POOR LITTLE RICH GIRL By Boudoir Queen

INTRODUCING NICO

Our New Blue Aby Nico- Her papers say she was born August 9th. The same day as my son Dylan.

BTW Tallulah is having a hissy fit and will not eat or come out of the bedroom. Nico thinks Verushka is mommy. So cute !

We will be updating Our BQ Home Decore' Next Month!

CATS IN THE BOUDOIR

glitter taxidermy by AnnaKim Violette

WWD-

Our hearts are swelling with love for Laura and Kate Mulleavy. Not only have they designed the most highly anticipated (for us anyway) collection with Target yet, the pair will be working with Colette to curate a retail space and gallery for the month of October. October? That's right, it will open during Paris Fashion Week.

The featured items will include the Rodarte fall collection, various objets d'art, specially created Rodarte stuffed and knitted animals, limited edition jewelry designed by their mother, pillow cases by Miranda July, glitter taxidermy by AnnaKim Violette, and a selection of their favorite movies like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Don't Look Now, Dawn of the Dead, Rosemary's Baby, and Black Sunday. No one constructs a fantasy world better than the Mulleavys, so if you have a chance to stop by, we suggest you do.

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

A Decadent Friend until-the-sphinx-winks

I feel very special that Boudoir Queen is on this blog!http://www.angeliska.com/2009/08/until-the-sphinx-winks/

Marrakesh Express

So yesterdays BQ Harem Out-fit tutorial must have brought me luck. The most lush Harem vintage Marrakesh Harem fabulosity came to me today! Tomorrow photos!!

Boudoir Queen

Me and friends-

One last thing -----I know I said I was taking a break BUT I am doing a foto shoot on the 18th with my Rockin' L.A. Model and my muse. I totally forgot I had that scheduled ....so that being said, I will vacation after I post the fotos. Seems I can never get a break. I can't wait to get out of town!!

Should I try this in Vegas??

Desire and Inspire

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OUT-TAKES Me and SIREN SUMMER

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Jazz Age Beauties

If you haven't read Jazz Age Beauties you probably should.

So Sorry Dahlings

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I skipped my morning blog! Highly unusual for me but I've been working so hard the past few months. I needed a small break. Although I did work this morning for a couple of hours. My fabulous friends from Pixel Peach are presenting at the Austin Fashion Awards and of course they will be rockin' BQ full tilt. They bought the faboo Casati dress. We are going with them to the event and after party this weekend so it should be lot's of fun! Many announcements next week! I'm going to be traveling a lot next month. As I've said in previous blogs I leave Austin in August. I'm going to New York. L.A and Vegas can't wait! Oh and yes you will be able to buy BQ in New York .....details on that later.

Today I finally broke down and bought a new laptop so that I can take it with me. I hate doing business with my phone. I stay in constant contact with my clients. Many need clothes when they are performing. After the cats knocked my old laptop off onto the tile I just didn't want to buy another. Now that the store is open it's a neccesity. This time I'll be a little more careful! I love Mac

Our store is rockin ! We have sold out of almost all of our BQ Couture garments. Over the next two weeks I'm listing massive amounts of merch and starting on my vintage and home shop. It really is a lot of work and takes hours of my time. I also have a store in Austin to take care of. I'm excited about listing all of my beautiful boudoir items and will try and add a lot more items asap. Have a great weekend! Lot's of Love, BQ xxoo

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UPDATE - The actual store is finished! Now I have to finish shooting images and upload! We will be up and running next week! We are photographing the vintage items right now!!! FYI the store only takes paypal. If you don't have a paypal account now would be the time to get one!!

Patience is a Virtue

I know everyone is anxious. I promise I'm going as fast as I can on the new store. We are shooting a new model this weekend that I'm really excited about. Then another shoot on Monday and Friday and we will be up and running. Possibly even before. You are also going to see a lot of my never before seen vintage collection in our new vintage boutique. Lot's of 20's and teens items. I also have a collection of 80's Thierry Mugler,Hermes and Norma Kamali that I will be listing. Those items will be the last to go on. Of course we will also have Boudoir Dolls and Boudoir related items!! Several pieces from my line are pre-sold but I will be listing at least 15 Boudoir Queen Couture garments. Thanks again for all your questions. I'm sorry I haven't been as chatty in my responses I've just been crazy busy. This collection is worth the wait trust me !!1

Thanks, The Boudoir Queen xx

BOUDOIR QUEEN MAKES GREY GARDENS NEWS

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BOUDOIR QUEEN MAKES GREY GARDENS NEWS

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LILLY DACHE' HAT, Prada Shoes and Boudoir Queen

Rossy de Palma

I was lucky to have had the opportunity to work with Rossy de Palma on a Thierry Mugler Fashion show and she was fabulous. Amazing style!!

Anita

If you have the time to go thru my blog or my myspace I have some neat photos of me and Anita Page posted. I found this photo which I had not seen before . It's divine!!

The Carmen Cocktail With A Twist

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!

RE-POST HOYDENS MAKING A COMEBACK

Our new collection "BOUDOIR BEDECKED HOYDENS" inspired from the lids of ancient chocolate boxes. A super-charade of happy happenings

NEW HAREM PILLOWS AT BOUDOIR QUEEN

We make these in a variety of colors!

Dangerous Liaisons

Dangerously Wicked Liaison Collection of flowery fanciful feathers and such coming soon!

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Thanks to Inger my fabulous client from the Maritime Museum in Sydney Thank you Inger!!

Dark Beauty

JPG DRESS-PRADA SHOES

LEOPARD SKIN PILLBOX HAT

Me when I was 26 I still have the Peter Fox shoes. His shoes were awesome!

Im flattered but this is not my Cuff

Well here it is I can't wait to take a peek...not my cuff though. No sculls for me.

HOLLY WOODLAWN

TRASH IS A MUST SEE!!

I'm Preparing you

DAZED

More Fabulousness

Turbans

We have a turban line that I haven't put on-line. This editorial reminded me of them. So cool!

MARION MADNESS

The gorgeous Marion Davies has always stuck out in my mind as one of the prettiest actresses of all time. I have a very rare large photo of her in my studio from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer that is coveted by many. I don't think I will ever sell it. I'll post when I get a chance. I was reminded of her on my L.A. trip the Museum was featuring the Hearst Collection at LACMA. I've post a related article below. The museum is within walking distance from my son's home. It's great he gets the chance to go to the museum as much as he wants. I wish I could. The book "The Times We Had" I bought several years ago at Hearst Castle. If you have not had the chance to take the tour you should try and do it at some point. It's awe inspiring and a beautiful drive.

Snobbery and wealth, like love and marriage, don't always go together. The same holds for knowledge and money, as in "He's got more dollars than sense."

At the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the complex relationships among taste, affluence and wisdom take fascinating shape in an exhibition of about 150 treasures that once belonged to William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951) and are now scattered all over the U.S. and Europe. Beautifully installed in specially built galleries, and accompanied by a refreshingly readable catalog, "Hearst the Collector" upends all sorts of clichés.

It begins with a big one: Hearst's reputation as a power-mongering sensationalist who lacked the critical discernment of old-school collectors.

The myth, propagated by Orson Welles' unflattering depiction of Hearst in "Citizen Kane," is that the publishing magnate and movie producer, who was twice elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, was a vulgar indulger with a voracious appetite for expensive things that he purchased to pack his extravagant mansions in San Simeon, Santa Monica, New York, Wales, Long Island and Northern California.

It is true that Hearst bought Greek vases, Roman silver, illuminated manuscripts, medieval armor, reliquary statues, glazed ceramics, Renaissance tapestries, marble statues, ornate furniture, Navajo blankets and oil paintings in such volume that the U.S. Customs Service often did not have the staff to open his crates and evaluate their contents. It simply taxed them by weight, which was measured by the ton.

But just because somebody has a lot of loot does not mean that it's second-rate or that the individual is inattentive to details, unappreciative of nuance, clueless about uniqueness and unaware of how the objects interact with one another. Quality and quantity come into conflict only on a budget.

And on a budget Hearst definitely wasn't.

Nearly everything in this manageably scaled exhibition is exquisite. And the way it has been laid out, in neat, nearly perfect symmetry by Mary L. Levkoff, LACMA's curator of European painting and sculpture, reveals Hearst's vision, intelligence and originality.

The centerpiece is a mother-of-pearl box made in India and fitted in Paris with emeralds, agates and garnets, all set in fantastically crafted silver gilt mounts. This luxe container once belonged to King Francis I of France and is now in the Louvre, having been sold by Hearst, along with about half his collection, when his businesses faced bankruptcy in the 1930s.

Four hall-like galleries radiate from the jeweled box, forming a cross. The long, vertical ones feature four gorgeous, mural-scale tapestries woven in the Netherlands in the first decades of the 16th century. The shorter, horizontal ones contain two marble sculptures, the stately "Hope Hygieia" from 2nd century Rome and the sensuous "Venus Italica," carved by Antonio Canova between 1804 and 1814, as well as four suits of armor: one Gothic and meant for business, two streamlined for tournaments and a magnificently etched Italian one, decorated with gold and worn ceremonially.

Four narrow galleries run off the horizontal axis. All contain impressive arrays of vessels: 25 2,000-year-old terra-cotta vases from Greece and southern Italy; dazzling examples of tin-glazed earthenware dishes from 15th century Spain; crystal-clear Bohemian glassware from the 16th century; and gilt silver bowls, chalices and steins from 17th century Germany, England and Switzerland.

A side door leads to three more galleries. The first, filled with natural light, includes three paintings of sumptuous nudes lolling in Edenic landscapes by François Boucher. All once adorned Hearst's Santa Monica mansion, where his paramour, actress Marion Davies, lived while Hearst produced 40 movies in which she starred.

The second gallery contains a placid tapestry and four dour portraits of stately, introspective ladies. The oils on canvas, by Jacques-Louis David, Joshua Reynolds and Anthony van Dyck, contrast dramatically with a single painting by Boucher, "Venus Disarming Cupid," that sticks out like a sore thumb. All hung in the Long Island home of Hearst's estranged wife, the estate that inspired F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby."

As a collector, Hearst played by his own rules. Buying in bulk, he sought out objects in which sturdy utilitarianism, exquisite craftsmanship and sensible beauty merged.

His collection conveys great enthusiasm for the ways people from different times and places lived. It also expresses an insatiable curiosity about the diverse ways they celebrated the high points of life.

In a sense, Hearst's collection is a one-man version of an encyclopedic museum such as LACMA. Over the last six years of his life, he donated about 900 objects to the Los Angeles County Museum of History, Science and Art, helping form the foundation that eventually became today's museum.

At a time when overspecialization seems to be taking over every aspect of life, and the world seems to be increasingly made up of customized niches, it's heartening to encounter a generalist such as Hearst, whose appetite for the best and the most speaks of a deep love of human resourcefulness and individual inventiveness.

The rich may not be like us. But the super-rich are something else altogether.