This morning I was fortunate to be able to attend the Modavia Fashion Week Press Event. Now after the event I actually did stay for four more shows after that one, because not only was the event incredibly well produced…but after the teasers from the press show I had to see more. Whimsy and I sat in awe, watching the new seasons fashion sashay past us, incredible items of not only clothing, but brilliant accessories as well.

The colours were another huge influence in the lines, not much grayscale at all, just vivid colours and splashes of print and amazing displays of wool tweed looks. I tend to talk a lot at Fashion Shows, I am not sorry I do though. I think that it must be so incredibly stressful to be putting your work out there in public LIVE, and there not be any reaction to it at all, other than the occasional copy paste *claps*.

The Press event as stated was a teaser, a little bit of everything that is going to be featured over the next week. Believe me, if you are in any way shape or form not doing anything in the five or so hours every day this event is taking place, make the effort and attend at least one. The stores are great, the items are wow, and after each show the creations seen will be set out for sale in the Modavia Courtyard. So if your excuse – and seeing as I was there at 3am this morning onwards – is timezones, then you can at least check out the goodies at your leasure.

The Sneak Peak Pics:

The other really attention grabbing thing, was that there was a lovely assortment of Mens fashion. Each mens release I saw was well crafted, and definitely a great mix of style and classic pieces, mixed with some more urban looks.

La Gyo Pics:

La Gyo had us all oooing and aaaaing. For a start it must be nerve wrecking to be the first show off the runway. But they definitely lead us off to a fabulous start. The colours are divine, I was even loving purples in there. The combination of La Gyo Accessories with LG Concept clothing as just remarkable. The capelets and full on little hood looks, so divine. Blouses and system skirt overload, a true collection for the ever so elegant fashionista. Not to mention HATS, oh the hat love, I cannot wait to pair them all up with other things.

Chantkare Pics:

The moment the Chantkare release hit the floor I was thinking Madonna. Remembering when she married Guy and all the world was a twitter about her taking on Hunting and all the English nobility type la di da. So when you mix all the wool and tweed, with plaid and PONY Rings, and accessories, it is not such a leap to think of her taking it all to the runway…or some intensely awesome video clip. More beautiful hats, and that skirt and coat from the Modavia poster are just divine. Again just so you do not forget…PONY RINGS!

Gizza pics:

Gizza clothing with Vanity Hair is an incredible combination. First off though the mens fashion from Gizza was unsettling, and by unsettling I mean ‘Oh my goodness that man looks pretty”.  Gizza actually managed to put a man in a fur jacket, and have him NOT look like a pimp. One of my favourites sets of the Gizza collection didn’t fully rez, so no pic. The rest of the show made up for it though, bold colour combos, and that animal print swing coat is a must.

The gowns were show stoppers, and the oooo’s went up a notch when the second ivory colour came out. The detailing on the blouses are just lovely, and would look great with other items.

Bliss Couture Pics :

A timetraveling adventure with the Bliss releases. Bring back the 60’s with these incredible retro pieces. Fake fur and hipster bellbottoms, you do move into the 70’s but it is a definite combination with all fashion that is decade inspired. The high waisted lace panties with stunning  jacket got a lot of attention. For me though it was all that fur, and the incredible leather coat with fur you see in green in the sneak peak pics. The best thing I think about all these items, from all of the collections, is that with the use of your own imagination, they are going to blend so well with one another, it will be an amazing shopping spree.

Don’t forget you can find them all available after each show at the Modavia Fashion Week location, but you still have days left to experience the fun of the shows.

Modavia Fashion Week Location

It’s that time of the year again, I will be there and hope to see many of you.

From the official note card:

*** Modavia Productions welcomes you to Fashion Week 2011 ***

Modavia Fashion Week (September 8-15, 2011) opens at 11am SLT on September 8th with a show featuring the highlights of the week ahead for invited press and bloggers. Fifty of the best couture designers in SL will present their new autumn collections over the next 8 days, kicking off with the LaGyo/LG Concept partnership and culminating in a showcase of emerging talent and the much-awaited preview of new fall designs from Paper Couture on September 15 at 5pm SLT. All shows will take place on the MODAVIA sims which will also host an exclusive on-site boutique selling all the FW looks seen on the runway.

Thanks to our sponsors at KMADD Enterprises, Euphoria and Secondnights for their support.

To follow our blog which will carry exclusive coverage of the event please visit http://www.modaviafashionmarketing.com/2611-2/

The Modavia FW Team

The shoes pic is supposed to be a GIF, so if you do not see it, please go HERE . These shoes are a great foot in shoe, the join is almost seamless – no one is looking that close except when they are at eye level like now – it is really handy when the shoe maker, is also a skin maker…yay for preset huds.

I especially like the textures that YS & YS has released in these gorgeous slingbacks, the shine and detailing is great. I especially love the newsprint, and the python textures. I am wearing the python in the main pic with the new Baiastice MESH dress. Now I won’t lie, the size of this doesn’t really work on me, and I was not really in a tweaking frame of mind, but I do think for the style it should be, that the sizing is a little larger than expected in the waist and skirt area. Fuller figured girls are going to love it. The style is very 80’s with the frilled waist and short leather skirt. I also really like the shadow work done under the ruffles for authenticity. Though not as figure hugging as I would like, give the dress a go, because it might just wow you.

Sissy is really new to the rigging and Mesh combination, so I look forward to seeing how she expands and grows, especially with her taste in style, some amazing items are sure to follow.

Another of the newer styles from LeLutka is the Expert, stunning waves resting at a sideswept shoulder. Those curls are like amazing, and there is so much room for hairwear, that is my new word for hair accessories I have decided. A little pillbox hat, or flower, something fabulous this way comes…

Click HERE to SLURL’s Page.

Poses by :

Poseur 

Equipment Used:

VR Studio 3.0 and HUD and Library for location shoots – VR Foundry Mainstore , VR Foundry @ The Deck

Skin Worn:

Desiree – YS & YS 

Eyes:

Ellis – LeLutka

Lashes:

Natural Curl Sculpted Lashes – LeLutka

1st Me:

Hair:

Expert – LeLutka 

Clothes:

Minix Dress – MESH – Baiastice 

Shoes/Boots:

Milano Slingbacks – YS & YS 

Accessories:

Houndstooth Bag – MESH – Bitch 

Feeling very sporty, these latest Varsity items from Miel are just the coolest thing. Not only do they fill my ever wanting urge for a jacket of this style growing up, but also they are HUD aliscous. Not only can you change the colours of the shoes or jacket, but you can actually also change the lettering. I went with SP as Sasypants initials, but then hit a wall with the four four four config for the back of the jacket. Then eureka Sasy @ The Deck totally worked, feeling a bit like Jenny from the Block but whatevs.

New hair New Hair, the gorgeous OSCAR style from LeLutka is all win, especially for those that have been pining away for more of the crimp frizz do looks already released. This one is a tad shorter and does come with an extra attachment of a braid, but I left it off, and am just in love with all the individual static hair pieces. They would have taken so long to place, amazing work.

With the sporty look I am again wearing the new Zaara shorts this time with the actual cuffs. The cuffs are very cool as you get 7 options of print with them, as though the inside of your pants are actually lined with different fabric, yum. Wrapping it up, using the new poses from Ploom, even since yesterday there are new ones again…that collection is going to get huge before we know it.

Click HERE to SLURL’s Page.

Poses by :

Ploom

Equipment Used:

VR Studio 3.0 and HUD and Library for location shoots – VR Foundry Mainstore , VR Foundry @ The Deck

Skin Worn:

Natasha – LeLutka 

Eyes:

Ellis – LeLutka

Lashes:

Natural Curl Sculpted Lashes – LeLutka

1st Me:

Hair:

Oscar – LeLutka 

Clothes:

Varsity Jacket Natural – Miel 

Cropped Tank – Mon Tissu 

Knee length Denim Shorts – Zaara 

Shoes/Boots:

Varsity Kicks – Miel

Accessories:

First off it is ranty time again. Since Mesh has been enabled there has been many reasons for ranting it seems, but this one is pointed at the people that make Third Party Viewers * pokes screen and wags finger *. First off thank you for all of the hard work you do, which is free to use, and you do not actually get paid for, I understand that everything you all do is to help make Second Life more rewarding for its residents, and as a person that is wooohooo about community, again a big huge skyrocketing THANK YOU!

BUT… I think that some of you are dropping the ball when it comes to keeping your users informed. Mesh just hit the grid last week or the week before, and yet every day I see and hear people that only use your viewers completely misunderstanding what is actually going on. Either they don’t even know what Mesh is, or they are adamant that they will stick to the viewer they are using no matter what until you provide them the Mesh version…or they actually think Mesh is a bug and that their latest viewer version is broken and don’t have any clue what to do.

Every single time a user logs into whichever mesh, there is a window -literally- of opportunity to keep the residents informed about the latest and greatest developments to the grid. Just because YOUR viewer is not up to the same release type as the latest SL one, or other third party viewer, does not mean you should keep your users in the dark. What is more acceptable, letting them know and they then choose to see blocks around people, or they go upload a Mesh enabled viewer waiting until you update yours, or they get so frantic that something is wrong, have no clue who or where to ask and end up leaving your viewer for another that works, still not actually knowing what was going on, because in the new one they are using they see no blocks.

That is the thing about Mesh, as it looks so similar for the most part, unless you are looking at perfectly rigged items, it all looks the same as a regular sculpt. So why would you assume anything was wrong other than yet another bug.

Explain it, work out a way to grab their attention on sign in, a wire frame glass with GOT MESH? might work – yes I was going to do that – an image of with and without mesh enabled so they know what is going on when they see it, with a link to a blog post explaining…is all this too hard? I understand you might not want to loose your numbers of users to a mesh enabled client, but how long do they have to wait? is yours going to update next week? a month? never? all the waiting that might go on forever is really going to hurt that user, they may actually even believe their computer is no longer compatible with SL and just leave.

If your users are faithful and seriously they are, they will come back to you, or switch between the two depending on what they need them for. So do them and everyone a favor and inform your users what it is that is changing in their world…give them a chance to update and be knowledgeable, and also don’t hinder their possible creativity, because those people using non mesh viewers right now, could be future Mesh creators that really add to the grid, so don’t keep them from doing so.

Now on with the fashion…Slink one of those Mesh creators, has wowed the grid today with the release of her Tall leather thigh boots. These are a fantastic use of Mesh seeing as with rigging to the body you get bends in the ankles and the knees, unlike boots of the past that used to split at the knee and sometimes to ankle to move with the body. In the past taking pics of boots such as these would have taken a lot longer, the pose would have had to be just right, and then possibly some fixing in PS or Gimp to make it not appear as different pieces. Now though it’s any pose and snap away. Even though they do have a stretchy shiny leather, looking for a pole look to them, I wanted to show that that is not only the case. Three different looks, for three different types of events, and the boots in my opinion rock them all. Be sure to try the demos of the boots, there are four sizes and I am wearing the average, I had to take down my leg muscle by about 6 I think, but I made a copy of the shape for that folder. If you find none of them fit and you are aching for them, then talk to Siddean as she does offer custom fitting to your shape , but it will cost you extra.

I found this store CoG earlier today. Snapping up the liquid looking silver latex, to go with the silver boots was an easy choice. Some silver accessories and it is time for either some dancing, clubbing or a Barbarella kind of RP scene, it all works. Next the look was a little cool out, a nice sweater – this is actually the no skirted version of the sweater dress from Maitreya, an oldie but a goody. The new Zaara knee length denim shorts. Because they are a clothing layer they slip right under the mesh layers and in this case, and any leggings or socks, this is going to be very useful.

I am nagging Siddean of SLink all the damn time for bag and stuff, reason mainly being that if you do shoes, and you do them in particular types of leathers/fabrics, well you owe it to your fashionista customers to follow with some matching accessories. Lucky for me Fri.day had a bag and belt that was close enough, actually the belt I had to tint – YAY For MODIFY – all up the look is great for work, lunch dates or an afternoon shopping.  Lastly the gorgeous shirt from La Viere is just perfect. I especially love the mandarin style collar, and you have two options, one is with collar and sculpted lower to the shirt, or just the collar, which for this look was great. Overlaying with the use of (add)  I then went with the Niti skirt from Zaara. This look is great for a dinner date, night on the town with friends or just kicking bum and taking names.

All of the looks I went with the same lovely hair from Ploom, the hair is Valyra and I am wearing the streaked option. So many streaks to choose from, and the choice of warm or cooler colours really worked with the looks I was going with, so definitely play around with that. Also from Ploom we have new poses some were used in the pics, some are just Ploom in general, but I really do love the poses coming from Ploom so be sure to check out the poses when grabbing the hair.

Skin wise it has been a while since we have seen a release from YS & YS and Desiree is the one I have on today. Comes with so many brow and hairbase options, as well as cleavage and tan lines, lashes and lipsticks. You can even buy the lipsticks for each skin separately if you like one over another. So be sure to DEMO DEMO DEMO.

Click HERE to SLURL’s Page.

Poses by :

Ploom

Equipment Used:

VR Studio 3.0 and HUD and Library for location shoots – VR Foundry Mainstore , VR Foundry @ The Deck

Skin Worn:

Desiree – YS & YS 

Eyes:

Ellis – LeLutka

Lashes:

Natural Curl Sculpted Lashes – LeLutka

Hair:

Valyra – Ploom

Clothes:

Crushed Sweater Dress – Maitreya 

Knee Shorts – Zaara

Shoes/Boots:

Tall Leather Thigh Boots - SLink  MESH 

Accessories:

Dream Catcher Bag, Lucid Belt (tinted)  – Fri.day 

Medium Nails – Mandala 

Fallen Tears Ensemble – MOOD 

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Hair:

Valyra – Ploom 

Clothes:

Chinese Fusion Shirt – La Viere 

Niti Skirt – Zaara 

Shoes/Boots:

Tall Leather Thigh Boots - SLink  MESH

Accessories:

Wide Waist Belt – Fri.day 

Medium Nails - Mandala 

Fallen Tears Ensemble - MOOD 

Mia Ring – Miel 

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Hair:

Valyra – Ploom 

Clothes:

Latex Body – CoG 

Shoes/Boots:

Tall Leather Thigh Boots – SLink  MESH

Accessories:

Medium Nails – Mandala 

Hydra Necklace – Rozoregalia

Such a vision of a gown, whether it be for a formal affair, a night out on the town, or that very special day. This new MESH release is going to have you gaga over it. The lean lines, the accentuation of the bum and curves of the waist, it is like capturing the essence of what it is to be female. I also especially adore the mermaid tail look, even though not trully a fanned out effect, the way the mesh sweeps the floor is just enough to be drool worthy.

These are the kinds of remarkable clothing we can expect to see more of now that mesh is here, and dancing in this would be heavenly. No flipping around flexi prims or overly stretched out texturing, just smooth and hugging. On that special day too, you don’t have to worry about all of the things that can go wrong with your dress, just simply enjoy the moment.

This Rebel Hope gown Fabria also has matching accessories in the form of beautiful platinum jewelry, and the lovely collar on the dress is a separate attachment, which I found to be really a nice option. I see more sensational gowns and clothing coming from Rebel in the future, because how could you stop there. Go and try Fabria on for yourself, it truly is an inspiring gown.

Click HERE to SLURL’s Page.

Poses by : Geez

Equipment Used:

VR Studio 3.0 and HUD and Library for location shoots – VR Foundry Mainstore , VR Foundry @ The Deck

Skin Worn:

Jewel – Curio

Eyes:

Ellis – LeLutka

Lashes:

Natural Curl Sculpted Lashes – LeLutka

Hair:

Last Stand hat/hair – The Strand

Cassandra – Enigma

Clothes:

Fabria Gown – Rebel Hope

Shoes/Boots:

Foxy – Maitreya Gold

Accessories:

Fabria Necklace, Earrings, Bracelet in Platinum – Rebel Hope

Medium Nails – Mandala

Cascading Bouquet – Essentia

Last night Whimsy and I went to Hogwarts, actually we went all over the place, but decided to stop in on the marketplace that has all of SL a quiver. Anya OhMai has the most adorable Pygmy Puff collectible Gacha items there, I didn’t include mine in the pic, because I am scared they are like gremlins and I haven’t read the rules yet.
While we were there, we ran into a few people, one of which was Mystic, who also has a blog in which you can read more about joining the school if that is your thing. She was really lovely to talk to *waves* and to her friend with the evil like Whimsy red hair lol.

If you do go visit prepare to have all your maternal instincts punch you repeatedly while you are there, seriously children overload and sooooo adorable in their little uniforms and stuff. I don’t know enough about the books to RP properly and I would want to be a teacher or something, but I would be so hopeless and feed them all candy all day. Before that or after that, I think before, we went to see Maxwell Grafs new retail adventure called Bitch. His release of 4 Mesh Handbags shown larger than life in the showroom. You may know his work from Rustica, well he has expanded his range  to smaller items such as  accessories and clothing, and the bags are lovely. I just had to have the houndstooth print.

I love that Marni is back to creating for Royal Blue, she is able to add just the right amount of quirky to a look. The outfit pieces I am wearing today are from her, some new, some old and some I have been waiting for for over two years to be finally finished. The waiting was for the stockings. Originally they didn’t come with the boyshorties, but now that they do they are even more to love. So all one piece, and there are the polka dot ones or plain…so sexy. The new is not visible, but if you go to her store you will find these nifty shirt collars with ribbon bows to wear as an accessory, also very ooh la la.

The whole look is perfect for the Project Themeory item from MOOD of the Duchess Fascinator. Now these things are hard to find in SL, Newdoll and I went searching weeks ago. Not just that they aren’t easy to find, but good ones are rare and this one is a GREAT one. MOOD has been pushing herself lately, and it really has shown the public what she can do, and how her skills have grown. Jewelry not being the only Mood MOOD can be in. So once Royal Blue unpacks hers and MOOD has hers, we will be off to the races in style. Melbourne Cup is only weeks away people.

Click HERE to SLURL’s Page.

Poses by :

Geez

Equipment Used:

VR Studio 3.0 and HUD and Library for location shoots – VR Foundry Mainstore , VR Foundry @ The Deck

Skin Worn:

Hadley – LeLutka

Eyes:

Ellis – LeLutka

Lashes:

Natural Curl Sculpted Lashes – LeLutka

Hair:

Drucilla – Exile

Clothes:

Yo Bra , Knitted Suspender Socks with Panties – Royal Blue

Shoes/Boots:

GTFO boots – GOS

Accessories:

Bow Faced Collar – Royal Blue

Duchess Fascinator – MOOD

Medium Nails – Mandala

Houndstooth Bag – Bitch

Honestly since I have been lucky enough to have some sneak peaks at Mesh prior to today, the one thing that stood out the most was the bending knees, and the dresses that fold with your body. Since 2007 and sculpts being used more and more, as much as they have always been awesome, one thing started changing, we stopped sitting and everyone was always standing.
When it was just prim skirts with flexi they created the easy sitting scripts, that were more work than helpful to be honest, but you could never really get those things to do much for sculpts. When pants legs were made more and more by full sculpts also, you would sit and your lower portion would go one way, and your upper would stick out making it look like you had broken yourself in someway.

Mesh has changed all that again, and now without even having to round out any edges I give you SITTING! Also my bottom isn’t all askew and my girly parts aren’t broken either. To really understand how much love you will have for mesh, go try the new Group Gift from SLink – Jeans worn – and see how your legs don’t break from your AO and other such things.

You must have a Mesh Enabled Viewer, and you must be on a Mesh sim – SLink is a mesh sim so try the jeans on there, but be sure to take them off again when TPing away, as all sims will not be full mesh until tomorrow. You need to join the Slink group to get the jeans, but they are a great way to see what all the fuss is about.

Click HERE to SLURL’s Page.

Poses by :

SLC Body Language RagDoll AO

Equipment Used:

VR Studio 3.0 and HUD and Library for location shoots – VR Foundry Mainstore , VR Foundry @ The Deck

Skin Worn:

Hadley – LeLutka

Eyes:

Ellis – LeLutka

Lashes:

Natural Curl Sculpted Lashes – LeLutka

Hair:

Decent – LeLutka

Clothes:

RG tank – Maitreya

Bootleg Jeans MESH MESH MESH – Slink (group gift )

Shoes/Boots:

Accessories: