| SLNN reader now works with RL French designer by Scarlett Qi October 08, 2007 |
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Buonanno is a painter, haute couture fashion designer as well as costume designer for French operas (http://www.creationcostumes.fr/ ). This artist donated a painting as well as a pink and gold flowing gown created for an opera, in the style of Buonanno’s gowns on display at the Carrousel du Louvre costume exhibition. Working only with real fabric, Buonanno had no idea how to reproduce the gown in SL. Yogi Huldschinsky of ConceptsSL stepped in to act as the intermediary, introducing Buonanno to Qi. Qi is owner of Vintage Clothing Reproductions in SL and creates Victorian attire based on reproductions of actual fashions at the time. With a charter store in Pamran (http://slurl.com/secondlife/Pamran/61/152/23 ), Vintage Clothing Reproductions has branches in Victoria City and Steam Sky City in Caledon; Fatima’s Love; Hogwarts and Tombstone. Qi has recently opened a new sim called Oak Tree Shoppes, dedicated to giving promising new designers in any venue an opportunity to get a business start in SL. “My best and dearest RL friend of 22 years is dying of metastatic breast cancer. She has had a horrible battle over the past 7 years and is reaching the end, I believe. So whenever there are fundraisers for breast cancer, I jump in if I can,” Qi said. The Taffeta Dressing Gown was the first dress submitted in honor of Qi’s friend and it was accepted for the exhibition. Qi then began work creating Buonanno’s pink and gold gown for SL. Several e-mails a day were exchanged between Buonanno and Qi, which proved difficult for Qi as they were in French, a language she did not speak. “She would give me suggestions on how to make it look more correct,” Qi said. Huldschinsky shared this anecdote. “I remember in the last round, Buonanno made me take toilet paper and fold it to look like a node [in the special curve she wanted on the SL gown]. When I told her we worked with spheres and cubes she was amazed.” Qi chuckled and added, “Yes, it is like trying to drape plywood.” “Anyway, we had a lot of feedback from her [ Buonanno] until she was totally satisfied by the work,” Huldschinsky added. “The designing task was really difficult for Skye and she did a perfect job. (The RL haute couture stylist is happy. What else can you ask for?)”
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