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Literally, as this is posted, the event has just finished! And what an event it was!! But what else would we expect from BOSL and Bliss Couture? Amazing designs, mixed with b-e-a-utiful models, and an incredible venue (Patch Thibaud Auditorium)…it’s just chemistry destined for a stunning show!

Patch Thibaud Auditorium

The pictures attached to this post, are some snaps that I managed to take whilst there. I will post the others up on my Flickr page, as there are far too many to post all here. But the ones that ARE posted with this…will really give you a good idea of the show, and the amazing designs were showcased for the large audience gathered at the Auditorium!

Bliss Couture Anniversary Show

As always, a show at the Patch Thibaud Auditorium wouldn’t be the same without a stunning stage set. And this was no exception! And really added to the whole..feel of the event. The models strutting their stuff down the runway were:

- Miaa Rebane (Miss Virtual World 2010)

- Melanie Satereau (Miss Bliss Couture 2010)

- BlackBarbie Bravin (BLVD Agency Model)

- ZoeAnastasia Aeon (BLVD Agency Model)

- Aleida Rhode (BLVD Agency Model)

- Valeria Pienaar (BLVD Agency Model)

Bliss Couture Anniversary Show

Amutey DeCuir (Bliss Couture CEO) and team, never fail to impress, and simple WOW the audience and fellow designers across the grid! This was simply one amazing show, with great talent on hand to showcase unique, colourful and stylish creations from one of the resident’s favourite stores…Bliss Couture!

And after this anniversary, may we all look forward to another year and sweet content!

Happy Anniversary Bliss Couture!

OMG, did Stiletto Moody really create a pair of stilettos without heels? Can we still call stilettos, ’stillettos’ without the heel? Was there a prim shortage in SL I was not aware of? Perhaps the borrowers took the heels?  Strangely,  I find myself breaking into song  /me sings “Oh where oh where has my high heel gone”,  (sung to the tune of oh where oh where has my little dog gone)…

Recently, Victoria Beckham and Uma Thurman were amongst the first IRL to shock the world with heelless stilettos.  These beautiful trendsetters started the trend in Rl and SL’s shoe Innovator, Stilletto Moody thought outside the box yet again to put  her mark in SL by gracing us with what we want..before we even knew it existed. Season after season Stilletto Moody brings her own  unique styling to SL.  She is constantly making strides keeping SL abreast of whats hot in the foot business.

But guess what Victoria Beckham and Uma Thurman?

 MY FEET WONT  HURT! – come walk a mile in my Moodys!

Take a look at some of the buzz IRL about heelless heels…

DK – I think they’re totally cool! Anyone who’s ever tottered  around in 5-inch stilettos knows that the heel provides only the bare minimum support anyway. You can see that the base of this  shoe supports much farther back on the arch than a regular heel, so it probably wouldn’t be all that much less stable. It isn’t  as though anyone’s gonna go hiking in them. I’d love to try a  pair

S – These shoes are somewhat scary, yet I’m oddly attracted to them.

RC – I agree! Pretty cool for fashion photography

C – Awesome to look at

M – they do look cool

Marc Jacobs and Manolo Blahnik also introduced heelless  stilettos which have created quite a stir. Pink Stiletto Shop - Rl, states that “fashionistas think these heelless shoes are fresh and new and they want to try them.”

One RL designer stated that the shoes are attractive because  they force a woman to walk in a way that makes her look “quite dainty.”

Are you a trendsetter? If you are, you will feel an innate need to  bring this new red carpet wonder to the streets of SL.

Fun Fact – Heelless stilettos peeked into the fashion scene in  Italy in the 1950’s

Thursday, March 4th – Alexia Speizer ran out to get her first pair of heelless stilettos! Thanks Moody!

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Stiletto%20Moody%20BARE/107/65/46

This Valentine had some consequences, hadn’t it? There is a rosebud in my soul that exploded in flower this morning at the sweet hour of the dew falling…so I put it on sandals to share it with you…Wow! No. 24 are sandals with ankles, feet and a great realistic and detailed rose with dew Extreme heels that flow in an allusive spirals and leads the looks along the thin ankles and up along the legs…you always wished to have:

As we all know now, one of the best Fashion Designers in the world, passed away last week, which saddened many, if not all, in the fashion world.

Here in Second Life, on March 13th, Some of the BEST designers and fashion creators will come together, and put on an amazing show, to remember Alexander McQueen, and to benefit Relay For Life, which launches on the same day.

Nearer the time, notices will be sent out in the Best of SL Magazine Readers group, and another blog post to get the final line-up of Designers taking part in the show. Below, are a list of people, who are already confirmed:

Ziamela Loon
Kimmera Madison
Amutey Decuir
Ashoka Eales
Joy Fellini
Anubis Hartunian
Raven Pennyfeather
morea Decosta
Sonatta Morales
Barbarella Cioc
pixivor Allen
Mami Jewell
Sparkle Sky
Thea Tamura
Enzo Champagne
soraya Vaher
Applonia Criss

More are expected to take part also! This is going to be an amazing show, and many are excited for it. Second Life Residents are welcome to the event, which location and time are listed below. See you there!

A TRIBUTE TO ALEXANDER McQUEEN TO BENEFIT RELAY FOR LIFE
March 13th
4:00 pm SLT
Patch Thibaud Auditorium

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen … (yes, Sir, you too, because my shoes, even if they are for ladies’ legs, they are ultimately for your eyes, so…your also welcome at the tonight story…), as you now, our Real Lives are somehow national, and ethnically determined…so, we all enjoy importing Holydays!!! I Personally I would never refuse an extra Santa, so I gathered about 4 Christmas to celebrate with my family, a few New Ear’s Eves (yes, the Chinese one too, aren’t the Dragons fluffy and cute?), and above all, I cherish my 2 Love Days, the Saint Valentine’s Day on 15th and my national Dragobete on 25th of February. Yes, you may have a good laugh thinking that Dragobete comes from “to drag” and imagine him and her dragging each other somewhere (I will not say where)! So, I will let you laugh and not translate anything for you…enough to say that we celebrate it by laughter and jokes…Rules are simple: you have a good laughter that day…you will have good luck in love…if you happen to be sad that day, you will probably end up by making money instead!
But Saint Valentine is different; first of all it’s a religious holyday, and a good opportunity to feel in love…but seriously! Hey, it’s s about marriage; it’s about finding the love of your life…not just the second-love of your second life…that’s what I had to learn to adopt the new catholic Holyday: Saint Valentine was a priest who used to marry couples…so, ups! I had to meditate a lot before I would dare to dedicate my shoes to this day…I had to carefully choose the multi-faceted rubies cut in a shape of a heart…two hearts…and I wrapped them in delicate laces of precious metals, like ribbons that bond the hearts together in a vow…and I kept all triviality for the extreme heels and for the platforms in female shape…I smiled making the ankles count in the overall look, because this one was for the gentlemen…so now, their look can slide from your toes up to the Heavens along your legs…they totally transform the shape, now that there is no ugly potato-ankle to hide…look at the Wow! No. 23:

So…I was making shoes and I was thinking about sensuality and how to make a good design to express that particular feeling when a hot glance meets another fire glance and both worlds melt around and begin to swirl somehow mixing together like two waves of incandescence…so I took some precious metals and ribbons and I made them dance in spirals until the ice of the winter melt in diamonds…so, these are my Wow! No. 22, made accidentaly in my dizziness of meditation about love…

They come in ready made 2 sizes, as for the Model look and as for the Betty Boop look. Each of the 254 skin tones are clearly visible on transparent huds with textures…yes, you will not tint them in a plain color, just choose from a 254 collection of the best skin-tones in SL, vivid, realistic and textured in detail (sole, veins, cuticles, shadows and lights). Many of the skin-brands and their tones are alphabetically listed in a Guide so you will just click on a certain button of the hud. Also 26 nail enamels, in a Pedicure hud.
What’s left to say? You are all invited in 24 Shoo Shoes new palace…

Butterfli Sorbet Modelling BOSTON WESTLAND

Oh La La, Fan me! Working up a sweat still from yesterday over at Boulevard Agency! 11-11:30amSLT, saw me amongst others, intrigued, inspired, and in loooove with designs that were being showcased in the BOSL Designer Challenge. Ive picked some of my favourite images from the event, which really caught the attention of my eyes!

This was the penultimate round of the Designer Challenge, and what a round it was. The spirit of the event was ‘Carnival’, and that is exactly what we got. And it could have been a carnival in itself! Hmmm…Frolic…i have an idea! But Anyway, as you can see in the pictures displayed, there are some amazing, creative, and colourful designs, that were shown to the public for the first time EVER, at yesterdays event!

The Models and Designers in this challenge, are listed below in no particular order:

1. Dancer Dallagio – APPLEBLOSSOM SITTINGBULL
2. Butterfli  Sorbet – BOSTON WESTLAND
3. Melanie Sautereau – CHIANERA CIOC
4. Marry Eel -  MEGHINDO ROMANO
5. Sora Tatham – MONICA OUTLANDER
6. Brittainy Collins – RAMONA PLANER
7. Sabine Blackburn – TALIA LEFAVRE

Now for me, the one that really got me going, was BOSTON WESTLAND! OMG that guy can design and create masterpieces! An extraordinary red/pink dress, with and amazing head piece, which really accompanied the dress…stunningly well infact!

Brittainy Collins Modelling RAMONA PLANER

Another that interested me, and took a really unique style than I’ve ever seen before, was a design by RAMONA PLANER. It reminded me of something i saw, when i used to watch the movie classic ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame’. It had a classical, yet, modern feel to it, and was certainly something i would love to see people wearing at a party! Grabbed the attention of everyone in the room that’s for sure.

Sabine Blackburn Modelling TALIA LEFAVRE

And SABINE BLACKBURN who was modelling the most, incredible design i have ever seen really, and I’m into fashion alot! Especially here in Second Life. It was created by TALIA LEFARVRE, who really took on board colours! And too look at the dress from a distance, it looks stunning, but to get close to it, its Stunningly Stunning! Fish floating around the body, who would have thought of that!?! – But Hey, TALIA LEFAVRE did win yesterdays Challenge, and, rightly so i think! Although, every Designer had worked hard, and put alot of time and effort into the designs showcased, they are simply all geniuses of Creativity!

Love It! – Edi C

A Fashion Event you wont want to miss … it’s fantasy, it’s fashion … it’s a Fantasy in Fashion!!!  Entertaining roleplay oriented show featuring the latest in roleplay and fantasy attire from SecondLife’s leading designers.

Two dates/times to serve the various timezones:

1. Saturday February 13th at 5pm SLT
2. Sunday February 14th at Noon SLT

Held at the Pyramid Theatre: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Park%Avenue/81/84/21

Costuming by: Nicky Ree & Moonstruck

Sponsored by:

• Best of SecondLife Magazine
• Designs by Nicky Ree
• Dark Starr Merchantile

Featuring Designs by:

• Black Rose
• GutterPup
• Lace & Steel
• Mer-Elf Creations
• Moonstruck
• Mystic Sky

Swirl (http://www.GiveItASwirl.info) will be hosting their next show, “A Fantasy in Fashion” on February 13th and 14th.  There are still fabulous opportunities for content creators to market through this event by way of show program advertisements, in-theatre signage and show sponsorship which includes ads and links on the Swirl website.

Please contact Filipa Thespian for more information on what each opportunity gives you and to sign up.

The show will be held at 5pm SLT on February 13th and at Noon SLT on February 14th and will be displaying the fashions created for the fantasy and roleplay realms within SecondLife, by some of SL’s most wonderful designers.

Reviews and testimonials about the last Swirl can be found on Swirl’s website.

We hope to see you there … this promises to be a very unique experience for the world of fashion shows.  We did not disappoint last time, we will not do so this time either .

Dear Ladies, allow me to notice that you love a 24’s fairytale before going to bed…and I love to tell you a story every time I make new shoes…which shoes? These ones: Wow! No. 21:

Here it is your limo to 24 Shoo Shoes .
Wow! No. 21 is very opulent, haute couture sandals with feet, toes, ankles, made in Tiffany Yellow diamonds (also white or black) and rubies, suspended on sinuous jewelry made in the newest technology in sculpting. Extreme gracious heels and a teardrop falling behind you…Platforms and ankles that will totally change the shape of your legs…forget about the ugly default ankles you had before…

They come in ready made 2 sizes, as for the Model look and as for the Betty Boop look. Each of the 254 skin tones are clearly visible on transparent huds with textures…yes, you will not tint them in a plain color, just choose from a 254 collection of the best skin-tones in SL, vivid, realistic and textured in detail (sole, veins, cuticles, shadows and lights). Many of the skin-brands and their tones are alphabetically listed in a Guide so you will just click on a certain button of the hud. Also 26 nail enamels, in a Pedicure hud.

And now, right after the commercials, the promised tale…Once upon the times, I (the blonde me) conspired with myself (the dark me) to make a blogger of (the red-haired) me… LeLutka is to blame for this mixture of ruffled hairs…The glory of my day was that “JENIFFER” wig, and it is so mod that I felt challenged to guess the color of the angels’ curls…and yes, I turned from the art galleries carrying this painting…For those of you who have the feeling that the Cherubs are planning a prank…well, that’s a detail of one of Raphael’s Madonna paintings, so I hope they wouldn’t dare…would they?

And so, I began to look for some Fashion House for angels…they impressed me by having nothing to wear…that’s the naked truth about them: no server-wide inventories, not even the pink newbie dotted dress…and deeply sunken in these thoughts, I went to visit Meghindo Romano’s store, because she won The BOSL Designer Challenge contest for 2010. Isn’t she good at making an apparition of any lady?

The charismatic Meghindo Romano creates gowns that are exceptional, not subtle or for the faint of hearted. Her gowns are what you would expect to see on the red carpets for the awards shows. She is sensitive to the Avatar Rendering Cost and aware of it, so if you want to go to a happy-laggy- event, dress from Meghindo’s collections. When standing in a crashing hurricane, you will keep your feet firmly on the ground and let the gentlemen load you in a second and forever…just to feel they second-live happily ever after…

No lady was ever seen in all SL like 24’s ladies…

Dear Ladies, tonight 2408 Alexseev throws roses at the most beautiful legs in all SL: yours. Wow! No. 18 will completely transform your legs from the hips to the floor: not only toes, but also slim and long ankles, revealed in their graceful nudity… of course, incredible heels, now flowing in a divine curled shape and also, the mark of 24’s, the pedestal female-shape platforms…

Wow! No. 18 will totally transform your legs from hips to toes from now on and also the way you look walking and dancing. No more broken or barrel ankles, but remarkable long ankles, slim and aerial, and…oh, so naked! Toes, very delicate and an amazing heel (surprise…surprise!!!). They come in ready made 2 sizes, as for the Model look and as for the “Betty Boop” look. The pick is quite rough, so come and see them in 3D in my store.

They are sandals with legs and they come with huds that will control the skin tone textures and your pedicure.  Yes, you will not tint them in a plain color, you get to choose from a collection of 254 of the best skin-tones in SL, vivid, realistic and textured in detail. Many of the skin-brands and their tones are alphabetically listed in a Guide so you will just click on a certain button of the hud.

• TOES, the most realistic in SL
• Gracious ANKLES, long and slim, totally transforming the leg from lingerie to the floor
• 2 pairs in each package, matching the Model shapes and the Betty Boop shapes, so you can begin resizing easier
• No more color-match for skin-tones.
• TEXTURE-change huds for the skin-tones, just one click matching.
• Refined NUANCES as for the toes, soles, cuticles, blood vessels
• 254 ready-made skin-tones.
• 60 of them are identifiable by your skin’s Brand and tone.
• PEDICURE-CHANGE 26 shiny textures for the toenails in Texture-change Hud.
• They match the Manicure set by Obbsession (our neighbor next door)
• Resizer – of course
• Copy-of course
• DETAILED HELP in NC and online (16 hours/day , Europe’s hours, weekdays, customers’ priority over any other activity), but 24 is proud to say that her customers do not contact her often with problems, all the needed instructions are included. They are, anyway, successful enough to ask for an opinion from your fashion or models groups friends before buying

24’s put a lot of love into them for you – so enjoy them!

Ladies, don’t miss out on these gorgeous shoes.  I speak from personal experience … they’re just to die for.  Visit 24 Shoo-Shoes at their main store located here in SecondLife: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Limburg2/71/70/22