In RL I am an artist with a normal ego. I have sold mt pastels all over the world – thousands. I came into SL and began making clothes because I enjoy it. I learn new things every day – try to up the game and let me say one final word — I WILL NOT OVER PRICE my designs and will ALWAYS keep them affordable. So if you can’t stand the heat stay out of the kitchen because I have a lot me coming at you baby.

There are a lot of designers who make top quality items for 100 to 200L. Being low priced doesn’t mean the items are bad. It’s actually smart because shoppers end up buying more. I know I feel better buying 10 items for $2000 than just 2 items. High priced doesn’t mean it looks great and BMs items are an example of that.

As I visited Black Moon again to see if there were new dresses, Vanilla IM’ed me. She told me to remove my pick because she’s not Callie. It’s not as if it’s a mistake a profile reader would make, the content of the pick and the picture was totally not the real favorite place sort, you know what I mean? I did remove the pick but I wrote off her store in my head.

Maybe im wrong. Im probably wrong.

Anyway, the girl is clearly dellusional. If she can communicate in english and bash american designers, she should be able to take a bashing back. But I still agree there are other, larger, designers, who need a kick off of their pedestal. I could name some, but I won’t start the drama.

This isn’t a new designer in SL. She’s had a shop in SL 2 years before she started her blog. And she claims to be “THE” designer of SL. When she aims high, she better deliver quality to back up her words. So she was treated badly? Tell me, have any of you who cry out now really read her blog, the Black Moon blog? Notice that she mention Blaze here. I say no more.

Friday, August 29, 2008:
There are some new designers offering dresses for 50-250$ and trying to collaps the SL market that already suffers badly by the dollar going down. Besides the fact that the dresses look only on the pics nice and that the designers might even cause that some good designers leave SL, they won’t survive for long because noone can seriously want to buy any more expensive items from them when they see before how simple and sloppy the designs were made by buying the lowpriced ones. Cheap means always also that no love was put in and that the designer just trys to make fast money. Of course I bought also already some real cheap stuff, but seriously most went to trash. At RL it is not any different, only very few things that are real cheap got real quality. A designer got not to feel a bad consience or guilty if he sells you crap at a cheap price, you may even not complain, he would tell you: What do You expect at this price? And he is right.
We have had a flood of crapdesigns and still have it at SL and it is now hopefully getting better when the people just don’t sell their crap anymore because less people spend much money and most discover the difference between quality and crap after being at SL for a while.
As I came to SL it was hard to find any nice gown for less than 1000L$, we have offered the dresses including accessories and heels cheaper than this and have been one of the reasonable priced designs at SL for a long while. Most of our dresses are about 500L$ and less, but I won’t join the new trend to sell at a loss, because my designs are not fast made crap and extremly detailed painted. Thanks to all those awesome people who support our design and love our quality our business is not half as much down as most others and even at a time when shops as Blaze who really tryed to be exclusive and told the magazines they’d live at real life by their design earned not even a quarter of what we earned, so I won’t complain And a very big THANK YOU to our customers, who never did let us down! And by the way I wonder how they lived of what they earned, because truly, they can’t That’s just a nice story. Sl design is not enough as only job if you want to live well at least not if you only design and don’t rip people off.

More posts from August 2008:
This blog is about my design but also about me and so I will use it also to tell how I feel about some things at SL. You might have a different opinion or the same one, that’s ok for me, I don’t expect everyone to agree.

Why is this design extraordinary?
Just because You won’t find this kind of dresses at this quality anywhere else. As I already mentioned a lot of my ideas get used by other designers, but You’ll never find this detailed work and the original is always the best. If I catch people imitating my work I give them the same back till they stop, if needed I even make those clothes freebies after designing them. I am a fighter and as I started having a bigger shop at SL a model asked at a SL magazine for fashion if they’d like to write about my design. She talked to some lady who’s name was Doolittle, I won’t mention her complete name, but I will mention what she said. She seriously said: No we won’t write about this design because You do only ugly costumes and no fashion!
At this point of time I didn’t design any different to nowadays and if you look up my shop you’ll laugh about every single word that this lady said. Meanwhile we are everywhere mentioned as one of the best shops and designs in SL. It is hard if you have to work with people who are totally imcompetent but run any magazine that deeply believes to know about fashion. It’s a true shame for SL! Sorry to say this but it is definetely the truth!
Look up some of my dresses and make up your own mind and opinion.

Why is it such a witchhunt, and such an emotional deal for everyone involved? Because the creators of Second Life have virtually no rights in this situation. Aside from following a DMCA (effective? You tell me), there’s NOTHING we can do once something’s been ripped off… So when we see something we think might’ve been copied… it’s not a rational reaction, it’s an emotional one, because we feel pretty damn helpless about it all. I’m not stating that this particular designer isn’t a bit of a snob, I’m just saying that an overreaction to possible copying and theft is pretty much the norm in a virtual world where copiers GET AWAY WITH IT. And some of the big names out there have done the exact same thing Ms. Black Moon has done, accuse someone of copying a “concept” of sculpted boots, for example.

Okay, that wasn’t meant as a rant about theft/copying… oops. Just to say, ego hits the big guys too, and maybe the emotional freakout over copying is going to be the norm now that it’s so common and LL does frack all about it. :/

I was pretty offended by the comparison to Last Call, though.

Oh, and I agree with sad but true. One of the brands who needs a nudge off their pedestal was just blogged on SCD.

Vanilla is ridiculous to suggest her design concepts are being infringed upon and clearly her designs aren’t about to give our favored design houses a run for their money. That said, if you’re gonna bust people for their display of ego please aim a little higher. The list of people needing a nudge off their pedestal is long indeed.

We should have a newspaper fashion challenge. I’ll see if I can talk Thomas into making silks out of newspapers.

At any rate, she needs to get a clue.

But, y’know, she does all the shading and stuff, as she points out to us.

She also says ‘are you saying my customers have no taste?’

Yep, sweetie. We are.

Assignment: Paper Fashion
Materials: Paper(newspaper, magazine, wallpaper, notebook paper, construction paper, etc)

Process: Design and create a dress or outfit solely based around the concept of paper.

Prize: Personal satisfaction

Sorry, I couldn’t ignore this one, the target was the size of a football field, and even with my poor aim, it was irresistible!

~ Ketsy

Some people just let their imaginations run right off the cliff and land in the pit of DELUSION.

Oh thats easy. he would hit on her, duh.