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Wednesday, July 15, 2015

BACK TO THE FUTURE: The 90s welcome to the dark side

The 90s was a decade were young girls wanted to feel empowered, therefore who has more power than someone with actual "magic powers". So many movies portrayed the same main character and the same plot , teenagers in touch with the supernatural that werer already struggling with the horrors of highschool but somehow manage to beat the forces of evil and rise to popularity in the process. All of these a reflection of the youth's search for spiritual guidance that was lost during the consumist vanality of the 80s and caused that huge instropection for the generation X.

The iconic "teen witch" outfit, long layers, dark colors and shiny textures, sometimes leather, others pvc. The laced up boots (actually inspired in real witches shoes back in the day). The dark lips and smokey eyes, to hide away innocence and project strenght, became the uniform for all girls who didnt feel like they fit in and gave them a style that used to be feared, but now was all the rage. This can be clearly seen in the cult movie "The Craft" where Fairuza Balk, the evil witch lost the fight for control over her own little coven against the trully gifted good witch Robin Tunney. We all swooned over the great power they had invoked t hip make that was able to give each of the girls a makeover. They went from being nobodies to looking like cher hollowitz outfits as if clueless had gone goth. But the best part of the whole movie was that scene, when that made us re think changing our religion to some celtic wiccan belief if that is what it would take to be able to change our hair color with just the swoosh of our hands.

Lets Face it, we all still want a little black magic in our lives and with those all black ensembles some of the designers brought to the runways this season we didnt have to actually sell our souls or invoke some demon to look the part.

2. THE ALL BLACK GOTHISH ENSEMBLE

The accesory :" The backpack. Its casual yet mysterious, we could have a book of spells or just our daily work planner
The Icon: Fairuza Balk as "Nancy" from the Craft and Wynona Ryder "Lydia" from beetlejuiceThe Update: Keeping the makeup less halloweeny and more mature with the use of only one make up trend at a time. Burgundy lips with just a bit of mascara and Thick eyeliner with glossy lipsThe risk: the wet hair look

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littlecorpgothgirl.blogspot.com

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Monday, July 13, 2015

BACK TO THE FUTURE: the 90's

Lately all of the runways, Tv, magazines, tumblr pics and even the music industry is saturated wth 90's nostalgia. This would be somehow inspiring if it didn't hit home so hard, and instead of saying "how cool that looks" I just keep on going " yup, been there, done that and bought the tshirt (literally).

It is not so bad, just awkward I guess, because with my 33 years of age I can't possibly pretend to wear the same baby tees, I wore when I was 16 and expect to look like a forever21 or American Apparel model. Instead I would end up getting mocked by Stacy and Clinton on the show "What Not to Wear" and told to dress "age appropiate".

So here I am a 90's survivor trying to enjoy this fashionable dejavu without feeling ancient. The strategy instead is reincorporating some of the things I used to love back in the day to give my outfits that little throwback, but still looking updated and fresh.

This Fall 2015 was filled with looks inspired by what was wore back in the day and I chose my favorite ones being the movie buff and music enthusiast I am, based on a character or musician they remind me of from that decade.
So lets go back to when Mtv had music, Dave Grohl was just a drummer and Captain planet was teaching us how to save the planet, my dear followers welcome to the 90s.

1.THE FAUX LEOPARD COAT

This was perfect for the grungy punk rebel girls like myself and can still be worn as a statement rock n roll piece paired with the right outfit. I has to be Faux not real.
The accesory :" I'm with the band" or better yet "I'm in a band" attitude.
The Icon: Shirley Manson from Garbage and Kate Moss
The Update: The use of ankle booties or Thigh high boots instead of martens or platforms to update the look.
The risk: fishnet stockings

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Sunday, February 22, 2015

DÉJÀ VU

"Flannel and tatoos
Crosses and Flowers
Grunge and denim
Piercings and a whole of attitude"

When great minds work together you get nothing but perfection.
Teaming up with the talented King Leo from thekingdomx was an amazing experience because we both love music, movies and fashion so much.

We came up with this editorial that feels like a 90s flashback with inspiration of icons such as Shirley Manson from "Garbage", Gwen Stefani from" No Doubt" (yes she was a rebel queen before joining the fashion elite) and the black widow of rock, Courtney Love from "Hole", whose angsty lyrics we could all relate to and whose beauty we coveted.

The principle of the grunge"I dont care"look mixed with the sexy as hell Calvin Klein's "Heroin chic" was replicated in the smokey eyes and dark lips in shades of red and wine. The "I woke up like this after spending the whole night backstage" messed up hair in colors and textures that went perfectly with the faux fur, cause in the 90s we actually cared about the earth.

The whole art direction atmosphere was mostly inspired by the cult dark teen movie, "the Craft" where the forces of nature converge with the own power and femininity of the 90s rebel girl who wanted to rule everything, even the supernatural.

With all of these in mind and some of my own memories of a teenage grungy rebel fashionista dressed in plaid and combat boots, we managed to create this