Denise, 23, Houston, Texas built-in is the gal abaft Elektro Trash, which is an online bazaar that sells blue accessories and beautiful clothing.



Elektro Trash has an electro-inspired appearance that is accepting civic absorption from the brand of Hanna Beth, Raquel Reed, and several casting associates from the hit Vh-1 absoluteness television show, Rock of Adulation 2.



Hey, Denise! Fashion Frenzy has been befitting a abutting eye on Elektro’s appearance for absolutely some time…



Really? That's flattering, thanks!







When was Elektro Trash founded, and by whom?



Founded in October 2007, by me!



For those who don't apperceive ... what does “Elektro Trash” mean, exactly?



Well as you know, the electro arena is consistently abounding of color—I alloyed my adulation of the brand of music into blush concepts for clothing. “Trash” was added as addition babble for gear, ya know? Right now I’m alone apperception on skirts, tutus, bandage dresses, and accessories.



Tell me about your bandage dresses. Do you architecture them yourself? If so, area does the architecture afflatus appear from?



Yeah, I do. I beggarly it's appealing simple … tube top dresses. I would say that one day I anticipation … wouldn't it be air-conditioned to accept a Motley Crue dress? [smiles]



So bandage dresses are tube top dresses with assorted bandage designs on anniversary dress, correct?



Yeah, any band—one bandage per dress. It's not every day that you see a David Bowie dress!



How do you get a band’s name on a dress?



You apperceive the ones you see at Hot Topic? I buy them from one of their suppliers.



Have you customized a bandage dress for anyone yet?



Yeah, they're a big hit! I afresh fabricated one for Hanna Beth—a Motley Crue one; it’s a actual attenuate Motley design. She (Hanna) will be sending me photos if she uses it in a shoot.







So, which celebrity would you like to adapt a brim for?



Web celebrity or like absolute celebrity? [laughing out loud]



Let's alpha with a "real" celeb...



Lindsay Lohan, for sure!



Web celeb...



I can’t delay to get the pictures of Daisy (Vh-1’s Rock of Adulation 2) in one of my custom skirts. She’s my Web celeb choice. Ha! [wink]



How did you affix with Daisy?



I anticipate she messaged me adage she admired my stuff. She saw me on Angelique’s Myspace page, I’m assuming. I offered to forward a brim for her to model—she was all over it! She's real, real, absolute sweet.



Ah yes … Angelique, aswell accepted as “Frenchy,” addition Rock of Adulation 2 casting member. So you’ve been in acquaintance with her as well?



Yeah. She wants me to accomplish her a Swarovski buzz case for her Sidekick LX. She's so funny! She messaged me and asked afterwards I had larboard a animadversion on her Myspace page … I anticipate aback in January.



You are absolutely accomplishing able-bodied for yourself in agreement of marketing...



Oh yeah, I’m all about networking! You accept to!



Are you afraid at how abundant Elektro has developed back October?



Very abundant so! It absolutely just exploded.



What's next for Elektro Trash?



Definitely new gear!



How can abeyant barter acquaintance you for Elektro wear?















Is there annihilation abroad that you would like to acquaint Fashion Frenzy readers about Elektro Trash?



Come appointment me! I'll yield affliction of you. [smiles]



Thanks for demography the time to babble with me, Denise!



Awesome! Thanks so much.





Raquel Reed Rockin' Elektro Accessories!

Denise, 23, Houston, Texas built-in is the gal abaft Elektro Trash, which is an online bazaar that sells blue accessories and beautiful clothing.



Elektro Trash has an electro-inspired appearance that is accepting civic absorption from the brand of Hanna Beth, Raquel Reed, and several casting associates from the hit Vh-1 absoluteness television show, Rock of Adulation 2.











When was Elektro Trash founded, and by whom?



Founded in October 2007, by me!



For those who don't apperceive ... what does “Elektro Trash” mean, exactly?



Well as you know, the electro arena is consistently abounding of color—I alloyed my adulation of the brand of music into blush concepts for clothing. “Trash” was added as addition babble for gear, ya know? Right now I’m alone apperception on skirts, tutus, bandage dresses, and accessories.



Tell me about your bandage dresses. Do you architecture them yourself? If so, area does the architecture afflatus appear from?



Yeah, I do. I beggarly it's appealing simple … tube top dresses. I would say that one day I anticipation … wouldn't it be air-conditioned to accept a Motley Crue dress? [smiles]



So bandage dresses are tube top dresses with assorted bandage designs on anniversary dress, correct?



Yeah, any band—one bandage per dress. It's not every day that you see a David Bowie dress!



How do you get a band’s name on a dress?



You apperceive the ones you see at Hot Topic? I buy them from one of their suppliers.



Have you customized a bandage dress for anyone yet?



Yeah, they're a big hit! I afresh fabricated one for Hanna Beth—a Motley Crue one; it’s a actual attenuate Motley design. She (Hanna) will be sending me photos if she uses it in a shoot.







So, which celebrity would you like to adapt a brim for?



Web celebrity or like absolute celebrity? [laughing out loud]



Let's alpha with a "real" celeb...



Lindsay Lohan, for sure!



Web celeb...



I can’t delay to get the pictures of Daisy (Vh-1’s Rock of Adulation 2) in one of my custom skirts. She’s my Web celeb choice. Ha! [wink]



How did you affix with Daisy?



I anticipate she messaged me adage she admired my stuff. She saw me on Angelique’s Myspace page, I’m assuming. I offered to forward a brim for her to model—she was all over it! She's real, real, absolute sweet.



Ah yes … Angelique, aswell accepted as “Frenchy,” addition Rock of Adulation 2 casting member. So you’ve been in acquaintance with her as well?



Yeah. She wants me to accomplish her a Swarovski buzz case for her Sidekick LX. She's so funny! She messaged me and asked afterwards I had larboard a animadversion on her Myspace page … I anticipate aback in January.



You are absolutely accomplishing able-bodied for yourself in agreement of marketing...



Oh yeah, I’m all about networking! You accept to!



Are you afraid at how abundant Elektro has developed back October?



Very abundant so! It absolutely just exploded.



What's next for Elektro Trash?



Definitely new gear!



How can abeyant barter acquaintance you for Elektro wear?



We can be accomplished via Myspace at www.myspace.com/elektro_clothing, or e-mail at elektroclothing@aol.com.











Is there annihilation abroad that you would like to acquaint Fashion Frenzy readers about Elektro Trash?



Come appointment me! I'll yield affliction of you. [smiles]



Thanks for demography the time to babble with me, Denise!



Awesome! Thanks so much.





Raquel Reed Rockin' Elektro Accessories!

Hey bitches! I’m aback and I’ve got some agitative account I’ve been appetite to share!


*cue boom rolls* ... I styled my actual aboriginal photo shoot!

Last ages the creators of PRIVATE PLANE ORIGINALS, an up and advancing hat line, asked me to do accoutrement for their aboriginal photo shoot. How could I say no? To be offered an befalling like this, while still in college, is something I could not canyon up.



The shoot took abode this accomplished Thursday and it was such an amazing experience! As anon as I got on set (we attempt at Veni Vidi Vici’s, one of the best lounges in the city), I laid out the accoutrement and got to work. Suzi Picaso, of Suzi Q Cosmetics, did makeup, Falina, designer/Marketing Director, did hair, and I put my abilities to the analysis on the models. I capital the models to attending fresh, fabulous, and bleed fun through their accoutrement and accessories. A lot of importantly, I capital them to attending abreast yet not too contemporary so I styled them in beefy necklaces, layered bracelets in black, gold, and argent finishes, aphotic denim jeans, camisoles, and vests.



I could absorb hours discussing my acquaintance but I’m abiding you guys wish to apperceive added about Private Plane, right? Set to admission abatement ’08, PRIVATE PLANE ORIGINALS is a band of chic, beautiful hats meant for the nightlife. Wish to go out but don’t feel like accomplishing your hair? Wear Private Plane. Need an accent to complete your blessed hour outfit? Wear Private Plane. You get the idea! I am in adulation with these hats and I can absolutely vouch for just how aces and ample they are.



I’ve included official photos from the shoot and abaft the scenes so you can get a bigger faculty of what I’m agitated about. And now some words absolute from PRIVATE PLANE ORIGINALS…



“Our new accumulating is unique, modern, beautiful and fabricated for the club diva. Our hats artlessly accomplish you attending better, get noticed and angle apart. Be yourself, adulation yourself, be assured and a lot of importantly, accept fun.”

Come One, Come All! We afresh got a advance on a Web website that's loaded with fashionable handbags. From Clutches to Hobos to Satchels to Totes—Accessory Bug has cool beautiful appurtenances for an affordable price, and bags of colors to accept from! Ready to get your glam on?

Green Eve Faux Leather Hobo

Hey, Party People! So bethink if I acquaint a ‘lil something about my Vegas cruise a few weeks ago? And bethink if I mentioned that I had bought a aces Betsy Johnson (BJ) Charm Bracelet while getting Sinful in the City? Well, actuality it is! ‘BJ’ in the flesh! (not absolutely in the flesh…)



To my surprise, I alone wore my new accent like alert back I purchased it. GOSH! The accursed thang doesn’t go too accurately with aggregate in my wardrobe—and it can accomplish my accouterments attending a little blatant if I don’t accent whatever I’m cutting down. But that's BJ for ya! So one of those days, I wore the charmer with a simple t-shirt, Old Navy skirt, and cast flops, which absolutely spruced up a comfortable outfit.



But let me acquaint you … if I was arcade in the ‘BJ’ store, I fell adorable in-love with this atramentous and blush apparent attache (see pic below). I sooo had to accept it! But my brother’s adherent told me not to splurge, and to save the $285 for addition Vegas show. She was right, so I acutely absolved out of the store, abrogation my dream bag to be purchased by addition b*#ch. *Sighs* However, I just arrested BJ's Web site, and it's online! Woo hoo.

MY Fashion Frenzy chats with Alpharetta-based adornment designer, Rebecca Greenberg, of La Bella Designs. Rebecca’s pieces are handmade and advised with attractive black gemstones, Swarovski crystals, admirable argent and 14K gold-filled. The abstracts and food that Rebecca uses to actualize such masterpieces are of top superior and absolutely to accommodated the fashionable needs of trendsetters, as able-bodied as trendseekers.



Rebecca is amorous about her plan as a adornment artist - and is assertive that her creations will affect ones claimed style. “My goals are to actualize jewelry, that allows you to accurate your claimed style, is archetypal abundant to outlive the latest trends and that you won't see on anybody else!” -Rebecca Greenberg



MY Fashion Frenzy: So acquaint us what aggressive you to architecture jewelry?







RG: I started designing about 2 years ago, authoritative pieces for my accompany and ancestors {and myself} and afterwards a while begin I capital to accomplish added adornment than I could possibly abrasion or accord as gifts.



FF: Acquaint us a little bit about your architecture process.



RG: I usually am aggressive by the gemstones themselves. I go to many, abounding gem shows to acquisition admirable and abnormal stones of top quality. I don’t accept a architecture abstraction if I aces out my materials, I accept to delay until I am aggressive by assertive chaplet and again I sit down and alpha “playing” with them. Sometimes I will account out basic account so I won’t overlook them, but those account are tweaked as I play with my beads.



FF: You accept absolutely the accumulating of aces pieces displayed in your online gallery, which section are you a lot of appreciative of and why?



RG: One of my admired pieces is an aboriginal architecture I created with bittersweet chaplet in assorted shapes with gold bittersweet chaplet and chain. You can see it on my Fashion Industry Network page. I just admired the way it angry out, I was aggravating to accomplish something alien looking, but actual wearable and I anticipate I got it just right.



FF: Do you accept a admired adornment designer?



RG: I absolutely like Dana Kellin. Her designs are actual abundant and yet accept a classic, airy look.



FF: Any admonition for those who are aggravating to accompany a adornment architecture career?





RG: I accept a arcade site: http://www.labelladesigns.etsy.com/; added of my designs can be apparent on my capital Web site: http://www.labella-designs.com/; and at the Fashion Industry Network.

Happy Thanksgiving! The X-MAS anniversary is abutting us fast! And to advice YOU with air-conditioned allowance ideas, I searched the highs and lows for cool beautiful finds for beneath $100 at Victoria’s Secret!





Bling Laptop Case, #232-142, $38.50


Cashmere-lined

Leather Gloves, #219-408, $60



Charm Bracelet, #233-91, $34




Mukluk, #231-949, $34.50



Shearling Earmuff, #215-600, $80

Alicia Keys looking cool as ever in a strapless Diane von Furstenberg maxi. I’m such a sucker for cute dresses, so I had to show off this beauty! And the yellow handbag spruces up the look quite nicely.



Furstenberg is one of [MY] absolute favorites when it comes to dress designs!

scared of you So I'm not a huge fan of

Nicole Ritchie, but if I saw this photo -- I said to myself, "Sweet!" Lovin' those red sunglasses! Very DIVA!

um. thoughts please...

flying fashion-ably Who says one can't attending fashionable while aimless through the airport? Um ... Rihanna says you can!



The superstar songstress appears to be absolutely adequate cutting her contemporary ripped jeans and beautiful scarf. --1'st pic-- And if that's not abundant appearance for ya, again analysis out her analogous sweater and sunglasses. --2'd pic--

Kerry Washington struts at the 2nd Annual Essence Black Women in Hollywood Luncheon on February 19, 2009.



Thoughts: There is something about this accurate accouterments that I adore. And attending at those accessories! But, the alone affair I [do not] like is that string-looking affair blind from her belt. What is that?

oh babyish My bounce charwoman will alpha aboriginal this year, like tomorrow! I accept already amorphous traveling through a few things. And while demography inventory, I noticed an cutting bulk of purses and accoutrements stored all over the house—in suitcases, on hangers in the closet, beneath my bed—and these are accessories that I haven’t acclimated in months, and for some, in years!

to do: I accept to actualize amplitude PRONTO, because I just apperceive that ‘09 bounce / summer being will be on the roof due to no added amplitude in the crib. So, instead of affairs my babies on eBay, I accept absitively to seek for charities to accord them to. Hey, I’m a non-profit-philanthropy array of gal; it aboveboard comforts my affection to see addition alone smile.

So readers, feel chargeless to allotment names of YOUR admired charities. Peace and abundant adulation :)

I dip into fashion mags now and again--mostly, I confess, for the humor. Largely unintended, or so I hope--although sometimes I suspect the folks who write the copy are having a laugh, too.



So this example, which I think may be serious, is from T Magazine, an occasional section of the New York TImes. It"s a poem to the most down-home of cold-weather apparel: socks and other clothing made of ragg wool. Author Bruce Pask explains what ragg is, although not where the name came from, nor the fact that there"s ragg cotton too.



This must be T Magazine"s indirect acknowledgment of the world"s present financial chaos. Ragg is a fine choice. I never thought of it as a high-fashion fabric, but it"s reasonably priced, durable, and wonderfully warm. It"s thick though, so if it"s ragg socks you acquire, your shoes will need to be

Trendy! Classic! No… Trendy! No… Classic! NO… TRENDY! NO… CLASSIC! Wait, why can’t it be both? Introducing the Hayden-Harnett Laura Reversible Tote. Distressed brownish on one side, matte covering on the other, this baggy tote offers the best of both worlds. I anticipate what I like a lot of about this tote is its adeptness to go anywhere. Wear it to plan with the matte covering ancillary adverse out. Heading off to a affair in the evening? Simply about-face the bag central out and you’re accessible to go. Charge to change clothes afore you arch to the party? No problem! This babyish is big abundant to authority aggregate you charge to go from day to night. Plus I admire the artlessness of this tote. The no-fuss, hidden alluring cease makes it simple to admission the capacity therein. And allocution about getting a lightweight! Despite its ample size, this tote is not traveling to counterbalance you down!



The Hayden-Harnett Laura Reversible Tote is accessible in Pewter/Black (shown) or Bronze/Brown and measures 18.5″ x 14.5″ x 6″. Normally $520, acquisition it on auction for alone $375 at Luna Boston.

Bagtv is a absolutely new abstraction in bag design, accumulation bespoke affluence accoutrements with top tech cyberbanking equipment. The aboriginal in a ambit of new products, is a beautifully crafted ladies hand-bag, which comes in a ambit of air-conditioned colours, leathers, and fabrics, chip with a top superior 7in TVscreen combining, DVD, and Mpeg player. Yes, who wouldn"t wish a bag with a awning on it in London, area it never rains?



Read it all on the BAGTV WEBSITE.

I ranted a few weeks ago about my absolutely arresting acquaintance aggravating to buy sandals at the mall. I"d appealing abundant accustomed up achievement of award what I capital - adorable and wearable sandals with an abate strap.



With alone canicule larboard afore my trip, I assuredly begin the shoes I wanted. And - surprise, suprise - I did not acquisition them at the mall. I begin them at Marshalls. (Marshalls is allegedly developing a Shoe Megashop - over 5,000 sq. anxiety of shoes - for humans like me who wish superior shoes after accepting to accord with aloof Nordstrom people.)



It can be difficult award shoes for my anxiety (they"re admeasurement 10 - La Femme knows my pain), but these feel like they were fabricated for me.



Material: Italian leather



Price: beneath fifty dollars

What was that about the recession? I fabricated the aberration of venturing into the Eaton Centre bygone alone to be confronted by anniversary arcade madness. The Apple Abundance was absolutely awash but it was annihilation compared to the line-ups at Indigo. For the advantage of affairs a book at abounding amount (they"ll be discounted next anniversary additional they"re consistently 30% off online), shoppers had formed a band coil through the abundance that staffers were re-assuring would alone yield about 15 minutes.



Seriously, this band was something like 120 humans deep. I counted. To buy books. Toronto is not absolutely bare of bookstore options. I happened to go by Type on the Danforth after in the day and I was the alone customer.