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!  :)