End of summer season

Yes, almost ...
Autumn is coming but we still have the last days of summer. Hot days, here, in my country. So, I thought, let's buy a great bikini ;) I really needed to feel the summer spirit, even if it was just for a couple of weeks.
So, I found a new challenge in SL. My friend Katime Vacano invited me to help and blog. Wow, I was astonished!! It is a great challenge to write and to actually blog one item a week, be fashionable, be sexy ;) with a great dose of good sense and professionalism. That's how I got to blog in SXY2ND !!



So, this is going to be my first item to be blogged. The Halter bikini line by SySy Chapman.



It's really great, beautiful summer and fresh colours, great price!!
I just added a hat (excellent for these hot late summer days), the pareo is included in the fabulous price of this bikini. Check it out ;)

oh and by the way, once you get to SySy's mainstore, when you subscribe, you'll get 5 sexy tees.
Excellent!

SySy's Mainstore

Creative minds in SL

I had the immense pleasure of reading some posts of Gwen Carillion's Blog.
She was one of the sponsors of the Wedding SuperElite Show. She created (this is the word) a beautiful space for the Fashion Show.

Hers is a creative mind and her lucidity woke me up, really.
The way she sees and experiences Second Life is so positive, that I was inspired by her words.

Gwen is extremely creative; her words got to me, because as a SL Model, I deal with creativity all the time: with the clothes Designer's creativity, shoes, hair, avatar related, everything we work with. And aftert that, as Models, we are also creative.

Gwen's positive way of looking at Second Life really made me think of my own creativity, doing my job as a Model in SL.
It is a very creative work to do, like many others. Or I should say, we can do this job using our creativity.
I decided to work more creatively from now on; creation doesn't need to be only building or designing clothes, hair or shoes.
I don't really know how to say this, but after reading just some posts from Gwen Carillion's Blog, I felt that creativity works in different ways for all of us.

It's just do whatever we do in SL with a positive, creative way. Keep improving all the time and take the excellent advantages SL offers us to be also better as human beings and give that to SL in return.
I so agree with Gwen when she says that SL is not a real life substitute. For her, it's a way of creating. It fits her real life.
I think the same, so I am certainly going to see things differently from now on.

I am much more aware of whatever I do, in SL, I can make things more beautiful, in my own creative way. Everybody can.

Sharing an experience with you

As I go along Second Life Fashion world as a Model, it has always been my feeling that in Second Life, to be a "Top Model" is both - easy and difficult.

Easy, because you can create a Group, and give yourself or others the "Top Model" tag, or for that matter, any kind of "special tag".

Difficult, because when you watch a SL Fashion Show you will know if a "Top Model" tag really is what that avatar is representing.

I always keep my feet on the ground, so Real Life is my "school". Let's look at RL Models.
They do not have "Top Model" tags. Who decides on that? Who is a "Top Model" and who is not? Mostly, common sense and public opinion, right?

For some years now, RL Designers are chosing unknown Models, because there was a moment (and we all saw that happen) when people went to a Fashion Show to watch a certain Model or Models instead of the Designer's Collection, which has always been the point, right?

So, from the 70's on, some RL Models became celebrities; from the 80's there was a "boom" of Model celebrities. Their names were associated with "divas", like some actresses public will never forget.

However, is this the first reason why a real girl decides to become a Model? To be famous?
It can be, yes. In that sense, she must do a lot (and I do really mean a LOT) to get there. To be famous.

The first reason why I became a SL Model was (and still is) to work. So, it's my own opinion to decide if this or that SL Model is Top or not. No tag can decide that for me.

Recently, I was casted to a Second Life Group of Models (the owner of the Group insists that it is not a Model Agency, and that is ok. It's a Group dedicated to Event's organization). I went to the casting and was chosen as a "Print Model".

Some days have passed after the list of casted SL Models was out. Well, I saw a list made of several roles inside this Group: from "Star Model" (which is ok, for a group of friends, NOT for a Professional Group of SL Models), to "Top Models", to "Print Model" , to "Runway Model", etc.

I do believe that the simple "Model" tag gives us all the same fair opportunity.

If we are going to be in an event (a Fashion Show, for example), then the client decides which Models will be in the event. Who are the runway Models for him or her or a print Model, etc.

If we organize a Group of SL Models already giving them a role, it's restrictive in my SL Professional opinion, as a Model.

And we, SL Models, have the freedom to chose who we work with, right? We are free to go to castings and then decide, if chosen, if we want to work with that Agency or not, isn't it so?

If we want to stay or leave, it's our choice.

There is, at the moment, a huge amount of Models in Second Life! So, there is no problem is finding a replacement, if we leave a Group.
Besides each avatar in Second Life is a person that thinks, has choices, decides.

I chose not to stay in that Group, because I don't like this kind of "Model distribution" , these restrictive roles and tags.

If I weren't a polite person, it would have been a big drama, because I sent a notecard to the owner of the Group explaining that I was going to leave and why. Well, she was angry, very angry! I wonder why? Aren't we - SL Models - allowed to think for ourselves, to take our time and see if we feel good inside that Group? If we don't, we are free to leave, no drama.

This is what I think - NO DRAMA in Second Life. If there is any, I will leave the Group where the whole drama happened.

You see, my real life goes on. I click the "X" button and log off and still have my RL going, my family, my work, my LIFE!
When I log in Second Life, I want to do my job - be a SL Model and do my best to represent the SL Model Agencies I work with. Honour them, make them be proud of having me , as a Model.
For that, an Agency or a Group of SL Models must also respect themselves first. I assure you that, not only SL Models have a reputation - SL Model Agencies do too!

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Oh, by the way, I am very proud to have been invited to join Avenue Model Agency! That really makes me proud. Imagine that - go on a runway, do our best as SL Models and wear a simple tag *Avenue Model*. Isn't it simple and great? Thank you Avenue!!

SL and RL Tales

Songs on Runway Fashion Show - EIMA

B&S Design by klara Waco - EIMA

What a great Fashion Show by Elegance International Model Agency!
Besides having live music, sung by Cecy (excellent voice, by the way) through the land streaming, the music was carefully chosen, the outfits were awsome.

It was not what I would call a "regular" Fashion Show. Actually, I could stay there for hours, just listening to Cecy sing and strut the runway with klara's outfits.

I really enjoyed it, all the way!! And I am so grateful I was in it!!
Thank you Klara, Fiammetta!! You ladies are lovely!!!
Bisous!!**

FASHION SHOW sélectionné dans Féminin et Mannequins / Défilés

Pop Tarts SuperElite Show - Video

What a great show! It was fun, it was professional, well, it was Pop Tarts SuperElite!!
I loved performing as Alicia Keys!! There is a reason why I chose Alicia, in the first place. Well, several reasons, actually!
She is discrete and yet we cannot avoid staring at her at public events! She is fashionable, and one of my favourite US singers and players. This lady has been an inspiration! Extremely talented, as an artist, she can keep her private life to herself and guess what!! She can sing!! lol
Awsome voice, excellent piano player, I've seen one of her gigs and... well... I was like wow!
Maybe Alicia Keys will never know that she was portrayed in SL, with all the professionalism I think she would like to!
Thank you to all SuperElite team for this opportunity!! This was one of a lifetime show!!

Just watch the video and you'll see ;)

superELITE Fashion Show POP TARTS from superelite on Vimeo.

I have two lives *smiles*

Talking to an SL friend of mine, the other day, I was wondering what kind of blog I'm having: a SL fashion blog exclusively ... or what could my blog be?

Well, actually, I think I found myself :)

Sea in Fashion is a personal blog of a SL Model, yes, a diary type, I'm afraid.

So, I'd like to share with you something that touched me, really.
I was part of Maseno Project II developped by Mimmi Boa inworld to help RL children. Yesterday, May 8th, I was in Maseno Show with SuperElite Model Agency (one of the SL Agencies I represent.

It was an amazing experience, especially the auction dress part. In RL, I am caucasian, so I was used to wear caucasian skins in SL. And this particular SL Designer asked for an afro skin to wear her outfit!


Outfit: Prelude Collection Privee - Tropiques


I did, no questions asked. It's a request from the Designer and that we can do in SL. This is what amazes me in SL! Always! To see myself in someone else's shoes - an african lady!
A Model should be unique. Both RL and SL. In Second Life, we can adapt more to each circumstance.
So, I also "found myself" as a SL Model: my uniqueness is that I am adaptable. Yes, I can wear proudly an african skin, an asian skin, a caucasian blue eyed avatar, dark eyes, whatever is needed to do my job well: represent a special Designer, represent a SL Model Agency.

Mostly, I found out that SL allows me to be exactly what I am in RL - extremely adaptable to whatever life brings me. If you are given lemons, make lemonade. Let it be the best lemonade you ever tasted!!