Gary, Come & Play
I wish Gary Numan would come and play a live soundtrack to my show:
FIRST FASHION SHOW IN FIVE YEARS!
I am so honored to have been accepted to show at this year’s Williamsburg Fashion Weekend in Brooklyn, New York on February 20th. Williamsburg, unlike most parts of the world stands out as a purveyor of its own cool. The shows happening over the weekend of February 20th-21st are showcasing that with performance art, live music, and incendiary fashion.
My friends Tar & Feather are showing their Fall 2010 Collection on Sunday. Here are some looks from their Spring 2010 Collection and then a photo of me modeling for them at a Bushwick Fashion Show in October.
Stay tuned! Here’s a description of my portion of the show:
“Lace & Void”
Literal sparks will fly with the **hopeful** addition of a live soundtrack played by Brooklyn’s, Furacoco. Male and female models will light the scene in a tactile and visually piercing wearable dream. Fabric clothing meets oversized plasma-cut jewelry in a duel. Employing the bold, the light, the effervescent, and the sculptural in a play of light and dark, presence and void, eyes and ears will join in delight.
Brooklyn Reigns
To a Brooklynite, the idea that almost anything and everything is made right here in our NYC borough is probably taken for granted.
Mast Brothers Chocolate
We have delicious Mast Brothers Chocolates, Artisan Brooklyn Lagers, locally roasted Stumptown coffee, Red Hook Winery Brooklyn’s only vintner, handmade bicycles, furniture, butcher shops, brew kits, cheeses, ………. Brooklyn is chock full of fabulous makers who handcraft their goods the way our ancestors did it and the quality of said products is being lauded worldwide. As a proud and participating member of this large presence of Brooklyn makers, I chose today’s blog to celebrate the wonder that is Brooklyn. It’s truly inconceivable how invested our few miles of landscape are to slow food, perfect tailoring, old world taste, top notch music, and incendiary design.
The Bespoke Suit by BrooklynTailors
Channeling the New York of yesteryear, which housed a new cropping of imports with strong trade skills from their homeland, today’s Brooklyn offers the same slew of masters. These talented folks provide handmade custom suits with timeless charm, decadently wrapped and overkeenly conceived dessert, and top notch skin care items that stand out amongst the hoards of processed corporate junk that thwarted local business in the New York area since the dawn of the powerful factory giants took over mid-century.
This resurgence of keeping it local has only exacerbated the growth of the business of local makers and for good reason. These products were built to last, created to awe, mixed to content, and constructed to transcend. The good stuff is made here in charismatic Brooklyn, Portland’s brother.
Saipua's Soap Selection
Brooklyn Brew's Home Brewing Beer Kit
Junkprints' American Dream Necklace from a Recycled Record
Zooguu's Butler Plush
This list is rather meager. Now, go see what else Brooklyn has! …
Still Daddy’s Fancy Boy
I was feeling a little down today, so I decided to cut that crap and put on some
30 ROCKKKKKK
I laugh thinking about this show. I laugh in anticipation of the show starting. I laugh at the opening credits, throughout the show and I have aftershock residual laughs. The show = giggle kingdom.
How funny is Alec Baldwin’s turn as his name shows up in the opening ….. oh shit I heard it coming on, so I had to stop writing to watch it and thereafter giggle into my hand. 
AHHHHHHH
So then, if you’re feeling stressed, are carrying a heavy sack of the winter blues, or need something to make you a bit more buoyant, turn to this NBC monolith of comedy.
Gahhhhhhhhhhhhh
It’s so random and so well-scripted. The cadence of the actor’s lines are spot-on. The comedy is quirky and weird, awkward, candid, asinine. Amazingggggggggg. It’s also so so lovely to see Jane Krakoski, of Allie McBeal fame in a more outrageous role than she was given in AMB. She was more subdued, more calculated, now she’s unhinged, fiery, ridiculous, wide-eyed, and lunatic.
Tracey Morgan. I had no idea. You’re like eleven years old trapped in a 40’s temple of doom.
Alec Baldwin, I think this is your best role ever. Ever. You’re incredibly funny and so well-timed. If I could spent eleven minutes with you in this character, I think I would be in a good mood for two months afterwards.
“Holding up one finger to get someone to stop talking, he invented that.”
“You know why my place is so big? When I was first married to my ex-wife, we were in the basement over the years i kept buying the floors above me to make room for the family I thought we’d have would never have. Well now I have something better than a family–a walk-in humidor, a lap pool, and a replica of the Irish pub where my grandmother was born. “
This shit makes me watch the television I have been avoiding since the mid 2000’s.
Ass
Today I walked four miles to work to celebrate the lovely weather we were having (only 40 degrees!) and hitting the second to last block before my studio, I was greeted by six young men. I passed them and they screamed,
“She has no ass! She is trash! Throw her in the trash!! EWW What a waste! Throw her in the trash!”
Upon hearing this, I laughed, as it was ridiculous and I do not care that my ass is flat… Even still, it bothered me as I made my way onward.
Cultures truly have different takes on what is beautiful and this fact is something I love, yet being harassed for such beliefs sure is crappy! “Throw her in the trash!” Damn Youth.
Okay okay, I don’t have an ass. That’s fine. I am no Beyonce. That is fer sure. I know someone special who likes what I be tote-in’.
What else do people laud as beautiful?
BOOBS
LIPS
EYES
SMILE
LEGS
HAIR
…..??
That’s a pretty good list. So, now that we’ve established that I have no ass, I decided to investigate the many wearables that could ameliorate any missing pieces.
NUMBER I. Kcoline’s kcocotte a kro
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Alexander McQueen Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter
Alexander McQueen They Wouldn’t Even Notice An Ass
Boudicca Honey, I Have to Clean the Blinds
xo Desira
Bags Baaah ga.
More bags are coming very soon to the Desira Pesta shop and this includes Organic cotton/Bamboo denim versions, as well as supple reclaimed leather.
Here are some bags I love from other designers:
Hierapparel’s Echo Poly Clutch $75 on Etsy
Black Market Baby’s Leather Magick Pouch $45 on Etsy
Valhalla Brooklyn’s XL travel bag/carryon $295 on Etsy
Strappy a Leather Macbook by fullgive $207 on etsy
Carry well.
Happy Friday! xo Desira
Clothing, Cloth, Fashion, Sewing, Needles, Thread, Hangers, …
If I could have a bigger closet and shrink my room I would. I love cloth and textiles and vintage and shoes. Oh to have the wardrobe of a queen. What is it about clothing that makes so many of us shriek in delight? Seriously, why has fashion, of all things, completely taken hold of a great many people and made them utterly obsessed?
A great design can sometimes even summon an near orgasm.
We love duds.
Getting dressed up for prom, for a red carpet event, for a date or even for church is such a celebrated past-time of us folks and has been throughout time and across cultures for reasons varying by demographic, creed, politics, costume, >>>>>>>>>>
Just what is it about cloth that makes it’s structure so compelling and so worthy of near worship?
Hello! From Brooklyn
So lot’s of time has passed since my last post and so I will update you with some news…
Obama is president! Just Kidding it’s only been like 6 weeks..
My Movie Debut! Check out this trailer and me sitting very near Mr. Ben Stiller in one of my favorite directors, Noah Baumbach’s latest film due out in 2010. The movie was a blast to shoot for a week of my life in April and I met some great great people.
AUGHHHH!!! WOOOOO While in Los Angeles, I had a sample sale with my pal, Layla. The female star of the movie, Greta Gerwig, came and is now a proud owner of a Desira Pesta top. She is also a super sweet lady. A blast. Can’t wait to see the movie!! Greenberg – Coming to theaters March 12, 2010. Cast: Ben Stiller, Greta Gerwig, Jennifer Jason Leigh
Never would I thought that four years ago after seeing The Squid and the Whale and thereafter watching it obsessively for a year would I get to meet and be on set with Noah. AUGHHHHHHHHH Similarly, Zoolander, one of my guiltiest pleasures and from which I can quote every line, is another surreal dream come true. Follow your dreams.
