For Japan

(thanks to Marleen Vaughan for the pic)

MEB takes part in Fashion for Life Event (March 12th-22th)

Fashion for Life is the greatest fashion event in the year: more then 190 fashion designers offer clothes to support the fight of American Cancer Society against cancer.
The event is also a parade of SL fashion, with its 9 sims of stores arranged this year on the theme Beyond Black and White and inspired to 9 famous photographers.

According to the theme, I decored MEB store at Helmut Newton SIM (build by KMADD) in black and white, and we selected the outfits to show and sell there mixing up white and black clothes and colored ones. It's to represent the hope to go from the basic colors to a more colored life.

These are the outfits MEB offers to FFL: buying them you'll contribute to this good cause

We invite our friends to check the sims out, and to visit the MEB store there.

ECRU - 52 Weeks of Color Challenge

Following the challenge by Luna Jubilee, I come again with pics in the color of the week, after some ones by which i've been not inspired...
This time I tryed some effects with mirrors: it's a challenge in the challenge :)

MEB wardrobe is wide enough to contain ecru clothes (even if they are a darker shade of this color), and Melu Deco furniture can be made in matching woods :)

Here are the results...

As usual, better views can be found in my Flickr set

Paris Impressions exhibit

Thanks to Olympes Rhode and Ziget Tammas, of Admicile, I could take part in an exhibit along with two talented photographers as Zuelle Xulay and Shoji Kumaki.
The place is the pretty Cafè des Artistes at the Brasserie Graff, close to Paris 1900's Moulin Rouge. I had also the honor of furnishing the exhibit rooms in Art Deco style.

Paris Impressions affiche

Zuelle's room

Shoji's wall

Melu's wall

The Opening

Melu, Caran, Shoji, Olympes

This is to thank Olympes, Ziget and all the friends who came to enjoy the exhibit.
Celebrating a great city in RL and SL!


(more pics of the opening at http://www.flickr.com/photos/melusina_parkin/sets/72157626045919800/)

52 weeks of color challenge - RED

Red spots!



Just spots of red on a bright background of furniture by Melu Deco: I wear the Colette jacket (from a MEB Spring 2011 Collection outfit), whose special shade of red deserves to be stressed by a contrasting background.

Better view: http://www.flickr.com/photos/melusina_parkin/5444630244/

52 weeks of Color Challenge: BLACK!

This is the most difficult challenge!
How to choose among the thousands of black outfits I have in my inventory?
Well, i've to put more than one pic (again!)

For the first "black" pic I choose a place and a dress that recall one of my favorite places: I worn the MEB Yvette outfit (an homage to Yves Saint Laurent) and I did dream to walk along the ancient Monmartre streets in Paris. Within a week I'll do there (in SL Paris 1900) an exciting thing: I'll take part in an exhibit with some of my Paris' pics! So, nothing more appropriate than wearing this great outfit, dedicated to the French fashion Master!



Now the vintage pics!
Using my own furniture and accessories (Melu Deco), I build a set celebrating the so called Jazz Era: just a couple of stand lamps, a black consolle, a fitting rug. But the atmosphere is done by some icon of that times: the pic by Tamara de Lempicka, the Queen of Art Deco painting, and the Lalique's vase, a well known masterpiece by the great French artist of the decorated glass.
Jazz Era: I'm wearing now a stunning outfit by my dear and great talented friend Maizon Rayna (Terra d'Ombra), that she called Coltrane. Have I to say that this is to me A Love Supreme? *



On the same background, i wanted to wear two dresses from the small collection of precious pieces by Rush Raymaker (Stylissimo): the total black Twisted Victoria and the golden glittering Nightingale's Lock.




What could be more appropriate to celebrate the color (or not-color?) that is the keyword for most of the Haute Couture, the main color of the Jazz scene and one of the main features of the Art Deco style?


* A Love Supreme is the masterpiece suite recorded by John Coltrane in 1964; it's considered one of the greatest and most influential works in Jazz and music history.

52 weeks of colors challenge

The challenge launched by Luna Jubilee follows with this lovely color:

"Taupe" is the french word for mole. Its spelling is close to the italian "talpa" (mole), while its pronounciation remembers the spanish "topo" (mole). I guess moles has different shades, too ;)
I furnished 3 sets using proper wood and burl textures, and i wear 3 MEB outfits in different shades of taupe.

For better views:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/melusina_parkin/5377334081/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/melusina_parkin/5377933462/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/melusina_parkin/5377333817/

52 Weeek of Colors Challenge: INDIGO

Dress: MEB Prada sky - Hair: Kik Suzy - Furnishing: Melu Deco
(for a better view, click HERE)

Mood Indigo
Barney Bigard, Duke Ellington, Irving Mills
(1930)

You ain't never been blue, no, no, no
You ain't never been blue
Till you've had that mood indigo
That feeling goes stealing down to my shoes
While I just sit here and sigh
Go along blues

I always get that mood indigo
Since my baby said goodbye
And in the evening when the lights are low
I'm so lonely I could cry
For there's nobody who cares about me
I'm just a poor fool that's bluer than blue can be
When I get that mood indigo
I could lay me down and die

You ain't never been blue, no, no, no
You ain't never been blue
Till you've had that mood indigo
That feeling goes stealing down to my shoes
While I just sit here and sigh
Go along blues

Performing:
Nina Simone: listen HERE
Duke Ellington: listen HERE

52 Weeks of Color Challenge: SIENNA!

Outfit: MEB Penny; Furnishing: Melu Deco; Hair: W&Y 57

"Sienna is a form of limonite clay most famous in the production of oil paint pigments. Its yellow-brown colour comes from ferric oxides contained within. As a natural pigment, it (along with its chemical cousins ochre and umber) was one of the first pigments to be used by humans, and is found in many cave paintings (...) The name derives from the most notable Renaissance location for the earth, Siena, Italy, and is short for terra di Siena, "earth of Siena"
(Wikipedia)

Shades of Sienna

For a better view: http://www.flickr.com/photos/melusina_parkin/5338432065/

52 Weeks of Color Challenge - Sepia!

My usual mix of MEB clothes and Melu Deco furniture for the Sepia pic!

I'm wearing the outfit Eljsa, from the MEB Winter 2010 Collection, along with the brown shirt Lucy. Hair come from Zero Style.