Looking Weedy

Toysoldier Dandelion gown from Paris Metro.

We'd go to the Paris Metro Gallery just to see the exhibits, but the chance that there will be another fabulous and free commemorative gown on offer makes it even more enticing. This Dandelion gown is a real delight! And if you want an "After Five" outfit, just remove the mermaid skirt attachments and you have a cute dress!

The Toysoldier Thor art exhibit has both sculpture and 2-dimensional art.

Very naughty of Kathy to wear The White Armory Group Gift
from last Sunday.  Note the free gown sign in the back.

Annthrasite is also wearing a group gift hair from little bones and The Cart Sale special skin from Lumae. See previous post below.

Paris Meshtro

Art by Olympes Rhode

The Paris Metro Gallery has another great exhibit and gowns to go with it.  The exhibits are great enough without the gowns, but it's worth going to see them anyway.  I particularly enjoyed this exhibit.

If you are like Lludmila, with an odd shape, mesh doesn't always work no matter what size and we refuse to reshape ourselves.  Although the Paris Metro exhibit gift gowns contain some mesh items, if the mesh doesn't work for you, you can wear the outfit without it.  I don't know how many free outfits we've discarded because the mesh just wasn't working out.  I find this annoying, even though we're talking about free clothes.  Is this bad of me?

Anyway, Paris Metro has solved this problem for me.  Lludmila's torso is just too short for the mesh corset in this homage to the art by Olympes Rhode ... but it's just as great without the mesh piece!

With and without mesh corset

On the main floor is art by Kylie Sabra, who uses some interesting techniques ... and a lot of red.

Art by Kylie Sabra

The dress that goes with this collection has a mesh skirt and jacket.  The mesh worked really well in this outfit, but still can be worn without the mesh jacket.  The sheer skirt doesn't require an invisibility layer.   Many thanks to Paris Metro for the exhibits and for all the free gowns we've scored off them in the past!

With and without mesh jacket

Rhymes With "Loch"

Lludmila's complexion blends right in.

This week's The White Armory group gift is the van Gogh sunflowers and iris dress.  Those of us who toured the western art world with Kenneth Clark know to pronounce it "Gawkkhhhh" to the disbelief and unintentional moistening of others.*  Anyway, along with a stunning gown and a perky little headpiece with veil comes a framed reproduction.  Now, if only Lludmila had room to display that.

This only makes us miss the Virtual Starry Night Exhibit even more!  We visited multiple times and played in all the exhibits of three-dimensional representations of van Gogh's paintings.  Brilliant!  Another creative use of interaction in virtual space!  Oh well, there's still Art Box.

OMG! Save Art Box!

*I make up for it by stubbornly mispronouncing Bruegel when I see it spelled "Breugel."

A Gallery of Gowns

The long and the short of it.

There's a new exhibit of photographs at the Paris Metro Gallery and two new commemorative gowns!  We always enjoy the art exhibits there and they have some magnificent photographs this time.

You can usually tell how much I like an outfit by how many pix I take.

Below a just a couple of the photos - what is this obsession I have with morning?  Ask my husband, I'm the one always sleeping in.  I love the grey and the fog!*

Photo of Paris in the morning by Relay Caedmon

Another morning photo, this time by K T Syakumi

And no Sunday post is complete without The White Armory Group gift.  Love the coloring on this!  Goes nicely with those morning photos!  

More photos of this one on my Flickr  page.

*

Morning fog from last October.

Artful Donning

Comes another exhibit at the Paris Metro Gallery, comes another selection in the Artist Series couture.  Lludmila loves going to exhibits, and this one was particularly good.  And you also get free dresses made from the art textures.  Upstairs has the Rorschach images of Reezy Frequency.  One of the more interesting was made into this gown:

Reezy Frequency - Back

Reezy Frequency - Front

The downstairs exhibit displays representational work in different media by Xirana.   Lludmila just loves those frills over the breasts.  We were particularly fond of the drawings of autumn trees, but this black and white makes a stunning dress.

Xirana gown

Xirana - showing off the awesome Nardcotix shoooooes
that look like they were made for this outfit.

The pictures that follow are just because I took so many pictures and I hate for them to go to waste.

Gowns by Paris Metro found outside the Gallery.
Hair from the fabulous sale at Dark Mouse. [25L for color packs on all hairs and 3 free packs]
Absinthe shoooooes from Nardcotix (an old hunt prize).

I just love the movement of the flexis.

Oh, so Lludmila does wear false eyelashes. Who knew?

Reveal and Conceal

Kathy in freebie from Paris Metro

Lludmila wasn't interested in this outfit, but Kathy didn't mind showing a great deal of midriff and some bra.  The pants (cut a bit on the low side, hence the pose) and top (with varying degrees of exposure from absolutely sheer to opaque with and without bra) are a freebie from Paris Metro.  They are outside the gallery where there is an interesting installation that is not only striking but thought-provoking.
Kathy's hair is from Clawtooth, the 60L Friday edition.  The shoes were from Duh!

The White Armory group gift for this week

At the other end of the coverage spectrum is this elegant gown from The White Armory.  It has blue shadings on it, so the blue-black hair from SYDS went with it perfectly.  All Kathy needs is a tiara.  She's wearing navy blue heels from Duh!, but you can't see them in the swirl of fabric.