Be sure to visit my shop on Etsy!
It's filled with one-of-a-kind hats and accessories I make by hand:
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vintage and vintage reproduction fashion,
Corsets, costuming, and classical theater are some of the great loves of my life...
The other is Burlesque.
A few of my nicknames: "Lady V", "Mme' La Rouge", "V".
Oh yeah, and just in case you didn't already notice (see photo albums), I have a soft spot in my heart for masked vigilantes and villains...and Adam Ant!
I have a long standing obsession (you could even call it a fetish) for the 1700s and its fashions.
From all the nuanced sexual appeal to its over-the-top frivolity, film and art featuring handsome men in well cut silk or velvet frock coats and tricorn hats, or a 1930s suit and fedora, are my aphrodisiac.
Some dislikes: Hmmm, I detest liars, and people who generally step on others for their own selfish gain.
No one tells me what to do with my life, be it body or soul.
I don't follow the current/MTV/magazine trends.
No one ever tells me what to wear, but I still believe that there is a time and place for everything.
Just a few of the many artists I admire:
Johannes Vermeer, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, François Boucher, Antoine Watteau, Alphonse Mucha, Edvard Munch, Salvador Dali, Gustav Klimt, Shepard Fairey, Sylvia Ji, Krysztof Nemeth...
I'd like to meet:
Marika Rökk aus dem Film, "Frau meiner Träume" (1944):
Music:
Mozart, Vivaldi, John Philippe Rameau, Telemann, Julie London, Billy Holiday, Strauss, Tchaikovsky, The Horrors, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Franz Ferdinand, Interpol, The Damned, Goldfrapp, Adam and the Antz, Adam Ant, The Bill Elliot Swing Orchestra, Mora's Modern Rythmists, Eddie Reed, Cab Calloway, B.B. Voodoo Daddy, David Rose, The Hot Fives, The Hot Sevens, Lavay Smith, The Sex Pistols, The Stooges, David Bowie, Nick Cave, Velvet Underground, Rolling Stones, Adanowsky, Lavender Diamond, Django Reinhardt, Jill Tracy, Balla, Judas Priest, ...
Movies:
V for Vendetta, Marie Antoinette, Harold and Maud, Ziegfeld Girl, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Women, Doll Face, Petty Girl, Sky Captain and the World Of Tomorrow, The Aviator, Dangerous Liaisons, Casablanca, Chicago, 300, The Count Of Monte Cristo (R. Donat), The Portrait of a Lady, Neverending Story, Dark Crystal,...the list is endless
Television:
Dr. Who, Jon Stewart, Battlestar Galactica, Project Runway, Allo Allo, ...
Books:
I am Madame X, The Cut Of Women's Clothes/Norah Waugh, Delta of Venus/Anais Nin, Stand and Deliver!/David Brandon, A Nervous Splendor - Vienna 1888 to 1889/Frederic Morton , Lady Chatterley's Lover/D.H. Lawrence,...too many to list here
Heroes:
V, Empress Elizabeth of Austria/"Sisi", Madame de Pompadour, Sherlock Holmes, Jeremy Brett, Al Pacino, Johnny Depp, Vincent Price, Mozart, Karl Ruprecht Kroenen, Dr. Who,
