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Update: Oh DAZZLE, We Hardly Knew Ye
By Choice Sliter | September 29, 2006
Update [CT]: This is your very last weekend to pick up the L$100 Dazzle goodness. If you’ve been procrastinating or waiting for a paycheck or something else — shop now or forever regret it later.
On Saturday night, I happened to be online around 10:30 SLT. Roslin was trying to find DAZZLE. But somehow the sim was missing from search and our landmarks weren’t working. It having been a horribly buggy week, we assumed it was a fluke. Instead, it was precognition. At 10:40 Ginny Talamasca made the following announcement to her group members:
Dazzle has been a lot of fun. But it’s time to move on to a new endeavor. I have an incredible new sim in the works and a line of clothing for men and women. I am also developing a line of accessories for men AND women with Lyra. We’re so so so excited - we’re really working hard to create a design vision and aesthetic. We’ll be doing seasonal shop changes. A themed sim. Dark, sexy, flirty and daring. I adore you all and I wanted you to know first.
She also announced that everything in the store would be on sale for L$100 starting at 11 PM SLT. Her blog was updated within minutes of the announcement, displaying a heartfelt letter, which revealled that DAZZLE was being put to rest, but Ginny and company are reawakening.
Roslin and I hit the store just after 11 and found ourselves elbow to elbow with anxious bargain hunters snapping up wedding gowns and capri jeans with a fury usually reserved for a Walmart post-Thanksgivings Day sale.
When an designer decides to reinvent herself, it is an exciting, yet frightening time. We love her for what she has done up until now. We feel like we know her by what she has given us. We’re terrified that we won’t like the next thing. We don’t want to be disappointed, because we’ve fallen in love. We’ve built a relationship. We want things to remain as they are.
But everything you fear, the designer fears even more. Inspite of such fears, these metamorphoses are a requirement. She simply cannot stagnate. Stagnation means death. Design is a process and processes must move. Though we may love what a designer has given us in the past, we have no idea how much more we may love what she is doing tomorrow.
So, in the next ten days as you swallow up DAZZLE bargains, do so with joy. Don’t panic when the sim is full. Don’t worry that you’re missing out when you can’t get in. Just remember that the designer is living and breathing and continuing to evolve.
Her next great thing may be much greater than all of the work you regard so dearly right now.
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