ME AND LOLITA

I've always loved Kira Imai's Lolita Illustration, I've been dying to actually get my hands on those huge framed illustrations of her's but their kinda expensive & it's in Japan. Usually she's doing her stuff on the Gothic Lolita magazine in japan but luckily I have some of her creations found on my Gothic Lolita Book. the thing I love about her Illustrations: It's Innocent. It's like Britney Spears new album: Femme Fatale, It's mysterious yet seductive, there's a combination between truth & fiction, sweetness & darkness, & Love & hate.

Anyway I'll be creating my online store soon with different lines ranging from lolita fashion to visual kei fashion, everything falls on the Japanese Fashion category. but the first line I'll be making is the Lolita line, yeah, a first for me luckily I'm educated with style of the Lolita. I want to make the line pastels. hard to avoid but I don't want to make the usual lolita pattern on the design. I want to make lolita designs with nice cuts and patterns!. This is not my style seriously! but I guess the factor that fuels me on making a lolita collection is my Fascination towards Marie Antoinette, and the movie itself where Kirsten Dunst played the role of the young queen. Will have some of Kira's illustrations printed for the mood board soon, sketching then its of to production. school ends, quick out of the city vacation, then off I go to start building my own empire ;3

Marie Antoinette

A girl has been stuck on my mind recently, not just any ordinary girl but specifically the last Queen of France, Marie Antoinette, recently she's been Influencing me alot questioning my Design aesthetics and making me fell in love with bright colors (pink & pastel colors to be exact), laces, & Victorian motifs. for someone who loves dark & Gothic like me, this is indeed pretty unusual of me. one would not instantly fall in love with the Queen's Fashion at first glance, well you might say she looks interesting but it's a matter of deep research that makes you like her, her life, and her Fashion.

Fashionably the thing that pops to my mind upon hearing "Marie Antoinette":

~Pink~Pastels~lace~silk~Victorian~Versailles~gold~pearls~cakes~shoes~hair

What do all of this have in Common?..This Details are all in a Hime & Lolita's outfits. for me I think if I love Lolita & Hime Fashion so much I would get inspiration on Marie Antoinette, the style is very similar to Marie Antoinette's (not to mention the hair) only modern though. Marie Antoinette being on the forefront as one of the first Fashionista's In history, well, she has the right to own the style and say "hey, I started that style"
It's just so inspiring and as soon as the term ends I can't wait to start producing stuffs!


THE MOVIE
There has already been a lot of movie adaption of Marie Antoinette from the early 1930's up until now, but probably the best movie so far is that of Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette, where Kirsten Dunst played the role of the teen queen. the movie was more Focused on Marie Antoinette's Teenage years and ending the movie on their fairwell to Versailles, the chapter where the royal family was held as captives were not included in the movie as i said they focused more on her teenage years.
and of all the Marie Antoinette movies made only Sofia Coppola's team was given the chance to shoot the movie on Versailles itself! and even letting them use rooms which aren't open for the public.


usually when you watch movies specially that of the old times movie like Eizabeth, Victorian movies you'd go like, its rusty, old, a bit dull, and simply unfashionable, but the Marie Antoinette movie bursts with colors & pastels, with a young and less serious feel. left me wondering when tween music like "I like candy" suddenly starts to play during the movie. all and all the movie is an eye candy to the eye, making you wanna live during Marie Antoinette's reign and be able to mingle with her on the courts of Versailles *U*

"If the People don't have Bread let them eat Cake!"

This were the Famous lines of Marie Antoinette but this wasn't true, this was one of the many rumors that the press made to make the people of France hate the graceful Queen.

The movie was as such a hit that came next was the cover of Vogue Magazine. Given the privilege to shoot inside The Versailles like that of Sofia Coppola's team.








The 20 yards seamless Oscar De La Renta


Oliver Theyskens


The Chanel Embrodied gown by ten people


The Voluptous Alexander McQueen Gown


The Dior Foil Gown


Balenciaga