VOGOFF Hits the Digital Newstand!

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Melanie, of Bag and Beret, is the force behind a zany spoof on fashion magazines called VOGOFF.
She put out a call for submissions in April, which you really need to read -- so hysterical!

Here is my VOGOFF spread:

[image © Melanie Kobayashi 2013] 

I was working out my inner Nagel. I love how Melanie dropped me amidst the pansies.
[Side note: the landlady DREAMS that our lawn looks like that!]

Here are some more photos from my session, which was done with the camera placed high on a ladder set on a ten second delay self-timer. EXTREME pain resulted from the multiple times I ran back and forth from the camera to the set.
Oh, how I suffer for you!

I did lots of Fashion Victim poses

Close, but realized that I need my 80s sunglasses

Nothing like a good hand selfie

This one made the cut.

As did this. That rose is from my garden and I probably turned it into jam.

Here are my notes-to-self I typed here in a draft before I did my thing in the back yard. My photo shoot didn't quite go this way, but it makes for a fun fashion poem:

Me, the back yard, covered with the guest quilt, which will be PSed with all the +40 sketches
or printouts?
leopard pillows?
naked?
reading VOGOFF w/Mel's sketch?

victim of the 80s
fashion sketches from OTIS
spewed about back yard 

That last bit is almost a hiaku!
Let's make it a proper one (3 lines/ 5-7-5 syllables):

Victim of eighties
Crinoline and school sketches
Spewed about back yard

Thank you Melanie, for inspiring me to go even crazier than usual!
Joining up with Patti's Visible Monday -- click on over and join the party!

*disclosure note: I used Aloxxi Flexible Hairspray to get my 80s inspired updo, gifted at a LuckyFABB event. Everything else I purchased in the 80s and 90s, except for the currently available Cover Girl #305 Hot Passion lipstick. I'm still trying to remember where I got that crinoline...

Details:

Black nylon/spandex bubble knit tube dress -- Trash and Vaudeville, NYC 80s

Pink petticoat -- Cowboys and Poodles on Melrose, LA? Screaming Mimi's, NYC? 80s

Red/black stripe cotton/spandex leggings -- Betsey Johnson 79(?)

Booties -- Norma Kamali 85

African bracelets + necklaces -- Jone Pasha, Providence RI, 80s

Jumbo Chain necklace -- Patucci, The Front Porch, Providence RI, 80s

Sunglasses -- vintage from optician Providence, RI 80s

Gingham yardage -- Guess sample yardage sale, 86

Whirling Dervish

The last five days have been a whirlwind of activities!
Here are some highlights, before I dash off to work...

Wednesday night, after work, I attended a pre-LuckyFABB event at stylehaüs at The Grove.
[Mary of The Recessionista kindly gave me her ticket] We got hair makeovers courtesy of Aloxxi.

Here's Heather in the chair with Angel

My finished look: late 80's hair!

Thursday was Lucky FABB, the fashion and beauty bloggers' conference presented by Lucky Magazine.
I wasn't able to get a ticket, so I lurked around the SLS Hotel lounge and sketched.

Bloggers!

Girl of Mystery, delivering a hat to Tina Craig of Bag Snob

sketch of same

Friday, I went downtown to help jury the garments for the OTIS Fashion Show to be held 5/4.

Student work created under the guidance of Christopher Wicks

Saturday I taught, then dashed over to TAG Gallery for my art show reception.

It was a madhouse! Lots of events were happening that night at Bergamot. We had 600 come to our reception!
[photo by Severo]

Twirling for the camera with my art behind me

Sunday, I hosted a private tea for the alumnae of Emma Willard, my high school (an all-girls' prep in Troy, NY)

I used my grandmother's Wedgwood that I inherited

Miss Willard started our school, the first girls' academy of the US, in 1814.
We celebrated her 226th birthday with this lovely cake from Crumbs Bake Shop

[photo by Ellen Friedlander]

Linking up with Patti's Visible Monday, where the party continues...