Charleston Flapper - GROUP GIFT 7/21/08

Here is this weeks group gift and it goes along with the theme of Hollywood - the Charleston Flapper. The texture is from another 1920's flapper dress and it reminded me of the movie Our Dancing Daughters with Joan Crawford and Anita Page - I am lucky enough to have one of my own original pastels signed by Ms. Page before she died. They always seemed they wore pink and this is my interpretation of those dresses. Enjoy!

UNRELEASED - The Vamp

A femme fatale character in movies or books. The character is a woman who, while not necessarily attractive, has a certain allure (usually this striking, exotic, overtly sexy glamour), and is usually a heartless, man-eating seductress. The term is short for vampire, another term for a femme fatale.
In drama, the vamp is the sexual counterpoint for the naive, wholesome ingenue character. The sultry lower voice of the mezzo-soprano is usually reserved for the vamp character in musicals or opera.

The ultimate silent screen vamp was Theda Bara. This is a spin off from Theda who is the greatest all-time vamp.

UNRELEASED - Harlow

One word is enough - Harlow - this is a lovely texture from a 1920's dress and I have accented it with art deco jewels at front and back with earrings in topaz and gold jewels. Totally elegant and so Harlow.

UNRELEASED - Oscar Night

This is another texture that was from a hat from the 1920's and it is full of gold sequins! Appropriate dress for Oscar Night don't you think?

Cuba

When I found this texture it has hand beading and is from around the 50's and all I could think of was how everyone went to Cuba in the 1950's as if it were a resort. So here it is - Cuba :)

UNRELEASED - The Canary

The Canary Murder Case - William Powell who of course is always been a favorite of mine from the classic movies and the Thin Man series who could forget! I saw this dress and the movie popped into my head.

The beautiful Margaret Odell, famous Broadway beauty and ex-Follies girl known as "The Canary", is found murdered in her apartment. She has a number of men in her life, ranging from high society to gangsters, and more than one man visited her apartment on the night she dies. It is Philo Vance's characteristic erudition that leads him to a key clue that allows him to penetrate a very clever alibi and reveal the killer.

This would be something she would wear don't you think? The texture is from a dress from the era of the movie (1927) and so canary! Louise Brooks was the canary :)

Honey Pie

Honey pie you are making me crazy

I'm in love but i'm lazy

So won't you please come home.

Oh honey pie my position is tragic

Come and show me the magic

Of your hollywood song.

You became a legend of the silver screen

And now the thought of meeting you

Makes me weak in the knee.

Oh honey pie you are driving me frantic

Sail across the atlantic

To be where you belong.

Will the wind that blew her boat

Across the sea

Kindly send her sailing back to me.

Honey pie you are making me crazy

I'm in love but i'm lazy

So won't you please come home.

UNRELEASED - Olivia de Havilland

Olivia de Havilland - the ultimate graceful and sweet movie star. This dress reminded me of her when she was in Robin Hood with Errol Flynn. Yes she is still living and yes we all will remember her as Melanie in Gone With The Wind forever.

Primadonna Rosa

No words can describe this one. It began with a 1920's sequin dress, a skirt that became a rose and jewels. It is lovely, romantic, floaty and more!

UNRELEASED - Marilyn Monroe - Love Happy

How can we have a Hollywood fashion show without Marilyn? Of course that would be impossible! This is a gold lame' dress with 2 flexi skirts that are totally unique. The texture is beautiful and came from an original dress from the 1950's. Marilyn would love this dress and you will too! All the dresses release on July 28th so be ready to come to the fashion show and get this one!

It's All Make-Believe

This is only a peek at the grand finale dress silver and sky blue velvet from a 1920's dress - a true Hollywood fantasy creation - after all, isn't it all make-believe?

UNRELEASED - Merle Oberon Exotica

Merle Oberon (1911–1979) was born Estelle Merle O'Brien Thompson in Bombay (now Mumbai), India. In 1932 she signed a five-year contract with Alexander Korda's company London Films, and made her breakthrough one year later in the role of Anne Boleyn in The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933). During the 1930s she appeared in The Private Life of Don Juan (1934), The Scarlet Pimpernel (1935), These Three (1936), and the unreleased film I, Claudius (1937). Her American film debut was in Folies Bergère de Paris in 1935. That same year she was nominated by the Academy for her performance in The Dark Angel. Oberon's greatest screen success came four years later, when she starred as Cathy in Wuthering Heights (1939).

UNRELEASED - Clara Bow - The Flapper

I will have several dresses that I will be doing especially for the fashion show on the 28th that I will only release at that time. This is one of those dresses. It is called Clara Bow - The Flapper. The texture is an original 1920's hat from the period and it has 2 flexi skirts with beads. The neckpiece is also included. I am enclosing with the dresses pictures of the actresses too. This is a unique one with a new type of skirt I have never done before! Remember that 1/2 of the proceeds from ALL these dresses go to benefit charity :) The shoes - Zhao Bella Gold Teal Sequins are perfect!

July 27th & July 28th Music Gives For Music Benefits

On July 27th here at my main location we will be giving a benefit concert for Bugles Across America - Music Gives for Music. All proceeds and donations will benefit the Bugles Across America organization enabling them to provide live buglers at the funerals of veterans for those that request it. Singing and playing for us with his usual style and joy will be Ridha Cooljoke. More about this all later! On the 28th at 2 PM SL time I will be having a fashion show in conjunction with Look Elite and also Melanie Zhao will be providing the shoes. 1/2 of the proceeds from this show will go to BAA and there will be one final dress - 100% of the proceeds of this dress will go to BAA. Many of these dresses will be new designs and the theme of course is Hollywood! I will be sending invites and more information soon! Hugs!

Mrs. Valentino

Natacha Rambova met Rudolph Valentino on the set of Camille in 1921 and they married on March 14, 1922, in Mexicali, Mexico. Their marriage resulted in Valentino's being arrested and charged with bigamy because his divorce from his first wife, actress Jean Acker, was not final. Rambova and Valentino remarried in 1923. Salomé was also a failure at the box office, and as result, Natacha was heavily in debt [1]
When, following a dispute with Paramount Pictures, Valentino was legally barred from working for any other studio, he and Rambova embarked on a dance tour across the United States and Canada. The dance tour was a success, and the film studio came back to hire Valentino for films. Later, Rambova's involvement with such of her husband's films as Monsieur Beaucaire came to be resented by many at Paramount who accused her of driving up production costs and felt she was pushing Valentino into static, arty films with little box office potential. Actress Myrna Loy, whom Rambova had discovered and later gave her a role in a film that she wrote What Price Beauty?, claimed that Rambova was unfairly criticized.
Their marriage broke up in 1925 shortly after United Artists offered Valentino a contract with a clause forbidding Rambova from being present on any of his film sets. She also starred in her only feature film When Love Grows Cold (1925), but she angrily gave up on films when distributors billed her as Mrs. Rudolph Valentino on film posters. Valentino and Rambova went through a painful divorce. When Rambova announced that she would write a book detailing her breakup with Valentino, he retaliated by bequeathing her only $1 in his will, and left one-third of his estate that was originally meant for Rambova to her aunt Teresa Werner, whom they both adored. But when Valentino was on his death bed in New York, he asked for Rambova, wanting her by his side, but she was in Europe. Nevertheless, they exchanged loving telegrams, and she believed that a reconciliation had taken place. Valentino died in 1926 at age 31 following surgery for a perforated ulcer. Rambova was devastated and stayed in her room for 3 days without eating and speaking to anyone. She didn't attend his funeral because she didn't want her last memory of him to be his dead body.

Madonna University BCA: The Motown Collection

Madonna University BCA: The Motown Collection

PAH*FEST and Madonna U Blog

Here ya go guys lots more info on PAH*FEST and of course yours truly and info on the dresses, performers and more!

http://mubca.blogspot.com/

Group Gift of the Week - Creme Brulee

Crème brûlée (French for "burnt cream") is a dessert consisting of a rich custard base topped with a layer of hard caramel, created by burning sugar under a grill, or with a blowtorch or other intense heat source. It is usually served cold in individual ramekins.
The custard base is normally flavoured with just vanilla, but it can be enhanced with chocolate, a liqueur, fruit, etc. Sometimes the hardened sugar on top will be given a Maillard reaction, by igniting a thin layer of liqueur sprinkled over the top