Part Two

I finally got a chance to finish up editing the second set from my shoot with Mitzi and Mosh!  There was a grand pink damask stuffed chair in the scene, but I think because of my urgency to get to the airport and scrambling around not paying attention to the shoot, I rushed this part a bit too much.  Thus most of those photos with the chair are in, er, various states of undress (which -- I am just guessing -- but may be going up on Mosh's official site) and not as usuable for me.  I am SUCH a sucker for pink and green!  It will be a major color combination staple in my upcoming line of lingerie.  Ah well, it is a good thing I was working with such talented people, because the photos with the simple mint green walls worked just fine!  Enjoy!

 

 

We Love Sabah!

So, fun fact of the day...besides the lingerie line, I also design custom belly dance and burlesque costumes! One of my favorites is bellydance-ballet fusionist, Sabah of The Bellydance Superstars. We worked together for her most recent feature, a beautifully romantic choregraphed piece where she is accompanied by two of the troupe's tribal dancers. She presented me with amazing vintage inspiration pictures, and told me to do what I wanted with them. These were some of my favorites of the photos (including some that I found myself after expanding research):

  

  

So, I combined my favorite elements of these (and many more!), added my own little touches and wa-lah!

I went with a bit of an art deco influence, and I even found some really cool authentic vintage pearl, rhinestone, and glass bead trims.  Looking at the photos on tour (plenty more in her performance photo gallery), I realized it also gives the piece a bit of an Alice in Wonderland feel, which works out well as that's one of Sabah's favorites.  She then told me, apparently the girls had been thinking the same thing and interpreting the dance as Alice dancing with "eat me" and "drink me."  Too cute!

Catch The Bellydance Superstars on their next tour, or watch out for the next DVD release, they just filmed the new show, in 3D! Featuring this piece and many other amazing performances!  Go Sabah!  :)

Happy New Year!

So there are so many new things on the burner for 2010, I hardly know where to begin! I'm just starting to go through the fabulous photos from my visit to Los Angeles in December, I am so excited about them! I was able to shoot with the amazing Mitzi & Co...she has the most lovely studio set-up, everything my heart could ever desire! Our model extraordinaire was Mosh, a bendy doll dream and real treat to watch her pose with such precision. The only downside was that I had a flight to catch that evening, so I had to rush things a little bit and we weren't able to get through everything, but we sure did quite a lot! Three different lingerie sets -- all dying to be added to the store! In fact, the store is quite overdue for an overhaul as it is, but first I will have to get caught up on the orders going out the door already!

Anyway, here is a preview! Please enjoy! :)