News and Spectacular Christmas Special at Mea Culpa!!!

Wicca Siren full

Today I am very happy to showcase one of the latest Mea Culpa releases. The “Call of the Sirene” outfit again is a little piece of art of Tatanka Kaligawa, owner and designer of Mea Culpa.

The “Call of the Sirene” outfit was made for the last Fashion Teller and it’s inspiration were the historical Sirens.

In Greek mythology, the Sirens were dangerous and devious creatures, portrayed as femmes fatales who lured nearby sailors with their enchanting music and voices to shipwreck on the rocky coast of their island. Roman poets placed them on some small islands called Sirenum scopuli. In some later, rationalized traditions, the literal geography of the “flowery” island of Anthemoessa, or Anthemusa, is fixed: sometimes on Cape Pelorum and at others in the islands known as the Sirenuse, near Paestum, or in Capreae. All such locations were surrounded by cliffs and rocks.

When the Sirens were given a name of their own they were considered the daughters of the river god Achelous, fathered upon Terpsichore, Melpomene, Sterope, or Chthon. Although they lured mariners, for the Greeks the Sirens in their “meadow starred with flowers” were not sea deities. Roman writers linked the Sirens more closely to the sea, as daughters of Phorcys. Sirens are found in many Greek stories, particularly in Homer’s Odyssey.

Their number is variously reported as between two and five. In the Odyssey, Homer says nothing of their origin or names, but gives the number of the Sirens as two. Later writers mention both their names and number: some state that there were three, Peisinoe, Aglaope, and Thelxiepeia or Parthenope, Ligeia, and Leucosia; Eustathius states that they were two, Aglaopheme and Thelxiepeia. Their individual names are variously rendered in the later sources as Thelxiepeia/Thelxiope/Thelxinoe, Molpe, Aglaophonos/Aglaope/Aglaopheme, Pisinoe/Peisinoรซ/Peisithoe, Parthenope, Ligeia, Leucosia, Raidne, and Teles.

The Sirens of Greek mythology are often confused with the Gorgons portrayed in later folklore as half womenโ€“half birds, (birds sing beautiful, enchanting songs, like the sirens are portrayed to do); the fact that in Spanish, French, Italian, Polish, Romanian and Portuguese the word for mermaid is respectively Sirena, Sirรจne, Sirena, Syrena, Sirenฤƒ and Sereia, and that in biology the Sirenia comprise an order of fully aquatic mammals that includes the dugong and manatee, add to the visual confusion, so that Sirens are even represented as mermaids. However, “the sirens, though they sing to mariners, are not sea-maidens,” Jane Ellen Harrison has cautioned; “they dwell on an island in a flowery meadow.

(Wikipedia)

Tatanka Kaligawa made his own vision of a modern and fashionable Siren come true with his latest creation;)

Now for the spectacular Christmas Special:

Every day until Christmas, you will find one male and one female outfit for 50% off at the Mea Culpa Mainstore! Do not miss this incredible chance to get your self one of the amazing creations of Mea Culpa for a special Christmas offer… Ladies & Gentlemen, this could be the right christmas present for your partner if you still have no idea what you could have as a Christmas present ๐Ÿ˜‰

Wicca Siren face

Details

Outfit: Mea Culpa – “Call of the Sirene” – NEW

Shoes: Mea Culpa – “Raptor”

Nails: PurpleMoon – “La Morte Douce Claws” (part of the La Mort Douce outfit)

Makup: LovelyMi – “Aftershock 03” – NEW

Lipstick: blackliquid – “Lipline”

Skin: Silken Moon – “Wicca” /Morbida – NEW

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Special Christmas/New Years Offer at Mea Culpa!!!

And there is it! The new “Chaos Theory” is the very special offer from christmas to new years eve for 2012 from Mea Culpa. This wonderful creation again shows the incredible skills of Tatanka Kaligawa if it comes to ideas, prims and textures. “Chaos Theory” is a great mixture of different fabrics again. As we know Tatanka likes to mix different fabrics and shaped to create his extra ordinary designs. All those aerial prim parts move amazing with every step you take. The huge headpiece adds a very elegant touch to the whole creation. And now ladies grab your purse, because… unbelievable but true… as it is the special offer… till the 1st of January 2012 it will be 50% off!!! You can find it along with a special for the males at the stairs in the female couture building at the Mea Culpa Mainstore!

Details

Gown (incl. headpiece): Mea Culpa – “Chaos Theory” – NEW

Earrings: Finesmith – “Demure”

Hair: Baiastice – “Siville”

Eyeshadow: Miamai – “In Mutatio” – NEW

Lipstick: Miamai – “In Mutatio” – NEW

Skin: Glam Affair – “Linn” – NEW

Pose: Corpus

Model &Photographer: Wicca Merlin

News from Mea Culpa!

Again a new release at Mea Culpa. Tatanka Kaligawa again creatied a wonderful new outfit called “Randomly Wild”

“Randomly Wild” is a very unsymetric dress that shows off the amazing skills of designer Tatanka Kaligawa if it comes to wild and couture looking designs. The textures are made with incredble details very cleared and thought of. The short skirt is decorated with huge prims that caress the legs while walking. The great collar that is also part of the outfit underlies the wild style of the dress perfectly and with an alpha layer it is no problem at all to walk and pose with it as well… it will always fit properly ๐Ÿ™‚ The hug upper part also has one dominant part on the right hand side, while on the left side the shoulder is covered a little more down with flexible prims that look kinds feathers ๐Ÿ˜‰

For the shoes I chose one of the latest shoe releases also from Mea Culpa, called “Romance”

This great ankle boots are perfect if you search for something special. They are HUD driven and you can choose from 6 premade color for the boots.

The anklepart is decorated with nice leather straps, buckles and neat little spikes that hang down from the ankle part. The textures are not just simple uni ones if you take a look you can see the amazing ornaments that decorate the whole boots.

So make your way to the Mea Culpa Mainstore and you can take a look for yourself and also do not forget the Christmas Special on the first floor as well ๐Ÿ™‚

Details

Outfit: Mea Culpa – “Randomly Wild”

Shoes: Mea Culpa – “Romance”

Skin: Glam Affair

Hair: 3636 Design

Earrings & Bangles: Finesmith

Makeup/ Facetattoo: La malvada Mujer

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Next Christmas special at Mea Culpa!

For a special Christmas offer Mea Culpa will set up two gowns and one pair of shoes for 50% off
They will be changed every wednesday until Christmas ! ๐Ÿ™‚

Till next wednesday it will be the Wind of Change for 50%

…and the Bionic Symbiosis for 50%

…the shoes for this week are the Eruption for 50%

The special you will find on the first floor of the MeaCulpa Mainstore as always ๐Ÿ™‚

New Releases and a unbelievable Christmas Special at Mea Culpa!!!

Yes it is true, Tatanka Kaligawa, designer of Mea Culpa, again created 4 new designs for Mea Culpa. 2 of them I want to show you today. The other 2 left I will for sure blog here also so keep tuned!

The first one I wanna showcase today is the “Bionic Symbiosis” which we can see also in the first picture above ๐Ÿ™‚

“Bionic Symbiosis” is a wonderful gown that again shows the incredible skills and ideas of Tatanka Kaligawa if it comes to new ideas of fashion and couture. The dress it self has a very tight dress and skirt beginning that ends in a firework of huge flexible prims the more it goes down to the ground. The color is made in a wide scale of green and black. The layers are not made of a simple plain texture, it is a wonderful combination of different ornaments and colors that make this gown to something special, to a piece of art we know the designs of Mea Culpa for. The wrist sleeves are also decorated with 2 huge wrist prims that repeat the main theme of the dress in a very interesting way. All the attached prims are kinds wavy and for sure the huge and extraordinary hat add another ‘wow’ effect to the whole design.

The second new release is called “Wind of Change” and it really brings in some fresh wind onto the fashion industry ๐Ÿ˜‰

‘This gown is made for a real ladie’s body… very elegant but also extravagant! The awesome combination of pink and black will let every fashionistas heart beat higher ๐Ÿ˜‰


Let’s take a closer look on all that wonderful details… the basic skirt layer is an opaque tight pencil skirt that goes down to the ground. Spikes decorate the creation on the right hand side leg and add a lightly dangerous and goth style. The top under the jacket has a light transparent around the basic laced texture. The jacket reminds me on an old english uniform jacket even if it is made like a modern bolero jacket ๐Ÿ˜‰ A huge, pink neck collar the puffy arm sleeves and the wonderful hat set this design also for a perfect winter outfit! at th belly button you have a nother detailed prim attachment with a huge purple ge in its center. If you take a look from the side or back you will realize how big that flexible black parts in your back are! The hat has a fur seam and the spikes are repeated from a few tentacle looking long and flexible parts that are longer on the right side then on the left of the hat..again a nice non symmetric detail… ๐Ÿ˜‰

If you look at the texture of the jacket you can see that the Mea Culpa designs are really more than just clothing that every single part is made with love to the detail. All filigree black ornaments the shading of colors, the lights and shadows… simply amazing!

As I said that are only 2 of the newest designs of Tatanka Kaligawa…so stay tuned the other 2 I will review soon ๐Ÿ˜‰ If you cannot wait you can also peek at the Mea Culpa Mainstore!

Now for something special… Mea Culpa decided to have a Christmas Special! Every Wednesday there will be 2 gowns set down to 50%!!! Yes you heard right… half prize! Also one pairs of shoes will be 50%. All 2 items are available 7 days before they change again on the next Wednesday till christmas.

For this week you have the “Polarlight” gown…

(Picture provided by Mea Culpa)

… one of the new releases… the “Frozen Countess”

(Picture provided by Mea Culpa)

and the “Feeling” heels…

(Picture provided by Mea Culpa)

…this 3 items you can find on the first floor of the Mea Culpa Mainstore until the 8th of december, then they will be changed to the next Christmas Special ๐Ÿ™‚

Details

Outfit1:

Gown: Mea Culpa – “Bionic Symbiosis”

Skin: Glam Affair

Outfit2:

Gown: Mea Culpa – “Wind of Change”

Skin: Glam Affair

Model & Photographer(except the last 3 pictures): Wicca Merlin