6.6.2010: Carmina

Carmina: A cowhide cape/poncho/habit, still slightly furry, shaped into an enormous bow. Mori girls. Ruffles sewn onto a nylon skirt. Thick ribbed socks under wraparound ribbon wedges.

5.31.2010: Sally

Sally: Women of the Dunes. “Dolce & Gabbana” painted-on sunglasses à la Edith Zimmerman. Lace ribcage. A heavy collar of chipped red stone, or possibly rusted-over iron. Gold cameos. I bought a metal snake necklace similar to this in China (except it only cost me $2). Imagine that necklace, but twice as thick, and covered in snakeskin, real or false.

5.24.2010: Wei-Wei

Wei-Wei: Beijing Opera makeup. Janelle Monáe‘s androgynous look and dancing shoes. The trains in Threeasfour’s S/S 2010 show. A jeweled harness and bib. Ruffled shorts with chaps in a continuation of a theme started with Chisato.

5.18.2010: Aurélie

Laid up in bed sick and coughing. Please excuse the delay!

Aurélie: The music video for “Why Don’t You Love Me?”–particularly the martini-swilling, tear-streaked incarnation of Beyoncé. Cobblestones and felt. Vika Gazinskaya. Stigmata, but inside the shoe the metal has to curve around the foot to support it. Zippers creating adjustable holes where the arms stick out. But wear this with something inside, please.

5.2.2010: Chisato

Chisato: The telescope octopus and other creatures of the Mariana Trench. Stretchy chaps over a short skirt. A squared-off headband and a bow on the zipper (it’s not a real bow—tug it up and down using the loops). Gift wrap ribbon. Jellyfish.

4.27.2010: Pauline

Pauline: A recursive dress featuring a girl wearing a dress featuring a girl wearing a dress featuring—and so forth. I had a set of four tiny plastic bears when I was little that were covered in some kind of cheap velvety finish. One of them was named “Dainty” before I knew what the word meant—I simply liked the sound of it. I imagine those cat earrings would feel the same to the touch. Mesh dress with doubled (and tripled) mesh layers where the dress is recursive, or is that gimmicky? Heavily jeweled gloves.

(I just got back from Stumptown and boy are my stumps tired. Back on track this weekend.)

4.18.2010: Lauren

Lauren: Opalite spines. Armor and vulnerability. A headband with carded, twisted wool (dyed pink) attached, or a volcano cerebrum made of cotton candy–either one. Elsien Gringhuis, Matthew Harding. A tiny candle/cigarette holder.

4.11.2010: Diane

Diane: Gareth Pugh F/W 2010, Rick Owens F/W 2010. Cage/armor/ribbons. Hussein Chalayan’s laser dress. Anna Dello Russo’s jeweled cape. A ceramic deer. Nobuhiko Obayashi’s House.

4.4.2010: Ciara

Ciara: Yamanba (street style of the mountain hag). A Kabuki ghost wig, a hoodie, and a furry scarf. The translucent dress Lady Gaga wears during the diner scene in Telephone. Furry glasses and earrings. Lanvin. Sock suspenders, with a twist. The tall boots in Alexander McQueen’s final collection.

3.28.2010: Pia

Pia: Lamija Sulijevic’s sleeves, A/W 2010. Shibari. Crumpled aluminum foil and titanium-bonded (rainbow) quartz. Tetsuya Nomura. Florals. Bebaroque brassy studded tights. Dried bean curd. John Galliano, S/S 2007.