POOR LITTLE RICH GIRL By Boudoir Queen

MORE OF BOUDOIR QUEEN'S MARCHESA CASATI INSPIRED LOOKS FALL 09

GALA DARLING

http://galadarling.comWelcome to a world of tattered silk, stained lace & decadently distressed velvet. A world where girls eyes are always fringed with magical false eyelashes, their hair is always elegantly tousled, & they wear elaborate headpieces while lounging around the house.

This is the world of Dawn Younger-Smith, owner of The Boudoir Queen, where disheveled opulence reigns. Citing the likes of Marchesa Louisa Casati, Kiki De Montparnasse & Erte as style icons & influences, when she isn’t busy designing stage costumes for celebrities — she’s currently creating outfits for The Veronicas tour — Dawn has been known to delight onlookers in a dress made from Aleister Crowley collage!

I pounced on her for 10 quick questions. I like to imagine her writing her answers while wearing an immense feathered headdress!

Who are you & and what do you do?

Dawn Younger-Smith: I am Dawn Younger-Smith, owner of the company Boudoir Queen. I am a designer, artist & collector of the rare & unusual.

Who & what are you currently inspired by? Dawn Younger-Smith: My assistant Shannon inspires me & I’m sort of into Bette Davis right now.

Who do you design for? Dawn Younger-Smith: Boudoir Queen designs stage clothing for many recording artists and actresses. Right now we are designing clothes for The Veronicas tour.

What is your current favorite outfit? Dawn Younger-Smith: My favorite outfit is our new Cherry Bomb ruby lined jackets. I wear them with everything and always faboo shoes. I’m also very much into my Piano Shawl dresses with our BQ silver metallic lace turbans.

What’s your ultimate style tip? Dawn Younger-Smith: In the famous words of Coco Chanel “In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different”… So be different!

Where’s your favorite place to relax? Dawn Younger-Smith: I have a fabulous room in my house filled with all my 1920’s lingerie collection & my boudoir dolls. The room makes me feel relaxed. I also like to lounge at The Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles for days on end. I love the vibe.

Who are your style icons? Dawn Younger-Smith: Marchesa Casati, Paul Poiret, Anita Pallenberg, Edie Sedgwick & Lou Doillon just to name a few.

What do you love to splurge on? Dawn Younger-Smith: Christian Louboutins & lots of beauty products. I was a celebrity make-up artist for many years & I am enjoying buying lots of Illamasqua. I also buy a godawful amount of vintage clothing & textiles. It’s my passion.

Where can we find your pieces? Dawn Younger-Smith: The Boudoir Queen

What’s your next big dream? Dawn Younger-Smith: Going on tour with my husband!

Tons of Marchesa looks over the past 3 years

Published 2002 GHOST OF MARCHESA DRESS 2002 patty Griffin Video

This is our ghost of Marchesa dress. It was in the Patty Griffin Long Ride Home Video. This is a tear sheet from Good Life Magazine. One of my favorite clients in Canada bought it so I know it went to a great home!

I want to be a living work of art repost

Whenever I need inspiration I love to pull out THE INFINITE VARIETY- the biography Of Marchesa Casati

THE FINAL YEARS-

By 1930, Casati had amassed a personal debt of $25 million. Unable to satisfy her creditors, her personal possessions were auctioned off. Rumour has it that among the bidders was Coco Chanel. Luisa fled to London, where she lived in comparative poverty. She was rumoured to be seen rummaging in bins searching for feathers to decorate her hair. She died in London on 1 June 1957, and was interred in Brompton Cemetery. The quote "Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety" from Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra was inscribed on her tombstone. She was buried wearing not only her black and leopardskin finery but a pair of false eyelashes. She also shares her coffin with one of her beloved stuffed pekinese dogs. Her tombstone is a small grave marker in the shape of an urn draped in cloth with a swag of flowers to the front. The inscription strangely mis-spells her name as 'Louisa' rather than 'Luisa'. It's a very hard grave to find and despite her fame, wealth and notoriety is very modest compared to the thousands of grand monuments within Brompton Cemetery.

This goes out to the mischief makers

Vogue Italia

I'm not really into this hobo look. I do like the make-up in the 2nd pic. I used to rock that look in all different colors. Twas fun.....this look reminds me of Hobo Kelly. For those of you who are too young for Hobo Kelly I will share a sample in my final blog for the day. I will be MIA for most of the week so enjoy! Can't we to see my girl on True Blood! Makin stuff for Allison,Paris and La La well you know who.

THE INFAMOUS MADAME WONGS

I had some great times at this place and ROCKED some fabulous costumes!

Esther Wong was born August 13, 1917 in Shanghai, China, and emigrated to the U.S. in 1949. She was a punk rock and New Wave music promoter. She got started as the owner of “Madame Wong’s” clubs, and when Polynesian bands weren’t filling her restaurants, she decided to try booking rock bands in 1978. Notable bands that she showcased included a “who’s who” of rock music. They included The Knack, The Police, The Motels, The Go-Go's, Naughty Sweeties, Oingo Boingo, The WILD, The Kats/The Nu Kats,The Wigs, Daniel Amos, The Kempsters, Guns N' Roses, X, Black Flag, Fear, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Glass Target and The Ramones. Eventually this led to her nickname, the “Godmother of Punk.” She closed the original “Madame Wong’s” in 1985 and “Madame Wong’s West” in Santa Monica, California in 1991.

Thierry Mugler-

So....I have an amazing collection of vintage Mugler from my make-up artist years. Lots of suits. I'm thinking of re-vamping a couple. Is that horrible??

Here's that earring we were talking about on twitter and them some

BOUDOIR DOLL INFO FROM MY OLD WEBSITE

Up in Xanadu Where Diamonds fell like Rain

Several years ago I had a mad obsession with Marion Davies and Hearst Castle in San Simeon. I would go every few weeks and make the tour- Watching Citizen Kane the other day reminded me of the rooms in this gorgeous place. Boudoir Dolls can also be found in the movie. If you come to Boudoir Queen studio's in Austin we have displayed prominatley a huge photo from MGM of Marion Davies in our foyer. If you have time somewhere in my blog archives I have several blogs and books on the subject. For now-enjoy

THE HUNGER

With the recent Vampire craze THE HUNGER is a must see!

CYBERPUNK Stephen Sprouse did the wardrobe for this tour

OMG- this is sooooooooooo rare. As many of you know my husband Mark Younger-Smith co-wrote the now famous ahead of it's time CYBERPUNK Record----I've only found one other concert from this period. This one is great. Mark has half a head of pink hair LOL! Anyway I was happy to find this concert tour ended early and there's not a lot of footage. BQ XX

The Song-

Inglourious Basterds

Dylan,Mark and I went to see this moving over the weekend. I loved the red dress scene. It was especially cool that our best friend and best man co-wrote the David Bowie song "putting out the fire with gasoline" That song was originally from the movie Cat People. The wardrobe design was great!

A little note on BLOG ENTRIES

For enquiring minds- Random blog entry post names are not the name of my line .....now that's just silly. Everyone knows the name of my line is Boudoir Queen. Also- I have never had a partner or designed "someone else's line" or any other imaginary lines. Furthermore the parties who are involved with buying Boudoir Queen items using alias names for another party to "Pattern and Copy" ? Lets just say it was a bad idea.

2007-Never Before seen BOUDOIR QUEEN CUFF n STUFF Flashback pics

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Take a Bow

On The Fringe

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It's worth it's weight in beads

This dress is actually a deep moss green and is sooooooo heavy! It weighs a ton. I'll be reshooting it at some point.

Oh and never ever take make-up tips from strangers

Hey I know her!!

SEXY

We are making some decadently louche designs for L.A socialites and starlets more on this very soon so stop back by.

FABoo-Louche Treats for Dainty Ladies

SCANDY

I've gotta Secret

I've been sort of MIA the past week. Something really exciting has happened. Probably the biggest thing in our designing career. Hopefully by the end of next week I may be able to talk more about it. For now we are crazy busy!! My shop update will have to be put on hold for now.

Cheers my dears, 1000 kisses BQ

WECOME TO THE WORLD OF BOUDOIR QUEEN

PRE-VIEW OF NEW VINTAGE LISTINGS SOON TO COME

Take a little break with the Queen of Boudoirland

A Few B' Dolls

MY FAVORITE ROOM

*Note the Boudoir Doll Head Pillows

A Few Pics From One Of Steven Arnold's Books

I'm taking a quick break from phone calls and thinking about this video design. God I miss working with Steven! After working with Salvador Dali's Protégé everything bores me now-

A Few Of Our Photos

NEW BQ

So my fabulous design assistant who has been with me for so long is a GENIUS. Re-creating the ribbonwork flowers on my green boudoir pillow was easily done. It was applied to our new silver and blue design.( I'm not showing it in full for reasons that are obvious to everyone now) We have many things we will be listing. We are finishing up a design for a video and then we will rock the new pieces on our website full tilt boogie.

We are also adding some new additions to our site. We probably won't post the new designs until after our photo shoot.

OH YOU PRETTY THINGS.................ALL 10 SOLD OUT -

Hey everyone we have sold out! I put a couple up so you can see. We will do more I promise. Email me to pre-order they go fast!!

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND SOLD*

BOUDOIR QUEEN BOUDOIR BEDECKED HAREM CUFFI know I said that after 10 years we were through with making cuffs but a girl has a right to change her mind. I've had so many requests that I have brought them back into the line. We made 10 yesterday and they are exquisite! These are quickie snap shots! We are starting on Evan Rachel Woods faboosh outfit . It needs to be sent to wardrobe by next week so we are super busy-no time for a photo shoots. I don't even have time to list on my site and some are sold. Contact me on the website for prices.

So Much for my vacation-

NEW ACCESsOries Coming sOOner than you might think

We have some amazing news to share. A few things actually. Keep checking babk!

Dying Fabulousness

I've been deep in the depths of dying . It's a sea of colors. The new style Harem Suit is going to be stunning.With the help of one of my favorite clients I've decided on the perfect color. I'm using several new dye techniques that I've learned. I can't wait to share. BTW I've confirmed a huge shoot on the 30th. It's going to be amazing.

BOUDOIR QUEEN DESIGNS-666 PHOTOGRAPHY

These are cropped versions of these amazing photos. This was a fun photo shoot! The lovely Jenovia is modeling.