, Posies, Kuri Style and L+R+W