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Reviews for Jeffree Star and the Miss Mannequin Fashion Show:

On February 17th, 2006, the quiet streets became ignited with a fire of excitement in the form of the Imago zine issue 2 launch party...Miss Mannequin Fashion Show presented by the brainchild of Imago Boutique’s Sandra Roberts. Featuring original fashion designs by up-and-coming designers such as Nervous Breakthrough, Toxic Vision and couture headpieces from Le Petitie Chapeau. Stylist and visionary Sandra with her team mixed elements of punk, glam, deathrock, medical fashion, fetish, fantasy, Japanese Club kid, and horror to create a one of a kind experience at the Foundation Nightclub. Models strutted down a red carpet while the “paparazzi” flashed from every direction and legions of onlookers roared with excitement. D.J. Daniel Dub was up for the challange of mixing underground music with even the sounds of Strawberry Shortcake. At the end of the runway, models posed for a series of photographs by esteemed photographer Roland of Mannequin Media. The finale of the strut came when the models ascended upon the stage runway and walked off into the audience, fixing themselves in various mannequin poses. The evening was topped off with a musical performance by MySpace sensation Jeffree Star and his go go dancing sidekick, Raquel Reed. The pair dazzled the crowd and glittered the stage in an orgy of decadence with the Miss Mannequin Show models. Small city sensibilities met big city attitude in a show that established Imago Boutique as a force to be reckoned with in the fashion world. Stay tuned, the show has just begun.

Written By Jamesson Beane

Imago had a killer turnout and would like to thank everyone for their support...Hair director Matt Collins, Jamesson Beane, Exposed Photos, Salon ID, Lucre Music, Panda, Much Music, Alliance Atlantis, Hair Metamorphose, Awkward Stage, Katherine, Jewels & Diane, The Imago Street team, Kristey Stoodley, models and everyone who took part of the Living art show. muah!

The Miss Mannequin fashion show, Saturday February 17, 2007. This was an exciting show to be a part of and to watch. Obviously the tip of the iceberg from a creative fun loving fashion visionary known as Sandra. The day started at 1pm that Saturday afternoon. It was snowing when I arrived in this curious little town of Barrie. I went in to the Imago boutique and waited to meet this Sandra who I had only emailed with and only briefly talked to. We meet, we talk, she shows... and immediatly the creative juices start flowing. I see clothes, dolls, models, other artists and I can tell this is going to be one hell of a fun day. What a group of people, so excited so inspired. This is the kind of atmosphere that Sandra creates for you to work in. She prepared, fine tuned, motivated and got people behind her to support her work and vision. To support the main attraction Jeffree Star and leading pop princess Raquel Reed by his side. But through it all she always seems to find that intimate moment to encourage the artists helping her out to be inspired to draw on their own creativity to do their own thing with it as inspired by her creations. But it wasnt all about her it was about a collective of individuals with unique visions unto themselvs and who could take great ideas and inject more great ideas. What we ended up with was a beautiful marriage of fashion and fantasy. Sexy candy girls sprawed out on pool tables, a gorgeous freaky prom girl taunted a hot bubbly "bimbo", a sweet bride was stalked by a perverted bunny the kind you wouldnt want to meet in an alley in the dark of nite. Can I go on and on about all the cool people and stuff, no. But you can come to her next show to see what kind of cool stuff she comes up with next

Written By Make-up Artist James

Reviews for Portrait of a Misfit Fashion Show: How a Zombie Reacts To Guitar Feedback

By Lucas Lanthier
I’m a musician, first and foremost. The importance of fashion, to me, is usually secondary to how nice something sounds, which isn’t to say that I have no regard for visual aesthetics. It’s just that, when invited to perform at the Imago Boutique/Magazine fashion show, “Portrait of a Misfit�, I thought I’d play it safe and, rather than compete with the myriad cutting-edge labels and haute-couture haberdashery that would be on display, I decided to simply wear a kimono and have it done with.
The action went down at Oscar̢۪s in Barrie, Ontario, an hour or so from Toronto. I think the same logic that went into deciding the location for the event was applied, in the past, for deciding on the location of certain nuclear reactors. They shouldn̢۪t be too close to big cities because people are prone to melting. And with fashion labels like Toxic Vision, Playdead Cult, Brandon R. Dwyer Couture dresses, Nervous Breakthough, Eryn Reid, Bully, John Fluevogs involved, was a meltdown ever in question? So, armed with my Geiger counter, I settled in and waited for the fun to start.
Robin Black was our MC for the night, and he began calling in the first few waves of Misfits. Deviancy abounded in the lines and textures that began to ooze out onto the runway, but these misfits definitely had a heady sense of what it means to be relevant, as well. Too much deviancy isolates and ultimately disinterests the audience, but these designs pulled everyone in, and when a ballerina in full vigor presented a certain dress, each person in the audience (I̢۪m sure I wasn̢۪t the only one) fully believed that we, too, could dance like that if only we had the right clothes!
But ballet was merely a facet in this chaos-colored gem of an event. Leather and lace, roller skates and tango duets, seven-foot tall men in dresses composed of stuffed-animals, and an albino python, among other things, arrayed themselves to present the wares of Imago Boutique, many of which were crafted especially for the night. Sandra Roberts, proprietor of the Boutique, editor of the Magazine, and director of the Event, strolled casually among the guests, wine glass in hand, in a transport of austerity, taking for granted the menagerie tromping about, the flora and fauna of her universe that so amazed all of us bystanders.
“Are you pleased with how things are unfolding?� I asked her, as a bloodstained prom queen strutted past, a gaggle of glasses burst themselves on the floor nearby and a humanoid monolith in a gasmask oversaw our conversation.
“Yeah,� she replied contentedly, over the din of a tap dance routine, “this is pretty much what I envisioned.�
Case closed

Music:

Gogol Bordello, Diggin Roots, Miss Derringer, Jeffree Star, Moneen, KMFDM, The Black Halos, The Sicklist, Clients, Robots in Disquise, Flutter, Moscow Coup Attempt, Avett Brothers, Dallas Green, High Heel shoes, Terry Poison and Bedouin Soundclash, cazwell and Amanda lepore, The cinematics,

Movies:

Little Miss Sunshine...

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Books:

Bedtime Eyes-Amy Yamada, Grim Trixster-Brandy Schwan, Sugar and Sin-Stella and Audra Price

Heroes:

Anyone who can deal with their own shit!