Vivi’s Fashion Finds and Accidents: Gone fishin’

I wish.  Really my real life job has had its merry way with me and I was not able to finish the Rebel Hope review for this week or anything else.  So look for my column here next week and I do apologize.

Vivi’s Fashion Finds and Accidents: Pixel Dolls

Today I continue my series of reviews of shops that have been around since the beginning of time and are still here and bring you Pixel Dolls (PD).  PD was one of the first stores I ever bought something from and once I discovered it I kept returning and did not stop until I’d purchased [...]

Vivi’s Fashion Finds and Accidents: Nomine

I am playing with the new-to-me Picnik thing while I tell you all about the luv that I have for Nomine and Munchflower Zaius.  I also luv the Picnik interface.  Way too easy to manipulate pictures.  Case in point:   I am wearing various pieces of the Nomine Gypsy collection.  Back when I first started in SL — when [...]

Vivi’s Fashion Finds and Accidents: Sentou Yousei

These boots are something that Jori found.  I was waiting for her to blog them but then she couldn’t take hi-res snapshots and now she’s no longer here and neither is Isle and no amount of rending clothes, weeping, sobbing, screaming, threatening, pleading, cajoling, lighting incense and praying to various gods, begging, bribing, or offers [...]

Vivi’s Fashion Finds and Accidents: A Formal Affair

Dan is DJing a formal tonight and I love this dress so much I decided to blog it.  This is, I think, the latest gown from Nicky Ree — in any case it was the one in the front of the shop with a NEW sign right above it.  I didn’t want to buy it [...]

Vivi’s Fashion Finds and Accidents: Skins, Rollerskates, and Customer Service

This is a repeat of a story I told on the comments of another thread here.  Its a cute story and it bears repeating.  So without any further ado…. Once upon a time I was a newb of about 3 weeks old. I had purchased my first land, a 512m2 plot and wanted a little [...]

Vivi’s Fashion Finds and Accidents: Adam ‘N Eve roxxers my soxxers

In a hurry again today so I’ll let the pictures do the talking for me.  I recently discovered the love that is Adam ‘N Eve.  Actually I have quite a bit of their older stuff — say from -07 — but hadn’t been back to the store in quite a while.  OMG my poor wallet.  [...]

Vivi’s Fashion Finds and Accidents: Hair, Hair Fair, and Rants, oh my. Its not what you think.

I promised you my favorites from the Hair Fair. I will deliver and I also have for you a very cute outfit from DuckNipple.  I don’t know what odd twist of imagination caused a person to put together the words “duck” and “nipple” but I’m really happy its the name of a clothing store and not [...]

Vivi’s Fashion Finds and Accidents: OMG Boots!

Running late so more pictures, less words.  I think the skirt is part of a dress from Last Call but I took these pics and then didn’t write down the creators and cannot find the dress. However I’m in a hurry and since I think its Last Call you can’t buy it anyway.  Now for a distraction – go [...]

Vivi’s Fashion Finds and Accidents: Gone Fishin’

I don’t usually do the neko thing and technically I’m not doing it now since there’s no ears and tail and nekoish whatnot.  On the other hand I look like a ragamuffin except for my meticulously made-up eyes and lashes, have a hobo stick, and, if you click through, I might have a fish in my [...]

Vivi’s Fashion Finds and Accidents: Explorer Chic

What does the well-dressed fashionista wear when going on an adventure?  Why the Morgan outfit from INDI Designs, that’s what!  Our intrepid adventurer first saw this dashing outfit months ago in the INDI store and said to herself: “Self, that’s a damn cool outfit!”  Being a bit broke at the time I messaged the owner of [...]

Vivi’s Fashion Finds and Accidents, Part the Deux. Pixel Dolls Skulls.

So Neph shows me this new thing she’s making and I swear to gods the outfit created itself.  Sometimes you don’t even have to try.  Things I’d forgotten I’d purchased leaped out of my inventory and demanded to be worn NOW!  And thus an outfit was born. Its getting late and I’m tired so I’m [...]

Vivi’s Fashion Finds and Accidents: Neomancer

Believe it or not, this outfit started with a belt.  Well more appropriately, it started with last week’s outfit for which I wanted a belt.  I remembered that Etain at Dark Eden had made these cool magician’s belts so I pinged her for one and then it just didn’t look right.  So I didn’t use [...]

Vivi’s Fashion Finds and Accidents: Country Chic

Ivey Deschanel made a post at The SLRevolution that I totally disagree with.  So I was thinking to myself, “who is this Ivey person anyways” and I looked her up online and hence found myself at Snatch.  The ‘a’ is usually an ‘at’ sign but that is trying to make an email address out of the name [...]

Our lady of bluejeans, Ms. Callie Cline

So if you pay any attention at all to Second Life fashion, you might have heard about this chick named Callie Cline and how she organized a blogger appreciation week although in truth she originally started out with one day.  And what a week it was.  She organized content creators to give gifts to us [...]

This outfit is your fault

So I set out to punish you. My rusted chain ballgown was too ‘different.’ Nary a word of praise was heard and it pissed me off. How dare you? That gown was so way beyond the Thunderdome that Tina Turner’s designers, were they dead, would have jumped out of their graves singing hallelujah and genuflecting [...]

Post-apocalyptico with KwZ

Sorry this is necessary but… This blogpost was written by Vivianne Draper for ShoppingCartDisco.  Copyright 2009 by Vivianne Draper and ShoppingCartDisco.  All rights reserved.  Yes I know this statement usually goes at the bottom.  However the bottom is normally after the cut. So everyone on the SL fashion blogosphere is busy drooling over the new [...]

Baggy pants

Firstly, this post is by Vivianne Draper for Shopping Cart Disco.  Runway Magazine didn’t write this and is not connected with it in any way despite thier attempts at rampant plagarism. I still haven’t finished my mondo projects.  So sue me — I work a full time job in addition to being a crack fashion [...]

Short and Sweet

I have a couple of large posts in the works but nothing is ready yet.  So I looked in my inventory and this is what came out.  Today will be short and sweet.     Hat: PixelDolls — Floppy Velvet Hat Shirt: [JU] juju’s closet freebies — Monserrrrrrrrr F Boxers: [JU] juju’s closet freebies — [...]

Nonna Hedges Details for an evening of elegance

Once upon a time it was that if I wanted an evening gown, I would shop at one place and one place only: Details by Nonna Hedges.  There were other people who made evening gowns, but none had the same style, elegance, and craftsmanship that went into hers.  Which is not to knock anyone else’s [...]

Ookami Ningen for the win — and for the variety

Ookami Ningen (ON) is one of those treasures you find hiding out in some corner of Second Life.  Upon discovery you wonder why you didn’t know about this place sooner.  Zorena Deckard (owner of Ookami Ningen) and I have been friends since shortly after I came to Second Life and I have had the pleasure of [...]

Amerie’s Naughty

As is my habit, I wander around Second Life exploring and when I see something I like I right-click to see who the creator is. If the creator is wise, s/he will have a link to the shop in his or her profile and as it turns out, this creator was wise. So there I [...]

Vivi’s Fashion Finds and Accidents: Pixel Mode

The problem with Tya Fallingbridge is that she doesn’t know what she wants to be when she grows up. This lady is just too talented for her own good and her store, Pixel Mode, is a perfect reflection of the amazing, if not scattered, work that she does. Now before I go any further I [...]

Vivi’s Fashion Finds and Accidents: Hi There!

I thought I should write a short introductory post.  I’ve been around for a while and have my own blog to which I post occasionally.  I thought writing for SCD would be oogobs of fun and I was looking for an activity that would draw me back to SL but not in any hardcore way.  [...]

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