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Orchids proliferate in Costa Rica. Warm-weather-loving, humidity-seeking, exotic, colorful and graceful, orchids are the perfect flower to represent the beauty of the Costa Rican sims.
It’s entirely appropriate, then, for me to point you to the wonderful work of Miko Omegamu, sold on the Laguna Arenal sim. Miko has perfected the fine art of making orchids in SL and she has used them to embellish this gorgeous dress. But a Miko creation is never a quick prim assemblage. Miko has considered the dress from top to bottom, from the beautifully textured prim orchids to the excellently rendered stem running across the elegantly shaped dress to the prim drape with bow on the other side.
I chose an updo from KateForester Akina to accompany this beautiful dress. KateForster has a huge collection of hair—from the every day to the truly fantastic. The color change flower adorning the hair matched the dress perfectly. A beautiful skin that Monicuzza Babenco made specially for this year’s Vanity Skin fair to benefit Care suits the elegance of the ensemble. Finally, I donned beautiful orchid earrings from Caliah Lyon and stylish pumps from Onyx LeShelle, and I am a flower in bloom.
The beauty of an orchid’s perfume:
Hair: Tukinowaguma Deborah ebony by KateForster Akina for Tukinowaguma
Skin: *YS & YS* Kelly “Care” Eb Dark by Monicuzza Babenco for YS & YS
Dress: *ICING* Orchid Delight by Miko Omegamu for *ICING* at the Costa Rica Sims
Earrings: ~Muse~ Elle Orchid Earring by Caliah Lyon for ~Muse~
Shoes: Maitreya Verve Pumps – Black by Onyx LeShelle for Maitreya
After last month’s fashion show, I took my guy to shop at Nardcotix … he likes plaid shirts, and designer Nardya Rousselot has a truck full … not to mention a nice assortment and variety of other items in her new but growing men’s line. Needless to say, we had to leave quickly … we were tempted to buy everything in her store!
Last week, she asked me to look at some new items … and let me tell you … like her women’s line, Nardya is becoming a force to be reckoned with in SL fashion. Her clothes are more than just paint on prims or sculpties … they’re dynamic, they show personality — they capture the wind! Didn’t take long to take these shots in my crib … these clothes are awesome for events or just posing!
Stop by her store in either the Costa Rica Sims or her homestore in Einstein … and if you see something you can’t live without, grab what you like, and tell her Phantom sent ya!
TOP – Coat – NX Fielding Wool Coat Khaki| Vest – NX Gordon Leather Vest Brown| Denims – -WMD-”Ronin”Pepper Jeans | Boots – Black Leather Sculpties *REDGRAVE*| Sunglasses – KR Sunglasses M6 Gold| Necklace – *Cobrahive* Kousa Necklace | MIDDLE – Shirt – NX Devon Striped Shirt Blue| BOTTOM – Suit – NX Pierson Formal Suit Brown|
Allure Fashions / Obry Fashions has opened a shop here in the Costa Rica Sims Shopping District! Filled with women’s casuals and intimates, Allure/Obry is one store to add to your next virtual shopping trip! Amara is wearing their “Sweet Kitty” outfit.
Aradhana Voight of Mashooka came into the SL fashion scene like a breath of fresh air. With her elaborate textures and Indian-inspired style, she supplied SL shoppers with clothing from both the East and the West.
Located on Laguna Arenel in the Costa Rican sims, Mashooka provides an alternative to the standard avatar clothing choices. I chose this cute dress for this write up because pushes past the ordinary with its cleverly fashioned sculpty puffy sleeves and bow. It pushes past a girly dress to something more sophisticated with its rich textures and deep color.
I styled the dress with a sassy auburn hair from Autumn Hykova, who is cranking out cute hairstyles with an alternative twist. Lorac Farella’s skin from her new “Life” series is a dramatic choice, upping the ante on this ensemble from sweet to sophisticated.
Curry cutie:
Hair: .:[ Tiny Bird ]:. Kissy Kissy – Ginger by Autumn Hykova for Tiny Bird
Skin: Pulse Skin-Life/Tone3 m7 by Lorac Farella for Pulse Skins*
Dress: :MD: Taylor glimmers {red} by Aradhana Voight for Mashooka Designs at Costa Rica
Shoes: SKGShoes – Alina Slingback Pumps – Pecan by Saki Galiazzo for SKGShoes (no longer available 
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Or, the CheerNo “Deuil” Winter Collection Exclusive Fashion Show
The CheerNo Fashion show actually showcased two different lines, designer CheerNo Destiny’s “Montage” and “Deuil.” Montage was released in fall and is available at CheerNo stores everywhere, while Deuil will be released on November 13th.
Narrated by CheerNo Manager (and our own male stylist here at PR) Aristoteles Allen, we were told of the designers influences from childhood that inspired the Montage collection … the bright colors of toys and candies. The electric hues of the each of the designs caught my attention … rather than being an explosive mess of color, prims, and sculpties, these designs reflected moods and states of mind and were each … in my mind … emotionally honest and playful works of textile art.
Deuil was a much darker exposition … reflecting the starkness of winter, but with each piece still showing that life exists even in the darkest of nights. Each model wore CheerNo skins to match their outfits of white, silver and black. For a moment, I thought I had been transported to the set of the movie Pleasantville … but I was jerked back to virtuality quickly as each model illustrated the outfits of party, disco, and business that will be CheerNo’s trademark this season.
Unlike much of the rest of SL’s clothiers, CheerNo Destiny’s releases are always along a certain theme or color scheme … and Montage and Deuil are simply additions to his already extraordinary line of men’s clothing.
You can find these outfits, as well as those of his previous releases, at his home store, Casa CheerNo, in the Costa Rica Sims, or at the GLOOM! Fashion District.
Some of the most fashionable women live in the Costa Rica sims. It’s like a mecca of the rich and beautiful—no luxury is spared; no beautiful thing missed.
Therefore it was entirely appropriate that Zalyn Bailey, designer for VoguE, would bring her beautiful work to La Fortuna 1 on the Costa Rica sims. With her offering of both beautiful evening gowns with more casual fare, Zalyn’s store is for those who want to indulge in the finer things in life.
This sexy, slit-up-the-leg gown from Zaryn is typical of her style. She is not afraid of adornment or the combination of materials. Her textures reflect her boldness with their sequins lying over silk, the airiness of the scarf, the silkiness of the skirt. She attends to every detail, making the system pieces work with the prims, even texturing the edges of the flounced prims with a sparkly silver. (I am a bugaboo about prim edges.. so many designers miss that!)
I styled this up with a sexy skin from Lorac Farella, a tousled style from Aden Breyer that reflects the sleekness of the main silhouette of the dress, and some almost over-the-top skyhigh heels from BG Planer (with delicious little toes that I painted red, of course).
Red is the color of passion (and fashion):
Hair: Tori (Black) by Aden Breyer for Aden
Skin: Pulse Skin – Climax/Valeries T2 Venetian Red BLK by Lorac Farella for Pulse Skins*
Dress: *VoguE* Tiffany Gown ~ Scarlet by Zalyn Bailey for *VoguE* in Costa Rica*
Shoes: B&G WOMAN SHOE SELENA – ROJO – T000 by BG Planer for B&G Enterprises
There’s only thing worse than two ladies wearing the same dress to the ball … and thankfully, with over 100 guests throughout the evening, we did managed to avoid that during Saturday night’s Costa Rica Sims Ladies’ Society’s “Phantom of the Opera – A Halloween Masquerade Ball.”
The absolute WORST thing you can do is take one lady’s photo … then attribute it to someone else. Shortly after I had uploaded the post to the PR and CRS website, our estate webmistress, DzinWiz Babii, sent me an IM telling me that the glorious outfit I had attributed to her … well … wasn’t her.
I was still really busy finishing up things related to the party, and so I said I’d change it later … until later that evening, when Ms. Gloria Marchant commented on the blog that SHE was the mysterious mislabelled fine lady in mauve.
So, to both, I offer my humble apologies! You were both extremely lovely Saturday evening, and my only regret now is that I didn’t get a full photo of Dzin (she is slightly behind Gloria to the right – hence my name-bubble confusion). I couldn’t amend the old photo (I hadn’t saved the layered version after building it – BAD BLOGGER!), so I thought the absolute best thing would be to feature Ms. Merchant in her own posting … and here it is.
What do a bleeding skull, a crashing chandelier, and an enormous pipe organ represent? … A great excuse for a party!
Last evening, the Costa Rica Ladies’ Society hosted “Phantom of the Opera – A Halloween Masquerade Ball,” which turned out to be the most successful party on the entire Costa Rica Sims estate so far this year. At one point, nearly 86 people were partying on the sim at one time.
Guests ported into the main entrance of their normally formal opera house … now filled with mist, creepy trees, and a reminder to dim the lights on their viewer. And, the only way in was to follow bloody footprints into the lobby of the auditorium.
Entertainment for the evening was provided by crooner Clairede Dirval who sang the blues, some pop and alternative classics while strumming her guitar. By the second hour, we were moshing to the heavy beats of DJ Azu Catteneo … well, almost … our thick layered costumes prevented much crashing into each other!
As mentioned, the crowds were enormous for an SL party. We were afraid at one point the Sim might crash … and although many of us did (I did more than once), it wasn’t too terrible getting back inside the party that never stopped.
(For more coverage, and to find out who attending … take the jump!)
Happy Halloween one and all! I’m a huge huge huge Halloween fan. While I was out and about this morning I realized some people were still scurrying about for a costume for the many parties that are going on about the grid. So here I am to show off what some of us here at Phantom’s Republic are wearing this weekend.
This first pic is of none other than the fabulously talented Phantom. Phan is dressed for the Costa Rica event. He’s wearing a fabulously baroque outfit from Gentleman House. The shoes also were purchased there. The hair is from Sky Everett Designs and the mask is from Illusions.
Harper chose to be a mummy for this shoot. Yes I swear that is our ever glamorous Harper under all that. This mummy is really well done and from hO wEAr. The straps are flexi and the eyes creeped me out a bit. I suggested she wear that to hair fair next year as the ARC was fantastically low.
My boyfriend and I usually do a couples costume. We think it makes the holiday a bit more fun but also a bit more challenging in find something we agree on and that both costumes are quality. This year after much consideration we chose Alice in Wonderland. My Alice outfit is from Edelweiss it includes the tights. The shoes I dyed to match are from HOC and the hair is a usual for me from Armidi. The Mad Hatter outfit Charlz is wearing came from Mire. It is really lovely and came with the hair and all seen (as you can see he’s shoeless so you’ll need to buy some if you want to wear any). I gave him a lovely pair Jeepers Creepers that worked really well.
Lastly, the fun props and background is a freebie from iTutu. It doesn’t have any poses in it….but as you can see it makes for fantastic photos.
Happy Halloween everyone!
-Fi
Everyone at Costa Rice is excited about the Masquerade Ball for Halloween this weekend. Beautiful women and handsome gentlemen will crowd the floor, skirts swishing, high intrigue taking place in the corners, glances darted across the room, tittering going on behind fans.
I was thrilled to be invited and even more thrilled when I found out Raven Pennyfeather of RFyre was making ball gowns that would be coming out just the weekend before. She has opened a store at La Fortuna 1 in time for your ball gown shopping where she is selling these gowns in their Deluxe version, lady’s suits and gentlemen’s suits with the same lushly brocaded motif.
Raven’s dresses are sumptuous, made of the most beautiful brocades, shaded subtly with the turns of the skirts, festooned with lace cravats and lace decorating the décolletage. The bodice is drawn with an elaborate lacing and curves around the torso with a pleasurable cinch. Available in Black Rose, Black Seas or Black Baroque, the gowns provide a multiplicity of luxury for the most refined lady or Viscountess.
As with most of Raven’s pieces, she gives you a choice of variations. For the Deluxe set, you can choose between three jackets—closed, open with long sleeves or a vest with prim cuffs. You also get a shirt layer with vest or white top, two pairs of pants–patterned with brocade or plain, two collars—with and without the lace cravat, and a hoop skirt over a translucent underskirt. And if you have ever worn a gown from Raven, the prims float beautifully as you are dancing. No ballgowns compare.
She also offers a Basic set which has a more contemporary silhouette. With the same tops, she has paired a short jacket skirt worn over pants tied with a silken sash. I can see this suiting the female partner of a lady, providing a contrast between the large ballgown and the tailored jacket without taking away femininity from either.
Both versions are available at the new store in Costa Rica with the addition of men’s suits to match. And all of Raven’s items are transferable—buy your date the matching ensemble and surprise him or her.
I styled this outfit with a luxurious hair from Kavar Cleanslate. With its full updone hair and perfectly placed curls cascading down to frame the face, it’s an ideal choice for such a ball—romantic but easily undone after the ball, when it needs to be. Lorac Farella’s delicately pale Victoriana skin suited the dress and the season with its hauntingly drawn eyes and lips.
“Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hair: Exile Emmanuelle Black by Kavar Cleanslate for Exile
Skin: Pulse Skin-Valeries T: Victoriana/Twist by Lorac Farella for Pulse Skins*
Gowns: ! RFyre Viscountess Black Baroque Deluxe by Raven Pennyfeather for RFyre at Costa Rica or House of RFyre*
! RFyre Viscountess Black Rose by Raven Pennyfeather for RFyre at Costa Rica or House of RFyre*
! RFyre Viscountess Black Seas Deluxe by Raven Pennyfeather for RFyre at Costa Rica or House of RFyre*
Suit: ! RFyre Viscountess Black Baroque Basic (also available in Black Rose and Black Seas) by Raven Pennyfeather for RFyre at Costa Rica or House of RFyre*
Boots: Bax Prestige Boots by Bax Coen for Bax Coen Designs*
