Lately I bought a custom made, partly personally handsewn dress by fashion designers Thea B. Adora and Jasa Gladez from Degenerotika, made out of an astonishing, breathtakingly beautiful and luxurious fabric. I first wore it at the Laibach concert, combined with simple white tights and stripey sling-strapped stilletto heels. Though being very tired and exhausted from a long night, when I came back next morning, I didn't want to dress off that lovely outfit and so I decided to make some self-portraits in my gorgeous new Degenerotika dress before finding a rest...
Hope you like it and my pictures as much as I do! ♥
The structures
Whole night and morning were lovely, funny and phantastic, but when I came home I was sooo tired - sun was shining again already...
I don't know how I made these acrobatic pictures of my backside... *lol*
... I just remember that I wanted to capture the beauty of the back design...
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...which was exhausting... but so I caught the arm! :-)
My lips and the Dollbreak necklace
I was very happy with my choice of tights too
Though it's not, the fabric looks totally transparent sometimes... ♥
View from the top
Glittering & glamorous details
Kneeing: Beautiful shapes in every position...
Time to sleep! My eyes are exhausted... :-) But we will look at this beautiful dress again for sure!!! There are many ways to combine it, too... And I'd love to do a photo-session with a photographer with it when I'm not so tired... ♥
One of the nice and special things about our STYLE! IT! TAKES! project is that we try to keep an eye on our well selected fashion designers, artists, dancers, gymnasts, photographers... One of our most amazing musicians, singers, models and designers (all in one!) is POPSIMONOVA - the grande Croatian Electro-Diva who has been part of the first two Style! It! Takes! - Berlin Fashion Week Nights # 1 (2012) and # 2 (2013). So I'm very happy to hear that Lana has kind of a break-through finally... both concerning record releases and lots of live performances... And - needless to say - there's new photo material arriving, ecstatic ecstasy inclusive as always... ♥
Popsimonova in Ljubljana (Aug. 2013) - Photography & editing by Shąvi Ląvi
After more and more releases on different labels and compilations (both as
Popsimonova and with various other collaborations, for example ZARKOFF, who played live in Berlin at our first event in 2012), late last year she
has having been released her first 12" vinyl on Netherlands Electro-Label Gooiland Elektro Records, a sub-label from Enfant Terrible.
Surprisingly the label decided on starting to release 4 very early tracks of her, sung in her original Serbo-Croatian language - which is the first time in music that a foreign label releases vinyl with tracks in this language!!! Hvala lijepa! ♥
POPSIMONOVA - Staviti Crveni Ruz
12 Inch EP 2013, Gooiland Elektro - Enfant Terrible; Gooiland 09 - ET027
The title of this amazing EP, "Staviti Crveni Ruz",translates like "Put on red lipstick" and it contains four quite different, all very danceable, thrilling and catchy tracks.
The technoid title track "Staviti crveni ruz" is about her state of mind after
coming home from her factory job:
Put on red lipstick / turn off the lamp in the corner,
let the turntable scrape /
turn on the fan,
open a window,
let dragons of stormy sky enter between the walls,
lie down on the floor
/ fall asleep
without any intention
to wake up
...a very beautiful description of life in alienated (post-)industrial societies and also for the music my favourite song, since the dragons seem to fly directly into an intensive & great club night - (not) forgetting the status we come from...
So I'm happy that Lana - who already commanded great lines like“Turn off
your television – We go out!!!” (in her song No Contact) - kept her red lipstick close - it's a symbol of our loves to life and our resistance to oppression, both...
Closely related with the first topic, the hectical „Brzo“ (Fast) with its ticking military-style drums and distorted stressy guitar sounds is exactly about that, about "fast instant life today" (Popsimonova):
be smiling, be nice, be healthy, grow up fast, fast in
school, work fast, fast home, quickly in the evening, quickly find
someone, quickly make fun, fast revealed love, quick rest, quickly get
out of the way, and you will die quickly and rich, time is money
Did we hear such both sensible and clear words referring to most of our everyday lives in electronic music in the last years very often? I missed them and sort of lost interest in that kind of music for that reason... thanx for bringing us back to what matters Popsimonova!!!
(in that context the just released new Laibach album positively comes to my mind immediately - since, yes, it's definitely time for clear words about our lives and the world we are living in again! Regarding this Enfant Terrible record being a very retro release, Popsimonova was ahead of times (please check my first Popsimonova record review which also shows the political awareness of parts of the Post-Yugoslavian Underground scenes)... and we should love her for that! She's a pioneer!!! ♥)
The other side opens strongly with the beautiful wavy, dark and spectral Electro-Minimal-Track „Ektoplazma“ which is definitely a spooky & spacy dance hit!!! (I put the lyrics below).
Track B2 „Danas Si Slab“ (Today you are weak), an Industrial style song about personal life feelings
and relationships, ends this great EP and it's oppressive darkness is touching me so much, that I would say, uuugh, maybe second best of this consistently great record, which could be running endless hours without getting boring and last forever - I just want more and more and more... so I always just switch and switch the sides and listen again... let the turntable scrape...
POPSIMONOVA European Tour
If you forget the world it will disappear forget yourself and time will stop POPSIMONOVA - Danas Si Slab
Since then, Popsimonova is performing live gigs all around Europe (& abroad), from her
bases in Sisak (the Croatian Sheffield!) and Zagreb over Ukraine, France and Czech Republic (to name just a few) and now together with Jessica 93 & Dorcelsius in a touring package all around
Europe up to the North in Scandinavia...
left: "April gonna be great!" (pic comment on Facebook)
right: POPSIMONOVA checking it all inLjubljana (^.^) (Photography & editing by Shąvi Ląvi)
POPSIMONOVA in her self-made Throbbing Gristle-dress (archive pic, ca. 2007)
ATTACK!!! European Tour Plan, Spring 2014: POPSIMONOVA surrounding Germany :-)
Ready for 22 shows in
Paris > Beograd > Brussels > Rotterdam > Aachen > Enschede > Paris > Strasbourg > Zurich > Lausanne > Fribourg > Nice >Brescia > Milano > Treviso > Budapest >Wien > Boskovice > Hradec
Králové > Berlin > Copenhagen > Goteborg ...and then for a summer festival in > Alvesta / Växjö (Sweden)...
Their nice & lovely tour plan (see the map) caused an ironic discussion between two chummy musicians about the POPSIMONOVA Europe Tour 2014 on Facebook:
A:The good thing is, you're constantly bordering
Germany so if anything fails, just hop into Germany and they will sort you out ;-)
GERMAN EFFICIENCY
B:all my biggest troubles on tour happened in
Germany :-)
A:That's because you're French.
B: and look like an immigrant haha
(^.^)
... girl power with style all the way... POPSIMONOVA live in Nantes (France) (Flyer, Oct. 2013)
POPSIMONOVA live 2013 wearing a DEGENEROTIKA harness and lovely Polka Dot tights ♥
@ Musica Obscura party - Klub Močvara (Zagreb) - photos by Zvonimir Ferina
ektoplazma - ectoplasm
Long hours you stood there
Silent witness removing the day
I walked up close to see your face
ectoplasm
Night, black and quiet
the echo of your voice in the room
but you're actually not there
ectoplasm
Yet since childhood
always standing near me
I have no fear
I love the shadows
In the dream you often tie
white thread around my hand
black thread around my heart
silver chain around my waist
And then the long hours I'm standing
At several places at once
threads are knit into the trap
ectoplasm
Night, black and quiet
hunger and darkness in us
we hunt at dawn
And we feed
until the sun comes out
And then you fade
And the long hours of standing in place
And I never get to see your face
POPSIMONOVA is a fashionista
"The new upcoming queen of cold electro (wave)" (Enfant Terrible label about POPSIMONOVA) is not only a great musician, but also a fashion designer herself. Especially significant is her series of blue dresses, which all suit perfectly with her blonde wild hairstyle, sometimes combined with golden or red elements and applications.
In the context of our STYLE! IT! TAKES! project she has also been modeling both live and in studio for DEGENEROTIKA avantgarde fashion, photographed by Slovenian artist and fashion photographer Shąvi Ląvi, but also by Berlin based photographers Majlo Milevskij, Ruby Venezia KainuandLux Artifex (Atelier 'ex Lux'). Some months ago our photographer Jarka Snajberk shot her for the STYLE! IT! TAKES! book which is in a making. So, new gorgeous photos are to come...
♥
POPSIMONOVA 2014 dressed in her own fashion design
(Photo by Zvonimir Ferina, MUA Kasandra Make Up)
POPSIMONOVA wears DEGENEROTIKA fashion (Photo by Shąvi Ląvi)
POPSIMONOVA make-up by Thea B. Adora / DEGENEROTIKA fashion
Sometimes, Burlesque is cruel. For example, for the last and late-night fashion performance at STYLE! IT! TAKES! # 4, CLEA CUTTHROAT came on stage with a beautiful white lace babydoll dress made by fashion & costume designer Anna from LILY CUT (Berlin). But, as things are supposed to be, the lovely LILY CUT dress has been on her body only for a little while - before being stripped off and thrown into the (not so) 'next corner'... Burlesque-style cruelties to the fashion world... So see - before it's too late - how beautiful Anna's dress is:
Clea entered stage with a cigarette and highlighted her gorgeous LILY CUT dress
CLEA CUTTHROAT in her white lace babydoll by LILY CUT with a cluster of grapes.
So we were warned from the beginnings about her Dionysian ways to come... (^.^)
(Dionysus has been the ancient Greek god of wine, happiness, grapes, of fertility and ecstasy)
Take a close look at the beauty of the LILY CUT dress before it's too late!!! ♥
... ooops... not so bad either... (^.^)
Take(s) care of the dress, CLEA CUTTHROAT! ...since the stage is so wet and dirty after the ecstatic punk & trash & electro porn show of NÄD MIKA and her dancer ANITA (with special guest KURT VON BLEY) directly before... on the bottom right the black dressing gown already taken off by CLEA.
Having undressed and thrown aside safely LILY CUT's babydoll (precise as a star basketballer to the one and only clean place on stage!!!) - there was nothing to hold her back...
THE CREAM
Beautiful punk priestess CLEA CUTTHROAT tastes the sweet life
... and what Näd & Anita
hadn't already trashed before... CLEA CUTTHROAT finished it
professionally, messed it up finally and left no doubt that there is
nothing more to come on stage this night...
Self-censorship? Cream ecstasy!!!
THE BLOOD
Slippery and gluey: Watch the front of the stage!!! (^.^)
[this post is not finished yet. I'm simply not finished with creating stupid stars to hide CLEA CUTTHROAT's beautiful breasts (all breasts are beautiful!!!)... strange censorship policy on lovely humans and arts...]
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