blah blah dada

"That's complete nonsense!"

 well good... 

     Dadaism came sweeping in (rumored as a spark from Switzerland), prizing nonsense, irrationality and intuition as a response to the glum tales of WWI in the early 20th century.

     We were just beginning to start the idea of "out of the box", trepidatiously and cautiously of course, slapping a sticker of "avant-Garde" to calm our uncomfortable  un-conformity. 

      The groundwork that Marcel Duchamp and (my absolute hero) Alejandro Jodorovsky had created was a prelude to postmodernism, an influence on pop art, and a foundation for surrealism. 

      Surrealism came sweeping in the early 1920s, with it's defying visual imagery, illogical scenery, and creation of "strange" creatures created from everyday objects. Case in point? Melting clocks of course! 

       The inspiration behind my current project, Dali meets Rothschild's 1973 ball. Oh what a ball indeed! The wildly exciting and elaborate headpieces fed my visually hungry eyes, and with one sweep of Audrey Hepburns head in a birdcage and I was off to the races. 

      My typical overly ambitious self, made a proclamation that I would create these "headpieces" and with my incredibly talented friends egging me on, being elbow deep in paper mâché paste, while blowtorching a plastic flamingo I wondered if I myself was in fact following a completely nonsensical, unreasonable and illogical idea at all? How Dadaist of me... 

     So I kept running... Glue gunning glittered hooker heels talking very seriously to my assistant Alex of how they will be placed upon the head as a headpiece (a nod to Dali's infamous back words shoe hat, as Elisa Schiaparelli brought the image to life as she sat with her own millenary masterpiece). 

     What's next? Secure the location- and gathering in the team! (After I paint my lobster which is now out of the oven a proper shade of chartreuse of course). 

If it seems too weird... It's probably a good idea. Xx

...just.shoot.me...

Currently I'm prepping (or attempting to prep..) for three upcoming shoots... The first is with photographer Mike Lopez, and I'm styling the fierce, yet incredibly sweet gorgeous stunner Maya Singer (you can follow her @sweetbabymaya )
   I'm going for the world is burning melting vibe... windswept hair brick red eyes sculpted hair with possible leather strapping elements... and long intense layers of fabric to hopefully capture a really striking movement shot...
   those are not only incredibly difficult to capture... but the model has to really commit- not just physically in her "jump" "pose" "moment" but face like a mother fucker.. I DIE for the bitches that can give me that intense pretty ugly face... like you can tell they MEAN it... aaah gives me chills... you can see it in their eyes... casting your girl is just that really... the mood you want- your "girl" and "your" story (mine..)- I have to believe she can be "my girl" ultimately... tell my story and really convince me of it...

Second is an ad campaign for Pacha Hotels and Resorts (dammit the shoot is in LA! Was crossing my fingers for it to be in Ibiza, Spain- had THE best summer of my LIFE there at 15... fucking A my people know how to party... if you've never been to Ibiza.. well then- I'm sorry say you've partied as hard as you want. you haven't until you've experienced Ibiza...
     Anyway- I'm giving sex all over the place my girl is glossy and glam... wearing her sexy swimsuit she obviously won't be swimming in.. heels on her long legs for daaays.. glam to the glossy Marbella extreme bitches... all I have to say about that one is sex sells... period.

   Third is the one I'm really excited and just am going HAM about is my new editorial. I LIVE for fashion editorials- and this one is being shot by Ward Robinson- a photographic badass that I remember from an I.D magazine on a phoot when I was an assistant years ago. I reached out to him before my birthday and appanrently I must have impressed him and he remelife remembered me and was happy to see how my career has been going and stoked I reached out to him ::mascara running:: anyway- my life shuts down when I go into my psycho editorial artistic weirdo obsession. Looking at collections non stop, piecing together my story, and my constant lash batting asking Ward if he can get me a motorcycle to tear apart because I need my girl to be destorying it for my story... plleeease Ward :)  (crossing my fingers he's working on it as promised..)
    Anyway fashion assholes- here are some pictures I'm currently digging. The first one is a shoot I did with Adam Franzino. Incredibly talented mother fucker- wevibed really well. Maybe it's because we're both young upcommers with talent and balls... we just got it. it was rad... Xx bella



I told you nipples are one of the sexiest accessories... for us bitches who don't rock bras... yes- as the President of the Itty Bittie Titty Commitee.. peeling off electric tape or last night's pasties in the shower the next day really isn't as uncommon for me as I might like to admit... but it's kind of rad...  

I'm really obsessing over this new Cavalli bag... it's a fringe fuckers paradise. meow

my gorgeous daaahling Shawn Kaleka's line Costume Dept... not only is it fabulous- just look at the home screen shot...

love this shot

 nothing like some leather and heavy metal to grab my attention...

...catch,up...

So much catching up to do my little monsters... I know I know I KNOW!!!

where did little bells go?

I got through and was able to create only with the incredible team around me the greatest work of art I can ever stand back from and only begin to express how proud I am... and excited by... for Astonish magaazine's spring editorial!! Here are some of the wardrobe pictures monsters!!

 playing dress up is what I never stopped doing... and I'm so thankful and truly happy that I get to do everyday what I dreamed of as a little girl.. but now with bigger baubles and budgets? that's rad...

I love shoes... hate that my feet are so small so I can't run around set changing shoes every shot (damn size 36!!)but just setting them all up and standing back? meow...  

 Jimi Hendrix takes a break after day 1 to nap on some Maggie Barry marabou amazing-ness... oh Jimi Hendrix- can I be you for one day, please?

 happy little bella... spending that weekend at my family's house to make this vision come to life- was truly my biggest career highlight thus far... forget the name droppers and the gossip whores- articulating the high you feel after completing a vision that you're so obsessed with... come to life is something I wish I could explain- but I can't. It's a high like no other drug- that makes you feel a euphoric taste of what heaven is... ya it's that rad. Xx

...wander.through.jazzieland...

ok fine, I'll just make the drape back top... I've become obsessed with it since using one for the fall gypsy dreaming shoot I was the creative director for and styled, shot by Phil Holland you'll see published by October!!! In the "carousel" look, paired a black cropped with a tail long sleeve knit by Sjobeck with a Dark Red marabous vest/scarf I made, by ...the.Perfect... a pair of Rozae lace tights, a Melamed swarovski head peace, a Guttergypsy single peacock earring, a Navy and Red scarf tied around the waist as a sash... and enormous white Mongoliam Lamb Fur boots of mine with my fall obsession... the burnout velvet beaded fringe Kimono by Kite and Butterfly.... an epic look... can't WAIT for you all to see!! But am into tailed tops... and I just want this hanging fur cropped coat... AMAZING.. mmmm.... meow. hungry fashion monster


xx
*bella*

here's a photo of the look in a shot I'm not using in the magazine spread... ya I'm obsessed with my "baby"... this shoot meant a lot to me... it was my first time coming up with an idea... getting an entire team together whom not only believed in it... but different publications that loved the idea- the concept... to get me those amazing pull letters for this idea to come from vision to fruition... and most of all Calimingos Ranch where I dreamt of this editorial completely in my mind in the first place... and the incredible Sjobeck family... and the Sjobeck clothing line- Especially Jesse Rey Garrett and Mei-Ling and most of all... the bain of my existence...ymy true rock and the complete ying to my crazy and erratic yang.. my "xanex"... my wife... Miss Brett Elizabeth Williams... check out: 
http://treasuretrash.tumblr.com/  
she's simply brilliant, with the talent, hunger, and brilliance I crave to find in others... yet when you find someone so rare that gets "IT" and believed in my wild and crazy antics and the picture in my head SO much that she held my hand and made damn sure it fucking happened.... AND found the re-shoot Photographer... simply BRILLIANT PHIL HOLLAND...
     and is even known as "my interpreter" by my BM Berg... 
I truly and deepy love my beezey short shorts...my xanex, my yang, my wife, my life... my everything. I love you my Welsch perfect Princess, Brett Elizabeth Williams...


xx
*bella*