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Show me how you Burlesque!

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People love burlesque today because it incorporates all the old-school glamour, satire and highlights the female form – it’s something that many women can actually see themselves doing.
[Baby Doe]

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Burlesque, is a form of performing art that reaches back to at least the 1860s in the US. Presented in cabarets, theaters and some other location, burlesque was mostly presented by women. Colorful and laborious costumes as well as mood appropriate music and dramatic lightning, sometimes even fire breathing  were part of many burlesque shows. The goal was not to totally strip down, more to just take of certain clothing like gloves and stockings, which sometimes spoke louder as a common striptease.

Burlesque lost it’s popularity towards the simple strip in the 1920/30s, but in it was never totally gone and got back some popularity way later with Hollywood productions and several organisations and clubs that try to keep the burlesque feeling and lifestyle alive. It was often called New-Burlesque or Neo-Burlesque and the 90s brought a huge comeback of the whole idea. In 2010 the movie Burlesque,with Christina Aguliera and Cher, this new way of a more modern burlesque feeling was shown in an amazing way. Dita von Teese is probably the most popular burlesque dancer nowadays and with all her productions, performances, products and marketing she is an amazing and valuable asset of the Neo-Burlesque movement.

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Certainly hat was just a very short information about Burlesque and I could go on for hours to talk more about it as I personally really do like the idea of a burlesque lifestyle, but I will safe you from that and just move on to my todays post 😉

The reason why I came across Burlesque again, was the actual round of the GENRE event. It is the first time that we got invited with wicca’s Wardrobe to be part and then right there the theme Burlesque.. you can imagine how  much I smiled all over when I saw that.

The GENRE event aims for items, that are not more expensive than 100 L$. We made the amazing “Fleur” boots for the event and set each of the 12 colors for 99 L$. The idea behind the boots were to give some old-fashioned, victorian themed Burlesque boots a little modern twist in shape and colors 😉

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When we set up the event I found so many other incredible designs that I could not resist to grab some and do pictures with all of them. The amazing fitting “Versailles Fall” corset with the amazing frills around your hips comes from Honey Bender for ber new original mesh label BENDER. The corset itself is an applier for the mesh body, what underlines every woman’s body shape in a very true way 😉 The beautiful frills that surround the hips come in different sizes to make sure they fit your curves.

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The lovely accessories, the adorable collar and the awesome realistic cigarette, I found as well at the GENRE event. It was just amazing how all the parts feel together in one without overthinking it too much ;).

For the set I used the entire “Belle Rouge” collection from [noctis] – even that used lingerie which hangs down from the chandlier and lies on the couch and the floor came with the set. The chair I am posing on was made by [BlackTulip] and for the other pictures I used poses from the “Teese Me” set made by {Nantra}. Everything besides the head, body and hair in this post comes from GENRE, so you better hurry to make your way over there and see what else is there. There are many more than the few I was able to use for my post :p

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Details

Corset: BENDER – Versailles Fall” – NEW @ GENRE

Boots: Wicca’s Wardrobe – “Fleur” – NEW @ GENRE

Collar: Spot On – “Baroque Burlesque Collar” – NEW @ GENRE

Cigarette: [hate this] – “Cigarette Holder” – NEW @ GENRE

Hair: Tukinowaguma – “Marjo”

Furniture: [noctis] – “Belle Rouge Collection” – NEW @ GENRE

Poses: {Nantra} – “Teese Me” – NEW @ GENRE

Poses/Prop 1: [Black Tulip] Poses – “Burlesque Chair” – NEW @ GENRE

Prop 2: Dilly Dolls – “Stage” – NEW @ GENRE

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

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Halloween @ Wicca’s Wardrobe

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Halloween… maybe my favourite time of the year 😉

The nights become darker and colder. The fog takes over in most of the evenings and bathes the ground in dense fog so that you get the imagination to walk over grey fogs. Very mysterious 🙂

Halloween in the US is way more popular than in Germany, but even over here we have some wild and crazy parties 😉

That gives us the freedom to go wild in SL too and design some crazy outfits for all those Halloween lovers and those who enjoy the season as much as I do 😉

Today I would like to showcase the “Avicularia” outfit, one of our original mesh designs for this years spooky season.

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The dress has high open front, and a long flowing back skirt. The gloves, all the spider attachments and the huge spider web in the back are part of the outfit. The gloves fit the regular avatar and as well we included Slink hands applier for all those who love their mesh Slink hands. To be honest I can’t live without them anymore.

The amazing “Myostola” headpiece is another new release at Wicca’s Wardrobe. The headpiece covers nearly the whole head and with the 2 horns it really makes a strong statement. The headpiece is available in 2 different versions. Once with and once without the spider web and the little spider between the horns. For each of the 3 colors you always will get 2 different pieces per box. with a vice versa color combination like black/grey and grey/black for example.

To complete the look we created the “Grammostola” necklace. The collar is inspired by a spiderweb as well and has one little spider sitting at the front left.

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To add some more to the look we tried to create some matching makeup too. I have to admit, it looked way more easy than it was and I do not see my future in that*giggles.

Anyways, for this outfit I tried to make a spiderweb for the right eye, an eyeliner and lipstick matching to the basic color of the dress.

Sometimes I get asked why some outfits would have such weird names…  so it was for the Avicularia, Myostola and Grammostola. Basically all those names are certain spiders of the bird spider family 😉 With the latin names it kinda sounded so scary and spooky, that I just loved it 😉

And now, I wanna go and find a cool place to hang out with my spooky scary look or maybe jump on one of my best friends, not to mention she suffers quite an arachnophobia*giggles evil*

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Details

Outfit (incl. gloves, spider attachments & makeup): Wicca’s Wardrobe – “Avicularia”

Headpiece: Wicca’s Wardrobe – “Myostola”

Necklace: Wicca’s Wardrobe – “Grammostola”

Shoes: Pixelfashion – “Vanina”

Poses: Del May

Location: The Wall

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

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Wicca’s Wardrobe – The Claw Boots now arrived in the Main Store

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You got a sneak peek during the 12 days of Christmas of the Crazy Connection, had a taste of the exclusive for the Couturier’s Docks, you even saw them walking the runway during the In-Pose!/Silken Moon show presented by SL Fierce.  Now my new “Claw Boots” are available at my Mainstore.

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You will find 16 different colors of leather for the “ClawBoots”. Each one has a resizer to make sure it fits your avatar and as well a HUD, wich let you change the metal parts between silver, gold and black metals and the lace parts to white, black and a matching color.

If you are not sure yet, if they fit to your avatar and shape,  you can try the demo first at the Wicca’s Wardrobe Mainstore (http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/New/27/82/22). Just follow the letters on the floor to the room besides my poses and you will find them 😉

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Pret-a-Porter Couture at Egoisme!!!

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Lately Ramses Meredith, owner and designer of Egoisme, ran into my IMs. I love the way he approaches me every time we talk, as he comes on his point very fast 😉 He told me about a new direction for Egoisme and that he would like to move more and more towards couture… Pret-a-Porter and Haute Couture. For the Pret-a-Porter he takes a lot of inspiration from the realife fashion catwalks and with the new possibility of mesh he made some amazing creations. For the Haute Couture direction he as well has his plans but that I will bring on a nother blog post.

For today the focus is on the first of 3 creations of his new ‘Pret-a-Porter Women Couture’ line. The “Lolita” dress comes with matching boots in different colors. For my post I chose the beige version. The dress and the boots are made with mesh and so you have an amazing movement for every step and motion you do. The mesh boots have no weird unnatural parts at the knees anymore and the dress just fits perfect, even from the past SL times :P. The ‘Pret-a-Porter Woman Couture’ line from Egoisme starts off with a  cute and fresh summer look in a casual, but still chic style. So the new outfits are all inspired by european styles as far as I was told and the are still even if they are casual, have a lot of elegance, luxury and it will be all outfits you can wear more than just once on a special event. As I said the “Lolita” dress is only one of 3 outfits I got so far and so you can look forward to more awesome news of the new Egoisme ‘Pret-a-Porter Women Couture’ line in the near future on my blog for sure 🙂

Details

Outfit (incl. boots): EHC (Egoisme) – “Lolita” – NEW (mesh)

Bag: HOC – “Leather Messenger Bag”

Hair: [e] – “Over” – NEW (mesh)

Glasses: Steinwerk – “Fee”

Posechair: Fluke

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

SoliDea FoliEs, White Widow & h.m.a.e.m. for the Couturier’s Docks

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Today I am happy to do my first blog post for the Couturier’s Docks 🙂 As mentioned before in a another post, this is a very special event that features a few designers and some very special designs 🙂 (http://wiccamerlin.wordpress.com/2012/05/16/the-couturiers-docks/)

Today I just mixed and matched a few of them together as I liked the cute look that came out 🙂

The dress comes from SoliDea FoliEs and is called “Polly Doll” and it was made for this event. The outfit contains the gloves, the neck part that goes down over the shoulders and the cute corset. To make it easier to wear the corset, Mila Tatham included an alpha layer for that part of the body.

The hat looks like it was made for that outfit but it is not actually part of it. the hat comes off the house of h.m.a.e.m. and it looks perfect to the “Polly Doll” outfit.

Last but not least, Julie Hastings – owner and designer of White Widow – created an amazing facetattoo for the Couturier’s Docks. The “Feather” tattoo is available in different colors and you always have the option of wearing it with or without an eyeshadow.

You should not miss that amazing and special event on the SaliMar Sim (http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SaliMar/61/194/23)

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Outfit: Solidea FoliEs – “Polly Doll” – NEW

Hat: h.m.a.e.m. – “Freedom Hat Confetto” – NEW

Face Tattoo: White Widow – “Feather” – NEW

Earrings: La Forgia Jewels – “Primula”

Skin: Silken Moon – “Rookie” /Changeant

Lashes: [glow] – “Hollywood Lashes – Black Dahlia”

Hair: Baiastice – “Elon”

Boots: Slink – “Tall Leather Thigh Boots” (mesh)

Poses: Corpus

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Wicca’s Wardrobe: LOTD 04/07/2012 – Where is the exit?

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Outfit: SoliDea FoliEs – “Summer Bride” – NEW

Hair: PurpleMoon – “Era”

Boots: Slink – “Tall Leather Boots” (mesh)

Skin: Silken Moon – “Rookies” /grey – NEW

Lashes: Prism – “Tattoo Eyelashes” – NEW

Model &VPhotographer: Wicca Merlin

Wicca’s Wardrobe: LOTD 03/28/2012 – RAWR!!! – Wild Thing

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Corset: NV Corsetry – “Bengali” – NEW/FFL item

Pants: Faster Pussycat – “Tokyo Hotel”

Jacket: Faster Pussycat – “Velvet Goldmine Feather Top” /white

Shirt: Ohmai – “Contour”

Lashes: Mstyle – “Bad Elf”

Necklace: Finesmith – “Cairo” – NEW

Makeup: blackliquid – “Dusted”

Skin: Nuuna – “B&W Ninja”

Hair: Loovus Dzevavor – “Big ol’ Bun” – NEW

Earrings: League – “Wanderer”

Boots: Utopia – “Pearl Set”

Poses: Del May

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

News by NV Corsetry & [sys]!

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Today it was time to create a crazy art look again and the new “Commedia Del Arte” outfit from NV Corsetry combined with the new “Vogue” ankle boots from [sys] brought me on this style.

The “Commedia Del Arte” outfit is a full outfit that contains one of the incredible corsets of NV Corsetry. The outfit itself can be worn in different ways. You have 2 corsets to choose from, one with black and one with white ribbons. For this post I went with the black version. An alpha layer as well included makes it even easier to wear this amazing corsets, if you do not wanna fiddle around too much with the fitting :p. As well for the skirt you can decide if you wanna have the short mini version that I am wearing for the post ir if you wanna go with a bigger skirt that is open in the front. The wonderful puffy sleeves, the huge collar and the cute hat with the red roses are as well part of the full outfit.

To bring the red of the roses back I decided to go with the new “Vogue” ankle boots from [sys] The red version of this awesome booties has some dangerous looking cool spikes at the heel in the back. The red leather is just amazing detailed and looks very real. The heel is covered with silver metal plates and carry the hot sharp spike that you as well can see more little in the front. The back of the booties is open and just decorated with amazing filigree lines. To make it look perfect, [sys] included part of a barefoot for the back or the feet. You can tint that to match your skin color with a HUD that comes with.

To see all of the wonderful news of NV Corsetry &  [sys] just hop over to the Mainstore and take a look at yourself 😉

Details

Outfit (incl hat): NV Corsetry – “Commedia Del Arte” – NEW

Booties: [sys] – “Vogue” – NEW

Skin: Nuuna – “White Skin”

Lipstick: blackliquid – “Geisha Mime Lip Red”

Makeup: Nuuna – “Makeup v3.3”

Hair: Baiastice – “Shepa”

Hairbase: White Widow – “Japan Field”

Jewelry: Finesmith – “Hermosa Espina”

Lashes: Kosh – “No Alpha Lashes V3”

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Mesh News at E-Clipse!

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A few days ago, Thetra Blackheart, owner and designer of E-Clipse, went into my IMs and told me she had a new outfit ready that might be my groove and she asked me if I maybe could do some pics of it for her. I was very curious about her newest designs because I always liked her fresh and modern style and ideas. I went home and unpacked the box she sent me and I got big eyes. She created a wonderful new mesh dress with matching overknee boots in 4 great, different colors and all made with the new mesh technique.

I tried to style in different types to show the wide range you can wear this amazing new “Triste” dress of E-Clipse. With all the colors and the different styling possibilities the “Triste” dress already is worth the trip to the E-Clipse Mainstore and you can see what else Thetra has new there 😉

Dress & Boots: E-Clipse – “Triste” – NEW (mesh)

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

I am wearing Pink!!!

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Everyone knows that I always say I would have a pink allergy and if I wear pink , I get pimples, my blood pressure raises damn high and I have breathing problems. But for a very few designers I can make an exception. And for sure  got some antiallergypills on my bathroom for even these 😉 For sure Honey Bender, owner and designer of Faster Pussycat, is one of them. If she comes up with such a cool and sweet outfit like the “Chopsy” showgirl outfit, I simply cannot resist. Make your way to the Faster Pussycat Mainstore and see all the great news she released lately… It is so worth it!!!

Outfit: Faster Pussycat – “Lady Garden Cabaret Chopsy” /pink – NEW

Skin: Silken Moon – “Rookie” /Tranny (special cusptom makeup)

Hairbase: Miamai – “Hairbase” /black

Lashes: Miamai – “Catwalk Lashes” /Rainbow Warriors Purple – NEW (mesh)

Necklace: Finesmith – “Love is in the details” – NEW

Boots: NeurolaB Inc – “Ultimate Boots” /purple

Poses: Body Talking

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin