The textures are rich, the colors are vibrant and the styles are not something you are going to see on every virtual street.

Designed by Giz Seorn, Gizza fashions are a delight to fit and to photograph. Each prim attachment comes with a resizing script so even the most clumsy fashionista can easily get a perfect fit.

The GizzA show will be held Friday July 22nd at 4pm during Miami Fashion Week. If you can’t wait till then to see more, check out the Inworld Store or shop lag free at the Marketplace.

So while I am busy shooting pretty miss Rissa in the gown, Moz heads off exploring, falls into the city sewers and  starts IMing me about the wonders he is seeing. The rat. I want to play too…so i take far less shots then normal. I got a good one tho.

Work done and  Rissa happily off to do what ever girl models do, i hurried off to find Mozart. Word of warning. DO NOT teleport into the sewers of Paris. You will drown. I have proof.

I also know if I am drowning in a sewer because of a bad teleport…my partner will be to busy laughing his head off to save me. Such a sad sad state. At least the sewer water was remarkably clean that day. Once I got dried off and reapplied the now running eyeliner, we were off to explore. We found a under ground library and theater, had cakes a little cafe  and saw a dragon wandering the city, calm as could be. Second life is so wonderful, everything has a bit of magic to it. However of all the wonders of the city, it was this simple, mundane antique public urinal that really got Mozart excited.

This urinal had him laughing till he wheezed, he IMed people about it. He fell about the place. He had to go try it out. He just loved it. (don’t worry…I don’t get it either but oh gods it was charming. Such enthusiasm!)

Still there were other more impressive metal structures in Paris that I wanted to see so once we had worn out the wonders of the urinal..it was off to the Eiffel Tower. I have heard that its good luck for a couple to share a slow dance under the tower so that was my plan. We managed to find a smooth bit of green lawn and music. Its always so much fun to dance with my Moz, i could have danced for hours.

The sun was fading though and soon it would be time to rest. What better place to watch the sun set them from the top of this grand tower..so reluctantly we ended our dance and made our way to the sky. Brilliant reds and yellows blended artfully with the rusty hues of the tower, again…magical.  Sometimes tho it was hard to keep my eyes on the skys.

Ugly pants and fluffy hair…and i find him utterly breathtaking. Everything becomes an adventure with the right person at your side. Second life…its a magical place.

I think on theme….because just doing any old formal dress and tux is boring. I stare at my Logo and think….and think… Hmmmm. STEAM PUNK FORMAL!  Suddenly i had my idea and I was off and running. I better be off and running. I have less then a week to make two new designs that will wow the judges.  Fabric swatches are found and I am off and virtual sewing for all I am worth.

The dress came pretty easy, I was really pleased with myself when I showed it to the boyfriend. Mozart, the dear thing looked at it…and went “mmmm”. He does that alot. Mmmm.  I am never sure what it means. This time it meant that the textures on the skirt were warped and distorted at the top.  Thus began my treck into the learning of “warp tool’. This proves to be very distracting… and so does Mozart. Really…an avatar should not look that good when someone is trying to work.

The dress is done at last and I have sent it off to my model, Rhonda. Now its time to get the tux going. Women’s clothing is hard for me, but men’s designs are FUN. I had so many ideas for this steam tux that it was a bit tricky to pick just one.

I took theaptly named “Chance” suit and went to an audition.

To my great delight, I got in as one of the top 20.

The idea of the contest is simple. 20 designers are given a theme and one week. In that week they have to create two outfits on the theme. one for men and one for women. Then they have to get them onto a preselected model and styled for the runway. Then the outfits must be photographed,  boxed and ready to sell. In one week. Yes. One week.

Yes. We designers in this contest are crazy for doing this.

I can hardly wait to start.

Romance is your own soul dancing simply because someone else exists.

In spite of the move or perhaps to honor it,  the Brocade Tiger line brings you my lastest vision….

Bolero in Black Snake

This black snake skin men’s ensemble is fierce, With a high collared, bolero jacket and some fringe at the bottom hem. The modifiable snake skin pants are form fitting and lace sexily up one leg. Perfect with boots.

This is just one hot outfit that shows lots of skin in a unique way. The sheer shirt has a vee neck and cool snakeskin pattern as well or it can be worn with the jacket collar for a different look.
If you want something different and still want to exude sexiness, this is the outfit for it.

Drop by Brocade Tiger and see what we have for you.

The few that know me have noticed I am hardly ever around SL these days.  I am alive…and breathing and still in fine health so that is good. However I really can’t say my Real Life has been to good lately.

Some very drastic lifestyle changes have occurred and the past couple months have seen huge drains on my time and my creative spirit. Even when I do get a few moments to sit down at the computer I have been to tired and frazzled to do more than read email.

I have not given up yet tho. This is still the year of the Tiger and I will be working on my store and my SL. I miss my peaceful quiet home. I miss my SL muse….but I shall carry on. I will be back.

As I transported myself around the seedy space ports and glorious galaxy sims of Second life in search of a proper place to shoot a photo of such out of this world clothing, I kept receiving IMs from complete strangers. “Neat Outfit” “Love the costume” “Where did you get that?” It really was difficult to keep up the image of a “Silent Admiral” when people keep insisting that you talk and give them the name and space port location of your tailor’s flagship.

Surely you want to know too. This stunningly unique Space Glam design called the “Silent Admiral” is the mind’s work of the every so creative Soraya Vaher and can be found at the Violator Headquarters.

Design wise its a very unique outfit. The red panels and graceful flexi-spikes that adorn the outfit give it shape and motion that begs to be photographed. It’s also easy to wear. I am a slender avatar and I was able to get the belt and long coat to fit me with very minor adjustments. The long coat is not required to worn, removing it gives the outfit a slightly more casual and less “evil warlord” appeal.

While on the topic of evil, I have to also mention these boots.

These are the “GridRunner” boots and they are not to be worn by the faint of heart. You can lose blood wearing these boots, those graceful looking curved spikes are mighty sharp. But then nobody ever said fashion was meant to be safe.

My Second Life was pretty dramatic this year. Some of  the highlights and low points included…

• I was fired from the job that supported me in SL and so had to get back into clothing design to pay for my fees.
• I met the love of my Second Life and fell for him harder and trusted him more deeply then I ever imagined possible.
  
• I became friends with designers, artists and top models that I formally would have been far to shy to even speak to.
• I had a huge,  beautiful wedding.
  
• I became a Top model myself.
• I got to see my own clothing in a fashion show for the first time.
• I won first place in a designers contest then had the win ruined by complaints, confused judges, ill counted votes and general nastiness.
  
• I had private RL things discovered and wielded against me by those who I thought were friends.
• I got invited to take part in the 2010 clothing Fair as a designer.
  
• I slowly lost the love of my SL life to a horrible RL illness.
• I was the victim of  perhaps the meanest trick i have ever had played on me in my life. In or out of SL.

I have learned so much this year. I have learned that no matter how famous someone is, they are still people and are likely thrilled to talk about what they do to someone that is truly interested  I have learned that even if they are often quiet,  when i need them I have a few fantastic friends who are willing and able to pick me up off the floor, dust me off and help me stand again.  I have learned that SL love can be very dangerous to your heart and health. I now know that if the story sounds to good or bad to be true then it might well be just that…a story. I have realized that I am very strong, very talented and that this coming year is the Chinese year of the Tiger.

All in all, thank goodness 2009 is done.

I am The Brocade Tiger….and this is going to be my year.

He had been at the end stages of what he called “The Dread Illness” and for the past month he and I both knew whenever he logged out of Second life, it might well be the last time we saw each other.  We talked about it once and got our shared tears and sorrow out of the way..then vowed to not talk about it again. Instead when he logged in, I would drop everything and go be with him to have fun. Our times were pretty rare because he was often tired, but we had a grand time whenever he could. We made love, we walked thou beautiful sims, we scuba dived, I even got my British beloved  to don a cowboy hat and go line dancing  with me.  And snuggles, there was so many times just filled with cuddles and kisses and talks.  I took photos of everything, seemed I was always snapping pictures of him, of us. . …I knew I was going to lose him someday and I so wanted to capture every memory.

Sadly, this week the dreaded someday finally came. Last Weds, Dec 9th, he came on and spent a couple good hours with me. We went out dancing and listened to a live comedic singer who made him laugh till his sides ached.  Afterwords he was tired but wanted a bit of time just to be held before he called it a night.  We found a place on the beach and he settled on my lap, head resting on my shoulder. Then we talked awhile,  just gentle peaceful talk as lovers will do. When he logged out that night, he was still curled into my arms. As always….I took a photo. This turned out to be  his last moments on Second life….and he spent them in my arms.

Somehow the romantic, sappiness of that poetic ending would have made him smile. He always did love when we were overly sappy and silly.

We exchanged an email and he left some comments on my fliker pages after that night, but we never talked in real time again. On Sunday night, Dec 13th, Andreas, the person and soul behind the Avatar called Genie went peacefully to sleep and never woke again.

Second Life may be “just a game” but what a game it is. It allowed a dieing man and a lonely man to find  each other and give to each other what they could not have in real life. I was so very lucky to have and hold Genie in this virtual world and though I will not speak to him again in this lifetime, I shall be forever changed by having known his gentle, peaceful soul. He has made me a better person.

Sweet Sleep m’love.

Ever Yours.

Lex <3