I Wanna be Dolores del Rio for Halloween

Did anyone notice the crazy cat hat in the film Inglourious Basterds, on the french girlfriend of Goebbels? Must find a photo of that! PS: A reader sent me an image where you don’t see the hat very well, but you get the idea! Gorgeous!...

The Parisienne

These images are from an artist I’m just learning about: Jean-Gabriel Domergue. Apparently he claims to have invented the “pin-up”. His style changed a lot over the years (he got started in the 1920’s) but I’m currently obsessed with his...

Costumes for Mimi

Here’s some photos of the costumes I’ve made. I’m in no way a professional, but Mimi has great ideas and we have fun when we work together. In this photo I didn’t make Mimi’s costume, but my own. We were gogo dancers at The Loud...

Inovation Under the Occupation

Last week I went to a museum exposition here in Paris in-titled: “Accessoires et Objets, témoignages de vies de femmes à Paris 1940-1944” (personal witnesses from the lives of women in occupied Paris) Shoes were rationed because of the rubber soles and the...

Shopping and Customising

I found Betty Jo Designs one day on Flickr and nearly had a heart attack. Needless to say I immediately ordered 3 broaches. I love my strawberry eating Godzilla. They are made out of old linoleum! I wore them today on an old Brown gabardine dress that I had customized...

Il Est Terrible!

This robot thief cracks me up! He’s part of a new sheet of flash I just finished up this morning.   I think he’d make a great t-shirt, but it would probably cost me a fortune to print all those colors. What do you think of him in black and white?...