POOR LITTLE RICH GIRL By Boudoir Queen

PAUL POIRET MY FAVORITE DESIGNER OF ALL TIME!

Paul Poiret's Wife Denise

LASH-OUT

MURDER MY SWEET THIS SATURDAY NIGHT @ STUBBS

YA BABY

Stylists are catching on .........ya-think?

I Just Can't Get Enough Irina Ionesco

I hope I'm not boring you with my many blogs on Irina Ionesco but I just can't get enough! She's my favorite photographer besides Steven Arnold of course.

So Sorry

I just got back from my whirl-wind weekend. So sorry to all my readers about the blog silence. If you think the lovely Miss Pallenberg is hot......I spent a weekend with someone who is the queen of decadent cool. More blogs coming soon I promise ......muah!

FIZZYLIKE

Fabulous Rosalinde' Boudoir Doll

Boudoir Dolly Decadence (Top Collectors)

GREAT BOUDOIR COLLECTIONS are few and far between. My friend Jenny AKA Fizzylike has what I consider to be a great boudoir collection. She has bought many dolls from me and her collection has grown over the years. Her collection is 2die4 and she has made my list of top B'doll collectors. I'll post more of her decadent dollies later. If you have a doll you would like me to post a picture of send it to me ; ) .

Me 2002

Here is a pic of me with a rare Large Face Boudoir Doll........I wish the person trying to be me would stop torturing Boudoir Doll Lovers with Butt-Ugly re-paint crochet headband wearing doll's. Here's some eye-candy for ya.

I'm Changing My Name To Margo Channing

For those of you who are familiar with the movie ALL ABOUT EVE this story pretty much depicts certain aspects of my life right now. The only difference is I have about five "Eves"

NEW CUSTOM TURBAN GIRL VALENTINA EVENING BAGS

PRICE AVAILABLE upon request

This gorgeous new bag was made for custom for a client and we are making only two more. It's far more elaborate than the original. It took 3 days to make. This is a couture item. The details are amazing. It's also larger than the original. Her turban has old tiny ostrich feathers. The bag is striped lame' and satin with lace lining and metallic lace trim.

POIRET DOLL

DOLLY DRAMA

Boudoir Queen Collections past and present

THE QUEEN OF ALL BOUDOIR DOLL's

The best b'doll evah! If there is one thing I can't stand it's those tacky bed dolls that were made at the very end.Now this is a boudoir dream Doll!

ELECTRIC LADYLAND

inside Boudoirland

BIBA LAND

BIBA POSTER

BIBA CANDY COUNTER

YUMMY

BOUDOIR QUEEN ETSY SHOP

Etsy: Your place to buy & sell all things handmade BoudoirQueen.etsy.com

ROCK ROYALTY

We LOVE our new client! We are very excit​ed about​ makin​g her the sicke​st stage​ gear known​ to man! She'​s a bad-​ass my dream​ come true Muse!​ Thank​ you!​!​ Check out her myspace blog to see her mention of us!

The Louche Cloche by BQ

This one sold for 325.00 each one is unique.

VISIONS OF OSSIE CLARK

I'm so into this Morocco style garb right know. I just bought tons of deco rugs and put them every which way in my house. Love it and you might see a little of this influence in our December line. I bought the sickest fabrics today from my friends Euro shipment.....god I'm in textile heaven right now! This picture is what I'm doing at the moment.....fun huh?

BOUDOIR QUEEN IN ARTHUR MAGAZINE NEXT MONTH

A stylist pulled our cuffs in L.A. and they will be in Arthur magazine next month. We have huge press coming up so stay tuned for details.

**Speaking of exciting things I have to say it's pretty thrilling my husbands new band manager who worked with Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie,billy idol and lenny Kravitz is taking on the band. HUGE THINGS are happening. I'll be back and forth from L.A and Austin this month and next month. WE also have the filming shoots and shows. You can contact me at Boudoirqueen@swbell.net if you have any questions. My store will remain open!

CONGRATULATIONS AMERICA!!!!!!!!!!!

Wow yesterday was such a great day on so many levels!!!!

HOOKED ON TRUEBLOOD

This is the best show on HBO. I'm totally hooked!

YMA SUMAC WILL BE MISSED!!!!

Yma Sumac dies in Hollywood on November 1st. I loved her!!! In the early 90's she was all I listened to. What a great voice!! I listen to her music a lot when I'm alone at my shop designing.

OFF THE CHARTS!!!!!!!!!!

Today the hits on Poor Little Rich Girl were off the charts!! The highest ever and as high as the graph will go! Being able to see the stats and everyone who is looking at our blog has been really helpful for our business. Many days I don't have time to say a lot as it's been crazy at work. I'll try my best to keep Rockin the mad style! Thanks to everyone for viewing our Blog.

TAKE ME BACK IN TIME

The Biba look and the feel

‘The Biba Look’ or 'Dudu Look' was ‘fresh little foals with long legs, bright faces and round dolly eyes.’ Barbara Hulanicki describes her customers as ‘postwar babies who had been deprived of nourishing protein in childhood and grew up into beautiful skinny people: a designer's dream. It didn’t take much for them to look outstanding.’ These women were mostly teenagers or twenty year olds, who wanted to have clothes that looked good on them. All the Biba girls remember how women over thirty years old were considered old in the Biba store, and probably felt isolated as these girls felt in other stores. The employees were from the same demographic; among them at one point was a young Anna Wintour, later editor of Vogue. The Biba look consisted of what Hulanicki called "Auntie Colours" - Hulanicki described them as ‘look[ing] like a funeral.’ These colours were blackish mulberries, blueberries, rusts and plums. Biba smocks were uncomfortable and ‘itched’ and stopped women’s arms from bending - something that did not stop customers from buying the clothes, which had become the uniform of the era - with the added bonus of that whatever you bought, you could always get accessories to match. Miniskirts were causing a scene of their own, every week they got shorter ‘I thought surely we couldn’t shorten them any more, but magically there were a few old inches to go’ . Although Mary Quant was the first British designer to show the mini skirt, Biba was responsible for putting it on the high street and as miniskirts were in fashion, everything needed to be associated with them. Biba spread out into children’s wear after the second store was opened - inspired by the birth of Hulanicki's son Witold in 1967. Soon after his birth Hulanicki started designing children’s clothes. Uninspired by the traditional baby blue and pink ‘toweling suits or those prissy looking woolly jumpers and bonnets’ for babies she wanted her baby to wear ‘purple and black and other Auntie Colours’ . Soon Biba babies started to appear in the streets with their Biba mothers. [edit]Marketing strategy

The Biba logo played a crucial part in Biba’s success: the logo (see above) was black and gold and reflected the growing taste in youth for art deco. The logo was designed by Antony Little. To create a look for Biba in the first store, Little painted the Biba sign above the shop and blacked out all the windows. The blacked out windows didn’t allow the store’s interior to receive any sunlight which was vital for the Biba’s art nouveau atmosphere. The Biba logo was reconstructed in various ways to be appropriate for all the different products. Every product had the Biba logo on it. The labels showing size, color and price all resembled a similar style. In the final Biba store, each department had its own logo or sign which was based on the Biba logo and had a picture describing the department.

Biba was the first to set a standard for brand marketing and the first high street store to create a look for itself. The logo was seen on everything: from clothes to food, to wallpaper, creating an immediately recognizable identity from any piece sold at the store. Biba never wanted to be considered an average high street store and as a result the interior layout was always innovative and was set to enhance the clothes rather than just to hold them. The Biba Food Hall was also designed ingeniously, each part being aimed at one particular kind of product; a unit made to look like a dog consisted of dog food; a huge baked beans tin can consisted of only tins of Baked beans etc, all foods having individual innovative units. The clothes were also displayed in an unusual manner from the beginning hanging on coat stands. Since coat stands can not hold a lot of clothes many were needed. Fitz shopped for them all year round, so that he could secure as many as they needed in the store, while ordering hundreds more. Biba was also the first store that let customers try makeup before buying it. This started an unusual routine; women came to Biba before work with no makeup on, put it on in the store and then rushed to work. Biba also never exhibited anything in shop windows, believing instead that people would be intrigued and seduced to enter the shop by their captivating store interior seen from outside. At its first store, Biba didn’t even have its name above the door; customers just came in because they were interested what was inside the dark store roaring with music. The display windows in later stores were often made sitting areas, where you could read, watch the activity on the street, smoke and enjoy other peoples' company. These sitting areas attracted many to come to the store and just sit there all day smoking cigarettes and taking drugs, which became an obstacle Biba had to overcome towards the end. Biba made fashion accessible and made shopping a leisure activity.

TALITHA the 'hippie de luxe'

She became the second wife of John Paul Getty (1932-2003) on December 10, 1966. She was married in a white mini-skirt, trimmed with mink. The Gettys became part of "Swinging" London's fashionable scene, becoming friends with, among others, singers Mick Jagger, of the Rolling Stones, and his girl-friend Marianne Faithfull. Faithfull has recounted her apprehension, through "ingrained agoraphobia", about an invitation to spend five weeks with the Gettys in Morocco ("but for Mick this is an essential part of his life") and how, after splitting from Jagger, she took up with Talitha Getty's lover, Jean de Breteuil, a French aristocrat who allegedly supplied drugs to rock stars such as Jim Morrison of the Doors. Print designer Celia Birtwell, who married designer Ossie Clark, recalled Talitha Getty as one of a number of "beautiful people" who crossed her threshold in the late 1960s: Jimi Hendrix [the rock guitarist] lived with Ossie and me for a while. I quite liked Jimi but at 2am it was a bit much. We’d get transient people coming by, especially girls who wanted to hook up with Jimi. I met a lot of exciting, beautiful people, such as Talitha Getty. I was quite a homebody, whereas Ossie was a party person, so when he got bored with people he would palm them off on me, and send them round to tea. John Paul Getty, who has been described as "a swinging playboy who drove fast cars, drank heavily, experimented with drugs and squired raunchy starlets" [8][page # needed], eschewed the family business, Getty Oil, during this period, much to the chagrin of his father. However, in later years, he became a major philanthropist and (as a US citizen) received an honorary British knighthood in 1986. His luxury yacht, built in 1927 and renovated in 1994, was the MY Talitha G. In 1968, the Gettys had a son, Tara Gabriel Gramophone Galaxy, who became a noted ecological conservationist in Africa.

Marrakesh Talitha Getty is probably best remembered for an iconic photograph taken on a roof-top in Marrakesh, Morocco in January 1969 by Patrick Lichfield (1939-2005). With her hooded husband in the background, this image (now part of the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in London) portrayed her in a slightly anxious, crouching pose, wearing a multi-coloured kaftan, white harem pants and white and cream boots. The look seemed to stylishly typify the hippie fashion of the time and became a model over the years for what, more recently, has been referred to variously as "hippie chic", "boho-chic" and even "Talitha Getty chic" . Although, in her lifetime, Talitha Getty, who was only thirty when she died, was not much known to a wider public, fashion gurus of the late 20th and early 21st centuries have often written of her and Marrakesh (a major destination for hippies in the late 1960s, as illustrated by the song, Marrakesh Express (1969) by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young) as virtually synonymous. The very mention of her name has been taken to suggest a particular "look" and style. "Beautiful and damned" The couturier Yves Saint Laurent was part of the same "in crowd" as Talitha Getty and she was an early muse of his. In a widely quoted paean of 1984 to the "youthfulness" of the 1960s, he invoked the title of a 1922 novel by F Scott Fitzgerald to describe the Gettys: Talitha and Paul Getty lying on a starlit terrace in Marrakech, beautiful and damned, and a whole generation assembled as if for eternity where the curtain of the past seemed to lift before an extraordinary future Death Talitha Getty died of a heroin overdose in Rome, Italy on July 14, 1971. She died within the same twelve month period as Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison, other cultural icons of the 1960s, and four months before Edie Sedgwick. His wife's death marked the end of John Paul Getty's period of hedonism and its circumstances initially drove him to ground in England. He remained reclusive for several years, being described by the critic Kenneth Tynan as the "Hermit Millionaire" [11]. His rehabilitation was assisted by a growing passion for cricket, which was nurtured by, among others, Mick Jagger and a former England captain and future MCC President, Gubby Allen, whom he met in the London Clinic during a long period of illness.Note on images For someone who has acquired iconic status in the world of fashion and as an exemplar of the 1960s, images of Talitha Getty have been rather elusive. The Marrakesh photograph was published in Lichfield's 1981 collection of beautiful women and has re-appeared from time to time in newspapers and magazines: for example, with the Daily Telegraph's obituary of John Paul Getty on 18 April 2003, in French Vogue in February 2004 and in a Times feature on November 2, 2006 marking the ninetieth anniversary of Vogue. In the latter, the newspaper's fashion editor, Lisa Armstrong, referred to the image as "typif[ying] the luxe bohemian look". The website of the National Portrait Gallery refers to the technical features of the photograph and its source, but alongside a blank space. A version of Armstrong's article appeared in the December 2006 edition of Vogue itself, illustrated by a slightly hazy photograph of Getty in a different bohemian outfit on London's Albert Bridge. There are some black and white photographs of the Gettys, held by Getty images, some of which can be found on the Internet, and some group shots taken off-screen during the filming of Barbarella. A naked shot of her in Barbarella, partly covered by a long flowing headdress, appeared in Sunday Times on September 16, 2007, alongside revelations about her relationship with Rudolf Nureyev. The latter piece was headed, "Talitha, the 'hippie de luxe' Nureyev wanted to marry". A photograph of Getty with her infant son, taken in June 1968, was reproduced in the Times Magazine on November 11, 2006.

FASHION FORWARD

On with the new fashions this week. It's very exciting! We've updated our photo albums on look books on the blog!

BIRKIN IN THE BOUDOIR

WONDERWALL

HALLOWEEN FAVORITE FRIENDS 2008

So here we have it my BQ pic of best halloween Costumes of the day. Drum roll pleeeze......Angel,Trashy Sparkle Fart,Annakim and Kimme congratulations!

FILMY DECADENCE