POOR LITTLE RICH GIRL By Boudoir Queen

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CASATI

WWW.THEBOUDOIRQUEEN.COM

It has been pointed out to me

That there is only one Boudoir Queen. Thank you for all the nice emails it means a lot!

SCANDY

NEW WEBSITE COMING SOON!!!!

It's been crazy busy at BQ preparing for the grand opening of our new site,getting clothes ready for the Veronica's a magazine deadline and filling custom orders. I still have to print those rare Steven Arnold pictures out and put some of the new photos up that I've promised. Thanks to everyone who reads the blog. We are at 100,000 views!! The website is running on schedule! Cheers, BQ xX

Lets talk Make-up shall we?

As many of you know I was a make-up artist in L.A. for years and years. My line was called Poor Little Rich Girl just like the blog. I gave make-up lessons to many. I'm a stickler when it come to proper make-up application for photography. That was my forte'. One thing that bothers my eyes is poorly done eye shadow.

Tip: When trying to do that silent screen star look always start with the eyes first! This is a professional make-up tip. When using dark brown,black or grey start with an eye shadow base then apply the dark color. When using dark shades the shadow drips down under the eye causing unsightly driblets and a dark circle look. Then wipe of the driblets with a cloth. For god sakes people blend! Blend , blend.

That's my style tip for today ; ) Hope that helps!

The Decadent Debacle

Me and My Store

Welcome to Boudoirland

Where the offerings are bountiful!

Boudoir Bawk Talk

So.........for god sakes if you want to use a mannequin head instead of a model do something interesting paleeeeeeze. Especially if I have to look at it under my BQ listings. Some photos are just an eye sore. I've had so many compliments on my pics and when they are next to (how do I say it politely) um.... well not so appealing images, it makes people want my designs even more!

New Visuals Coming Soon

As I have mentioned in several of my previous blogs we are working on all the art for my new website.I am very picky so it is a tedious process. We will be launching a few new things in the very near future. It's going to be a big surprise! I'm pretty excited about it. I'm not sure how many of you remember my old website with the keyhole that opened up to a boudoir with music and flappers. My new site will be totally different. One thing from the old site that we will be using on our clothes is some of the imagery. I had fabric made from old 20's magazines. We already started using them for our branding on the outside of our clothing. You will be able to tell a real BQ design without having to check the inside label.

Austin Info**BQ will also be available again at PINK on congress in Austin. I did so well at that location in the past I've decided to do it again. You can buy accessory items there starting next week. Thanks for all the nice emails and comments about the new line. If you like what you've seen so far.....get ready to be blown away!
Cuff we made for Vanessa Paradis

SILVER SPLENDOR

DOLLY STYLE

LIFE IS GRAND ALL IS WELL IN BOUDOIRLAND

First off, we have a new collection coming out. We are superbly excited about it and you will be too. Secondly we have an announcement/statement forthcoming. For now lets get back to the decadence shall we? There is know place like Boudoir Queen

MAKE-UP BY ME

Photographer Albert Sanchez-Model my ex-room mate the beautiful LOLA

Hair and Fashion

BOUDOIRELLA

Boudoir Queen's new designs have taken on a futuristic feel that I am really excited about. I've been headed this direction since our Apocalyptic Circus Collection awhile back. We have made about 16 garments that will be going to Los Angeles/London showing our new look. I'll post photos when I return. I've always toyed with the idea of my designs moving in this direction. Now that it has come to fruition I couldn't be more pleased.

POOR LITTLE RICH GIRL

I just got back from BQ headquarters and what with all the hoopla realized that I forgot to check the Vogue date of the last Edie pick I put up. Keep checking back. I'm pretty sure it's 1967 but I I have to look at the mag to see the month. My Bad.

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.

BOUDOIR MOODS

The lovely lady painting her finger nails was a friend of Steven Arnold's. At his art openings she was always so cool and sweet to me. She would always rave about how she loved the photos he did of me. His art events were quite the rave!! thatbeingsaid I'll try and post a few photos soon! Oh and speaking of Boudoir Style my photography work has paid off . I got some fabulous news yesterday . More on this later ta... ta... for now.

It's Family time

Here is a picture taken about 5 years ago. 2003 right before I moved to Austin of Me my Mum and Dylan my son. Dylan is now taller than me has a mohawk and plays in a punk band. I guess thats what happens when you go to school on Melrose avenue.I 'm not thrilled. He's 15 tough age. I don't post a lot on my son as he is part of my private life. I like to keep him out of Boudoir Queen Land. Poor kid had to grow up looking into the faces of boudoir dolls!
I wish had more photos of this house I was living in. You can see the old fireplace behind us. It had a balcony overlooking a tropical garden. You had to be buzzed up and walk up an old spanish stairwell to get in. I had antique gowns hanging from the walls of the stairwell. The place was filled with art deco tiles, loved that place! It was right next THE GROVE (Farmers Market)