Auxiliary’s playful take on the sexy centerfold pin up. This month we bring you Acey Slade. Flip the page, cut out, and tac on your wall!
photographer : Steve Prue
hair stylist : Jamie Starr
model and makeup : Acey Slade
interview by Luke Copping
Acey Slade is the driving member of Acey Slade & The Dark Party, but many know him from his roles in bands such as Trashlight Vision, Vampire Love Dolls, Dope, The Murderdolls, and Wednesday 13.
Your new project, Acey Slade & The Dark Party, seems to have such a hybridized style of rock, punk, metal, and electronic music. Where there any specific influences that you drew from in building the bands sound?
Acey Slade : I am on tour quite a lot of my living life. A lot of times when you are driving at night or trying to sleep in the back of the van, you may not be in the mood for the three chords and a cloud of dust type music I am associated with. So, what I listen to is stuff like Manic Street Preachers, Primal Scream, Depeche Mode, Prodigy, Pendulum, DJ Shadow, Tricky, Portishead. I wanted to explore that stuff and not alinate my fans. Make an album that might be an ‘alternative’ for people who like KISS, Janes Addiction, or other guitar rock stuff.
Business woman, fashion designer, and stylish lady, we caught up with Adriana Fulop to talk about her highly successful clothing companies, Plastik Wrap and BitchCraft.
photographer : Billy Archos
fashion stylist : Adriana Fulop
models : Adriana Fulop, Robin Domander, Kassandra Merrit, and Giovani Pereira
interview by Vanity Kills
If you ever found yourself ignoring the plot of a sci fi action adventure flick due to the fact that your attention was fixated on sleek and sophisticated future fashion, you are not alone. Many of us longed for dresses seemingly made of polished chrome and punctuated with bursts of vivid color. Something to hold us over until neural implants with social networking capabilities become commercially available. Luckily, Plastik Wrap’s Adriana Fulop and Ryan Webber possess the creative genius and technical skill to keep you looking like android royalty straight out of the pages of a gripping cyberpunk thriller. They can’t hook you up with the aforementioned brain implants, nor with a prototype hover car, but they can infuse your life with a little artificial flavor by outfitting you in precisely tailored cyber apparel which flatter and accentuate both the male and female form.
Not quite ready to enlist in the plastik army just yet? If you crave high impact alt fashion with a more relaxed fit, then a sampling of Bitchcraft’s tasty offerings might be in order. Let Plastik Wrap’s Adriana Fulop and her creative partner Gabrielle Neveu tempt you with playfully dangerous body hugging tees adorned with prints of things that might hurt you if you’re not careful. Brass knuckles, scissors, syringes, and daggers, that’s what little girls are made of. In Bitchcraft’s world anyway. Those less fond off cutsey implements of torture can always hang with Mr. “Grumpy Octopus” or overdose on girlie glam in the “Tie Me Up Pretty” tee.
Old world elegance and love of quality craftsmanship fused with durable modern fabrics and space age trimmings on one end of the spectrum. Deliciously dark tees
you’ll want to live in on the other. How does Adriana Fulop do it all?
How would you describe Plastik Wrap’s current aesthetic? How did it evolve since the initial inception of the company?
Adriana Fulop : Initially we were designing simple, starch, space age styles. Which over time evolved into a darker, more utilitarian and avant-garde aesthetic. We haven’t focused on any one style category and have allowed ourselves to explore many interests, which has extended our tool set and fashion vocabulary. All of this combined has helped Plastik Wrap remain a design house that is very difficult to label. At least that is how I feel about it.
What’s the primary difference between your newest fashion endeavor, BitchCraft, and Plastik Wrap?
AF : BitchCraft is more playful, more of a fun evening project. Plastik Wrap is more like air to my lungs.
NYC-based makeup artist, model, musician, and lifestyle blogger Doe Deere simply couldn’t find makeup bright enough. So she created her own “so bright, it’s illegal!” makeup company, Lime Crime which focuses on creating the most intensely pigmented, dare-to-wear cosmetics for the vivid, quirky, and unique. As Lime Crime prepares to enter the retail market in US, Australia, Canada, and UK and plans for several new product releases we caught up with Doe Deere to talk about the road that got her to this point.Read the interview in the February 10 Issue.
interview : Vanity Kills
photographer : Steve Prue
model : Doe Deere
makeup artist : Doe Deere for Lime Crime Makeup
hair stylist : Kristin Jackson
fashion stylist : Catherine Mudford for Emma Bell
fashions : Emma Bell
What is the most challenging aspect of running a one-woman makeup empire?
I wouldn’t call it an empire just yet; I only have a couple employees and a partner. But the most challenging part is learning how to run a business, on the fly! I started out a girl in my attic, and a year later I’m signing checks and making big, scary decisions. But it’s a learning process which I really enjoy.
How lengthy was the process of turning the vision of that perfect brightly pigmented makeup line in your head into a tangible product?
It took a long time, I won’t lie. I’ve been developing the brand since 2005, when I started posting makeup tutorials on my website, limecrime.net. I always had trouble finding eyeshadows and lipsticks bright enough that went on exactly how they looked. That’s how the idea was born. By 2008 I had a solid following online and began reaching out to labs in NY and LA. The webstore went live two weeks before Halloween.
Auxiliary’s playful take on the sexy centerfold pin up. This month we bring you Kerosene Deluxe in Lovesick and DGFH7. Flip the page, cut out, and tac on your wall!
photographer : Andrea Hausmann
hair stylist : Jill Keech
model and makeup : Kerosene Deluxe
Auxiliary’s playful take on the sexy centerfold pin up. This month we bring you Jeffree Star in Trash and Vaudville. Flip the page, cut out, and tac on your wall!
photographer : Steve Prue
hair stylist : Kristin Jackson
model and makeup : Jeffree Star
Doc Hammer, best known as one half of the creative team that brings you The Venture Brothers on Adult Swim, is a writer, musician, painter, and style maven.
With the premiere of the fourth season of The Venture Brothers, Auxiliary Magazine had a chance to talk to Doc Hammer about style, men’s suits, his band, oil painting, and why he does what he does. Read the interview in the October 09 issue.
interview : Luke Copping
photographs : Ron Douglas
“The way I do it is, not to just go out and purchase to have. I really do just look at fashion, and occasionally I see that thing that I think should be part of my life. I’m a clotheshorse, I just love that shit. If art is very important to you then adorning yourself is very important.”
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Auxiliary’s playful take on the sexy centerfold pin up. This month we bring you SharonTK in New York Couture. Flip the page, cut out, and tac on your wall!
photographer : Steve Prue
hair and makeup : SharonTK
model : SharonTK
Recently Auxiliary Magazine’s Luke Copping had a chance to speak with Clark Dever from www.twelvehoursinacity.com about his travels, adventures, and the pitfalls of only being on the ground for twelve hours at a time.
Our friends over at Twelve Hours in a City (a project of the Buffalo artists Clark Dever and Joe DiNardo) have started to post the travel logs for the the first ten days of their journey. If you are not familiar with the project, it’s an alcohol and caffeine fueled journey across America via the all you can fly month long pass that Jet Blue offered. We will be having Clark from the project in for an interview in the next few days, but in the mean time here is the teaser video from their first day in Boston, MA.
