HALLOWEEN

We just had our first annual Halloween party at Who Died (the official name of the Bona Drag headquarters). Milwaukeeans take Halloween very seriously..  which is one of the best things about this place. 

 Pre- party pics: 

 

The pentagram dance floor.

 

Kim Krans arrived with a bouquet of red roses for me, which turned out to be a great skeleton accessory.

Is three feet of dried leaves scary?  Somehow, very.

John and Aaron made an insane Upside down room.

The ladies lounge wasn't even decorated but it's still scary as shit.

 This is the secret room we found the other day..  we made it into Jonny's seance room.

 Bloody body bags left in the corners.

 

 The other other seance room.

 Sketchy hallway

  Hannah Bartie: Riff Raff

 Sarah Wojner: Chuckie

 Faythe Levine: all seeing mystic

 

Me: Medusa

 Falling on a bed of nails, by Dead Man's Carnival

 

Big thanks to Rachel at Great Lakes Distillery for the Absinthe and Kinnickinnic Whiskey!

That's where my party brain started and the picture taking ended, so see more on Daniel Arnold's camera here.

 The next day we went to Holy Hill and did some serious hanging around.

 

 

 

  

Gia from Unearthen came from LA, and Kim and Jonny from The Wild Unknown came from NY.

 

 

  

Hannah died and I didn't even know it.  Bye Han.

 

 More pics on Faythe's blog. A special thanks to Renee and Paul for driving from Louisville (and bringing me cruelty-free eggs from their happy chickens).

FAMILY BAND

We went to see the Family Band play a couple times this week.

On the train to San Diego.

My cute boyfriend, the text master.

Jonny from the Family Band and Gia from Unearthen. Hannah and I have a new favorite band - It's called S.T.R.E.E.T.S.! It's Jonny's old band, and it stands for "Skateboarding Totally Rules and Everything Else Totally Sucks". The best band name I've heard in a while.
The next night we drove to LA to see them play, and I dressed Kim in the Lindsey Thornburg black widow dress and Aesa abracadabra pendant. She looked amazing! This band will put you in a trance.
What's more romantic than a husband and wife playing music together? Oh, probably when they play music together in the cabin that they BUILT TOGETHER.
Kim wore her own Bona Drag studded ballet slippers. The fringe of the dress just touched the floor, and looked so sweet with flats.
Our pile of jewelry in the hotel room the next morning. We had a day full of appointments with new designers in LA.... we're getting really excited for the future of Bona Drag.

OUR NYFW HIGHLIGHTS

The Pamela Love presentation comes first, of course. Bright whites and pastels never looked this perfect.
Made Her Think collaborated with Mandy Coon for her show. They made amazing little bug pins (see the big one on the black cape below). Pins are making a comeback.. I know this because Randi at Aesa gave us each a pin for Christmas, and she's really smart (she reads physics books when she can't sleep).
Lindsey Thornburg's oversized hoods.
And Lindsey's bushfire print.
And her collaboration with her bestie.. Anna Sheffield. Here are some of their collab pieces mixed with some of the Anna Sheffield collection that we couldn't live without.
The endlessly amazing soy lattes. Especially Gimme Coffee!!!
We found a much needed normalish bar.
The Like played at Rachel Antonoff's presentation. Our appts ran too late so we missed it.. but it was held in a high school gymnasium with a formal dance theme (even with spiked punch).
Hannah's new dress! I made her wear it to the Pamela Love show even though it was freezing. Our dinner with Carly and Matthew from All For The Mountain.. the new collection went really well with sake.
We learned some deep, dark secrets from our designers this visit. Carly from All For the Mountain hates water, Rachel Antonoff finds serious comfort in eating mall food for dinner, and Randi from Aesa gives her boyfriend crazy eyes during nyfw. Also, that asshole Pamela Love always looks a hundred times even more beautiful in person.