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Sneak Preview – Mea Culpa Shoes!

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Lastly as I was straightening up the laboratory of Tatanka Kaligawa a bit I suddenly stumbled over something… I looked down and..it was a single shoe..I was wondering how this came up here as he usually does not have ladies up in his laboratory but mine it were not too.. and I never saw himself in heels*winks* … I looked closer and saw a Mea Culpa logo on the sole…

My boss made shoes!!! I looked around but no one was there and he told me he would be out for a walk to get his head free for new ideas..and this can take time 😉 I searched for the second of that animal print shoes and before I found it I grabbed another pair from under his desk…

A sweet pair of ankle boots with a great texture and amazing accessories…

Again I saw the Mea Culpa logo on the sole and smiled..thinking on how I can smuggle them out of his laboratory…suddenly I found the second one of the animal print one and right beside another pair…

Wow! another pair of ankle boots with a fantastic heel…

Suddenly I heard the key at the door..he was coming back..I grabbed those 3 pairs and run out to the back door..

But as far as I know Tatanka it will not take long till the shoes will be available at the Mea Culpa Mainstore 😉

Details

Shoes1: Mea Culpa – “Wilderness”

Shoes2: Mea Culpa – “Gothica”

Shoes3: Mea Culpa – “Raptor”

Poses: Body Talking

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Wicca’s Wardrobe – Workshift at LeeZu ;)

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Today I quarried through my wardrobe as I was getting ready for me LeeZu Modeling shift and searching for an outfit to wear…

I ended up with a neat combination of different things 😉

The “Cat Tighs” in black are a nice basic to start with… and after a look out of the window I decided that a jacket will be enough as a top and the “Margo” jacket in black would be the perfect desicion 🙂 A nice break for the black I put on the “O`LaLa Micro” jeans skirts in the ‘used’ color what broke the black very nicely without disturbing. As the days go colder I pulled out the “Miss Mara” scarf in ethno black and wrapped it around my neck.

Last but not least…shoes…suddenly I reminded that I got these prototypes of the new Mea Culpa shoes from Tatanka Kaligawa… “Raptor” they are called and not yet officially released..but as far as I know Tatanka it will not take too long, till they are available at the store so I can use them for my todays outfit 😉 A last look into the mirror…approved 😉

I took my keys and leftthe home for a nother shift at the LeeZu Mainstore… as nearly everyday ;), so if you like come visit me there and you can take look at the store and I can help if needed 🙂

In the end I  have the great honor to give you a peek on the next pose set of Body Talking. For this post I used the new “Sunny” set, made by Arisia Ashmoot. I had the great pleasure to be again a model for her vendor 😉 and she allowed me to use it as a sneak preview for this blog post 🙂

As far as I know Arisia, if she finds the time she will put the new set in the store by tomorrow latest ;), so make sure you do not miss the release of “Sunny” and stop by at the new Body Talking Mainstore!

Details

Jacket: LeeZu – “Margo” jacket /night

Leggings: LeeZu – “Cat Tighs” /black

Skirt: LeeZu – “O`LaLa Micro” jeans skirts /used without belt

Scarf: LeeZu – “Mara” scarf /ethno black

Skin: Baiastice – “Pulchra” /pale

Hair: Baiastice – “Xena” /black

Shoes: Mea Culpa – “Raptor” (not yet released)

Face Tattoo: White Widow

Poses: Body Talking – “Sunny” set (not yet released)

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Mea Culpa – Time for Fashion ;) – Chronos!

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Mea Culpa again released new creations. One of the latest carries the name “Chronos”

An outstanding and extravagant design that shows the great ideas and the fantastic skills of Tatanka Kaligawa again. The whole dress has a sophisticated elegant look. A long skirt as part for an elegant gown and a very extraordinary sexy top. The gold and black colors underline the elegant look. A total eyecatcher is the big back part that reminds of a big sunclock with the great golden bars and the beautiful black lace. This testures and shapes are repeated in parts on the chest and the waist atachments. With this gown you will definatly turn heads on every event!

Details

Gown: MeaCulpa – “Chronos”

Hair: Tukinowaguma

Shoes: LeLutka

Poses: Body Talking

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Mea Culpa – New Releases!

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(Outfit: Mea Culpa – “Nocturnal Princess” /purple, Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin)

Today I have the great pleasure to show you new releases and the contest winners for Mea Culpa’s first picture contest!

For first I would like to show you the latest releases that Tatanka Kaligawa put in his Mainstore.

Seen also in the first picture we have the “Nocturnal Princess” here in purple. You also can purchase this amazing dress in gold and blue at the Mea Culpa Mainstore.

(Outfit: Mea Culpa – “Nocturnal Princess” /purple, Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin)

This amazing and wonderful gown has a light vintage touch combines with a modern design. Based on the early 20th century fashion this creation was made in a modern way. The top is a stunning corset that shows off the very well-shaped waist of every lady. It goes down in a nice body that can be seen in the sweet skirt. The skirt has a very sexy touch. It looks like only connected lightly to the hips but it as a huge cut-out over the lap and the backside. that shows off the lower part of the body and it’s amazing texture very well and adds an awesome sexy look. The great spikes on the left shoulder and the left hand waist side add a perfect modern view.

On the hat you can find this spikes again and also the fantastic ruffles that decorate and make the skirt.

(Outfit: Mea Culpa – “Nocturnal Princess” /purple, Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin)

The next outfit carries the great name “Phenix Experience”…

(Outfit: Mea Culpa – “Phenix Experience”, Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin)

This designs lightly reminds me of kinds silk, even if it has a totally other texture and no waving satin parts 😉 but it has a touch of an ethnic style.  The basic makes a lovely designs body that covers the upper body. A purple pattern texture covers the layer parts framed by amazing gold lines. The flexible prim parts are moving amazing with every step or turn. The shoulder parts give a powerful touch and also the great gold mask with its spikes is part of that outfit!

My last outfit for today really caught my heart…even if all Mea Culpa designs do… but this really hit my inner 😉

(Outfit: Mea Culpa – “Lost in Netherworld”, Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin)

“Lost in Netherworld” is the name of the newest design of Mea Culpa. Totally in white it has a lightly fantasy attire and reminds a bit of a creature out if the Netherworld 😉 If you walk you can see the lovely flexible prims moving behind and round about you and you feel like a ghost that lightly hovers over the ground. Many prim attachments like the neckpart of the belt round the waist give a great edgy opposite to the huge, smoothly waving prim parts at your back. The clothing layers are also made with the love to the detail if you for example look at the top. 2 thin lines hold the top and close at the back of the neck. The chest part is covered by an amazing texture that repeats the aerial lace style of the tha back prim parts. This wonderful creation definitely turns heads and it again shows off Tatanka Kaligawa’s great skills if it comes to ides, creating, designing, style and texturing 🙂

(Outfit: Mea Culpa – “Lost in Netherworld”, Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin)

 

Sneak Preview!!! – News at Mea Culpa :)

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Again news from Mea Culpa! Tatanka Kaligawa again did it. A few new outfits are available at the Mea Culpa Mainstore. On of the is the great “Lacey Grace”

A wonderful outfit for the brave and fashion addicted lady. This outfit really touched my heart cause it is a little bit like me 😉 Edgy, with sharp spikes and also a bit romantic with all the lace 😉 Usually a long tight system skirt made if the same lace as the pants is part of that outfit, but I decided to wear it just with the pants 😉 The lace is the basic for the whole outfit. A wonderful corset covers the belly and a short prims part like a very short skirt rounds the hips and upper legs. This hip part carries one of the wonderful long, silver spikes or horns. the upper body you have the lace clothing layers and also an attached prim part that carries the great neck collar.

The front if the neck os decorated with 3 spikes and each one carries a gem in the middle. At the shoulders you see again on each side one of the great silver horns 🙂 And now we come to the fabulous head-piece 🙂 A wonderful arrangement of lace, horns, spikes and a cute hat. This outfit definitely turns heads and it feels very close to my self 😉 I simply love it and in the Mea Culpa Mainstore you will find it in 3 different colors. Black as I showed it in my post and further in white and red 😉

Details

Outfit: Mea Culpa – “Lacey Grace” /black

Poses by Body Talking

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Mea Culpa – New Release, Latest Releases and a fantastic Contest!!!

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Today I am allowed to show again New and latest releases from Mea Culpa! I got 3 fantastic outifts to showcase and also Tatanka Kaligawa, designer of Mea Culpa told me that he will have a fantastic contest!!!

My first outfit, that you also can see in the first pic up, is called “Out of the Deep”

The name is program and this incredible outfit is covered by many little highlights. The whole outfit is in a light and bright blue that shines and glows all over. Little shells and amazing waving prims make this outfit to a perfect design if you wanna be the center of view 😉 The textures of the layers are awesome detailed and you can get the light imagination of a mermaid with the lovely painted scales on the clothing layers.

The second outfit was made for the Miss Egypt 2011 of the MVW contest. “Sierra Morte”. Luralie Bailey is one of the official candidates and she represents Egypt for 2011.

The dress is made in amazing brown tones with a lovely couture touch. Dark and light parts are perfectly arranged to give the outfit the special touch!

Like all Mea Culpa outfits “Sierra Morte” is made of fantastic detailed and lovely handprinted textures and amazing extra ordinary prims. The hat carries a yellow decoration and the same color you will find on the right hand side of the outfits at the hips on the flexible spikes. The texture of the top and also the sheered skirt are made in a lighter shade of brown that perfectly matches the dark brown of the hat, the attachment round the upper body and the sleeves of the top.

Last outfit for today is the newest release of Mea Culpa called “Heavenly Marriage”. A wonderful bridal outfit, that has the special different and extraordinary touch. Beautiful white attachments move dreamy round your body while walking. The short top allows a peek on your skin what gives a very sexy touch also. 😉

The amazing headpiece with the smooth veil also is part of the special bridal gown. In this close up you can see the lovely folds of the veil that let it look very realistic. also you can take a closer look on the beautiful and stunning top and the great prim that decorates the belly. Overall a dream in white what makes it tempting to think about your own wedding 😉

After looking at this incredible designs I would like to tell you about the fantastic photo contest, that Tatanka Kaligawa set:

  **=_MEA CULPA_=** PHOTO CONTEST

 The winning pics (including your name) will be displayed in The **=_MEA CULPA_=** Store, shown in the BOSL Magazine and the Envision Style Magazine, as well they will be posted on the OPIUM FASHION Blog, the “fashion addicted” blog and The **=_MEA CULPA_=** Blog (They might be shown in related blogs as well)!

 Also all sent pics will be published in the Mea Culpa Design Flickr Group!

 So, besides the chance of winning one of the prizes there is a great possibility to show your photographic skills to the public.

 First Prize: L$ 10000,- + a free Mea Culpa gown of your choice

 Second Prize: L$ 5000,- + a free Mea Culpa gown of your choice

 Third Prize: A free Mea Culpa gown of your choice

 The panel will vote for the best three photos.

 Panel members are:

 Anastacia Markova ( CEO of Opium Fashion Agency )

Electelle Eales ( CEO of Envision Style Magazine )

Wicca Merlin ( Top Model and writer of the blog “fashion addicted” )

Tatanka Kaligawa ( Owner of Mea Culpa )

 All participants can send 3 Photos picturing them wearing a Mea Culpa Gown.

Please name the pics as follows: Mea Culpa Photo Contest “your Name” “name of the pic”

This will make it easy for the panel to sort them.

The pics have to be full perm and 512 x 512 or 1024 x 1024 pixel in size.

Please send all pics to Tatanka Kaligawa

 Every participant agrees to renounce their copyrights on the pics.

They agree that the photos may be published in the above named places, magazines and blogs.

 All pics have to be sent within the 30. of June 2010. They will be published in the August Issues of the named magazines !

So, get your favourite Mea Culpa design on and send your best pick to Tatanka Kaligawa to have the chance on one of his lovely creations 🙂

Details

Outfit1: Mea Culpa – “Out of the Deep”

Outfit2: Mea Culpa – “Sierra Morte”

Outfit3: Mea Culpa – “Heavenly Marriage”

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

The Beginning – Very first show of Mea Culpa by Opium – Show Review

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(Models from left to right: Wicca Merlin & Katina Magic, Picture by Romeo Torvalar)

On the 21st of May, Tatanka Kaligawa – owner and designer of Mea Culpa – presented the first time his new creations on the runway. Mea Culpa is a very young label and basically goes for avantgarde and haute couture… the special things but also Tatanka tries to hold them realistic and wearable.

The runway that Opium builded was dreamy and unique. Colorful fantasy elements and the amazing color changing runway gave a wonderful frame for the lovely creations of Mea Culpa.

The models used particles to make the magic mystical feeling perfect. I will try to give you a little imagination of what it looked like, even if the pictures cannot carry the great feeling that you had being live at the show 🙂

My first outfit was the “Moon Rose”. On the first view a simple looking little, tight dress. But if you look closer you can see that it is not just made of a simple plain black texture. It let imagine sweet folds on the whole dress.

Highlights are definitely the lace stockings and the fluffy boa…and my personal highlight is the headpiece. A big flower with an amazing laced veil that repeats the lace character of the stockings and gloves.

My second outfit was the “Blue Dragon Blade”. A complete outfit with boots. The blue and silver combination was perfect for blue particles 😉 The center of that outfit are the long and flexible needles and spikes that wave around you if you move. It has a lightly warrior touch and a very fantasy basic.

The outfit comes as a “ready-to-wear” with dress, hair piece and boots. The texture is a rough material and a color combine of silver black and blue. The boots also carry spikes and thorns to match the outfit perfectly.

“Storm of passion” I already showed before in another blog post. A very strong outfit with a dark mystic touch.

The perfect addition for this outfit were the new Stiletto Moody – “Bare Fay” wildset heels with the great python print… for me they matched perfect 🙂

My last out fit for that incredible show was the “Bound for Hell”, one of the latest releases of Mea Culpa.

“Bound for Hell” a very special and huge outfit. It looks a little bit as a dark priestess or even the devils wife 😉 The great hood gives a wonderful mystical touch and all the big, flexible attachments make it lightly mystical. Basically the body is covered by a lace suit. The great shoulder attachment adds a lightly dangerous look. To cover the “private” parts The top has a black ornamented texture and the pants are black too carrying the same wonderful red and silver decoration.

Again the best match for me were ankle boots from Stiletto Moody. “Bare Lucille” completes the strong and extravagant look of “Bound for Hell” perfectly.

Mostly all poses for that show were made by Arisia Ashmoot, owner and designer of  Body Talking.

I hope you had fun with my short review of another fantastic Opium Fashion Show!

Details

Outfit1: Mea Culpa – “Moon Rose”

Skin: Nuuna’s

Outfit2: Mea Culpa – “Blue Dragon Blade”

Outfit3: Mea Culpa – “Storm of Passion”

Skin: Nuuna’s

Shoes: Stiletto Mooody

Outfit4: Mea Culpa – “Bound for Hell”

Skin: Nuuna’s

Shoes: Stiletto Moody

All poses: Body Talking by Arisia Asmoot

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Mea Culpa opens the doors!!! Store opening of a new Designer!

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(Models from left to right: Arisia Ashmoot, Daffodil Crimson, Wicca Merlin)

At last Mea Culpa opens its doors. 🙂 I had a few amazing previews on my blog already and I am very happy that I am now allowed and able to tell you yesterday the fabulous store opened and all this amazing designs are now available!

Mea Culpa is a fresh and new brand with haute couture and avantgarde fashion, for everyone that looks for something special!

(Outfit: Mea Culpa – “Trash Treasure, Model: Wicca Merlin)

Mea Culpa designs are not only special they even carry special, creative and extraordinary names 😉 Like the first outfit ” Trash Treasure”. A short dress in black and white with wonderful prim attachments, that make th whole creation to a piece of art. The basic clothing layers are decorated with many different shaped prims that give the whole outfit the special touch, like the round shoulder parts, the fan looking neck part and for sure the amazing short skirt with the amazing detailed belt.

(Outfit: Mea Culpa – “Silver Dragon”, Model: Arisia Ashmoot)

Up next “Silver Dragon” again shows the amazing skills of  Tatanka Kaligawa, the genius designer of Mea Culpa. The basic clothing layers show off a lot of skin and make this outfit to a sexy eyecatcher. This outfit comes as a full outfit with head part and boots. Center of this outfit are for me the long steel parts and spikes that give the outfit a light amazon touch… some for the brave strong girls 😉

(Outfit: Mea Culpa – “Dark Desire”, Model: Daffodil Crimson)

“Dark Desire” wakes up dark desires 😉 A long black gown with a beautiful ornamented corsage part. The tight corsage leads over to a big ballgown skirt. The special detail on this incredible gown in the great head pice with the lovely flower and the fantastic spider webs in 2 colors. The black of the gown is broken with the red petals of the flowers and one red spiderweb. The headpiece is also decorated with beautiful lace parts that give the whole part a mystical and elegant touch.

(Outfit: Mea Culpa – “Taste of Lotus”, Model: Wicca Merlin-not available in store, custom design)

“African Lotus” is a very huge gown that definitely will make you the center of every event. It is not a symmetric outfit, the amazing attached prims are take the left side of the outfit. Dreamy flexi made the move with every step you take. The top layer is covered by an amazing wrapped part that goes over the right shoulder.

(Outfit: Mea Culpa – “African Lotus”, Model: Daffodil Crimson)

“African Lotus” is a very huge gown that definitely will make you the center of every event. It is not a symmetric outfit, the amazing attached prims are take the left side of the outfit. Dreamy flexi made the move with every step you take. The top layer is covered by an amazing wrapped part that goes over the right shoulder. (horns not included)

(Outfit: Mea Culpa – “Storm of Passion”, Model: Wicca Merlin)

“Storm of Passion” again is a very sexy and short outfit that shows a lot of a ladies well-shaped body 😉 The whole outfit is made of a glittering and sparkling texture what gives you a very special shine. The head part includes a long flexi ponytail in the back that goes down to the waist.  The basic black-silver-grey texture is highlighted with lovely emerald gems at head, chest and belly. And if you look very close you can see a beautiful leopard animal print texture that covers the body that is worn under the glittering prim parts. 2 long flexi attachments go down from the wait to the knee and caress your legs with every movement.

(Outfit: Mea Culpa – “Perfectly Wrapped”, Model: Arisia Ashmoot)

Last outfit for this post is “Perfectly Wrapped” The name shows off the basic idea of this design 😉 The whole body is wrapped in a foil looking texture with amazing edgy spikes that make a great contrast. The great head part is also included and carries a few of the long edgy parts that make this outfit definitely to a haute couture one. The long attachments are again great flexi made and move natural with every step you make.

Mea Culpa has a lot more great designs that I will show you in another post 😉

The store just opened, so if you wanna be one of the first that wears that extraordinary and fantastic designs… hurry to the Mea Culpa Mainstore. The store itself is worth a visit… modern, and extravagant… the right place for a real fashionista to shop 😉

A special thank you goes to Arisia Ashmoot, designer of Body Talking. All the poses that are shown in this post are made of her.

I also would like to thank Daffodil Crimson and Arisia Ashmoot for modeling with me. The shootings really were great fun and we laughed a lot 😉

Last but not least for sure a big big thank you goes to Tatanka Kaligawa, who designed all this lovely outfits and made this post possible… I really enjoy the special creations that turn heads 🙂

Details

All outfits made by Mea Culpa

All Poses made by Body Talking

Models: Daffodil Crimson, Arisia Ashmoot, Wicca Merlin

All pics made by Wicca Merlin