Call for Holiday Vendors...

Holiday Marketplace Bazaar

This is an initial call for vendors for our Holiday Marketplace Bazaar to be held Saturday, December 5th and Sunday, December 6th in a loft in Downtown Los Angeles.

If you would like to take part or get more information, please post here.

Spaces are very limited for this bazaar, so get your name in early for consideration.  We have a large email/marketing list and do art shows twice yearly in this loft.

We will be emailing out more details soon...Happy Holidays!

xxx
Raven

Halloween Fashion Inspiration...Gareth Pugh

Yummy delicious fashion treats from Gareth Pugh collections past and present...
{click images to enlarge}


Happy Halloween to all you Dirty Pretty Things!  

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What Should I be For Halloween?

I'm STILL trying to decide what I should be for the parties we're going to tomorrow night. HELP!

Following are some of my final options...What do you think? What are you going to be this year?

xxx
Raven

 

Detention School Girl

Pirate

 

Jailhouse Rock Star.

..Tacky name, I know,...but cute outfit, huh?

 

Airline Stewardess

Geisha  

FREE Music...Anjulie [Hurry...Expires this Friday!]

* Check comments to see which download codes have been taken...and please comment on which you take...Thanks! *

9 FREE downloads available...

ANJULIE

Anjulie is a captivating and authentic new talent in pop music. Ingeniously fusing the world-music rhythms and Top 40 melodies.  She creates startlingly imaginative songs that underscore her undeniable melodic gifts and crackle with provocative, confessional, lyrical word-play.

Starbucks & i-Tunes present this FREE Pick...

Note: Please take one download only {they are all the same song} and then leave a comment stating which you downloaded so everyone knows it's taken. Redeem at the i-Tunes store. Click "Redeem" and enter code. Codes can be used once only.

The following codes expire this Friday: October 30th, 2009

*TAKEN: i Tunes Download #1 "Boom": Download Code: WP6JFP93HE7Y

i Tunes Download #2 "Boom": Download Code: 6R7HATRTYT9H

i Tunes Download #3 "Boom": Download Code: RYHXJP6AAAX3



i Tunes Download #4 "Boom": Download Code: MEMKXKAY4RPL


i Tunes Download #5 "Boom": Download Code: MAWPTJXALA3H

i Tunes Download #6"Boom": Download Code: TYFLTM69AK4H

i Tunes Download #7 "Boom": Download Code: TKHT49LLWWT3

i Tunes Download #8 "Boom": Download Code: RKL46Y67XHYH 


*TAKEN:  i Tunes Download #9 "Boom": Download Code: NYYXYR4XTRRX

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WE LOVE THIS SONG!  Here's the song that you'll be downloading... "Boom"

All Tied Up...

Our upcoming show this weekend and renovations on our new studio loft have me all tied up, so I apologise for being M.I.A. without warning.

...Promise to give you updates and more information soon!


Thanks so much for the emails, texts and well-wishes...You are in my thoughts as well.


xxx
Raven

Life Lessons...How To Be Alone

How To Be Alone
by Susanna Sonnenberg

In 1984 I was 19 and on any given day roamed from dorm room to cafeteria to classroom, then on to dance class or movie theater or Chinese restaurant.  Always with friends, always out with everyone I knew.  We hurried to meet up at coffeehouses or gathered outside the library, bound by lethargy.  Of course, we had no cell phones then, but our society was strung tight by perpetual interaction, presence, plans.  We went for groceries together and to the bank machine.  Everything happened outside my head.  There was no such thing as the interior life.  I needed my friends for the noise and motion, to be entertained, to be watched.  Partly this was the teenager's way of life sophomore year, but I'm sure some college kids liked isolation and privacy - just not me.  Solitude looked gloomy to me, held no uses.  I read better when my roommate was reading across the room on her bed.  I endured the subway ride after starting a conversation with the neighboring stranger.  Even falling asleep, for those of us who had boyfriends, was social.


Did I notice, after I got my first apartment, that a certain crucial thrill came from finding everything just as I'd left it when I opened the refrigerator door?  I must have, and stored the memory away.  But it wasn't until I had a baby that solitude looked interesting, became an elusive commodity. Now with the baby, I couldn't choose my state of being anymore:  Accompanied, by myself, quiet, festive - nothing was up to me.  Now instead of finding time to fill as I would  (a chance to make phone calls, to meet my husband for lunch, a chance to fill up with other people), I was with my baby, the glue of his saliva dampening the front of my shirt, his tendril limbs wrapped around my body, and his thick, soft fingers in my mouth when I opened it to say something.


For work I was reviewing movies, and all of a sudden this was the greatest job in the world because it gave me a chance to undo myself from the baby and go.  Alone.  There in the car at the stoplight, there in the line to buy a ticket, and in the brief, crackling dark before previews, I felt quiet and wonderful, there was a pause and a peace.  And when the movie was over, I returned to my family, renewed and ready.  


I like to be alone now.  I like to taste the honey on the toast, to consider the bee batting against the window. In solitude I come together, collect the errant bits of me that have wandered away, and reassemble them .  Solitude is so fiercely that:  the chance to still oneself.  From its sacred corner I look out, see the wide world, and feel my singular place in it.

repost from American Elle: "The Most Important Thing I've Learned"

We welcome your comments & suggestions. "Life Lessons" now appears every Saturday... If you have a Life Lesson article or topic you'd like to post, please email us at EyeCandy58@yahoo.com

Street Style Now...More Shoe Trend Do's & Don'ts

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Edgy heavy metal style is still in abundance on the European streets...and ya gotta love the first pair of shoes shown that look like they belong on the feet of Lady Gaga herself.  Yum.  Shown below, more of the best and worst on some of the most stylish street walkers right now.

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See if you can guess the big FASHION DON'TS shown here.  There are at least FOUR faux pas that we count.

photos...Tommy Ton

Thursday Snack...Girl Crush

Lately we've been crushing BIG TIME on a certain little cutie with blond hair, a crooked mischievous-looking smile and quirky offbeat style...DREW BARRYMORE.

Recently, she made her directorial debut with "Whip It" after a decade of producing movies like "Charlie's Angels," "Fever Pitch" and cult favorite "Donnie Darko."

"It's no accident that I'm here," she says. "I've been preparing for this my whole life."

 

 

 

 

top 4 photos...Regan Cameron

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Trailer for "Whip It" starring  Ellen Page, Marcia Gay Harden, Juliette Lewis, hip-hop artist Eve and Kristen Wiig. Barrymore also has a supporting role in the film.

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Pretty Things Fashion... Gripp Jeans

{{ ALL THINGS NEW ROMANTIC }}

Designed by Dianne Grgat,  the A/W 2009 collection for Australian label Gripp Jeans is a renaissance of ‘gothic chic’.

"It's sophisticated glamour with a rock vamp edge, leaving the collection with a feel of lust and utter abandonment."

Key pieces such as the corsets in power net and lace emphasise feminine virtues such as the décolletage. Fitted body dresses in lace and draped jersey play a game of peek-a-boo on the derriere. Feminine assertiveness is expressed with strong structural lines in shoulder detailing and the use of leather and heavy metal hardware and trims.

Who said New Romantic is dead?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

photos & copy...Gripp Jeans

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Video Eyecandy...DAY WILL SOON COME

Day Will Soon Come

Anjulie

Street Style Now...Shoe Trend Do's & Don'ts

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Sweet meets tough, edgy style and trends abound with Studs / Hardware, Peep Toes, Booties, Cut Outs and more!  Here, some of the best and worst on some of the most stylish street walkers right now.

 

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We're not sold on tucking your pants into your strappy heels just yet...but the real FASHION DON'T here is wearing shoes that don't actually fit your feet and leave your little piggies trying to flee over the side of the shoe.

Wearing socks with heels / open shoes is a real trend right now, {see "Would You Wear This Trend"} but it's easy to do it wrong. Don't be a trend whore and try to mix several trends at once if they just don't work and look like a cluttered mess: Cuffed pants, floral socks and these light-coloured peep toed booties with white laces are a definite FASHION DON'T!

photos...Tommy Ton

Life Lessons...Always Buy Two

"...Finding a comfortable pair of jeans that still manages to make your ass look like it's fighting to get out." - Allison Glock

 Always Buy Two

by Allison Glock

There are people who trip into bliss, gentle, smiling souls who coast on a never-ending sea of frothy optimism and the immovable belief that tomorrow will bring even more blessings than today.  I am not one of those people.  I trust that life for most of the planet is a cruel, unrelenting struggle brightened only momentarily by flashes of serendipity and luck.  A baby's smile.  A punctual flight.  Finding a comfortable pair of jeans that still manages to make your ass look like it's fighting to get out.  Such gifts are as rare as comets. Which is why, when you stumble onto something perfect, something that really - no debating, no shrugging - works, you should always buy two.

I learned this lesson early from my mother, who, being a Southern lady, wore stockings to work.  She also wore diamonds, and diamonds tend to shred nylons like so much pulled pork - a cause for panic unless you happen to have another pair stashed in your bureau drawer, which my mother inevitably did because she always bought two.  Of course, she could have removed her diamonds prior to pulling on her stockings, but because she'd bought two, she didn't have to.  And really - who removes diamonds when it isn't strictly necessary?


During an average day, most women drown in compromise.  Good enough.  It'll do. They look okay.  That's fine. At least he's employed.  Sure. I don't mind.  Whatever.  No, really.


When indisputable flawlessness enters our worn little worlds, it is cause for celebration.  And for stocking up.  I'm nt talking about SUVs or face-lifts here, but basics.  Staples. The white T-shirt that compassionately floats over your stomach.  The boots that don't suffocate your calves.  Lip gloss that gives you the pout of a teenager without sticking to your hair.  Toilet paper that doesn't shred or leave dust on your bathroom floor.  


Two offer symmetry and security.  With two you never ever run out.  With two you can break one.  With two you can breathe easy.  Three many seem even safer, but it borders on overkill and eats up valuable storage space.  Unless you're Oprah, who I've heard, buys 10 because she can.  Start with two.


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repost from American Elle: "The Most Important Thing I've Learned"

Image: Robin Bardot skinny jeans

We welcome your comments & suggestions. "Life Lessons" now appears every Saturday... If you have a Life Lesson article or topic you'd like to post, please email us at EyeCandy58@yahoo.com