With a lovely, long holiday weekend what else would you wanna do but sit on a roof top sipping mimosas with friends and shopping for pretty little things. Williamsburg! Hey it’s Easter so why n...
It’s spring! and you know what that means!? Time to crawl out of the dark hole you been in and find beauty in the world again. Such a lovely long holiday weekend I took myself to Williamsburg f...
When last we spoke in part 1 , I discussed color and living up your life with it. I hope yall went and got some paint chips and played with some crazy ideas. Cuz now, I’munnah show you how I ar...
I’m a big fan of peeping in windows as I drive down streets to see how people live. What colors are the walls? What things do they surround themselves with? Does it look like a happy place to ...
There is nothing I hate more than being bored. Holiday traveling always means an excruciating amount of waiting in line, in terminals, in planes, utterly uninspired, to say the least. I’d way r...
Check out this hot bustier and peplum skirt from the 2012 Garrott collection. It’s called “I a Dior You” and it’s a classic. Now available for wholesale and retail contact gar...
I’d like to take a moment to feature one of the most influential, creative geniuses I know. Mr. Bob Pendarvis, is a friend and former professor of mine from the sequential department at the Sav...
The first look from the new Garrott collection is a hot little number called “Dominique Deco”. It’s bamboo viscose jersey with leather accents make this an easy breezy little rockin...
It’s Halloween Garrott style! Failing to ever actually HAVE a Halloween costume at the ready, I managed to pull from my closet of Garrott couture. Intergalactic Bounty Hunter
My posts have been sparse for the last 2 months, and I am so very sorry about that. You see, I was completely absorbed in the studio with the Garrott 2012 collection and multiple freelance projects....
Yes, it’s true, nothing gets me more excited then Tuesday or Thursday night drawing sessions. Seriously, it has all my favorite things; wine, music, artsy people, and most importantly, costumed...
I’m no make-up heathen, in fact I don’t really know how to put it on. My mid-western mother never really showed me. Much to her credit though, she was freaking gorgeous anyway and didn...
So, it would seem Nickki at Wild as a Mink but Sweet as Soda Pop has been sleeping on the job. 30 looks in 30 weeks has tuckered out this poor fashionista. Wake up girl, it’s only look # 18! Bu...
Alexander McQueen is the single most significant designer and influence in my life and career as a fashion designer and artist. McQueen’s rise coincided with my education from 1997-2004. I rec...
OK, who out there hasn’t dreamed of starting or joining a “girl gang”? When I was a little kiddie I use to watch “The Outsiders” over and over again. Granted, those hot ...
I love life drawing even though it’s a rather masochistic thing to do to oneself. I mean, a vast majority of the time I can’t eeek out a single sketch I like and then when I do, good luck...
In case you didn’t know, fashion illustration rocks my freaking world. I tend to choose consumer products based on artwork. Illustration communicates a mood the product is selling and I’m...
If you remember Nickki’s do-it-yourself Garrott Tee look from #9 and #12 you’ll be inspired with the updated look Ms. Wild as a Mink but Sweet as Soda Pop threw together for the summer he...
OK, so NYC refuses to admit it’s spring. We planted flowers and started throwing block parties but the sky just won’t open up and shine down on us. So if all you Californians and otherwis...
While roaming the streets of Manhattan in constant pursuit of fashion, Mimosas and chocolate covered espresso beans, my companion and I spotted this man. What a fabulous look!
Nickki laughs and It’s raining all day She loves to be one of the girls She lives in the place In the side of our lives Where nothing is Ever put straight Pretty in Pink, Isnt She? She turns he...
What do you do when your jilting whore muse is on the run again? (I usually sulk in my thinking chair and ponder the blueness of my walls while awaiting her sweet return. but what I should do is̷...
“Hell hath no style like a Nickki scorned“, if you’ve been following Wild as a Mink but Sweet as Soda Pop you’ve witnessed how breaking up can be hard to do. Garrott Tee look ...
H&M Tee Shirt Contest I entered the above artwork for the H&M “Your Art Here” contest please vote for my design here and register to enter your own design! Spread the word on Face...
Summer 2011 is coming out with a slew of comic book movies and I’m too freaking excited about it. Why? cuz last time comics hit fashion it was pretty cool. In 2008 The MET exhibit “Superheroes:...
Look #12 “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes”;You’re gonna need the above sound track to coax you through this look. NYC is pretty gray these days, for many reasons. As such, Nickki at Wild as...
Back home, in the great north woods, we have a term we call “Farm Hot”. Such an event takes place when girl-friend has chores to do: hardware store, potting plants, running errands, going...
It’s a dirty job but someones gotta do it! Shopping: staying on trend, finding new ideas, colors, silhouettes etc… Fashion is fast, if you don’t stop and look around once in a while...
OK, I know, it’s a weird title, bear with me, and welcome to the wacky world of Wild as a Mink but Sweet as Soda Pop style. Where things start off with a quirk but it all ends with a wicked coo...
People ask about my acrylic painting process, I guess you could call it “Glazing“. Kathrine Sandoz, one of my professors at SCAD, taught me and I kind of ran away with it. So here is a d...
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