It's been a while since I posted, not because I forgot, but because I've been extremely busy! So here's some catch up.
After finishing my GIMP classes I started working on new designs. Now as fun as it is to create from scratch, something gradually happened to me. I had been surfing the web to look for inspiration when I came across the blue Worth gown below. I was stunned when I saw the original. I've been a fashion fiend for a long time, but not the new designers like Dior or Lagerfield. It's not that I don't admire their work, they paid their dues and make lovely things. But their stuff has no soul. The kind of fashions I admire and am often amazed by come from the 16th to 19th century. Fashions that drip with beads, embroidery, delicate lace and rich, shimmering fabrics. We are in a blessed era, when I can go look through gowns in Russia at the Hermitage, browse the Victoria and Albert collection in London, flip through a Spanish museum, and trot on over to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and see a past exhibit. All through the internet, and all with pictures that reveal the lovely grandeur of clothing I will never be able to own, let alone make in real life.
In the real world the cost of making a velvet gown with embroidery and gem stones, etc., is cost prohibitive. But in Second Life, ahh, there I can make gowns that I can only dream of. And so that is what I have been doing!
After over a year, I have finally found my mission in Second Life. That is to bring to the digital world recreations of great designers of the past. I cannot always be exactly spot on with a garment. In some ways that's very frustrating, because I could sew or create something in the real world, but cannot do it in Second Life. But within my limit abilities, I can and do reproduce gowns from bygone eras. Right now I have several Worth gowns in the works, along with several other gowns that are seasonal. I do put all gowns up on SLex, and of course there is the Blisswood store which can be found under my profile picks in Second Life or under search.
Below are the gowns I've released recently. It's always hard to pick a favorite, because I love them all as I'm working on them. But if I did have one I'd dib, it'd be 'Evergreen', because I love the sensual warmth of velvet as well as the deep color.
I hope you all have a wonderful day! Right now there's a spectacular gown calling my name.
Cordially yours,
Kembri
