Cut It Out!
I’ll be the first to admit that I am no seamstress. I cannot tell the difference between a dress pattern and a wall calendar! I couldn’t make a tablecloth from scratch. Even with a tailor supervising. But, give me a perfectly good piece of clothing and a pair of scissors and watch out! I can tear just about anything apart and create a new outfit. I can also customise clothing in very creative ways. Take the current trend of pre-tattered jeans. These jeans are selling for around $150. At least that’s what a friend told me she paid for hers. I told her to go out and buy a pair of Levis for $25. I’d tatter them for her for a mere $100, and voila! she’d save $25. Quite a bargain if you ask me. I am also an “expert” at the slice-up method, as seen below.
Note the obviously-not-faked tear in the knee and the accidentally-frayed hems.
And, of course, the artistic moth-eaten-style
fraying around the waist.
Here I took a perfectly good little-black-dress and turned it into a post-nuclear-war-zombie cocktail dress.
One of the nice things about my past modelling experiences was that sometimes the client would pay the models in part-cash and part-outfits. This is a little katsuit that I modeled and later customised for my own use.
(This little number is very popular at myNightclub.)
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and last we have what some folks might have considered to be an already naughty little number from Fredericks … but of course, Yours Truly wasn’t happy until after the scissors had been frantically wielded.
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More photos from this collection can be seen on Photo Page 3 (link on the right-hand side of the screen). And yes, I *do* post entries like this, in part, just to piss-off some of the more prudish and judgmental types who read me.
December 26th, 2005 at 6:47 pm
I am APPALLED at these unseemly photographs. They are disrespectful, rude, and downright offensive.
I mean… you can’t even see your boobs in one of them. Sheesh.
December 27th, 2005 at 2:42 am
I’m with Andria! Where are the boobs?
December 27th, 2005 at 8:22 am
Shocking! I can’t bear to look any more…damn it, you’re wearing way too much clothing.
December 27th, 2005 at 12:14 pm
OK I have been away so I just caught up on like 3 or 4 entries. But Daaaaamn you can cut things up, but good.
I definatley detect a correlation to the who always getting hit on thing. Because even if you wear a burlap bag afterwards a gal who will make these things can’t help but be hot! Well in the sexy sense, she might actually be very chilly in some of those outfits, but hey whats a little cold in the name of artistic expression.
Nuke }:-
December 27th, 2005 at 2:02 pm
Holy fuck woman! I am so totally printing these out and posting them on every food container in my kitchen.
If that doesn’t keep me from porking out nothing will…
December 28th, 2005 at 3:11 am
10 times better when you model them in person.
December 31st, 2005 at 4:19 pm
Cole: That’s what all my visitors say! I really must stop inviting people over just to watch me parade around like a kid playing dress-up in her mother’s clothing!