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Fall
Fashion Show
Club De Ville, October 15th
Club
De Ville’s fourteenth fashion show was a smashing success.
Emily Fawcett, Red River’s own fashionista, has been
producing the semi-annual show for seven years. The fashion
show usually earns about $2,000 which is donated to a local
charity. Capital Area Food Bank was the lucky recipient of
the 2003 fall proceeds. During the rehearsal for the show,
Emily told me that in previous years, models have gotten so
drunk that they have fallen off the runway in heaps, landing
in the laps of VIPs. Because I always look forward to a train
wreck; I have to admit that I was secretly disappointed that
there were no spills off the runway. DJ Fuckin’ A managed
to keep all the music straight and continued to play after
the show which allowed us to pretend we were important and
dance on the runway.
Each
vendor had its own theme. Therapy had a gender-bending thing
going on to show-off their men’s clothing lines. The
girls looked quite luscious dressed as boys. Blackmail’s
tribute to Johnny Cash was seductive and super-hip; I will
definitely be stopping in to score something black. The ladies
of Shiki looked oh-so-lovely in their hand picked dresses
from up and coming designers exclusively found at Shiki. Upstairs
held my attention with a slew of really sexy male models who
filled out the jeans from Xvala and Von Dutch very nicely.
Flipnotics did a groovy little Rock-n-Roll production featuring
new and vintage clothing. Legs Diamond models sported some
Puma hip-hop gear along with their own very special hip-hop
moves. Legs Diamond wanted to clarify that the shop is named
after “the notorious gangster, Jack Legs Diamond—not
the lame seventies band.” If you’re hard core
shoe junkie, you must add Legs Diamond to your A-list.
I
must say that Blue Velvet stole the show with their Halloween
theme. The first set had a creepy “What ever happened
to Baby Jane” act complete with a lip-synching routine
and a dead rat. It was just sick enough to be really enthralling.
The grand slam was the finale of the show when Blue Velvet
invited Biscuit to portray Leather Face of Texas Chainsaw
Massacre. Biscuit told me before the show that he had recently
seen the latest rendition of the movie and felt he was up
to the challenge. He terrorized the 70’s prom queens
on the runway until “Carrie” arrived with blood
dripping down her face. She then, of course, killed the 70’s
prom folk via telekinesis. Halloween is just around the corner
and I feel confident Blue Velvet can solve any costume dilemmas
you may be suffering from.
Now
is the time to shop! So if you’re low on cash, pawn
your lamest CDs and sell plasma or semen if necessary to hit
Austin’s coolest boutiques. – Joelle Bart
Blue
Velvet / 2100 Guadalupe St / 472.0399
Blackmail / 1202 South Congress / 326.7670
Flipnotics / 1603 Barton Springs Rd / 322.9011
Legs Diamond / 2428 Guadalupe St / 477.1559
Therapy / 1113 S Congress Ave / 326.2331
Shiki / 3407 Guadalupe St / 371.7767
Upstairs / 2208 South Lamar / 462.1513
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