fantasy

music in this one by owen pallett!! canadian dream boy

broken palace

creative shoot sneak peeks.

saturday

outside of april lea's studio




check it etsy treasury i curated.

magic no. 3

i did a little photo shoot yesterday for my latest collection:
MAGIC no. 3
here are some pictures i took of my lovely and talented crew. above is the sweet and super tall model VERO from dulcedo models. She was quite young and sooo good, very posey.


Hollie Hensman (the bride) did hair and make up. beautiful job, super pro from her years as a mac make-up artist. i'd hire her again in a second.


kayla, my best friend and new assistant. words cannot describe how lucky i am to steal her for my own. i hope she can stay and work full time.


hollie checking her phone for messages to be an extra in the movies!


photographer april lea, so confident and fun to work with. we shot in the basement hallway of her studio building. there was a lot of white power bullshit graffiti on the wall. charming.



great work team and THANK YOU! this was for a look book but i'll post some behind the pics of the creative portion next.
also thank you Unicorn Boutique for allowing me to borrow these beautiful shoes!

mood mgmt

rollie p's monthly party had some pretty pretty pretty fun tropical themes going on last weekend. drinks with umbrellas and tropical projections, lots of sparkly lights and shadows for kissing. i am an easy girl to please. group sound from edmonton played (above) and tops from montreal (below)




outside in smoking pen


shadow king

cirque du soleil

i was lucky enough to get a tour of the cirque du soleil costume shop a few days ago. some of my pictures magically dissapeared off my camera but i can describe it. AMAZING!

they make all the costumes for every cirque show in the world here in montreal.



there are entire rooms for dyeing fabric, printing fabric, storing fabric. they work in biggest sewing shop i have ever seen making the costumes for new productions and then the second biggest sewing shop i have ever seen for maintaining the costumes of past shows that are going out again..


this is just the studio for making hats. there are also separate shops for making shoes, wigs and face plasters


my favorite thing: a machine for dyeing leather.





AND they have this room full of swatches. fabric trim everything you could dream of and all the designers and cutters have to do is go in there and pick what they want send a list to the storage or "store" downstairs and they deliver it to you. this place runs like a dream and is extremely organized. everything was labeled within a inch of it's life, as kayla would say.



there is also artists there who develop new textures for fabric and just create new textiles all day.





these are the finished costumes ready to go out.

i still have stylists coming to borrow the black mold pieces but as summer comes to an end i think i am done with hand painting hems. except for very special requests.

loungewear

get it here and also here

shakespeare in the parc ex

we went to see macbeth the other night in our hood. it was nowhere near as good as the SITP in edmonton but these are free shows and they travel from parc to parc in montreal. this is lady macbeth killing herself, she was really good. i like this play because of all the ghosts and witches.

my dance card is full

kayla brought me this lovely belated birthday present she picked up on her travels through nova scotia. it is an antique silver writing pencil used by ladies at formal balls to write down on their dance card which man would get each dance. romantic! i find myself wishing for such an event so i can use it. it still has lead that retracts when you spin it.

Rabbit Fur Vest

can you believe it's fall time? well it's not but if you want to get ready ahead of time fashion-wise check out this rabbit fur vest on etsy. order now and you get free shipping in north america!!!

i'm back...... i guess

back from the sea. my mind is here working again but my heart has some catching up to do. i feel grumpy. i even bought a lotto ticket today so i could vacation forever and i NEVER buy lotto tickets.

GONE SWIMMING

jon and i and a special guest (KAYLA) are on vacation camping by the sea so don't bother me. i have no computer. i don't need a computer. i don't need a computer. have you ever read the REAL little mermaid? get ready to cry salty sea tears.

ocean madness

here is a little preview. i dyed this silk for audrey cantwell's spring 2012 collection. she said i could spill this special secret preview to my dear blog readers. i cannot wait to see what she turns it into.

arranging feathers

i've been supplying feather earrings to canada for longer than i'd like to admit. here are some i recently sent to twisted sisters boutik in newfoundland. sometimes i get bored, sometimes i pay jon to make them and sometimes i feel like a delicate little flower arranger just making beautiful wild bouquets for your ears. this makes me think of elizabeth's little sister mary, who just started a new blog all about flowers and gardening and foody stuff. check it MAINLAND