[CRAP] Fashion

Here’s some pictures from the [CRAP] Flickr group. Yeah, the 50% off sale is still going on for all clothing — because I haven’t had time to finish up the new pieces! Old Town and Cotton Candy should be the ones hosting the sale. If you can’t figure out where my shop is, search “Tenshi Vielle” in SL and check my picks or visit the origin of this blog and take a look at my previous posts.

See & Write

Tiffer GossipGirl

Riko Humphreys

Riko Humphries

I’m very proud of this image for a new shirt I made this evening… from idea to shirt to ad… in one evening. I work far too quickly for my own tastes sometimes, and I suppose it leaves me more prone to slight errors.

Armidi hair, Aden bangs, [CRAP] Eloh Re (Youthful) skin, [CRAP] Denim in Medium.

To get this effect: Gaussian blur as desired, smudge out any left over pixels and fill in anything that needs to be filled with both the paint tool and the clone tool. Play with the Shadow & Highlights (Image Menu), copy & dual layer the image. Make the 2nd layer (on top) full capacity sepia tone and set to multiply over the first layer. Make one last layer and with your eyedropper, pick up a color from the image’s own pallet. Take your square brushes and make a border, go to layer properties (as you did with the second layer) and set to 80% opacity.

Couple more after the cut, but not the exact same technique.

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Essence Magazine dropped me this no more than mere seconds ago. Honestly, i’m tired of subjecting everyone to this childish bullshit at SCD, so I’m going to put it here. That way you guys can read it if you want to and skip it otherwise.

[12:32] Tenshi Vielle: You *do* realize that by supporting this sort of thing you’re making light of all artistic ability, correct?
[12:33] Kyrinnia Desmoulins: I’m supporting a designer’s choice to bring RL fashion to SL and it’s for charity
[12:34] Tenshi Vielle: So… you’re stealing designs… remaking them… selling them… and donating the funds to charity.
[12:34] Tenshi Vielle: You should call the charity first and ask them if they’re okay with dirty money.
[12:36] Kyrinnia Desmoulins: If you don’t like the project you don’t have to support it or participate hun
[12:37] Tenshi Vielle: I’m full aware of why I was dropped this notecard.
[12:37] Tenshi Vielle: I think it’s cute that you kids want to give me the “bird” for condemning people for copying designs
[12:37] Tenshi Vielle: but it all boils down to artistic integrity
[12:37] Tenshi Vielle: and people who copy don’t have any
[12:38] Tenshi Vielle: But as long as you credit the original designer, I suppose.
[12:39] Tenshi Vielle: You should also call the RL designers and ask them if it’s ok that you do this.
[12:39] Kyrinnia Desmoulins: We did ask that people include the notecard with the original designers name so we can cite in in the mag and we aren’t trying to give you the “bird” I dropped it on you because you are a designer and I thought you might participate, I appoligise if I was wrong
[12:40] Tenshi Vielle: Kyrinna, I’m the person that’s campaigning AGAINST this sort of thing.

Yeah, the wide-eyed innocence is really a good cover there, Kyrinnia.

A call to Designers:

In light of the controversy surrounding Cachet’s Alex, Alexa and Alexis outfits Essence has decided as a way to support designers choice to take inspiration from or replicate a rl outfit, Essence Magazine is sending out this challenge.
Women’s Spring
http://www.style.com/fashionshows/collections/S2008RTW/complete/thumb/all

Men’s Spring
http://men.style.com/fashion/collections/S2008MEN/runwayshows

Pick one outfit to duplicate in SL. You may change the outfit to reflect your own style as a designer but please keep the outfit recognizable from it’s source.

You have until May 7th 2008 to recreate your outfit. Please send the finished product in a folder to Takeshi Kiama and include the real life designers name on a notecard included in the folder. As of now all outfits will be shown in Essence Magazine but if there is a high volume of submissions a panel will decide which will be shown but a list of all designers submitting will be included.

Outfits need to be Transfer at least. Any other permissions are up to the designer.

Kyrinnia Desmoulins
Here are some examples of what we mean:–see inworld notecard
P.S. We strongly suggest that after the magazine is released the designers then sell the outfit and donate the profits to Relay For Life, but it is not mandatory.

There is absolutely no artistic integrity in this place at all, is there? I can see several people avoiding shops that participate in this sort of thing for fear of the “stigma”.

So people include a notecard with the designers name now… I guess it’s better than nothing, hm? I realize at this point I’m being baited. It’s really pathetic to see such things going on.

Diamonde Heart Earrings

Paper Couture Divinchi Shirt

[CRAP] Kandinsky, $25L/sale

Punch Drunk, Philomel’s Story Stockings

Tesla, Ziggy Calf Boot in “birth”

Image @ YAY FOR STAR WARS COMMUNITIES!

The girls at SCD and Minnu Pallen, who thinks that you need to be educated in fashion, y’all.

Cotton Candy + Old Town locations only.

PS - At both locations you will find a HIPPO tshirt+cuddly tribute to our LL overlords. $1L.

Happy birthday, I’m sorry I had to log but I couldn’t teleport anywhere.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO WHIMSY WINX! <3

There’s now Youthful and Elderly versions as well. Go take a look - each box hosts all three shades of either “youthful” or “elderly”, and they’re $10L a box.

Input is very welcome, praise or criticism. Leave a comment!

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I’m working on slowly (okay, obsessively) reworking Eloh’s base skins until they’re unrecognizable. The reason for this is to have them up at [CRAP] for anyone who wants a skin that might look different than just slapping up makeup on them, and free. The problem?

IT’S REALLY FREAKING HARD.

I’ve been staring at the faces (3 skin tones) for about 24 hours now (not straight, maybe 3-4 hours total) and trying to figure out where to blend this, push that, overlay something else is just absolutely overwhelming. Any of you that participated in Another Fundraiser - I tip my hat to you.