One of my best friends set up her own blog! The SL-Latex madame finally has a blog on which she will cover all that has to do with second life, latex fashion and photography. For those of you who haven’t seen this extremely stylish lady’s blog yet… click on the link to find Latexia Kavka’s SL latex blog!
As a clothing designer I am making latex items for some time now and if you know my work, you now know that I like to expiriment in materials and in different types of outfits. The very first items I made were non-latex lingerie items (the Thess and Suze sets). They didn’t sell very well, but making them I learned the most stuff I still use to make designs.
The items I make now vary from fetishy and bdsm outfits like the new (yet to be released) Expo 3.0 outfit to the cheerful summer style minidress (which isn’t released either hehe) to the lace / latex combinations in stylish lingerie items like the Ilya and Vox series.
I love to do it all, not only because there is an infinte number of possibilities and ideas for new sets. I also love to show ppl that latex items can be more than only fetish, or only bdsm (only to be worn in the bdsm-dungeon). A lot of people who never thought they would be wearing latex left my store with one or more items which they wear to a party or during a more private moment with their lover(s).
For all you latex enthousiasts (even if wearing latex is not a complete lifestyle for you), there is the SL-Latex group in Second life. Feel free to join and meet fellow latex minded people, models, photographers and more to talk to, exchange landmarks and links etc…! If you are on Flickr and you have nice Second Life and latex related pictures, post them in the SL-latex group! Me and Ellen hope to see you in upcoming events in Second Life and we’ll be seeing your pictures on Flickr!
Last thursday Hugo’s week of releases came to an end. I sent out a notice to my groupmembers and to the Fashcon network. I hope it has gotten out… I didn’t get it myself (yet). However… It was busy in the shop, so that means a lot of people did! Again this release was a succes and I want to thank my models Ellen and Tillie for making the latex sets look so great on the vendor posters!
So… What are the next plans? I expanded my current shop for the last time… I used the maximum in space and now I can add products until I run out of prims… It can probably last two or three more updates before I need to start thinking about a new one. I guess that will be in the end of this year.
I will also work on photography and illustration some more, and I’ll be working with Ellen and Latexia on that. I’m really looking forward to working on that, there has been very little time to do so in the past weeks. SweetJessy will most definately star on new pictures too!
Then there will be new sets too! I can already let you know that new designs are on the way. The main thing I am thinking about right now is which way to go. Right now I’m making fetish suits on one hand (like the expo sets) and on the other hand there are the more classy lingerie sets like the Ilya and Vox sets. For now I guess i’ll be making all kind of sets sonce all is selling really well. I’m also thinking about an occasional space suit and knowing myself, i’ll mix the three genres up again to come to more new idea’s…
As always, If you think you have a great idea for a new set and you’d like me to see if I can and want to make a real ‘hugo’ out if it, let me know! Both the Viktoria and Expo 2 set were made after a friend showed me a picture…
To people who come to me with questions about blogging I always preach tell that most important is… above all… what you should absolutely do is have continuity. Write an item once a week, or you will loose the people that stop by regularly to see what you are up to. Write! No matter how busy you are…….
Well… I’m kind of breaking my own iron rule here since the last post is from somewhere last month. I really didn’t sit still, so here is a little update. I’m at work now so no pictures at hand a.t.m. Two weeks ago I did another fashcon / group release of new items and reactions and sales have been really great. Thank you all for the great support and nice IM’s and reactions!
I’m going to pick up photography again and opened yet a third Flickr stream… this one will be restricted from the start. The images up there will be sl-photo expiriments in- and exploration of the latex fetish area with Latexia and Ellen as my main models. No real heavy stuff… however, a lot of latex and some nudity can be expected… When all is set, i’ll place the link to this stream here.
New plans for this blog/website are small: apart from putting the new items into my fashion database I will create model pages for the beauties that model for me so you know who is who…
Next to that I really hope to find some time to make new latex sets! My main addiction needs that fix(!!!)
More news soon ;)
In my last post I said so: I have (had) some time on my hands now to clean the house design some new items and since I’ve been playing with the idea of starting up some kind of premium label, I figured it was time to see what I could come up with. I worked with lace once before (on the Stellar corset) and thought it might be a good idea to pick up lace again!
You can see the first result here. I’ve created two sets and a corset which hopefully go on sale this week! Keep your eyes out for the Fashcon / group message! Finally ready too is Expo! The corset in the third picture is worn by a new face… Maybe some of you already know this lady. She will be modeling more outfits in the future next to Ellen and Tillie. This pretty lady is none other then Latexia!
[update] At this moment (today) i’ll be hanging the new items in the shop… I’m hoping to send a notice to the group today and will send a Fashcon notice tomorrow night!
Yey! I finally managed to finish a picture / photo which I had sitting on my desktop for a very long time. I had an idea for a multi-mirror shot and Zaza Moo was my model. Constructing the image appeared to be somewhat difficult and right now my rl company is doing really well, so little time is left for projects as these. You can always come to me for model shots, but right now I am not taking on new projects other than the ones I initiate myself. (If you want model shots, you can contact Tillie Ariantho. She is a very talented model and photographer.)
As for my second job… *grin* IM messages have been sent to me, asking me when new stuff is finally going to be available. It is coming, and I hope I can get all that I want to make in store soon. There are many items which are (almost) finished (see the picture of Ellen for example, wearing Ava 4.0 over a brand new 10 percent sheer catsuit (Cat 2) with seams).
My head is filled with new ideas and the base of all latex outfits has been recreated and somewhat perfected this weekend. Now all I need is time and creative energy to make all the new sets… and more important, get them into the shop!
The newest release is one that I created from an older design I had lying around. In the new-ideas section a purple shirt is shown. I was looking at it yesterday and tried my new latex templates on this shirt. It looked very good and so I decided to start selling it! The shirt is called Gina. Lower body textures are almost finished too (in red and black) so a complete outfit will be in store soon!
In-world I had the chance to work with Lyanis Sin. She has a beautiful avatar and a wide range of outfits.. Lag ruined it a bit, but the shots I was able to make were enough to make two pictures (with vector backgrounds, like Lyanis wanted)
First of all, merry Christmas to everybody and a happy new year! May all of you have a good year and lots of fun and good times in both real life and Second life. This brings me to some new releases! First item is the second version of the Lita set, and it is called Lita 2. It looks roughly the same, but it is different. This piece consists of two pieces: a top and a shirt. (The top of set 1 fits perfectly with the shirt of set 2!)
Then there is a second release: Ava 1.1 This too is a remake of a set which is already on sale. Ava 1.1 has the same form as Ava 1 but is completely white and this set includes gloves and and stockings too! I was surprised to see how great it looks (on Ellen..) click on the image to the right to see for yourself!
A third release is a combination set of both the black and white Ava sets. As always, all sets are available in-world and at onrez.com and slexchage.com I really don’t know if other colors of these sets are wanted.. If so, let me know!
As for the rest… I’ve been experimenting with photoshop some more to improve my skills( see the image on the right). With Christmas and new year coming up, I have some free time on my hands at last. If you like my images, keep track of my Flickr page and who knows a new set will be released very soon!
