fashion

Jewelry Fashion Fix: Ravishing in Red

Red with Black and White   The poignant mixture of brilliant red with black and white creates a sense of unnaturalness, false reality, or even impending doom.  When mixing reds with monochromatic s...
Body Jewelry Information

Modern Jewelry Design: From Inspiration to Art Form

Designing jewelry is something I’ve done since college.  I found a course for it in my junior year and I was hooked.  I’ve spent the better part of the last 25 years creating dazzling items to ador...
fashion

Trapped in Suburbia: Retro Prep Gains New Edge

Retro fifties and sixties styling gets a fabulously fun modern overhaul that turns vintage kitsch on its head and gives whole new meaning to the phrase “stuck in the suburbs.”   Key Points: • tradi...
fashion

Jewelry Fashion Fix: Fantasy Florals

A blending of fairytale princess chic, pastoral simplicity, and folkloric edge, the fantasy floral is a perfect compliment to Spring weather and sunny fun.   Key Points: • Romantic styling and imag...
fashion

Alternative Fashion Newsflash: More to Come for Marilyn

She’s a full figure fashion icon, an inspiration to retro pinup models and stylists the world over, and she’s even lent her name to one of the most popular facial piercings in the world.  So what e...
Alternative and Gothic Fashion Now

Alternative and Gothic Fashion Now: Winged Away

Whether it’s graphics, tattoo art, or especially jewelry, wings are a definite hit in the here and now. Angel wings, dove wings, winged skulls, hearts, and keys…the style possibilities are practica...
fashion

New American Gothic: Too Cool for Going Old School

The familiar image (parodied in great jest above), has become an iconic 20th century representation of rural American life.  The original artwork entitled simply, “American Gothic,” was painted in ...
fashion

New Moon: Vintage Mystery and the Rise of Folkloric Fashion

Along with the meteoric rise in dark fairy tales and vampire lore has inevitably come a leap forward in vintage inspired, darkly romantic fashion.  The vampire genre itself continues to evolve, cre...
fashion

Electric Animal: Club life Made for the Modified

In 2012, hot color is finally back in a big way, and one of the craziest updated ways to wear it is in combination with animal print.  The look is fun, youthful, and slightly retro psychedelic, wit...