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HBO HOW TO MAKE IT IN AMERICA LAUNCH PARTY. PRIVATE TV SHOW SCREENING AT LOFTSEVEN IN LOS ANGELES.
Look out Los Angeles — Yukiro Dravarious and La Carmina have landed! We kicked off the nightcrawling with HBO’s private launch party for a new TV show from the producers of Entourage: How to Make it in America.
StudioBooth took digital photos of the guests with a wireless remote, and then projected them on a large screen for everyone to see. (Don’t we look like bats?)
It was a pleasure to see old friend Rony of Rony’s Photobooth, who took the photos above and below.
Yukiro’s hair is newly died purple; I love the transitions between the dark and neon. He’s wearing homemade top and bottom eyelashes, and painted in his eyebrows thick for a Sunset Boulevard effect. How on Mars did Yukiro create the lift in his hair? It’s a secret… and we’re not telling!
Cheers to free champagne! I’m wearing a People’s Market dress (a London brand with boudoir and flapper influences), a NYC fabric market fringe around my neck, Daiso red rose hair clips, and my new Lip Service jacket. Black faux fur, spikes, vinyl… so over the top. I bought it because it reminds me of Gackt’s coat in the Vanilla PV.
The party was at LoftSeven, an airy white penthouse with a 360 degree view of downtown LA. We watched a preview of the HBO show, How to Make it in America, which “follows two enterprising Brooklyn twenty somethings as they hustle their way through New York City, determined to achieve the American Dream.” The artsy cast of characters strive to make it in fashion and energy drink entrepreneurship, with plenty of ups and downs and round-and-rounds.
No matter when or where, we’re dramatic. Rony came by and called us silly.
What did we think of the fashion at the party? In Yukiro’s words, “It was not top quality.” (Oh, I die!) The handful of grandmothers rocked, but everyone else wore generic upscale hipster… (You can see more pics on StudioBooth and Rony’s Photobooth).
And then we rushed back to meet the rest of the Undead Metal-Head Adventure Team. More LA coverage coming right up — and we’re off to Vegas tomorrow to promote the new clothing line at Magic Clothing Tradeshow! Will anyone be there? Come say hi to us at booth 21306!
Song of the Day #306: Gackt – Vanilla (in honor of my crazy jacket.)
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SPANK! FAIRY KEI FASHION PARTIES. COOL 1980S USED CLOTHING & HANDMADE CLOTHING BOUTIQUE IN TOKYO, BRIGHT COLORED HAIR JAPANESE GIRLS.
Happy Valentines Day and Lunar New Year from the Adventure Team! Thanks to everyone who came to our Jpop purikura party last night — absolutely loved your outfits and dancing Lady Gaga with you. Photos to come, of course.
Tavuchi, the green-haired queen of Spank! clothing stores in Tokyo, kindly gave me permission to post some party photos from her MySpace. I think the shop motto says it all: “So cute! Hug me! Love me! Spank me!”
The Spank! shop girls love the 1980s. They’re not only inspired by Cyndi Lauper’s style, but also her “girls just want to have fun” attitude.
Spank! throws candy-cute pop-and-lovery parties, which I must check out for myself when I’m in Tokyo this May. (Co-hosting the Canal Plus documentary with Antoine de Caunes, if you forgot… pas de vacances pour moi…)
I’ve only bought one item from Spank! so far — a black velvet Alice in Wonderland hairband with a big bow in the center, from Marui One. The stores, however, are a must-visit just for the experience… talk about stepping into Jem and the Hologram’s boudoir.
Tavuchi (center, in the green hair) has been getting a lot of attention recently from street style blogs. There’s an entire Tumblr dedicated to her outfit photos, and you can also stalk her on Lookbook.
I confess I’m a sucker for fairy kei fashion. I’ve done many posts about it on this blog; to read more, search for “fairy kei” (on the right sidebar search box). Or click on the Related Posts underneath this post (click on Comments or the post title, then scroll down.) How about you: fairy kei, yay or nay?
The lovely mother and daughter team at Happy Birdycake have been having fun making recipes from my book, Cute Yummy Time! Above are some of their cute creations. Clara and Mya write, “We’ve been having tons of fun with the book and will be working on more next week (making your tofu pandas and gingerbread penguins)!” Join in the fun and play with your food: Cute Yummy Time is only $11.38.
Song of the Day #304: Nolans – Gotta Pull Myself Together (Ok, some 1980s sugar-pop should stay in the time vault…)
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