This is the second outfit I wore at my photoshoot. Here, I went for a completely different proportion with highwaisted, pleated silk pants (anathema in all flattering dressing gurus books). I played ...
This week, I worked with the very wonderful JR Blackwell on my very first photoshoot. It was a very fun experience, and in addition I now possess a ton of great quality photos of myself in all sorts ...
BLOODY FABULOUS, the anthology of urban fantasy about fashion, has an Amazon Listing!And a cover:Table of Contents:“Coat of Stars” Holly Black“Savage Design” Richard Bowes“Bespoke” Genevieve Valentin...
Got back from Denver. Had a great time meeting writerly friends and exploring the city a bit. Hopelessly behind now, so important things:WILFUL IMPROPRIETY has a cover! This is the US version -- the ...
First of all, BLOODY FABULOUS, the anthology of urban fantasy about fashion, now has a Table of Contents!“Coat of Stars” Holly Black“Savage Design” Richard Bowes“Bespoke” Genevieve Valent...
I know I talked about this before -- this impossibility for a woman to opt out of the sex object thing; and many people agree and yet the beauty ideals are still... difficult to discuss. So let me st...
So blades_of_grass linked to this amazing Table of Contents, posted here, and authored by (c) sadcrixivan, frau_derrida, _palka. This is meant to be a ToC for ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ...
Con or Bust is an annual auction, which helps fans of color/non-white fans attend SF conventions. This year, I have three items for auction:1) A signed copy of The House of Discarded Dreams;2) A sign...
I meant to do this post for a while now. Refinery29 recently did a post on seven emerging European designers, and among them they mentioned Sasha Kanevski. Ignoring their strange wording ("it’s t...
I am extremely pleased to announce the project thats been under wraps so far: I am editing an anthology for Constable&Robinson, WILFUL IMPROPRIETY: 13 Tales of Society and Scandal (to be publishe...
Semester, that is. Oh, who am I kidding: I havent been around internet much, and when I have been, it was all on Facebook and Twitter. But therere posts fermenting. At the moment Im noodling about:1)...
(From Vogue Italia 2009, picturing Nina Riccis famous heelless shoes)I am currently reading submissions for Bloody Fabulous, and as happens with every new anthology, there is always a new set of issu...
And once again, I find my post among this weeks Links a la Mode. Thanks, IFB!Getting Into The SpiritEdited by Taylor DaviesThanksgiving is now officially behind us, so its time to start looking ahead...
This week’s topic for Feminist Fashion Bloggers group post is sexuality, but ofcourse I am going to cheat and talk about something slightly different: theimpossibility for a woman to dress in a sexua...
(This post is for Feminist Fashion Bloggers. This months theme: Youth and Aging.)(Image: Tilda Swinton wearing Haider Ackerman, in Toronto 2011)My grandmother had a number of weird and funny sayings,...
(Image: December 2008 cover of Russian Vogue)A few months ago, a fashion blog, Fashionable Academics (which since then seems to have gone private readership) hosted a blog conference called "This...
Yes, I said all sorts of horrible things about Project Runway judges, and how they pander to the lowest common denominator as they imagine it to be. And no, I am not taking this back. Because this we...
(Image via Georgian Index)Among many significant relationships in my life, one stands slightly apart from the rest: my tailor. Neither friend nor family, a tailor is someone I tend to develop emotion...
Im pleased that my earlier faves -- Danielle, Becky, and Viktor -- are still on, and making clothes I like! Fallene is stumbling, and seems too flighty for this competition. Not decided on Cecilia ye...
Its an honor to be included again. Thanks, and wee!Style is what you make it. We are all different and beautiful in our own ways. Many of us have different techniques to display how we want to presen...
And yes, Im super-excited! Lifetime released the portfolios of its 20 (!) designers. Theres also Facebook "Like" button, which only teaches us that being named Gunnar Deatherage will win ever...
(Image via The Shophound; the top row is Forever 21; the bottom -- Trovata).This is a part of Feminist Fashion Bloggers monthly themed post; the roundup is here.So sure, I wrote about copyright and h...
ReligionReligion is one of those things one is not supposed to talk about in polite company, but thankfully books have no such obligation. Heart of Iron is not specifically about religion, but religi...
(Image above: North River Terminal, Moscow)Well, not the road -- Im comfortably installed in my parents apartment in Moscow. Weve returned from a river boat trip to Uglich -- a town north of Moscow, ...
It was pretty great! Highlights included a shared reading with Genevieve Valentine, meeting a co-editor of The Steampunk Bible SJ Chambers and some of the contributors -- Margaret Killjoy and Jake vo...
Grades are all turned in, so I can finally blog about books!1) The long awaited Steampunk Bible is here! I got my copy, and it is lovely. I wont lie -- I was pleased to be mentioned as well as quoted...
(Made Van Krimpen for LOfficiel Ukraine April 2011, via FGR)And today is another Feminist Fashion Bloggers event! This time, finance, and once again I find that I already said many of the things I wa...
I blogged about Izumi Hongo last year, and gushed quite a bit. It is unusual to find such subdued yet unique esthetic, and Im greatly pleased that these features not only persisted but developed in t...
Heart of Iron, my next book, is an alternative history. History in question is Russian and Chinese, and it was suggested to me that it might be a good idea to talk about some of the events that happe...
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