SEBASTIANO SERAFINI & LA CARMINA IN LOS ANGELES! LA GOTH ALTERNATIVE MODELLING, NEW YEAR’S EVENTS & PARTIES. KOREAN FASHION SHOPPING SITE.
Adventure Team… ASSEMBLE. It’s official! “Latest victim” Sebastiano Serafini ( セバスティアーノ セラフィニー ) and I will be in Los Angeles, from December 28 to January 10. Each day will be filled with business and pleasure — two things excruciatingly intertwined in our Rocky Horror world.
What scandal is brewing? Seba and I are being hosted by a gorgeous boutique hotel. We have meetings with TV and entertainment execs. Modelling gigs with Lip Service and other Goth alternative labels. Prominent photoshoots, including the NOH8 campaign (to protest the Prop 8 ban on gay marriage in California). Red carpet events, and of course, a royally decadent New Year’s!
Sebastiano and I may be hosting events in LA — we hope you can join us and hang out. Please stay tuned to my blog and social networks for announcements. If you’re interested in having us model, do promotions or anything else in Los Angeles (Dec 28-Jan 10), please email La Carmina. (Paying gigs only.)
You can look forward to a full exposé of Seba’s first visit to America! I’ll soon post an interview with Sebastiano, our h.NAOTO collaboration photos, and news about a massive project debuting in 2011…
Both of us are quite OCD about travel planning, so we’re already thinking about what to wear. A new Korean fashion website is providing me with inspiration. AsianFashion.com sells men’s and women’s clothing from Japan and Korea, such as Ageha baby-doll dresses and criss-cross ankle boots. There’s an impressive selection of Asian beauty products, including circle contact lenses. The shopping site is very well organized and easy to browse; do check it out.
At least I don’t need to worry about how to dress up my legs. Artisan Socks sent me 18 pairs of stockings. In the words of my no-ears celebrity cat Basil Farrow: “Wahhh!”
Artisan Socks has an impressive stock of Japanese socks. Floral prints, skulls, stripes, tattoos, and even cyber fuzzy leg warmers!
Decisions, decisions… which ones to wear first?
Thank you also to Maru Music for sending me the latest Visual Kei music by The GazettE and Alice Nine! I was talking to Adventure Teamster Lemon about DIX-mas shopping. We agreed that Maru is the place to pick up CDs and MP3s as Jrock gifts. The label has also digitally released the hit single from the Kanon X Kanon project, and two albums by Vidoll. Visit Maru Music for more.
Are you psyched for our LA invasion? Can you suggest new places for us to visit? I have an Los Angeles Gothic Punk shopping and club guide here.
PS: If you’re interested in working with me and Sebastiano in LA (Dec 28-Jan 10, paid gigs only), please email La Carmina.
Japanese Word of the Day: Zaiaku = Sin
Song of the Day: Rocky Horror Picture Show – Don’t Dream It, Be It (Give yourself over to absolute pleasure / Swim the warm waters of sins of the flesh)
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Don’t mess with kitty’s stockings…
I may do so in January!!!
WoO!
Looks like Basil is yelling “this is all mine!”
haha he’s a little possessive …
Great blog today- lots of useful things to explore, and Basil going all MGM on the socks/tights in that one pic… LOL ╭____╮ (=^◊^=)
He’s my lion-bear :)
Yay (^ ひ ^)/
Luv your style ><
http://www.asianfashion.com/blog/2ne1-fashion-style.html
awesome band
So so so great!
Got any fun plans for N Years? Where will you be?
Nooo that’s so unlucky! I already planned New Years’ Eve in New York so I will be broke after -_- have fun with my countryman!! XD
Ohhh that will be amazing! Do you know how you’ll spend N Years yet? I have a NY shopping and club guide here – https://lacarmina.com/2010/04/nyc-goth-clubs-clothing-stores-new-york-gothic-industrial-fetish-parties-alternative-nightlife-events-bars-manhattan/
Dances of Vice parties are the best. :)
I already planned the evening… but I guess the shopping giude will be very very useful! I know where my next paycheck will go :P
yayyy
Ooooh I wish I could see you at NOH8, but I’ll be at Disneyland on the 11th and sadly can’t request any more days off work so soon (cursed retail job) ; ; I suppose I’ll have to just stalk you into a club one night and demand a picture with you XD
…Yeah, that’s not creepy at all!
Actually, we’re having a private shoot with NOH8 for the Familiar Faces section of their site… ;)
We’ll be at club nights; announcements to come… hope you can join!
That fluffy thing makes me think about Sesshomaru lol ♥
Innocent flame.
Basil Farrow is so WAAAAHHHHH!! ihihi ^ – ^ ♥ so cute. 18 pairs?!? Waoo!! Kawaii ne~ I like so much the black and pink pair ^^
You’re so purdy.
I love every pair of socks you have!!! I also have a lot of them but they’re no so cool as yours.
I’ll be waiting for your LA Invasion reports, the whole idea sounds amazing!!
Ahhh there’s so much happening in LA… we’re very excited!! Can’t wait to share our adventures with you ^^
First off – those are a lot of clothing for the legs! I suggest you wear Basil around your neck – you’ll definitely leave an AWESOME impression on the TV execs for sure.
Love Alice Nine and love the GazettE – though I do feel that…they’ve just gotten a TINY bit mainstream now…like it doesn’t feel like the GazettE I knew 3 years back or so…or the Alice Nine I knew 2 years back. Just something doesn’t sound so normal about them – but their music is still damn good. the GazettE’s latest single: PLEDGE is really beautiful. But to me can’t really compare with ballads like Cassis or Reila.
Wow…so all this time when looking for some “asian” fashion on eBay, I could’ve just put in a quick phrase like “Asian Fashion” on my Google toolbar and then bam I would have that site. Oh well better late than never I guess haha. Can’t wait to browse that site.
As for your L.A invasion – Please do enjoy!!! I can’t be there, though I really am only 200 miles away or so…=(, maybe next time. New Years is going to be quite wild there haha!
And boy Basil really is surprised in those pics.
Ahaha I do have my cat scarf… I should bring it! http://www.carmenyuen.com/blog/blogpics/081012_bfish4.jpg
I know what you mean about GazettE. I was a little weirded out by the hip hip / rappy elements on the new CD…
Lots of exciting projects in the works, can’t wait to share!
NOW THAT IS NICE HAHA!
Love their socks and stockings and arm warmers!
Can’t wait to wear them.
Oh my, so many stockings!! I like the album covers of the upper two albums in the picture. The cube and the ton-sur-ton like cover. What’s the name of those two albums?
“-My my my my my my my, I’m a wild and an untamed thing, i’m a bee with a deadly sting, you got a hit and your mind goes PING, your heart’ll thump and your blood will sing…” Oh, the HORROR of this decadence…
Cube is GazettE – DIM and ton sur ton is the Complete Alice Nine Collection. ^^
Oh horror, oh scandal!
Ahhhh so jealous!!! I need socks, why is LA so cold!?
Basil is just the cutest! Look like he´s very amused among those socks(and it´s all HIS pair of stockings) S2
hehe yeah, he’s a very funny little kitty… :)
Oh Basil.
Super cute!
Those socks are adorable~ Basil seems to approve a lot~
I was very happy and excited when I learned that the GazettE was going to be available for US purchases. Hot Topic’s subdivision, shockhound.com, has set up a page for them as well and I hope their popularity in the United States grows so that I will be able to see them in my home country. I’m traveling to Tokyo in two weeks to be able to see them at Tokyo Dome. It’s pretty cool that Maru Music sent you the CDs! DIM is currently my favorite CD of the GazettE.
I’ve never been to LA before, so I’m excited to read about your trip!
hey there :) te amo carmina
Stoked I’ll be seeing you soon, La Carmina! ♥
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Same!!!! Do keep me posted on the Tarantino-high-fashion N Year’s event… so intrigued!!
Did you already post the pics of the collab with you and h.NAOTO?? I think I missed it if you did lol I wish I could join you in LA but I’m on the east coast keke
Omg Basil is one cranky premadonna hahaha
Nope, the Naoto photos haven’t been published yet… they’ll be on CNN sometime before Xmas. Everyone will fall over fainting when they see them!