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Behind the scenes video of the photoshoot for our December/January 2011/2012 PinUp and cover featuring Marlo Marquise!

With roots as a model and burlesque performer, Marlo Marquise is always expanding her creative horizons, she recently relocated to Los Angeles from New York City, starting the studio and production company House of Virtue with Billy Vahan of Antiseptic Fashion and a couture fashion line, Marquise Lapin.

interview by : Jennifer Link
photographer : Saryn Christina
fashion stylist : Marlo Marquise
makeup artist, hair stylist, and hats : Erika Diehl
wardrobe : Antiseptic Fashion
model : Marlo Marquise
location : House Of Virtue

Recently you moved to LA from New York City, now that you’ve been in LA for a bit, what differences are you noticing from life in New York City? What sparked this change of location? And have you noticed a difference in the creative energy of both cities?
Marlo Marquise : LA and NYC are very similar and very different. I live in downtown LA so it really reminds me of my east village neighborhood in Manhattan. Both areas are very young and creative. New York is very fast pace and LA is the complete opposite. That is the biggest adjustment I’ve had to get used to! I’m just a go, go, go workaholic kind of woman, so it’s very hard to be in such a lackadaisical environment now. Los Angeles seems more fine art focused, and New York City is more about the theater as far as creativity goes. Basically what made me commit to relocating was that instead of just performing and modeling, I wanted to produce large events and start designing clothing. LA has bigger and better venues, I can throw events in my loft, and downtown LA is the most efficient area for making garments and starting companies of the like. It just made sense! I was traveling back and forth for a year before deciding. I do however consider myself bicoastal, and always a New Yorker at heart!

read the full interview in the December/January 2011/2012 Issue

The December/January 2011/2012 issue is the nineteenth issue of Auxiliary, a magazine dedicated to alternative fashion, music, and lifestyle. This issue features an interview with Voltaire, an interview with Haujobb, a designer spotlight on Gallery Serpentine, and Marlo Marquise as our PinUp. The issue also contains an interview with Aesthetic Perfection, an editorial by Sam Rosenthal of Projekt Records, Auxiliary Magazine’s top 20 albums of 2011 list, a frostbitten beauty editorial, a fashion editorial showcasing dresses that will make you the life of the party, a 20s inspired accessories editorial, a flirtatious lingerie editorial, and a dark future style article. It features photography by Saryn Christina, Zelko Nedic, Joey Buczek, Zach Rose, Ema Suvajac, and Paul Collins, and fashion from Hell Bunny, Iron Fist, Antiseptic Fashion, RockLove Jewelry, Plastik Wrap, Unique Vintage, Rose Mortem, Blue Velvet Vintage, Spin Doctor, Cryoflesh, Loungefly, and mush much more.

You can download it for free at :
www.auxiliarymagazine.com/issue19/AuxiliaryMagazineDecember11.pdf

Print copies are available for purchase online at :
www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/310828
And for purchase in stores at :
www.auxiliarymagazine.com/distribution

Visual, creative, style, fashion : inspiration.

fashion designer : Antiseptic Fashion
photographer : Zach Rose
makeup/hair : Jessica Jean
model : Nicole Vescio

Zach Rose :
Antiseptic Fashion, the brainchild of Los Angeles DIY designer Billy Vahan combines love for the fetish (leaving little to the imagination) with a unique blend of steampunk and neo-Victorian designs.  With fully customizable pieces such as asymmetrical leather posture collars, accessory belts, and underbust corsets reminiscent of fetish meets glorious rebellion.

Billy Vahan and Antiseptic Fashion’s Phrixus leather posture collar holds the head up high (and quite literally keeps your spine in alignment) while adding a regal display of bizarre.  While not an everyday item in your fashion arsenal, it adds just enough of that “kink” for those of you who prefer restraint yet not without a touch of elegance.

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