"It is our function as artists to make the spectator to see the world our way, attempt to make art more than just something to look at, we want it to be something to be involved in, something too big to ignore."
I Feel Love is coming up this Saturday! If you haven't bought your tickets yet get to Cliche immediately and get hooked up!! Tickets are $5 for standing room, $10 for a seat, and $20 for VIP.
This show is sure to please! Come check out my ultra femme ready to wear line, and I'm personally excited to see what our sweetheart Maritza Ramirez has put together for her menswear inspired line. So check out this video posted by TimeSquid as a little teaser for our show.
I just had a dream where I was given a black velvet box with a pair of small gold looped earrings in it, each had a dark polished stone dangling from it and were priced at $100. When I looked closer into the stone you could faintly see that there was a tiny silvery human skeleton crouched in fetal position in each one. They were suppose to be ancient and to have special powers. It was the coolest find and I bought them immediately. Now as I wake up I do find this to be very macabre in nature but still amazingly creative and unique, even if it was just a dream.
Also I remember seeing all sorts of other jewelry around, some of which was made of colorful paperclips set into intricate flower and almost damask looking designs for statement necklaces, bracelets, belts, and earrings. I used to make jewelry out of such things for fun as a kid, I wouldn't be surprised to find this actually out making a debut in a Marc by Marc Jacobs show next S/S. I almost feel compelled to make some myself!
Tickets have just been printed and are now available at Cliche!!
This is all I have been doing with my life other than working full time at the Hairpolice and keeping up my home. So please come and enjoy the show with me!
Cliché Boutique and l’étoile magazine present I FEEL LOVE, a multimedia fashion show produced by Angie Hanson, Ken Hannigan of Anthem Heart & Maritza Ramirez of Sceneasota. Creating an immersive environment through sound and visuals, I FEEL LOVE will transport attendees into a wondrous world of cutting edge art and fashion. Featuring new collections from two of the Twin Cities’ most innovative fashion designers, Maritza Ramirez and Mackenzie Labine (Me) of Oishiimomo; accessories by Kristin Berwald of Bionic Unicorn and Jared Zachary of Freedom From Doubt; live video art by The Lovemelts, Time Squid and Jesse Draxler in collaboration with Anthem Heart; and live italo disco vocal stylings from Camille Bourgerie and Alina Lindquist - plus an interlude performance by electro duo The Night.
Just a small preview: The first pic is one of our favorite models, Mary C. from Visionin my dressfrom our promo photo shoot last week. (these photos were taken with my Blackberry so sorry if they are a bit fuzzy.) The other two pics are the prints that were designed by Angie Hansonaka HautePants (not for long)and printed by Ken Hannigan of Anthem Heart for my line"Love Monster" that will be shown at our show "I Feel Love"on June 12th @ the MN fashion space in NE Mpls.
I have no other life other than working on this show after hours and making people beautiful at Hairpolice during the day. I really hope it all pays off! Keep your heads up and eyes open and prepare for I Feel Love!!
I have realized that things are changing. I know I keep repeating this, but I really haven't recognized this person that has emerged from the wreckage. I have made a transformation. Came out of the proverbial cocoon if you will. And I am becoming a beautifully color saturated butterfly. Not the drab moth dancing in a world of vivid hues as I imagined my myself in the years past.
Today I wake up with the urge to make heart shaped pancakes for my boo while listening to Au Revoir Simone and loving the early morning sunlight on my face. I don't get inspired by the darkness of my crisp navy taffeta or lush black velvet fabric remnants thrown about my sewing studio. I find myself shopping at Anthropology before Hot Topic, buying fancy things like antique wall hooks and sparkling hourglasses and I drool over tiny cotton sleeveless dresses adorned with snaps and grommets lacquered in red and pink. I close my eyes and I can see the perfect pair of red-orange kitten heels that I must have to complete the ensemble.
It's strange, I can't even imagine the places to don the dark couture costumey creations I have made in the past. I can only conjure up the art openings and dinner parties that the new conceptions of my new mind bring to me. I see the colors: yellow, red, pink, peach, lilac, beige, white and light gray. These will be modeled by fashionable ladies accessorized by vintage purses and frou frou hair pieces. This is a world that is new to me. Like Alice crossing through to the looking glass, is this imaginary or real? Will it all disappear in blink of an eye like so many other fleeting images have passed through my cerebellum? All I know is that I am delighted by this universe of iridescence and it seems that love might have been the catalyst; thank you Liza.
So yes, LOVE, love has conquered the shadows of the past, along with age.... I think I have finally moved on.... to a new domain... prepare for ready to wear.
I am a hairstylist, fashion designer extraordinaire that needs another way to express myself. So therefore, I blog.
To contact me for hair and fashion styling or apparel design email me at mackenzie.labine@gmail.com
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