Dripping In Candy

I used to be (and still am) a huge fan of the fashion house Heatherette. In fact if you go for enough back in my blogging I'm sure I have blogged about them more than once. Their crazy designs and Andy Warhol-like Superstar muses like Amanda Lepore make me feel like my artwork is coming to life. I would definitely count Heatherette and Amanda as Muses to my own work. From the tiniest bit of research I have done it seems that Heatherette are no long producing work. I could be wrong? (Please!! Tell me I'm wrong!!) But I found another great designer to fill that fashion muse void.

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Meadham Kirchhoff is design team Ed Meadham and Ben Kirchhoff and their Fall 2011 show is absolutely dripping in candy.

Do you think it would be okay if I decorate my future home exactly like this runway with balloon arches everywhere? This show is truly my art dreams come to life. I'm dazzled. Who are your art and/or fashion muses?

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There are certain buzz words that really send a jolt of inspiration through me. Heatherette is one of them. As soon as I think about the design team I get an itch in my hands to make something. I love everything about their aesthetic sensibility. It's like all my favorite kinds of artwork come to life.

I also loooove their muse Amande Lepore. In this picture she is the one on the far right. After scrolling through pics of her on google image I realize Amanda really is the original Lady Gaga. At least fashion wise. Through working with Heatherette she has worn some pretty amazing pieces. Though Amanda isn't as mainstream as Lady Gaga I think in some ways she really set the stage for LG to wear the things she wears.

About four or five years ago I came across this amazing video of Amanda created by Heatherette and David Lachapelle in collaboration with MAC. I fell so hard in love with its glamorous weirdness. In the past few years I have been trying to find the video but to no avail. Finally today I found it! It's still super weird but so inspiring. I don't want to post it here because Amanda is completely nude in the video. But you should definitely watch it. This is the link. Let me know what you think!

I hope you are just as inspired as I am!