TROUBLE

I don't take no orders...from no kind of man! ... I'm evil baby so don't you mess around with me. xx.L

YOURS ALONE

"When Miss St. Clare walks, she walks. But when she does something else, she very easily becomes all the animals who ever came out of the ark, rolled into one. Most people move by not keeping still; a very few move by moving; she does neither. She propagates - that is perhaps the word for it - a literally miraculous synthesis of flying and swimming and floating and rising and darting and gliding and pouncing and falling and creeping and every other conceivable way of moving; and all these merely conceivable ways are mysteriously controlled by an inconceivable way which is hers alone." - What E.E. Cummings wrote of burlesque star June St. Clare, in "Striptease - The Untold History of the Girlie Show" by Rachel Shteir

How do you think someone would describe your moves? xx.L

SINTRIGUE

 I've been in that peach cloud again, day-dreaming & dark-dreaming of endless possibilities, open to every idea, color, option, shape. So far, I seem to have started on the naughty side of inspiration...because we all know every lady has got a little good Sandy as well as bad Sandy in her! xx.L

LONELY BLUE BOY

Wiggle with me... xx.L

SCENE 1

I've been in that amazing, incredible yet annoying space lately in my mind. The space where you are so focused on finishing one project to get it going off the ground and aren't necessarily doing the fun bits but more so the gritty bits of being a business lady. I always find that I happen to be most creative when I shouldn't be. Especially when said creativity should be focusing on other things like preparing my website outline for my graphic designer or spending time editing photographs in photoshop, it is these times more than any other time when I am most creative for what I want to create next. The prospect of being able to work on a new collection is so exciting, it is almost like falling in love all over again. It is my favorite part about what I do (second down from this is the amazing feeling of seeing someone love what you make and want to own it), deciding on what type of lady she will be this time, if she has a particular mood or an extra sparkle in her eye. Shapes, colors, fabrics, everything is so exciting it is almost overwhelming. There is always so much I want to make, so many different fabric options that I may want to use and planning a day for me to be at the fabric store is like planning a special secret vacation. The best part is that this amazing fabric store with all of the finest in the world (literally) knows me well enough (I'm practically there everyday) that they will let me just play and pull whatever fabrics I like until I get the collection just right. This limbo position will hopefully not last too much longer, I'm getting quite anxious to see what Lola will want this time around...it will be winter soon after all. xx.L

ACT I

This past weekend, my amazing production team & I shot the campaign photo, product shots and video campaign for this little collection. It went unbelievably smooth, due to incredible planning, and from what I can tell so far, should come out better than I imagined it could ever be. Inspired by a few many things and thought of in a dream, I can't wait to show you all the final product. In the meantime, I will leave you with a few back round photographs taken by myself and my photographer - Mr. Carson Bell and owe a huge gratitude of thanks to my amazing (as always) model Ms. X and my Actor - Mr. Oran Scott of Relic Vintage - you all just knock my socks off! I'll be back with more than a sneaky peek soon. xx.L

IT'S PEACHES!

Happy 4th of July! I'm celebrating by making mini bourbon peach pies to take over to a friend's lovely house & watch the fireworks. Fingers crossed that these little bundles come out just right! xx. L

SOME LIKE IT SAVAGE

My vintage Fredericks of Hollywood leopard ponyhair springolators were getting oh so lonely in my closet so I found a gorgeous pair of Ferncraft zebra ponyhair springolators to keep them company. Savage! xx.L

CAMPAIGN PRODUCTION

 

The most exciting part, I suppose, of completing the creative process of designing a new collection and after you've spent days upon days sewing up said collection, you finally get to the point where it is ready to be photographed for the world and sold off to new homes & all you can ever hope for is that someone out there will love this collection just as much as I do. Not only are we photographing this collection for all your eyes to see but we are also doing a short video. My hopes are that this video, after a few weeks of preparation following a dream I had (literally, I dreamt it up in my sleep) will make you giggle and perhaps give you a little mood inspiration if you decide to purchase one of my goodies! I leave you with this simple photo of inspiration...a boudoir lamp was where it all started and that is what I leave you with for now...xx.L

IF YOU FEEL IT

Mixing it up...so good! xx.L