Second Style Magazine

Fashion house Mercury Couture had their grand opening this past week, and tonight they’ll be revealing two new outfits that weren’t *quite* finished in time for the opening party last week. You can check out Ibeza, (shown right below) and another brand new outfit tonight at the fashion show at MAD modeling agency, Kmadd Enterprise (222, 115, 24) (SLURL) at 7pm SLT. Mercury’s fashion aesthetic is taking inspiration from historical design styles and mixing it up with some new, now, street fashion styles. It’s an interesting take on clothing design.

On the right is “Neo-Amelie” which has one of the best looking sculptie prim skirts I’ve seen in Second Life. But what I’ve really enjoyed about Mercury is the sense of playfulness they have about what they make. It’s not *quite* as tongue-in-cheek as the House of Lu, but they obviously are having a good time coming up with concepts and seeing where they go as they work to complete each outfit. On the right is the brand new Ibeza release which mixes up some bold summer colors with fishnet bustle.

Mercury also has some really fun runway fashion accessories including hair feathers, big hair styles/arrangements and some lovely pieces of jewelry, including the signature flying bird earrings in gold.

Mercury Couture can be found at Mischief 134, 168, 23 (SLURL)

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A small note about Mercury: I’m here for the clothes, not to relive junior high. If you really must make a comment, at least make it something other than “OMGWTFBBQ!!! SCANDAL!!1!!1One” There are other blogs where you can have all of your drama princess fun if you must. Thanks.

Bi weekly huh? Hmmm, yeah … but I’m going on vacation, so I’ll be out of here for the next couple of weeks and I saw a lot of nice photos on Snapzilla. Not all of them are useful though. As much as I like to see what you lovelies like to wear, some of the photos are a lot of (beautiful) landscapes with beautiful avies, but it’s kind of difficult to actually see what you are wearing.

Two recent additions to snapzilla that do really show the outfits and are great photos are these:

Indigo Li wears:  skin: CS Vogue – pure noir mid , hair: Ingenue – the Grable, dress: Ingenue – shoo shoo baby, glasses: Artilleri – Cateye Retro! Black cherry.

Shot at Artilleri, Indigo is not afraid to show only part of her avie. I think she looks hot!

A totally differen photo came from exotic beauty Violet Xingjian.

She wears: Sin Skin Ton Visage Cocoa Eclipse (Fresh),  CS Prim Lashes Size 3, hair from Random: Donna Midnight Black, tops from Surf Co.: Dotalicious Halter (Army/Sun) & Surf & Co. Shoulder Top )Pink Wave. The shorts are from Camie Cooper, Weekender shorst (Black). Jewelry from Freaking Fabulous Shit, Fulla Facial 6 and Earthtones Heirloom Locket (Everglade/Black).

Two very different photos, but they both show the unique style of these ladies. Thank you both so much for posting these pics.

Keep them coming, as soon as I’ll be back by the end of August I’ll be looking forward to post more reader style photos.

Chit chatting with Angelica Biondetti just now, I decided it’d be fun to have a contest for the top 3 sassy responses to what will undoubtedly be the beginning of (hopefully rare) propositions to go off to a nice private spot and have voice cybersex with the erstwhile Lotharios of Second Life. Haedon Quinn has offered to give the top three responses as selected by the staff of the blog gift cards for Calla hair (find Calla in world at Callatropia 125, 194). So if you have a snappy response, post it in the comments! We’ll choose the winners next Friday, August 10.

In honor of the general release of the voice feature on the main grid, I made a new poll. What do you think?

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Thank you so much for participating in our recent reader survey. There were over 500 unique responses, and a lot of great suggestions about how to make Fashionista an even better fashion blog.

I’d like to offer congratulations to the 5 L$1000 prize winners:

• Tabitha Schnyder,
• Sly Wiles,
• Baahdaah Bing,
• Vespa Wiefel,
• Angelica Biondetti

Thanks again for participating.

We will be offering another set of 5 L$1000 prizes for participating in our Second Style Magazine reader survey which will be published when issue #10 comes out. (And Ryan Darragh will be helping me with a reader survey for Men’s Second Style too, probably to run in September.)