sac + cha + rine

I keep reading reviews using the word saccharine.
I heard our PR girls at Tibi ask what saccharine was.
I thought I knew the meaning of the word, but then realized that I didn't when I tried defining it for them.
SO, I have been exploring the word saccharine within a context that I can understand. The context being my world and the things that fall into it, revolve around it, and that are smack dab in the middle of it.
For now, these photos struck a saccharine chord. 

sac·cha·rine

    [sak-er-in, -uh-reen, -uh-rahyn]  Show IPA

adjective

1.

of the nature of or resembling that of sugar: a powderysubstance with a saccharine taste.

2.

containing or yielding sugar.

3.

very sweet to the taste; sugary: a saccharine dessert.

4.

cloyingly agreeable or ingratiating: a saccharinepersonality.

5.

exaggeratedly sweet or sentimental: a saccharine smile; asaccharine song of undying love.

Fashion Fantasies.... Coco Mademoiselle..... ahhhhh

Can you just take a moment to relish in the sexiness of this. It's like one of my sick fashion dreams coming true, well at least for my motorcycle fetish. I'd be down to ride a motorcycle in a matching jumpsuit, helmet, AND boots anywhere and everywhere.

Fashionable Indulgences: Spring Break with a Fashion Photographer

Ever been on spring break with a fashion photographer?

In my mind spring break was always something that only teenagers on MTV indulged in. However, I realized that indulging in things like spring break were what made every year that much more fun. I've also taken to going on my spring breaks for the last two years with fashion photographer Daniel Martin Noval.

Well this is what happened, in photos of course with Daniel on our spring break in Oahu last year:

Keep posted for pics from our fashionable spring break this year....

Develop + Mental

As I'm drawing away I am having a hard time grasping onto what my progression of silhouettes is... I think I am starting to see a vision, but for now, my mind is clouded by crazy colorful beasts romping around the garden of delights. Soooo needless to say my shape and silhouette development is largely swamped by the textures and colors of this painting... I'll get there... but in the meantime here are some sketches....

Fa + Bric = Fabulous

I am trying to piece together from what I have of so called fabric an idea of my fabric story.. my textures to play with etc... here are some of the ideers and thoughts so far bout which to use and whatnot...

These are reserved for the domain of Hell on the third panel of the Hieronymus Bosch triptych....

Line + Up = Collection

I've been cutting and pasting to try and create a mood board of sorts that reveals some of what I envision for this collection. I found this lineup of models in W Magazine that was totally similar to the way that I want my collection to move from nudes and whites, into color, and then lastly but certainly not least into a hellish blackened bloody section.

Re + Search = Posisble NEW Ideas

The Garden of Earthly Delights is a dream that comes most often to me. Its beautiful, colorful, and lush gardens in the first two panels awe me and lure me into a dream of fantasy and fun. The Hell panel is what my nightmares look like. Dark creatures eating each other and lots of things that are unmentionable even here....

This painting made its impression on me one day when I happened to be in Madrid for the day when I was 14. I had somehow made it to Spain without a valid passport and had to go to the American Embassy or whatever it was to get a new one. That day I had time to do one thing. I decided to go to the Prado and to see the recently cleaned Hieronymus Bosch painting. Now at 14 I had absolutely no idea who the heck Hieronymus Bosch was or what his painting would do to my imagination for the next decade! This painting ended up being the number one most influential painting in my becoming a designer, applying to art school etc etc. Now since I can't get it out of my head and my dreams I am going to do a show/a line/a collection based around this amazingly adventurous piece of art.