My personal favourites of MVW2013 – National Costume of Miss Ireland 2013 by Champagne! Sparkling Couture

MVW - Miss Ireland National Full

Miss Virtual World 2013 – Again BoSL showcased an amazing event on December the 15th 2013, with the finale of the MVW 2013 contest. Many countries were represented by amazing ladies and it was really an exciting event. Designers and models worked together for their 2 final looks. One evening gown and one national costume for each lady. Every year when I saw the MVW finale it was an exciting moment to see the results, that designers and models worked on for so many weeks. Last year I took the challenge to make a full catalogue of all the gowns and costumes. The idea must have inspired some bloggers this year and they started to do that for the MVW 2013 designs. I decided for my own not to do the same again and just would like to showcase my personal favourites. First I thought about to do my personal top 12, but then I figured that I like more than 12 and just thought about doing all the ones that really caught my attention in no particular order :)

Today I have the pleasure to continue my personal favourites with the national costume of Miss V Ireland 2013, Miss Sessie 16. The amazing designer behind this wonderful design is Enzo Champagne, owner and designer of Champagne! Sparkling Couture.

The “Celtic Ireland” outfit is made as a full outfit with all jewelry and accessories. The only parts I had to add was hair, skin, makeup, shoes and nails. he green color stands for Ireland. The green gains impact in combination with its complementary colour orange.

The golden celtic ornaments on the arm parts complete the perfect traditional look of the whole dress.

Sessie16:

“After much research into Ireland, I came to realize there isn’t a national costume for them. So I decided to look up more modern gowns models have worn in pageants when I came across a gown wore by Rebecca Maguire Miss Ireland for 2012, which is very much Celtic representing the beautiful country Ireland.”

MVW - Miss Ireland National Close

The huge back accessory, earrings, headpiece, armlets and as well the wonderful belt with some typical irish accessories are part of the “Celtic Ireland” outfit. It seems Enzo and Sessie did a lot of research for the national costume and created an amazing fashionable dress for the MVW 2013 competition πŸ™‚ The “Celtic Ireland” is now available at the Champagne! Sparkling Couture Mainstore.

Details

Outfit: Champagne! Sparkling Couture – “Celtic Ireland” – NEW

Hair: EMO-tions – “Lissi”

Nails: Mandala – “Female Nails”

Skin: Silken Moon – “Wicca” – NEW (custom-made skin)

Eyeshadow: Silken Moon – “SM Eclipse Fab ES Beer Garden” – NEW & “SM Color eye Grass” – NEW & “SM Color eye Orange” – NEW

Lipstick: Silken Moon – “Silky Lips Orange”

Poses: PosESioN

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

My personal favourites of the MVW 2013 – National Costume of Miss Turkey by Tres Beau & Chop Zuey

MVW - Miss Turkey National Full

Miss Virtual World 2013 – Again BoSL showcased an amazing event on December the 15th 2013, with the finale of the MVW 2013 contest. Many countries were represented by amazing ladies and it was really an exciting event. Designers and models worked together for their 2 final looks. One evening gown and one national costume for each lady. Every year when I saw the MVW finale it was an exciting moment to see the results, that designers and models worked on for so many weeks. Last year I took the challenge to make a full catalogue of all the gowns and costumes. The idea must have inspired some bloggers this year and they started to do that for the MVW 2013 designs. I decided for my own not to do the same again and just would like to showcase my personal favourites. First I thought about to do my personal top 12, but then I figured that I like more than 12 and just thought about doing all the ones that really caught my attention in no particular order πŸ™‚

Today I would like to start with the national costume of Miss V Turkey 2013. The “Miss Turkey 2013” gown was made by Kimmera Madison, owner and designer of Tres Beau. Tres Beau is one of the designers that contributes creations to the Miss Virtual World finale for years. What always amazes me on the Tres Beau national costumes, is that it seems Kimmer Madison does a hell of research for each country she gets asked. The colors, the textures, the designs are always go along the real traditional clothing of the respective country. The “Miss Turkey 2013” costume is textured with wonderful filigree and rich colors of gold and red. The wonderful ornaments show the love and the eye for the detail Kimmera puts on her creations. The body part of the gown is made of a wonderful mesh prim that you will get in different sizes to make sure it fits your shape as well. The wonderful flexible parts of the skirt and arms give the whole creation a typical traditional, oriental and turkish look. If you take a closer look of the 2 pictures you will see a difference for the headpiece. I wanted to showcase the gown with all its parts and as well the whole jewelry set, that Miss Nice Wildrose was wearing for the finale.

Nice Wildrose:

“My inspiration for my national look is Hurrem Sultan, the wife of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent who played an important role in the Ottoman history and was an influential figure for the women of Harem and other denizens of the palace.”

MVW - Miss Turkey National Close

The “Hurrem” jewelry was made by Belle Roussel, owner and designer of Chop Zuey. Belle created a wonderful set of earrings, necklace, tiara and ring. The tiara is made with 2 parts, you just add the one attachment over the other. The combination of the gold metal with the white, red, green and black gems matches the costume perfectly. Each part is made of so many single prims, that you just can imagine how long Belle had to sit at her workshop to put all of these together πŸ™‚

You can get the “Miss Turkey 2013” costume at the Tres Beau Mainstore and the “Hurrem” jewelry you will find at the Chop Zuey Mainstore.

I would like to lead your view on the hair I chose for this post. The “Desireme” hair was made by Leah McCullough. Leah reactivated her brand Naive and you can buy already a few different items including this hair style on Marketplace. The “Desireme” hair is available in 8 different colors. Leah made the hair modify so that you can change the color or the texture to your own likings. For the colors she provides she made hairbases as well, wich you can as well recolor to match the hair style.

Details

Costume: Tres Beau – “Miss Turkey 2013” – NEW

Jewelry: Chop Zuey – “Hurrem” – NEW

Hair: Naive – “Desireme” – NEW

Skin: Silken Moon – “Wicca” – NEW (custom-made skin)

Poses: PosESioN

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

MVW 2012: National Gown for Nicaragua 2012 by Champagne! Sparkling Couture

For Miss Nicaragua 2012 of the this year Miss Virtual World challenge, Enzo Champagne made a very sweet outfit. Very colorful and with so many little details. Miss Shantal Gravois was the lucky Miss Nicaragua 2012, who was allowed to showcase this amazing design on the MVW 2012 runway.

The huge dress is decorated with some typical items on the bottom and the texture itself gives a very typical colorful overall look. The mixture of the colored layers and prims is an amazing contrast to the white lace parts you can find on the top and the skirt. The huge hat with all the fruit and items completes the look in an awesome way. If you wanna claim one of the “Guaciruquita Nica” dresses for your self, make your way to the Champagne! Sparkling Couture Mainstore and get yours πŸ˜‰

Details

Outfit: Champagne! Sparkling Couture – “Guaciruquita Nica” – NEW

Skin: Silken Moon – “Rookie” (special custom makeup)

Nails: Mstyle – “ShortNails” /pearl

Jewelry: Zaara – “Kaya” /onyx gold

Eyeliner: Silken Moon – “Wicca”

Lashes: Detour – “Widow Lashes”

Hair: Baiastice – “Eolion”

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

MVW 2012: National Gown for Miss Turkey 2012 by Tres Beau

Today I would like to show case the incredible national costume of Miss Turkey 2012, Miss Xandrah Sciavo. With this amazing firework of textures, prims, fabrics and colors, Kimmera Madison worked out an art work for Tres Beau. Again Kimmera proved that she really takes it serious if models come and ask her for the national costumes for Miss Virtual World. She takes a great effort to research the typical elements and colors of the country she makes the dress for. If you google about traditional outfits of Turkey, you will find many designs that come very close to what Kimmera created. The colors, the shape of the prims and the combination of laced, sheer and opaque parts… super awesome. If you take a look on all the ornaments that decorate this stunning dress… the little chain parts and decorations at the belt, the wonderful chest part with the coins that are made as prim parts, you only can imagine how long Kimmera sat on this piece of art. The head-piece as well is part of the outfit with the beautiful decoration at the right front side. Talking of chains and coins, the jewelry of this great outfit as well is part of it if you purchase it at Tres Beau. Kimmera as well made the effort to create the perfect matching jewelry to this outfit. The cute earrings with the little bells as well are typical for the country and it’s belly dancers πŸ˜‰ The huge necklace combines gems and noble metals with a leather line in an amazing way. Again we can see, that Kimmera really has an eye for the detail. This as well made her to one of the most popular designers in SL and the SL Fashion world I guess πŸ˜‰ If an outfit is not just made of its basics, even if they are great, then you can see how much a designer puts in to his creations and this little details mostly make those outfits so special and unique then πŸ™‚ If you make your way to the Tres Beau Mainstore you can get your “Miss Turkey” and feel like an oriental princess πŸ™‚

I tried to find a nice pose for this amazing outfit but no pose wanted to do what I had in mind, or the different parts of the outfit were hidden, so the one I used is my first one, I made on my own*dances around* Basically I have to thank Kimmera for this dress that finally put me making my own poses as well πŸ™‚

Details

Costume (incl jewelry): Tres Beau – “Miss Turkey” – NEW

Skin: Silken Moon – “Rookie”

Lipstick: L.Fauna – “Wine 3”

Eyeliner: Silken Moon – “Wicca”

Eyelashes: Redgrave – “Showgirl”

Hairbase: Baiastice – “Red”

Nails: [V] Couture – “Blood Nails”

Pose: Wicca Merlin

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

MVW 2012: National Gown for Miss Ireland 2012 by Champagne! Sparkling Couture

The wonderful gown for Miss Ireland 2012 was myde by Enzo Champagne, owner and designer of Champagne! Sparkling Couture. Miss Saleena Hax, our lovely Miss Ireland 2012 got a gorgeous stong light green gown, with lots of amazing and traditional details to walk down the great runway of the Miss Virtual Wold 2012 contest. The beautiful rainbow in the back is made as a part of the outfit, as well the little pot of gold you are supposed to find at the end of it, like the fairytales say. The shoes are delivered with the outfit as well and they go perfect with all the little decorations you find on the dress. The collar carries a huge back piece of tendrils and little flowers and the typical cross makes the top center of them. If you want your little piece of Ireland go and grab the “Magic Ireland” gown from the Champagne! Sparkling Couture Mainstore.

Details

Dress: Champagne! Sparkling Couture – “Magic Ireland” – NEW

Skin: !Silken Moon – “Rookie”

Hair: Vanity Hair – “Stradivarius”

Eyeliner: !Silken Moon– “Wicca”

Poses: Corpus

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

MVW 2012: National Gown for Miss Monaco 2012 by Tres Beau

The wonderful and cute national costume for Miss Monaco 2012, Miss Vivienne Darcy, was made by Kimmera Madison, owner and designer of Tres Beau. Again Kimmera did a great research, to create this beautiful national costume for Miss Monaco 2012. Many traditional parts you can find on the “Miss Monaco” dress if you compare the outfit to google search results of traditional clothing of Monaco. I admire Kimmera for her careful research, when she starts designing national costumes for Miss Virtual World. All of her creations have really a real based theme and you can discover the country from seeing the costume. The awesome love for the detail Kimmera puts in her creations you can see again at the “Miss Monaco” dress. The ruffles, the delicate corset, the hat, the cute little black ribbons that are used for the blouse and the hat and all those amazing and perfect placed textures… that’s really high-class designing. The skirt carries a very filigree lace texture over the opaque basic and adds a touch of elegance as well. “Miss Monaco” now is available at the Tres Beau Mainstore.

Details

Dress: Tres Beau – “Miss Monaco” – NEW

Skin: !Silken Moon – “Rookie”

Hair: Wasabi Pills – “Bambi” (mesh)

Jewelry: Finesmith – “Paulinha” – NEW

Nails: Finesmith – “Snowflake”

Lashes: Pan Jen – “Dramatic Lashes”

Eyeliner: !Silken Moon – “Three Tails”

Poses: Manifeste

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

MVW 2012: National Gown for Miss Thailand 2012 by Son!a

Nearly a full MVW 2012 design including hair and the wonderful jewelry shoulder piece, Miss Thailand 2012 got from Son!a. Sonia made a wonderful combination of dress, jewelry and as well the hair. The wonderful “Thailand Dress” of Miss DiamondGem Destiny is made in a very elegant way with really delicate fabrics. For my post I chose the golden version you can find some more colors at the Son!a Mainstore as well. The skirt parts left and right are made wonderful flexible, the basic fabric looks kinda satin and the wonderful laces ornaments at the bottom repeat the texture that was as well used for the skirt layer. The small top gives room for a lot of skin at the belly and the shoulders are amazingly covered by this huge jewelry part that goes down from the neck over both shoulders. The armlet and the bracelet are as well part of theΒ  “Thailand Dress”. The beautiful hair with jewelry part also, unbelievable but true, is part of the whole outfit too, that’s why I said in the beginning it was nearly a ready-made full outfit for Miss Thailand 2012 πŸ˜‰ I really only added the earrings, the hairbase, skin, nails and shoes. Everything else you can see you will get if you purchase your “Thailand Dress” at the Son!a Mainstore!

Details

Dress (incl. hair & shoulder jewelry): Son!a – “Thailand Dress” – NEW

Earrings: Kunglers Extra – “Deorum” – NEW

Nails: Finesmith – “GoldenNails”

Lashes: Mayden Couture – “Eyelashes V2 12”

Skin: Glam Affair – “Linn” /light BL 08 – NEW

Shoes: Stiletto Moody – “Bare Ingrid”

Poses: Manifeste

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

MVW 2012: National Gown for Miss Belgium 2012 by Champagne & Finesmith

The wonderful, playful and still elegant national costume for Miss Belgium 2012 was made by Champagne! Sparkling Fashion. The sweet accent this outfit has combining with the cute flowers with the red and yellow colors gives the whole out fit immediately a positive attitude. The corset is made with such nice, filigree details, the texture with the little ornaments… just amazing. The flower decoration at the cheat part goes so wonderful with the jewelry and the short skit underlines the cute look perfectly. “Belgium Ducasse” was for one of the most cute outfits for this year MVW πŸ™‚ The “Belgium Ducasse” dress you will find at the Champagne! Sparkling Couture Mainstore.

Miss Sylphia Constantine, our Miss Belgium 2012, did a very good choice with Champagne” Sparkling Fashion and Finesmith πŸ˜‰

yula Finesmith did the beautiful jewelry for this sweet dress and again you can see how close designers work together, to create this amazing Miss Virtual World 2012 looks. The flower theme of the “Belgium Ducasse” is so very well caught with the “Touched by the Sun” set from Finesmith. All those little yellow & red flowers that are connected with this amazing long thin and filigree lines of noble metals… stunning! The umbrella is part of that incredible set and as well the collar, the headpiece and the earrings. The “Touched by the Sun” set together with so many more Miss Virtual World 2012 jewelry you can get at the Finesmith Mainstore πŸ™‚

Details

Dress(incl. hat & shoes): Champagne! Sparkling Fashion – “Belgium Ducasse” – NEW

Jewelry (incl. umbrella): Finesmith – “Touched by the Sun” – NEW

Skin: Glam Affair – “Linn” /light D-02 – NEW

Facetattoo: White Widow – “Maple” /cooper

Hair: Baiastice – “Moira” /black

Poses: Body Talking

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

MVW 2012: National Gown for Miss Panama 2012 by Tres Beau & Finesmith

Today I would like to take a closer look in the national gown of Miss Panama 2012, Miss Mely Gibbs. The fantastic “Miss Panama”costume was made by Kimmera Madison, yes again a Miss Virtual World 2012 design by Tres Beau πŸ˜‰

I was thinking by myself, if I could think about something typical for
Panama, and I was not really able to. I tried to google a bit and found a few traditional costumes, that looked very close to the one Tres Beau did. Again was impressed on the research, Kimmera did to create this incredible and adorable costume. Panama is the southernmost country of Central America, and many different cultures and influences got settled down there. To get the exact information about that I recommend to take a look at Wikipedia, what I did too and why I should just copy information you can read at the place where it came from ;p (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama) But I saw a lot of indian influences as well and some of those looked very close to the one Kimmera did πŸ™‚ She really put a lot of work, love and eye for the detail on this costume. All this different fabrics like metal, feathers, delicate fabrics for the clothing layers… for me a again a masterpiece of art. First, as I put on that gown, I thought ‘omg how can I ever find a pose for that huge gown?!?’ but I have to admit it was not that hard as I thought of… I kinda think Kimmera knows about that and she designs even the most huge looking gowns and costumes and you still can find poses to showcase them. The attachment points are chosen so very well that the gown moves naturally with every inch you move by yourself. For me that just underlines, that Tres Beau is one of the most popular and everlasting brands in SL for a reason πŸ˜‰ “Miss Panama” is now available at the Tres Beau Mainstore.

Miss Mely Gibbs chose an already existing set from Finesmith to complete her look. The “Coral Blossom” set sets an awesome blue accent as well with the necklace, the wonderful earrings and the stunning face ornament. All the wonderful round shaped gems picked up the theme for me and I think it was a good choices for the beautiful “Miss Panama” costume. Normally you have an awesome tiara as well that is included in the “Choral Blossom” it just would have got lost under that huge headpiece of the “Miss Panama” costume πŸ˜‰ The “Coral Blossom” set you will find in different colors as well at the Finesmith Mainstore.

Details

Costume: Tres Beau – “Miss Panama” – NEW

Jewelry: Finesmith – “Coral Blossom”

Lashes: Finesmith – “Lashes 01”

Nails: Finesmith – “Snowflake Nails”

Lipstick: L.Fauna – “Blue 3”

Shoes: Stiletto Moody – “Bare Ingrid”

Hair: Baiastice – “Mylla”

Skin: Glam Affair – “Linn” – NEW

Poses: Manifeste

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

MVW 2012: Evening Gown for Miss Australia 2012 by Tres Beau & Finesmith

Again we have a wonderful gown by Tres Beau combined with Finesmith jewelry that made it in the Top 12 of Miss Virtual World 2012… even more this combination of the “Miss Rissa” gown of Tres Beau and the “Tribal Glam” set from Finesmith brought Miss Rissa Friller – Miss Australia 2012 – on place 2 of the MVW contest this year. Lets take a look on the gown first. Kimmera Madison again showed her incredible skills of making textures and designing a stunning evening gown for Miss Australia 2012. The basic is made in silver. Silver is not an easy color for clothing in second life, most of the textures look grey and do not have any shine. But not for Tres Beau. The long experiences and the awesome skills of Kimmera Madison make this gown shine in a stunning silver attire. The ornaments look beautiful and give the gown even more highlights as it anyways has. The tight gown makes an awesome silhouette and the big mermaid skirt is a wonderful contrast to the shoulder free top of the gown. The ornaments are brought adorable on the gown so that you can move and pose without stretching this wonderful textures, again something that is not that easy I was told. So, no wonder that Miss Rissa Friller became the 1st runner-up for MVW 2012. The stunning gown is now available for everyone at the Tres Beau Mainstore.

For the jewelry, again we can see how close the designers work together to create this incredible looking styles. Yula Finesmith outdid herself again with catching the style and shape of the wonderful ornaments that Kimmera put on the gown. The swirls she did for the necklace, the bracelet and the ring are breathtaking awesome. Yula as well picked up the colors and made a firework of art with colors and design for this beautiful “Tribal Glam” set.The earrings, 2 little flowers,Β  are so unbelievable filigree and little, what again shows the incredible skills of yula Finesmith. The love for the detail yula and Kimmera both have in an awesome way. The great “Tribal Glam” set is now available at the Finesmith Mainstore.

Details

Gown: Tres Beau – “Miss Rissa” – NEW

Jewelry: Finesmith – “Tribal Glam” – NEW

Skin: Glam Affair – “Linn” /light BL 01- NEW

Hair: Vanity Hair – “Pin Up”

Poses: Body Talking

Model &Photographer: Wicca Merlin