I’m going to the Cindergarden album release party tonight at the Hyaena gallery!
I’m going to be selling Cindergarden key pillows ::
And on Sunday there’s an Anti-Valentines Day event at HM157, a historical Victorian house in Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles ::
And maybe I’ll release a comp, who knows…
::KtB::
My friend Sasha had an awesome Edward Gorey themed birthday party on October 24th. I borrowed my costume from the Church of Fashion, I didn’t make this one! ::
KtB, tlr, and Sasha
::KtB::
Along came a spider, bitches!
I made the spider ladies’ outfits in about 2 weeks and am quite please with the results! Check out the rest of the pix below ::
KtB + tlr = epic win
::KtB::
I had a rack at Kavika Works in the Santiago Art Walk on 10/17, with three totally awesome models creeping around, taping spiders to people and promoting my website. It was a lot of fun, I can’t wait to see the photos! Here are some behind the scenes snapshots that tlr took ::
This was one of my customer who bought the Disfiguring the Goddess disfigured goddess dress! I can see why - it matches her outfit :)
Here’s a pic of the dress in action at my fashion show, modeled by Alecia Patterson ::
One of my models for the evening, Helen Bui :: she’s also a dancer for band Ming and Ping (I made their babies)! She has such a great attitude and personality, it was a blast working with her! She described herself as a walking highlighter, so it was a big difference to be a crazy spider lady for a night!
Helen’s friend Judy, another of my awesome models for the evening ::
Helen’s other friend and my third model for the evening, Kelly ::
John (who was the bouncer at my fashion show!) was my photographer for the evening (pictures coming soon, yay!). He was such a trooper, I was worried about the models’ comfort but never considered all the running around John was doing - so much that his feet were blistered by the end of the night! Brutal…
Myself and the models all gathered around John’s camera to see the immortalized awesomeness…
Uber-high-school pose with me, the models, Romak who did makeup, and John. You can see the artwork in the background, done by Eric Zendejas ::
Judy, KtB, Kelly, Romak, Helen, and John in front
I will post more thoroughly about the event when I get the real pictures from John!
::KtB::
Clearly, spiders <3 me. I have finely honed arachno-alluring prowess developed over years of intensely looking for them anywhere I am. Now they just come to me. It’s awfully convenient :)
I sadly moved away from the orb weaver haven and ended up in daddy-long-leg breeding grounds. There were at least 13 adult spiders living in our bathroom (yes, just in the bathroom…I want to have a contest like those ones where you guess how many jelly beans there are in some jar and you win the jar, but I don’t think we could get an accurate count of the spiders inhabiting HM157) here before I took this picture ::
In person she looked cycloptic, carrying around her sack of recently hatched eggs in her mouth, it was effing adorable! The next day the little ones were out on their own, all spread out under the bathroom cabinet ::
Aaaahhh! They’re SOOoo cute! Look at all those little legs! <333 It’s a bit of a shift to go from watching juicy, colorful, hairy orb weavers to watching crusty old daddy long legs, so the babies really livened things up. A couple days after those hatched an orb weaver showed up in the bathroom door frame, I suspect out of jealousy ;) Someone destroyed most of his web innocently one night when walking into the bathroom doing the sleepy-time shuffle, so the next night he moved to another door frame of equally high traffic…I got a crappy picture before my battery died ::
At least you can see how immaculate his web was. Totally awesome. I moved him onto some bushes outside where he will hopefully be able to mate and create a rainbow of mini-hims before being eaten by something…
On an equally spidery note, I’m going to be selling Halloween costumes at the art walk in Santa Ana this weekend!
That means if you live in the Los Angeles / Orange County area and want some Insidious Clothes, you can actually try stuff on! Yay! It turns out I have a lot of stuff that I don’t have pictures of, so the internet has never even seen it! And I made a few extra spooky things specifically for this event.
:: Here’s a little om nom nom of a few costumes that will be there ::
::KtB::
Celebrating the one-year anniversary of the current tenants at HM157, a rad historical mansion in Lincoln Heights. Gunna be bands, burlesque, comedy, and lots of fun! Bring your own sleeping bag for backyard camping, yay :D
HM157 :: 3110 N Broadway Ave :: LA CA 90031
::KtB::
Romak and the Space Pirates played at Wigout in May, so I made tlr a costume for the Sci-Fi theme. It was made out of scraps from other projects (some from dumpsters), a long zipper, and parts from my VCR which was dismantled earlier this year. Then I splattered paint on it, and tlr drew with silver fabric paint. We also made his wig together out of my old dreadlocks (yes, I saved them) and some dumpster fabric, and more parts from the VCR. Chinashop mag wrote about the show, which took place at the stunning Bordello Bar.
fuck yeah
Click to view the article in Chinashop Mag
::KtB::
I helped with the costumes for the absinthe faerie skits in the “I See London, I See France” show at the Hive gallery in downtown Los Angeles. The costumes consisted of custom skirts and tons of flowers made of fabric and buttons, various corsets, and wings that Jaymie and Ariana made. Makeup was done by RoMak, and photos of course were by Marianne Williams :)
Marianne and Jaymie
Juliet
Alexandra
Jaymie Valentine
Jaymie and KtB
Being an absinthe faerie is pretty fun :) I wish I took out my nose ring though!
::KtB::
I had my first fashion show for Insidious Clothing on March 26th! tlr planned most of it using help from his broad network of amazing friends. It was about 6 months of planning, and we learned a LOT for what to do differently next time. But at least there were no serious disasters :)
Here’s a video of the event shot and edited by Robert Mestas ::
![Event Coordinator :: Taylor Shechet [tlr]](http://www.insidiousclothing.com/IC_blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/delapidate-tlr.jpg "delapidate-tlr")
Event Coordinator :: Taylor Shechet
Master of Ceremonies :: Joe Holliday
Model :: CeCe LaRue
Model :: Alexandra Mathews
Model :: Alecia Patterson
Model :: Jaymie Valentine of Cindergarden
Model :: MayStar
Makeup :: Ralis Kahn
Hair :: RoMak
Clothing Design :: KtB
One of the lucky raffle winners (which was sponsored by Metal Blade Records) got a Soilent Green vinyl
Door :: John O'Neil
Our dressing room was once Bette Davis' trailer
Venue :: The Hollywood Canteen
1 - “Like Zombie”
(Rob Zombie:House of 1000 corpses mixed w/ The Polyamorous Affair: Like Animal)
by Taylor Shechet andDaniel Ribiat
2 - Cradle of Filth: Deleted Scenes of a Snuff Princess
3 - “Captain Berzerker”
(Captain Ahab: Friday the 13th Theme mixed w/ The Berzerker: Caught in the Crossfire-Stanley Cupid Mix)
by Taylor Shechet and Daniel Ribiat
Special Guest :: D. Bene Tleilax (The Tleilaxu Music Machine)
Special Guest :: Microphone Mike
Special Guest :: Brandon Like (I Wanna Look Cheap)
Special Guest :: Bobby (Antiseptic Fashion)
Backstage shenanigans captured by Marianna Williams (Half a Second or Less Photography)
Thanks for an awesome night everyone!!!
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