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Imogene the Mannequin

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About Me

Greetings and Salutations! My name is Imogene, and I am a mannequin. After many, many years of having my own store in the Village to call home, I have opted for an early retirement, to pursue my passion for fashion selling my beautiful shop clothes on ebay , under vendor name "AEDVH" instead. I love getting dressed for Renaissance Faires, Shakespeare Festivals, Pirate Carnivals, Vampyre balls, Masquerade formals, goth clubs, cos play, and anything within the Japanese Gothic Lolita aesthetic, anything evoking gypsy flavor, and all that is bohemian and breath taking. My favorite brands are as follows: clothing by Funhouse, Cykxtees, and Orbit, shoes by Demonia, Converse, Doc Marten, and John Fluevog, and handbags by Addicted, Roebuck, and FISHY!

My Interests

Incense and herbs, moonbeams and dewdrops, serpents and rainbows, poptarts and pixie stix, cap'n crunch and chocolate milk, pachouli and absinthe, velvet and brocade... and, you know, normal mannequin stuff, like playing dress up, window shopping (from the other side of the glass), people watching, and sitting *very, very still* for long periods of time without blinking.

I'd like to meet:

Fairies and elves, pirates and wenches, witches and wizards, lords and ladies, kings and queens, princes and princesses, knights and damsels (Prithee, SPARE THE DRAGON!), angels and satyrs, ascetics and heretics, titans, deities, avatars, and mortals, nymphs and fauns, beings of light, dwellers in darkness, gypsies, tramps, and thieves (well, maybe not thieves), rakish dandies, daring divas, burlesque bombshell baby dolls, vampyres and imps, artists, lovers, dreamers, poets, and madmen... don't dream it, be it! ;-)

Music:

Dead Can Dance, Enya, Lacuna Coil, David Bowie, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Tangerine Dream, Velvet Underground, T-Rex, Ray Buttigieg, Sisters of Mercy, Joy Division, the Cure, Duran Duran, Delerium, VAST, Danny Elfman, Morrissey, the Joint Process, Placebo, the Misfits, the Ramones, the B52s, Echo & the Bunnymen, Jeremy James, Stone Roses, Ned's Atomic Dustbin, Bauhaus, Bjork, Wolfsheim, Sarah McLachlan, Yo Yo Ma, Tori Amos, Apocalyptica, Bach, Muddy Waters, Bonfire Madigan, Anathema Device, +COMPLEX, Milli Vanilli, and the Stand

Movies:

Pan's Labyrinth, Amelie, Donnie Darko, Heathers, Edward Scissorhands, Nightmare Before Christmas, Nosferatu, Metropolis, Peewee's Big Adventure, Babe, Psycho, The Princess Bride, Labyrinth, Never Ending Story, The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, LOTR, Wasabi, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and anything with Johnny Depp or Kenneth Branagh

Television:

Monty Python's Flying Circus, Nova, Masterpiece Theatre, Six Feet Under, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Little House On The Prairie, Buffy, Golden Girls, Invader Zim, Twilight Zone

Books:

Mary Shelley: "Frankenstein" Bram Stoker: "Dracula" Oscar Wilde: "The Portrait of Dorian Gray" Anne Rice: "Interview With the Vampire" Lemony Snickett: "A Series of Unfortunate Events" Mark Z Danielwski: "House of Leaves" Maurice Sendak: "Where the Wild Things Are" Shel Silverstein: "Where the Sidewalk Ends" Dante: "Divine Comedy" Milton: "Paradise Lost" ...and anything by Keats, Yeats, Voltaire, Hans Christian Anderson, Edward Gorey, Edgar Allen Poe, or WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE!

Heroes:

Bettie Page, Bettie White, Betty Boop, Betsey Johnson, Patrick Stewart, Patrick Swayze, MLK, AE Waite, Galileo, Salvador Dali, Sarah Winchester, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, Sigmund Freud, Jim Henson, Leon Theremin, Nikola Tesla, Marie Curie, Tim Curry, Bob Ross, Julia Child, and Marie Antoinette, because that girl ALWAYS looked fierce.

My Blog

Gothic Belly Dancing!

If you've ever been interested in Bellydancing well, the time is now! :)...
Posted by Imogene the Mannequin on Thu, 08 May 2008 08:41:00 PST

Awww! I wish I could go!

Buuuuut, I am going to miss it yet again. :-(Hosted By: Dancing Ferret ConcertsWhen: Saturday May 24, 2008 at 9:00 PMWhere: Shampoo Nightclub750 Willow StPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania|39 19123United Stat...
Posted by Imogene the Mannequin on Fri, 02 May 2008 07:42:00 PST

MAGIC!

Two weeks ago, I went to Las Vegas to attend MAGIC International, which is a huge convention for garment industry professionals, where designers show their latest collections, buyers place orders for ...
Posted by Imogene the Mannequin on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 02:24:00 PST

Am I a hypocrite?

I'm sort of new to MySpace, and I am already learning that I have a strong distaste for bots developing here. I know, I know, but it's not what you think. I don't mind that they aren't human-- I'm no...
Posted by Imogene the Mannequin on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 11:01:00 PST

Awww! Its Ms Stitch!

I *heart* Stitch! We've known each other for years, and as a matter of fact, she is the one who took my default picture. Recently, she sent me another picture she took, ages ago: I'm wearing the Lon...
Posted by Imogene the Mannequin on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:27:00 PST

All work and no play... wait, my work IS play to me!

Wow! What a busy day! I finally managed to get my banner designed:   What do you think?   I also have been wrestling with three boxes of clothes, hoping to get another 75-100 auctions lis...
Posted by Imogene the Mannequin on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 04:02:00 PST

Re-Post: Katie Kay & The Dresden Dolls-- What we lost-- HELP?

  ..> The following was posted by the Dresden Dolls...> ..> Monday, January 14, 2008 ..>   Katie Kay & The Dresden Dolls-- What we lost-- HELP? Category: Music Please feel free...
Posted by Imogene the Mannequin on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:09:00 PST

A Reason to Get Dolled Up!

So I was fiddling around with MySpace today, and stumbled across Dracula's Ball. (http://www.myspace.com/draculasball) I have never been, but every year, I have thoroughly enjoyed dressing people up f...
Posted by Imogene the Mannequin on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 02:55:00 PST

Soooo happy!

As I slowly, slowly, slowly build my wee little MySpace account, every friend added is like a dazzling little gift.  It should come as no surprise then, that having Bonfire Madigan included, toda...
Posted by Imogene the Mannequin on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 06:18:00 PST

somewhere on a roof top in the West Village...

I love this pic: Everybody told me that if I ever modeled topless, I'd regret it, so that's why I went bottomless for this one instead.  No regrets! You may wonder where my arms are, in this sho...
Posted by Imogene the Mannequin on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 09:56:00 PST