Too Many Tights!

You Should Have Heard What John Galliano Said About MY Eyebrows

1.

Reminds me of the fashion industry.

Seriously, the fashion industry is a harsh mistress, leaving in it's wake more frustration and disappointment than Charlie Sheen's rehab supervisor.

I am grateful for the support that we get as Black Milk. It's awesome. We're like fashion guerrillas. Get in, strike at the heart, melt into the night before the enemy know you're there.

A lot of people complain about how tough it is in fashion. Anything that can go wrong does. People steal your designs. You have to compete with a massive industry in China.

These aren't bad things, they're good things.

It's good that anything that can go wrong does go wrong because it weeds out the pretenders, the charlatans, the fly by nighters, the glamour boys, the party girls, the poseurs, and the egomaniacs.

It's good that people steal your designs - it let's you (and everyone else) know who is on the cutting edge and who is trailing. Makes you push on instead of settling.

It's good that you have to compete with China because it makes you ask the important questions, such as "If I can't compete on price... what can I compete on?" And "What can we do better than anyone else in the world?"

And when you can answer those questions, you've got an angle. If you have an angle, you can work it.

2. On the subject of 'anything that can go wrong...' - a full ten minutes before I was about to launch a small swimwear collection last week, I got a phone call from my swim fabric company telling me that they were completely out of swimwear fabric. Completely out. Of course they has some more coming in - in four weeks. Seriously, how do these people transport fabric from Italy to Australia - kayak? 

So that sucks. It means that this little beauty (among others) will have to wait.

It's a crying shame , peeps, a crying shame.

Oh - and you will have too wait a little longer to see the Wolf and the Owl designs (arwooooooo!!!)

4. Warning - the customer service department at BM is on the warpath! There is a little black book, and if your name goes in it, it's very hard to ever get it out. Just sayin'. (Be nice to the girls in customer service... they are your friends!)

5. And I'm on the warpath ... with my words and my fire breathing fists - against all the pervy fetishists who dare squeeze their junk into tights and leave photos and creepy comments on the BM Fan Page! (Yes, I breathe with my fists, like a whale). If your Facebook name is Lycraboy Sissy (or something along those lines), it ain't gonna fly. Banishment.

I don't care what your goatee wearing, post-hippy, leftist radical social sciences professor says about the new golden age of sexual openness... pervers begone I say!!! 

x

jL

Stop Trying To Be Yourself

When I was a kid they told me 'be yourself'.

When I was a teen they told me 'be yourself'

When I went to university the cool kids all said 'be yourself'

I was going to take their advice but then I thought... "Naaaah, why settle?

1. Lace Bodysuit (Sleeveless)

2. Sheer Bodysuit

3. Fringed Cape Bodysuit

4. Lace Catsuit

5. Lace Bodysuit With Capped Sleeves

6. Striped Bodysuit

7. Tron Dress

8. Gun Metal Leggings

9. Sheer Maxi Dress WIth Bodysuit Underneath

10. Pink Suspenders

Whew! All done. :)

Lots more goodness to come next week.

x

jL

 

So Underground We Hit Oil

I have always looked down with a supercilious air upon those who use phrases such as "I have neglected this blog and been so bad at posting lately, sorreeeeeee!"

But, I have to say it - I have been bad at posting. Sorreeeee.

I have become that which I despised.

Enough of the wallowing - let us talk all things tight, shiny and stylish...

1. I released a collection a few weeks back, which turned out to be the most successful Black Milk collection ever. So I'm quite proud of that. There were a lot of pieces. There were a few I was particularly proud of... allow me to share.

First up - I am really proud of this one - the Bat Jacket.

It's just wicked. 

Secondly there is this beast - the Deconstructed mini dress.

 

This was meant to be a singlet, then a bum covering singlet, then a long singlet, then it miraculously transformed into a mini dress.

The idea is simple. You like wearing leggings/tights etc. (if you don't fit into this category... ummmm... why are you reading this? Why are you here? Depart!) but you don't necessarily want the intimate details of you boo-tay refracting the light into the retinas of everyone at that party you're going to.

So you get the deconstructed dress and you cover your backside (and your front side!) but ... kind of not. Because it's semi transparent, you probably get 86.7% coverage (depending on the quality of the optical processing of the observer).

Now - I'll be the first to admit that this is not an original concept. Deconstructed styles have been around for a few years now, and I'm probably a little late to the party (hey, at least I showed up).

I do know that Carla from Rouge Et Noir has been focusing on these bad boys for quite a while - and she's very good at them! So, if you like the idea - I would suggest that you get hers!

The Raven is particularly good.

3. I was reading today that Lilo's white mini dress caused quite a stir at her most recent court appearance:

A stir? Whoever was stirred by this piece is just waaaaaay too easily stirred.

She should have gone for one of these babies (maybe I'll send her one... us leggings designers gotta stick together):

It's an 'anywhere' dress. You can wear it anywhere. Just throw it on, style it up (or not) and go wherever your anima takes you.

I think you need one. I'll show you another pic and you will be convinced:

After much though I called this piece... the Dress.

 4. So many exciting ideas I'm working on at the moment. I think in the future I'll release smaller collections and talk the individual pieces up a bit more. I feel like all the ideas got lost in the squish on this last one.

If you want to follow along with all our adventures... follow us over at Facebook.

5. I'm seriously thinking about getting a shop/showroom/studio/workshop in East Brisbane. Then I'll be just like a REAL fashion designer! (Real broke.)

Internet kisses.

x

jL