Dead-icated to Image

The following passage is from this "365 Days of Fashion" book I have. It seemed to be worth sharing. But I take no credit for the writing, facts or anything.

"Year 1793: Marie Antoinette heads to the guillotine wearing a brand-new white dress, a white scarf around her shoulders, and a pleated white cap on her prematurely white hair (she’s only 37). Spectators are stunned, because she’s been wearing the same ratty black mourning gown for the past two months in prison. It appears that she’s saved this outfit in her prison cell for the day of her execution, determined to go out with a fashion bang."

Painting/drawing of her last outfit.

Don't Tempt Me

This wonderful woman by the name of Shelly gave me this hat-like thing. So I just had to doll myself up and take a couple pictures. So here they are...

Model: Victoria Gallagher-Morton (ME, haha)

Forever21 top, and La Vie En Rose hat

Photo Cred to me/mother

Happy New Year!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!


Well my lovelies, this year I have two public New Years Resolutions.

1. Keep up with my skin/hair care resigmine. I know I'll regret going to bed with my make-up on when I'm older.

2. BLOG MORE! Keep up with my blogging, and my fashionizing.

Thanks everyone for the amazing support! Have an amazing year!
Peace,
Victoria Gallagher-Morton

This is a Title

I have a few things I need to say in this post. Let’s get the obvious out of the way. Yes, I had a good holiday and yes I’m sure you all had a good holiday too. And the other thing; once again, I’m sorry for my embarrassingly large hiatus from writing. I’ve been interning for GLASS Magazine (release spring 2011), and all my writing creativity has been put towards that. Anyhoodles, let’s get on with the big stuff shall we.


ONE. I originally wrote this on my new Samsung Galaxy S Captivate. I thought this feat was of notable significance.


TWO. REBLOGGING is not BLOGGING. I’ve recently come across this blogging site tumblr, much like blogger or BlogSpot, only on this one you can “reblog”. Because of this little button, most of the content on any given blog is unoriginal. I have nothing against sharing work, and spreading the word, but it bothers me that this may be turning into a habit. I personally think it’s a little demeaning to put true bloggers edited and planned work under the same title as tumblr users clicking “reblog” and then being done with it. Again, I don’t want to offend many amazing tumblr blogs, but I just needed to put my thoughts out there.


THREE. I made a Christmas tree out of a lampshade and reused bottles, then topped it with Lady Gaga made from a Barbie. I shall make a post about it asap.

That’s all folks! Thanks for reading, and all that jazz! Happy Holidays and jolly New Year!

Lady Gaga X-Mas Tree

This Christmas I spiced things up. I made a Christmas tree from recycled materials, and then topped it with a Barbie that I turned into Lady Gaga. Here is the final result:



Barbie, pre-make over



Her shoe, modeled after Alexander McQueen!





Lady Gaga!



Hair bow, and then a hair bow inspired thing behind her.



The tree pre-paint. I basically cut up bottles, and arranged them with glue. Underneath is a lampshade from Goodwill.



Closer Look



Painted it green, then splashed lighter green to give it an abstract look. I found these little pink flowers in my house, so I put them on. After all that, I threw some glitter on, and bam! I'm done!


Peace Out!
Victoria

Behind the Scenes with Canada's Top Designers

        November 9th, 2010- Toronto Fashion Incubator presented Behind the Scenes with Canada’s Top Fashion Designers hosted at the highly prestigious Integral House; an award winning 5-storey, 18,000 square foot prestigious Rosedale home featuring staggering panoramic views, floor-to-ceiling glass windows, and a concert hall. David Dixon, Joeffer Caoc, and Lucian Matis, the three designers showcased their Spring 2011 collections in an intimate atmosphere. While the models strutted their stuff, the designer was interviewed by W Networks Take This House and Sell It! Glenn Dixon. Before the event the guests were given time to mingle, and munch down on some incredible appetizers (I could have eaten 20 of their egg sandwiches). Every guest was treated to a personalized SCHWARZKOPF gift bag, with hair care experts evaluating your hair to give you the right products. At the end of the show a M.A.C Cosmetics goodie bag was given, containing a lip-stain and a mineral bronzer. This was good for me because M.A.C doesn’t use animal testing, and I have sworn off animal-tested products. The events platinum sponsor was ACURA. Pre-show tickets where bring sold for the raffle to win either a weekend with one of their vehicles, or the grand prize being a weekend at Niagara on the Lake complete with a chauffeured limo, and wine sampling tour. The night was a glamorous success with a great amount of money raised for the up-and coming-designers in the Toronto Fashion Incubator.

What advice do you have for aspiring designers?

David Dixon: "Don’t give up. You will be shut down, and will be shut down many times, but DON’T give up."

Joeffer Caoc : "Stop writing cheques to receivables you’re not getting"

Lucian Matis: It's long hours. Don’t do it because you like shopping. Just because you like shopping does not mean your passion is for fashion. You have to like creating, and like actually creating the clothing, which takes many hours

Designer Extraordinaire David Dixon

Combat Barbie!

Combat Barbie!

Or an ad for Forever21...

The boots, socks, shirt, and jacket are all from Forever21.

So my lovelies, I had a pretty slow weekend event wise. I ended up doing a little shopping, and that resulted in my photography. The iPod was unintentional, but I've been so obsessed with the song "Grenade", I couldn't remove the headphones for the photo. I hope you all have a wonderful and glamorous week!

Peace Out!

Victoria