Today the video for Gaga's song yoü and i premiered (two days early!) & I lovelovelove it. I get really teary eyed when I hear her perform this song, LET'S NOT TALK ABOUT IT THOUGH. I pretty much died at how amazing the scene was with her & 'jo calderone', almost as perfect as her dancing with rick genest in born this way. ugh.
Anyway, I noticed the gorgeous leather harnesses in this scene & was wondering if they were made or inspired by Zana Bayne.
Luckily, Nicola Formichetti posted fashion credits on his blog & I was able to confirm that they were made by her! I'd been following Zana's store on etsy (called garbagedress) for a while & was wanting to buy a leather harness for FOREVER. I was just looking at her fall collection a few days ago, so I'm so happy to see her doing well with them because they're so amazing. here are my faves:
Have you ever checked out the blog Advanced Style? It's an amaaazing blog on street fashion on elderly ladies. WHAT. I love it so much & recently just watched this vid collab with nowness.com . These ladies are an amazing inspiration to dress fearlessly. I love the lady with the blunt bangs that loves rodarte. That's future me, okay?
And last night at 3:30am over here, the Britney vid for til the world ends was released! & Not to be outdone, Lady Gaga released episode 41 of her youtube webisodes Transmission gagavision. You see a snippet of the choreo for Judas and you get to just see her being her. loved it. Thoughts?!
fave moment, lol:
xoxo
ps, thanks for your lovely compliments on my brassy-ass hair! ahaha I can guarantee that the coppery blonde is not as cute as you think. I'll post pics soon with what I'm doing with it! DID YOU KNOW: Sam also has done some bleaching but has stayed pretty quiet about it ;)
As Sam & I have been trying to expand our business, we've been finding ourselves doing more photoshoots and shows. One thing we were always missing was a lookbook of our designs-- It's always been tough though because we find that, unlike other fashion designers, we've never worked with "seasons" very well. First of all, we try to design pieces that we would wear year round (under layers etc... & the global aspect of selling online has allowed us to make skimpy clothes all year round...) and so many of our pieces are one-of-a-kind or made in small runs. but this has always made it awkward for us to try and take a lookbook that tells our customers what is available... so we finally decided to shoot a lookbook this season that just embodies our overall look and attitude towards fashion.
Our shoot turned out to be rebellious (possible trespassing), dangerous (at the side of a highway), and full of fun & laughs with amazing girls that were gorgeous and soooo up for the adventure! I hope I speak for the whole crew in saying that it was soooo much fun-- it got super cold as the day went on, so I'm sooo thankful that all us Canadian girls were toughing out the cold without complaint ;) ♥
The hugest thank you goes out to Katie for being such a wonderful host to all us models, photographers and designers with our LOADS of gear, clothes, accessories, shoes & tons of coffee and messy timbits, hahaha. Please check her out at Pretty by Kate, or become a fan at her Facebook Fan Page. She's so patient and sooo sweet and did a gorgeous job on the girls' makeup & hair. Loved it!
So far, we have some behind the scenes shots on location and can't wait to get the real shots to share with you! I already know they'll be gorgeous-- you have to check out Carrie Jade's Portfolio! :) (I know Carrie took some behind the scenes photos at Katie's place while we were all getting ready, so I hope to see those soon too!)
shooting next to a tipped over & abandoned rail car! aka the "TRAILMOBILE" watching too much dexter had me worrying that going into it would be bad.
lol, we needed music on location... do you love our "SOUND SYSTEM"?
touch ups!
yes girls, look for the most difficult thing to balance on & use that. lol
"ummm carrie, THERE'S A SNAIL IN YOUR BOOT"
a parade of girls walking down the side of an 80km/h highway in small clothes. in the cold. nothing to see here!
yana, working it. she didn't look cold AT ALL... while in reality, the other ladies were doing this:
hahahaha
sam holding onto carrie while she balance-beamed on the train tracks. :) "it's like she can't stand by herself... like mariah carey"
work. ing. itttttt.
& here's just a little preview video of the girls having fun together! watch it in HD if you're cool ;)
more to come when more comes. hahaha hopefully our new lookbook will be posted in full on lipglossandblack.com within a few weeks :)
This year at the Fall Clothing Show, we didn't exhibit a collection, but our friend Flora and Fauna did! She used a couple of our statement necklaces to accessorize her amazing simple eco designs! Lipgloss & Black & Flora & Fauna... a match made in heaven ♥!
the maxi dress with the fringe statement necklace
the scoop back dress with the rosette statement necklace
Photos above are by the awesome Raymond Chow & the rest of the set can be seen at www.canadawears.ca !
Check out the video of Flora&Fauna in action on the runway:
