kodoma
KODOMA was:
Madrone Lounge and Friends of the Urban Forest present:
A celebration of the trees with recycled fashions and organically grown beats…
with remake + reuse clothing presented from san franciso designers
Friends of the Urban Forest filled the bar with trees (and the bar is named after a tree (Madrone)). the theme for the show was from the japanese anime movie Princess Mononoke (which i’ve never seen), in which the princess (who was raised by wolves?) and forest creatures and “spirits who live in the trees” called Kodoma fight some evil developer guy to save the forest.
anyway, to try to keep with the theme, the make-up artist did a kabuki style thing, and the clothes were either recycled fabric or forest themed. we ( 6 models + 5 designers + 2 hair and makeup guys) had to get ready in the “back office” of the bar without mirrors, and it was about 98 degrees in there and very, very chaotic.
in my opinion, we looked very scary. and sweaty. and weird. but no one fell off the bar, which was good.
jay’s photos can be viewed on Flickr here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/60945213@N00/tags/kodomaatmadronelounge060106/
or here:
http://www.jayober.com/photos/20060601-KodomaAtMadrone/index.html
i’m going to just say: you had to be there.
many apologies to Anastazia/Bad.Unkl.Sista and the models for not having photos of the first set of clothes (which were SO.SO. HOT!!!!) ; the photographer (jay) was not prepared for the first walk. :/
in order of runway (bartop?) appearance:
(not shown:) http://www.badunklsista.com
http:// www.sandyreyes.com
http://www.mirandacaroligne.com
http://www.missvelvetcream.com
all hats/headpieces were by ESTAR.
crazy-ass hair and make-up by Guille Rayala: http://www.de-sidhu.com
thank you beautiful people!
(for those of you who might wonder how in the world this might be considered fashion, i think you should check out Christian Dior’s Spring 2006 Couture runway look as comparison) .
Leave a Reply
