LIP SERVICE MODELS: STEAMPUNK VAMPIRE CLOTHING & MAKEUP. GOTH & ALTERNATIVE FASHION MODELLING, VAMPIRES MAGAZINE.
While in LA, Sebastiano Serafini and I had the opportunity to be models for Lip Service! We put on fangs and growled for a Steampunk Vampire photoshoot in a private dungeon.
The Lip Service shoot was for Vampyrotic, a magazine to “celebrate our dark sanguinary desires in gorgeously captured photos and video.” We crept into the downtown domination space, Servitu, with our mastermind photographer Mich.
It was impossible to narrow down our clothing choices for the shoot, so we ended up taking several sacks with us (including borrowed top hats and stomper boots). Mich fitted us with vampire teeth, which you first soak in warm water, then press to your canines until they firm up and stay in place.
Servitu Studios was a funhouse of torture equipment, including restraints, medical examination chairs, rusty cages, and a “vacuum bed” that vacuum-packs a person into latex. (Sebastiano: “Should we try?”)
A lamb mask, a pole with a perilous “object” attached… By now, my young “virgin victim” truly has been corrupted!
We settled on the dark aristocratic chair by the window and filled our wine glasses with blood. Our outfits are mostly coordinated from Lip Service’s Step in Time Steampunk collection.
Do you like this look on Sebastiano? I think he looks like a dashing Victorian airship captain.
We had the whole studio to ourselves — and used the opportunity to play.
Despite all my rage, I’m still just a Steampunk Pirate in a cage.
We changed into Nocturnal Rendezvous and Circuit City cyber garments, and climbed to the rooftop. Dusk was falling and the sky was radioactive blue. Perfect for a Power Rangers pose.
Thank you to Mich, Mickey, Bryn, Maria and everyone at Lip Service for having us as models! You can see us featured on the website here. Seba and I also toured the dark fashion company’s headquarters; these photos are coming right up on my blog.
Steampunk Vampires, brass and blood… what do you think of our styling?
PS: Naomi and I have a big new pirate mission in Japan with one of our favorite bands (you’ll know their name!). So much travel and adventure ahead this year… I’m fortunate to be able to work with my friends, and with artists I admire — and have all of you along for the ride!
Want to bring your band, film crew, fashion line or any project to Japan? Need someone to guide, consult, translate? Hire a pirate! (There’s more about our services on the La Carmina & The Pirates website.)
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Wow. As always, looking really snazzy. Love your striped boots. Also, your jackets are to die for~!
The things I’d do to be able to model in those clothes…
Aww thank you!! We’re having a lot of fun with photoshoots lately :) The striped shoes are borrowed from Lip Service’s giant shoe collection…
i love it :)
Seba reminds me of Edward Scissorhands! [why??? no idea XD]
siete bellissimi!! you’re both very beatiful!!
hehe do you like the way he’s dressing recently? Visual Kei Goth Vampire Seba :3
I dig the striped boots!
omg lipservice???!!!… darn u guys!
<3 We had lots of fun in the dungeon!
fierce.
You and Sebastiano look hot in anything!
haha not in the mornings… maybe..
Vampires, pirates, Harajuku style…Thumbs UP for this photo shoot!!
u guys look AMAZING
Sebastiano kind of looks like Kamijo from Versailles! Awesome~!
(you two in the cage, kinkeh hahahaha)
hotness <3 maybe he should cut and style his hair like Kamijo!
so good! The lace up boots… The patterns… HOT! thanks for sharing ;-)
Omg Seba DOES look KAMIJO lol!!! Wow… the outfits, that room… <3 the things that could be done in that room…muahahahaha
The medical equipment and restraints… “should we try” haah!
I think you should marry me in a big steampunk vampire wedding :3. Those are my thoughts. Now to find a Genie..
step in time is like, THE greatest line ever, i love it!
Im stealing the boots. :D
Love the cyber outfit. <3
I was tempted to keep the boots. They were borrowed from Lip Service and killed my feet, so maybe not… ;)
hes eye candy
nom nom nom ;)
oh thanks! …I’ll take the boots~ Sebastiano really does looks like Kamijo from Versailles. It’s quite odd.
:O hayley williams commented on your photoshoot with sebastiano?! That’s so awesome!!! :D
I Luv Hayley!!
Love the photoshoot!
You two are super gorgeous!!!! Wish I could join you!!! >.< xxxx
^__^ It was a fun shoot!
Cute. XD
Amazing!!!!!!!!!!! :D
these pieces are amazing and you both look stunning. :)
u guys r hot
Awwww sebastion looks so cute in those photos! That look really suits him!
AWESOME SHOOT! I like the setting!
awesome!!! both of you look just GREAT!!!
waiting for the news about your pirate mission!!!!
I love everything gothic, especially of the dull, dreary, frilly, bloody type~~ The Steam Punk and NightCrawler outfits are genius ; x;
frills and blood = <3
Wow! :D What a fantastic photoshoot. You guys look beautiful.
woow very cool!
Very awesome pics. Damn me being up in Nor cal!!
I love steampunk and the Victorian styles and the clothes in these shots are great. They should be used on a Sci-fi book cover.
Thank you!!
I really liked the photoshoot. Their steampunk line is great.
Love the rooftop pics especially! Love the stripy boots too – only wish they had a platform – I’d be all over them!
<3 thanks! They're borrowed from Lip Service ;) I think they'd look great on you!