LOTD 10/18/2014 – Featuring LeeZu & PurpleMoon

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Lately I am a lot on to colored stylings… maybe that’s the autumn vibe 😉 So before the dark Halloween days start I use my colored moods a bit more 😉

Today I would like to showcase one of the newest releases from LeeZu together with the amazing new “Croco Boots”, that PurpleMoon released for the Instruments event.

The “Li-Belle” outfit is an ensemble of hotpants jacket and top. All of them are available in various color combinations so you will find your favorite one at the LeeZu Mainstore. The super sexy hotpants are made with some very aerial fabric and it nearly looks like as the short pant sleeves would move with every wind breeze ;). The jacket again is a little master piece of LeeZu again. The long sleeves are open at the outsides. A perfect look for the last sunny moments in the autumn season. Both, the hotpants and the jacket are mesh made and only the top comes in a layer version to fit perfectly under the jacket.

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The boots are again the “Croco Boots” from PurpleMoon.. I know I already showcased them, but they are so amazing, that I had to wear them again in another color ;). You will find the boots at the Instruments event till the end of October.

The amazing earrings are made by Chop Zuey and with the golden metals and the possibility to recolor the gems to match the look the “Don’t call me Betty” earrings were the perfect choice.

With the glasses from Crie Style and one of my favourite hair styles from EMO-tions I felt ready for a sweet afternoon walk over the grid, where I found this amazing little garden house wich was part of the last Collabor 88. Perfect scenery for a perfect autumn look 😉

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Details

Outfit: LeeZu – “Li-Belle” – NEW

Shoes: PurpleMoon – “Croco Boots” – NEW @ The Instruments

Earrings: Chop Zuey – “Don’t call me Betty” – NEW

Hair: EMO-tions – “Cameron”

Nails Polish: Nailed It – “French Manicure Set”

Glasses: Crie Style – “Kabuki”

Skin: [sys] – “Eva”

Poses: EverGlow

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

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Shimmering News from Lybra

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Lybra released a wonderful gown at the Designers Showcase. The “Maurizia” gown is a wonderful tight design with an incredible shimmering effect. If you play around with the windlight settings and have the right angle up this gown really catches your eyes and mind with amazing metallic sparkle.

The color honors the name of the dress with a beautiful range from blue to purple.  A sweet highlight as well is the amazing neckline and the shoulder parts wich are made off awesome shining gens wich complement the gown in a wonderful way. Last but not least the “Maurizia” has an aerial back piece wich falls down the back and gives the whole look an elegant touch.

To complete the look I took the “Glimpse Fascinator” from Aesthetica and the “Eilifu” earrings from Chop Zuey.

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Gown: Lybra – “Maurizia” @ Designer Showcase

Hat: Aesthetica – “Glimpse Fascinator”

Earrings: Chop Zuey – “Eilifu”

Hair: EMO-tions – “Mela”

Skin: [sys] – “Eva”

Poses: PosESioN

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Breakfast @ Mimi’s Choice Part II

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Today I would like to showcase the second outfit I was wearing for the Breakfast @ Mimmi’s Choice runway show done by :PENUMBRA.

My second outfit came from Utopia. Utopia is well-known for amazing texture work especially for filigree lace textures. This you can perfectly see on the “Kate” dress from Utopia. This long and elegant but as well sexy dress with the huge black ruffles and ribbons is the perfect choice for elegant and sophisticated moments. With the big hat, which adds even more elegance, I really felt ready to go to Ascot and watch one of the horse racings there 😉

The wonderful jewelry set I am wearing was made by Belle Roussel, owner and designer of Chop Zuey. The “Espresso in Pompeii” set originally was made for one of the MVW contestants in 2012 and it perfectly matched the look with the golden metals and the little black gems.

Usually it is not easy to find hair, that goes well under a hat but the “Easy” hairstyle from Vanity Hair did fit very well under the amazing huge hat without sticking out somewhere 😉

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Details

Dress & Hat: Utopia – “Kate”

Jewelry: Chop Zuey – “Espresso in Pompeii”

Hair: Vanity Hair – “Easy”

Poses: PosESioN

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Breakfast at Mimi’s Choice – Part I

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Lately I had the great pleasure to walk a show for .PENUMBRA.

The did an amazing show case of Mimi’s Choice. Mimi Juneau runs that amazing place and she has all of the great huge brands under her roof there. For the show I got 2 different outfits and the first I would like to showcase in this post.

The awesome “Leather Glam” mesh dress was made by [orage]. A short and tight dress with an amazing metal belt wich can be texture changed between gold and silver. The incredible jewelry was made by Belle Roussel, owner and designer of Chop Zuey. For this styling I took parts of the “Pentacostal Diamond” set. The huge bracelets is a miscture of 3 single attachments wich go wonderful together. For the necklace you have the option of a longer necklace of the short choker I am wearing for this post. The shoes I found at the last round of Collabor88 and the beautiful hair at Magika. For the sun glasses I chose one of my long time favourites from Steinwerk.

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Details

Dress: [orage] – “Leather Glam” (mesh)

Jewelry: Chop Zuey – “Pentacostal Diamond”

Hair: Magika – “Never” (mesh)

Shoes: Hucci – “Hampstead Sandal” (for Slink high feet)

Poses: PosESioN

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Chop Zuey & Nailed It! for The Style Icon Fashion Fair

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 Legal Insanity invites you to celebrate legendary style icons from the past to the present by visiting “The Style Icon” Fashion Fair.

We challenged Second Life’s  most celebrated designers to create a collection inspired by   those who have made a mark in their lives, who have inspired them and shaped their fashion   style. Pick up exclusive items inspired by as diverse Style Icons as Vivienne Westwood, Jean  Harlow, Sophia Loren & Jim Morrison all in one beautiful sim.

We look forward to showcasing and presenting these iconic pieces to you as worn by Second Life’s very own fashion icons in two unique fashion shows to be held on the weekend of the 21st February 2014

So,  join us and indulge your own personal style by celebrating the icons that inspire us all!

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For today I have the amazing contributions of Chop Zuey and Nailed It! for The Icon Fashion Fair.

The wonderful “True Romance” set contains earrings necklace and a bracelet. With the golden metals and the elegant black gems, this set really is a must have for every females wardrobe. You can add some wonderful simple and timeless elegance to nearly every style with the “True Romance” set. I can imagine more than one style icon out of different eras, that could have worn it 😉 .

Nailed It! as well came up with a wonderful creation matching the fair’s theme. Giela herself wrote, that “The Style Icon Set”, a combination of bright and pastel polishes, are made out of an inspiration of her personal style icons from Grace Kelly to Lady Gaga.

So you better run to get this amazing 2 exclusives, before The Style Icon Fashion Fair closes 😉

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Legal%20Insanity%203/245/61/22

Edith Piaf’s “La Vie En Rose” by Chop Zuey

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Yesterday I got an awesome opportunity from Belle Roussel, owner and designer of Chop Zuey. I was excited all over, when Trinity came to my IMs asking me if would like to pose for one of Belle’s new gown… If I would like… sure I would love to! 😉

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I saw Trinity in the pink version already and was kinda relieved as I could leave my medicals for my pink allergy at home 😉 A few minutes later Belle send me the black version of the new “La Vie En Rose” gown. I know quite some of Belles dresses but this one just blew me away. The combination of the lighter more sparkly texture and the black satin for the belt and the top really catched my eyes. The belt looks kinda draped round your waist with a huge black ribbon on the left side that carries a filigree lace part falling down to the ground. The top as well looks like wrapped around your upper body in a very stylish way. in the back you again have a huge black satin ribbon that holds the top in place to make sure all is covered what should be 😉 .

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The dress is decorated with beautiful gems and jewelry. The front and back of the top carry wonderful brooches and the top end of the gloves, the cuffs, as well is made in a very luxury way carrying all those amazing jewels. Certainly you have a matching jewelry set as well with earrings,upper armlets, bracelets and a wonderful collar. The beautiful tiara as well comes with the “La Vie en Rose” gown and the whole look let you be the princess of an evening 😉

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Details

Gown (incl. all jewelry): Chop Zuey – “Edith Piaf’s La Vie En Rose” – NEW (mesh)

Hair: Mirone – “Adie”

Skin: Silken Moon – “Wicca”

Eyebrow Tattoo: Silken Moon – “Eyebrows Abstract”

Poses(except vendor pics): Wicca’s Wardrobe

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Chop Zuey – When Elephants Dream

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Belle Roussel, owner and designer of Chop Zuey, mde an awesome jewelry set for a good casue again. The “When Elephants Dream” set contains earrings and necklace. You can help until the 31st of December by purchasing this wonderful and lovely set. If you want a little more information you can take a look below. Do not wait those peacefully giants need our help!

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STOP WILDLIFE TRAFFICKING!!!!!

Global seizures of illegal ivory suggest that some 25,000 to 50,000 elephants were slaughtered in 2011 alone to furnish demand in major markets around the world.

The message is simple: stop wildlife trafficking.

And to highlight it, the United States destroyed tons of elephant ivory it has seized over the years — and will pay out $1 million to make sure it doesn’t happen again.
Hours before the destruction of the stockpile in Colorado Thursday, Secretary of State John Kerry announced the reward money to help dismantle elephant and rhino trafficking syndicates.
It’s the first time the United States has offered such a reward, he said.
The ivory was seized and maintained as evidence until court trials were completed. Once the cases were concluded, some of it was used for training law enforcement officers.
“Over the past 25 years, we have accumulated far more elephant ivory than we can use for these purposes, and decided to destroy this material as a demonstration of our commitment to combating wildlife trafficking,” the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said.
“We want to send a clear message that the United States will not tolerate ivory trafficking and the toll it is taking on elephant populations, particularly in Africa.”
The illegal ivory trade has doubled worldwide since 2007, with the United States the second-largest retail market for illegally acquired ivory. China is the largest market.

An unprecedented demand for ivory today has resulted in the slaughter of elephants throughout their range. It is estimated that 96 elephants were killed in Africa each day during 2012. That translates to four elephants an hour or one elephant every 15 minutes. In scarcely more time than it takes to read this commentary, one more elephant will be dead.

Fueling this devastation are greed for a rare commodity, local poverty and social disorder. Wracked by civil strife, central Africa presently finds itself amidst political chaos that has enabled people to profit from the looting of natural resources, including wildlife. At present rates of decline, forest elephants could go extinct within a decade.

Twenty three years ago, I began studying a population of forest elephants at the Dzanga Bai clearing in the southwest corner of the Central African Republic. Protection for this particular population was probably the best in the entire central Africa region, with regular guard patrols routinely confiscating arms and arresting poachers.
To get to the clearing one must walk a couple of kilometers from the local base camp along huge elephant trails stamped out over hundreds of years. After a half hour’s walk through the forest, the sky lightens as the trees give way to a great clearing. Upon emerging, you may see 40 to 100 elephants at any given time – part of an estimated regional population of roughly 75,000 animals.
Having no nationality, the elephants arrive from across the larger Sangha Tri-National Protected Area, some traveling hundreds of miles. They become very excited when they recognize family members they haven’t encountered for a long time. Elephants can be seen running across the clearing several hundred meters to greet each other in what are visibly emotional encounters.

In March of this year, the Central African Republic’s government was toppled with the help of heavily armed rebels calling themselves Seleka. Since then, Seleka has wreaked havoc with both local people and the nation’s wildlife. In early April, the rebels infiltrated the Dzanga Bai clearing, gunned down 26 elephants with automatic weapons, hacked out the animals’ tusks, then vanished.

– How many elephants are left on earth?

– Are elephants endangered species?

There are about 600 000 African elephants, and between 30 000 and 50 000 Asian elephants. (Approximately 20% are in captivity) It´s difficult to estimate their numbers exactly. The Africans dropped by 50%, from 1.3 millions to 600 000, between 1979 and 1989, because of poaching. About 8 elephants an hour (70 000/year) were poached during this period, until the CITES Ivory ban 1989.

The CITES ((Washington)Convention of International Trade In Endangered Species) regard both species as so threatened, so they are included an appendix 1. (the red list) In the Cites conference 1997, populations in Zimbabwe, Botswana, and Namibia were downlisted to appendix II.  This means that limited trade with ivory on quota, to Japan is ok.

If a population is undisturbed, it grows with only 6% a year according to the IUCN (International Union of Conservation of Nature) elephant specialist group.

Reference Sources for this information:

http://www.fws.gov/

http://www.wildaid.org/elephants

http://www.cnn.com/

http://www.usnews.com/

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Details

Jewelry: Chop Zuey – “When Elephants Dream” (Charity Item)

Hair: EMO-tions – “Naomi”

Makeup: L.Fauna – “Smokey Cat Eyes”

Lipstick: Silken Moon – “Wicca tintable” & “Lip Stripes Black”

Top: LeeZu – “La Goa”

Pose: Wicca’s Wardrobe

Chop Zuey: Art in Second Life ;)

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The idea for this post was born when I  visited the Arts in Hats event, that was happening not too long ago. Belle Roussel, owner and designer of Chop Zuey, made the wonderful “In Memory of a Watermelon Fascinator” for that event and from the moment I saw it, I had the imagination of being in a museum watching art.

The wonderful “La Traviata” gown as well is one of the newest creations of Chop Zuey. Belle started to make full gowns with matching jewelry parts not too long ago and opened her new Sky Boutique, where you can find all this amazing creations. The “La Traviata” gown is available in different colors but with my addiction to black clothing, I certainly picked the black version for the post 😉 The wonderful black gown is mesh made and the amazing jewelry parts, like the upper end of the gloves, the beautiful shoulder part, as well the earrings, bracelets and the necklace are part of the gown. Basically Belle made a ready to wear outfit for all lovers of the elegant evening wardrobe ;).

The hat is one of the amazing creations of Xenobia Foxclaw. She made an amazing collection of black and white hats and the “Blackwell No. 6” is just one of them. So you might wanna go over to the Xen’s Hats Mainstore if you wanna see ll of the new releases ;).

The hair is one of the amazing hairstyles of EMO-tions. The “Chevia” hairstyle was made in a special color for Miss Chevia, as she won the auction of the FFL event, where Mirja Mills, owner and designer of EMO-tions, auctioned herself off for charity. I am very happy that Mirja now gave this hairstyle to all of us as, it is an amazing elegant hairstyle that still has some edges 😉

Now I just had to try building a little to realize my imagination of the museum at night thing 🙂 . Those who know me, might figure what it took until I had those few prims together and some texture on it. Usually if I try to build you have something apocalyptic looking something where you really have to have a good imagination to figure out what I wanted to do originally *laughs*. But after some hours it worked out somehow and … tatataaaaa… here it is 🙂

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Details

Gown (incl jewelry): Chop Zuey – “La Traviata” – NEW (mesh)

Hat: Xen’s Hats – “Blackwell 6” – NEW

Hair: EMO-tions – “Chevia”

Poses: *PosESioN* – “Zen”

Skin: Silken Moon – “Wicca”

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Fabulous New Jewelry Dresses at Chop Zuey

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I guess we all remember the legendary white jewelry dress that was auctioned this year at the RFL Fashion Week for over 200 000 lindens. Frolic walked this spectacular gown down the runway, that Belle Roussel, owner of Chop Zuey, designed especially for this charity event. I remember that all of us that walked that runway show were standing backstage and became more and more speechless and as well breathless until the gown finally was sold for so much money… for me sadly way out of range. But it was amazing that one single design can bring so much support for a wonderful cause like the RLF.

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Now this amazing gown is back in new colors! Belle Roussel made a few new colors of this fantastic jewelry gown. For today’s post I decided to showcase the “Emerald Spring Gown”. The wonderful light green dress is decorated with so many wonderful little gemstones, if the sun kisses you you will sparkle like a huge diamond 😉 The earrings, bangles and armlets are as well part of the outfit. You have the choice if you wanna wear the gown with or without  the veil since you have one head piece with and one without the veil coming in your box.  To see all of the amazing colors of the new jewelry dress – for sure besides the exclusive white for the RFL 😉 – you better make your way to the Chop Zuey Mainstore and see for yourself.

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Details

Jewelry Gown: Chop Zuey – “Emerald Spring Gown” – NEW

Makeup: Miamai – “Les Makeups Maudite 10”

Lipstick: Silken Moon – “Wicca Lips Lead”

Skin: Silken Moon – “Wicca”

Hairbase: LeLutka – “Short Hairbase”

Poses: *PosESioN*

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

-The Event- Hollywood: GizzA & Chop Zuey

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Details

Gown: GizzA – “Pure Romance” – NEW (mesh Hollywood)

Jewelry: Chop Zuey – “Paparazzi Pearl Diamond Set” – NEW (Hollywood)

Hair: Son!a – “Poise Updo”

Skin: Silken Moon – “Wicca”

Makeup: Silken Moon – “SM Eclipse Smokey Eyes” & “SM Eclipse Color Eye Silver”

Poses: Body Talking

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin