Filed under: Fashion, Fashion Designers, SL Fashion, Second Life, Secondlife, Secondlife Fashion | Tags: Bianca Foulon, Haute Merde, Shoes
Today I want to review two pair of shoes I really adore because they are original and unique and awesome. This awesomeness is melting my feet! Not because the shoes might look like granny’s seething teapot, but for the pure fashion.
The skill level and fashion knowledge required by the designer to create a pair of shoes like this is un-be-lie-va-ble high. Who if not someone who “designed for many of the best fashion brands of Italy” would be able to completely disregard anatomy and physiology in such an ultimate perfection?
Yes, a designer who lives “in one of the major fashion capitals of the world” can!
And this leads me to another inspiration Bianca Foulon might have thought of. Something a lot of “major fashion capitals in the world” are suffering of and for some time Second Life, too:
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Also, Marc Jacobs (or someone like that) did it first, and did it better. So again, yet another copy. Unless Bianca IS Marc Jacobs?
Comment by Kristi Maurer August 27, 2008 @ 8:39 pmWhy is it that you have a need to continually dish sl designers? Everyone in fashion uses insporation from some thing or person at some time in their career…..do yoiu ever read rl fashion magazine4s or trade trend reports?
Give it a rest!!
Comment by PayPay August 27, 2008 @ 9:39 pmWhy is it that you have a need to continually dish sl designers? Everyone in fashion uses inspiration from some thing or person at some time in their career…..do you ever read rl fashion magazines or trade trend reports?
Give it a rest!!
Comment by PayPay August 27, 2008 @ 9:40 pmI’m not talking about her inspiration. I’m talking about credibility not to say: lies.
Let me give you another quote from Bianca Foulon: “I am a rl fashion designer for more than 20 years and live in the one of the world’s major fashion capitals, I need not to copy anyone.”
Now look at these “shoes” again and keep on mind that she states to be a “rl fashion designer for more than 20 years” who “designed for many of the best fashion brands of Italy”. I even put aside this “I need not to copy anyone.”
Got it?
Good, and that’s the reason why I won’t give it a rest
Comment by customersagainsttheftsandsupporters August 27, 2008 @ 10:16 pmPardon me for saying, but a persons RL skillset in the fashion industry has very little to do with creating fashion in SL. Dealing with the contraints of templates and textures, sculpties and sculptmaps… even the best RL designer would have a tough time creating a knock-out shoe or a well shaded and seamed garment in SL on early attempts.
What does translate well into virtual fashion, graphic design, people familar with 3-D illustration and form making… there are RL housewives who create fantastic wearables in SL… but that doesn’t mean that people who work in the fashion industry can’t do just as well.
The shoes are rough, very rough. But the style elements that Bianca Foulon has tried to work into the footwear are unique, no matter where the inspiration lies. If you don’t like em… just don’t buy them, simple as that.
Your assertions that her being a RL designer for 20 years should mean she would be better at making sculpted shoes in SL is laughable.
There really is no story here, just a healthy dose of spite. And btw, I suggest you properly credit the use of the ‘Haute Merde’ Graphic, my hunch is that you are infringing on the orginal copyright holders and/or photographer & graphic artist… and well… I am against theft too!
Comment by Anessa Stine August 27, 2008 @ 11:47 pmMy assertions that her being a RL designer for 20 years is a citation of her own words and should not mean that she would be better at making sculpted shoes in SL.
It should mean that her puffed-up presentation and showmanship is a cheap promotion of her brand and could use some modesty. That’s not hard to understand, tho.
“Most designers know photoshop but not fashion” – Bianca F.
That`s laughable. I mean, how could you say something like that before you improved your SL skills to express your knowledge about fashion in the right way?
And this is laughable, too:
“the style elements that Bianca Foulon has tried to work into the footwear are unique, no matter where the inspiration lies.”
I mean…, what??
We are talking about someone who claims “being a RL designer for 20 years” and who “designed for many of the best fashion brands of Italy”. Oh and who needs “not to copy anyone.”
Yeah, she tried to create fashion. But this fashion won’t wash.
Comment by customersagainsttheftsandsupporters August 28, 2008 @ 12:52 amI repeat….
Please give it a rest!!!
We hear what you are saying and it really is not necessary to continue to quote something that was written months ago and has since been retired.
If you don’t like what she produces, then you need not ever purchase it. Continuing to bash her proves nothing but hurts many people associated with Bianca F.
Comment by PayPay August 28, 2008 @ 3:11 amNice Sidestep on the Question about the :Haute Merde” Graphic You are using in this post BTW. You need a new hobby.
Comment by Jhuzen Ketsugo August 28, 2008 @ 3:25 am“Customers” Against Theft & Supporters, have you ever even purchased anything from anyone you are bashing that you might call yourself a “Customer” and have a right to such vehement bilious hatred? Maybe if you had bought the shoes and then reviewed them, it would be worth listening to, but stealing other people’s images doesn’t make you a customer, it makes you the theif and clearly you seem to think the rules you apply to others are not meant for you as well.
~ Ketsy
Gosh, if I stopped wearing everything that isn’t physically possible in RL, I’d have to throw out my “Tenshi” hairstyle.
Comment by Shimere Felisimo August 28, 2008 @ 3:52 amClearly, working at DEB since she was 17 has helped Bianca crank out some of the most useless crap in SL. UGH.
Comment by Kurt Tins August 28, 2008 @ 4:51 amThis blog is like Tenshi in one of her spiteful moments, without the latter’s thought-provoking discourse.
Comment by AM August 28, 2008 @ 5:10 am@paypay: It hurts me and other people when “designer” like Bianca and Minnu present themself as such a big gun in Second Life and even in the real life fashion world but nothing what they do is a huge marketing bubble. A lie. Why give it a rest if they continue to ace all the customers and even their own friends, helped by the same supporters.
@ Ketsy: All graphics are fair use. I don’t claim they are mine, I don’t sell them and I altered them enough to…, you know?
@ Shimere: I am not a fashion expert nor am I a fashion perfectionist. But these shoes and a lot of Bianca F.’s “designs” are just crap. It would be okay if she wouldn’t claim she “designed for many of the best fashion brands of Italy”, that “most designers know photoshop but not fashion” and she would not “need to copy anyone” because she would be so high above.
Comment by customersagainsttheftsandsupporters August 28, 2008 @ 7:41 amWow, I was so looking forward to someone making shoes like these in SL after seeing them in vogue all summer. Now I don’t even want them, Bianca F. annoys me. =[
Comment by Dolly Gwynneville August 28, 2008 @ 5:51 pmHonestly I find Bianca to be a great designer and quite happy to have her fashion on SL. If all she was doing was so bad or copying I don’t think she would have a name for herself even before all this started. Where is the pic or the Marc Jacobs shoes you claim for her to be copying? I don’t know I’m just tired of all this drama I think.
Comment by Queenie Ella August 28, 2008 @ 9:57 pmActually this post was not about Bianca Foulon Copying shoes from Marc Jacobs.
It was just about Bianca Foulon presenting crappy shoes on the one hand and on the other hand promoting herself as a big gun in the italian fashion scene who does not need to copy anyone and that unlike most designers she would know fashion.
But it is like Kristi said: “Marc Jacobs did it first, and did it better”.
Here is a link to Marc Jacob’s creations in google image search.
I think it’s ways too funny that the person who owns the most popular shoe blog says: “The style elements that Bianca Foulon has tried to work into the footwear are unique, no matter where the inspiration lies.”
I think you need to walk a thousand miles in a copycat’s shoes to say something like that.
Comment by customersagainsttheftsandsupporters August 28, 2008 @ 10:43 pmwell in my opinion that is not a copy but is a style
http://www.shoeblog.com/components/com_jd-wp/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/meleard4.jpg
http://www.ohmyshoes.it/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/antonioberardi.jpg
http://www.virtualshoemuseum.com/vsm/o.php?id=536&col=person&sub=22
and many others. I have the shoes, I love them I’m not complaining.
Comment by Queenie Ella August 29, 2008 @ 12:09 amDo you know Bianca personally? Like have you ever talked to her and really seen what she is about. If not maybe you should, she is truely one of the most down to earth humble person I have met in SL.
not a copy, but a style: search for united nude, http://www.daaw.biz/foto/79bl.jpg
or the work of marloes ten bhomer or many others, no crap!
stop this
Comment by aby August 29, 2008 @ 12:26 amnot a copy, but a style: look at the top layer on this pic, http://bp2.blogger.com/_MIZTQfVsIvI/R5zJeAb08KI/AAAAAAAAAAc/K2ljK1i4JT0/s1600-h/biancaf3.jpg
http://zsazsaslifeisadrag.blogspot.com/2008/01/biancaf.html
It’s the Digit Darkes Liquid Latex Bra, http://flickr.com/photos/14888572@N08/2774601666.
Omg, and why she needs to copy all most famous RL designers too if she is a RL designer and for more then 20 years?
Comment by customersarechickensometimes August 29, 2008 @ 7:27 amSomeone with 20 years of real life fashion experience, who designed for many of the best fashion brands of Italy and who states she knows fashion and lives in one of the major fashion capitals should show more respect to the designs of real life fashion designers.
Someone with 20 years of real life fashion experience, who designed for many of the best fashion brands of Italy and who states she knows fashion and lives in one of the major fashion capitals should know that you will destroy the idea behind a design if you try to translate it without understanding the idea and you don’t have the skills and talent to do it well.
And last bit not least someone with 20 years of real life fashion experience, who designed for many of the best fashion brands of Italy and came to SL to create designs for the women of SL should show more respect to the women of SL.
If her designs would be like “woah” sooooo beautiful and nice and I would ask her where she got those huge talent, skillz and eye for details and then she would tell me about her real life fashion career: OK.
I saw designers who came fresh from the teengrid with more sense for style, fashion and details. And they dont try to market their stuff with lies about their real life fashion career.
The way Bianca Foulon presents herself and her products means nothing but:
Bianca Foulon does not understand FASHION.
Bianca Foulon does not have respect to DESIGNS.
But more important is:
Bianca Foulon thinks she can fool and blind the women of SL with her stories about her real life fashion career.
I say: Stop this
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Comment by customersagainsttheftsandsupporters August 29, 2008 @ 9:52 am@ Queenie: Yes I know her and I spoke to her.
Well, look who it is…morph, hiding behind an anonymous name. The moron with no life finally stopped talking crap on Tenshi’s blog and got its own, just what we needed; another idiot to flood the “fashion feed” with their non-sense.
At least Tenshi has the balls to blog under her own name!
Go morph, the coward!
Comment by it's morph!! August 30, 2008 @ 9:33 amI know it’s a popular thng: If you can’t confute someones argument call them idiots and tell them to get a life
But the better way to show all the people that I’m the idiot is not to call me an idiot but to confute all the arguments in a serious way.
And if you can’t confute the arguments… Well, feel free to call me an idiot, anyways
Because unlike Frolic Mills and “Haute Merde” people I support free speech by all means 
Comment by customersagainsttheftsandsupporters August 30, 2008 @ 1:21 pmI took a look at Bianca’s blog and I have to admit that some of her concepts are pretty nice (aside from reasonably poor textures). However, some were also hideous and made me want to cry.
She does have a point though, many “designers” in SL do NOT understand fashion design. I have yet to see one who truely designs (not copies) their own concepts into a cohesive, matching brand or collection of wearables that would be considered fashionable or upscale by real world design standards.
Taking a look at any fashion blog geared towards SL will prove my point.
Comment by Donna August 31, 2008 @ 3:01 pm