Stylish with Substance

There was great buzz about the very 1st virtual fashion week held in Second Life last February, but where is the 2nd Second Life Fashion Week in the uber-important fall showings?

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It's not much publicized, but thanks to Second Life's equivalent to Vogue, Second Style, I have the schedule for at least a few shows (fashionably late, I must apologize):

• Sunday, 9/7 - The Art of Autumn Fashion Show, 1 p.m. Too late, sorry.


• Saturday, 9/13 - Styles for Seduction Fashion Show - 2 p.m. again, sorry.


• Sunday, 9/14 - Frida's Fine Fall Fashion Show - 12 p.m. VISIT LIVE!*


• Sunday, 9/14 - Mondira Fashion - 1 p.m. VISIT LIVE!


• Friday, 9/26-Sun. 28 - Impressione Weekend of Beauty - more info

*You must be registered as an avatar and have Second Life installed on your machine to visit the live links.

By the way, I'm working on creating a public calendar
for Lipped Media so both I and any of you may follow
and better remember fashion events!

That is all that seems to be scheduled. The lack of a "hoopla", especially compared to that of the last SLFW, is due to the 1st being sponsored by iVillage, a big company, which for some reason did not continue their involvement. It's sad that support for underground and mass-participation / social/equality is low after initial *shiny* novelty wears off. It's equality sad that a grassroots campaign didn't keep what could have been (and I pray still will be someday) a phenomenon from growing, let alone prevent from shrinking.

I only recently got into Second Life with dreams of selling my own virtual designs, before deciding to hold off temporarily to focus more time on (re-)building the blogs up, but after this I want to make it a point to merge the apparel and indie design with the virtual fashions of Second Life into this blog. It's all fashion and it's something I want to be a part of - even when it's hard to find time for a world that can really suck the first life out of a life's schedule. ;-)

Hopefully I can become actively involved enough to spread the celebration further next February and beyond!