PLASTIC

PARIS BY NIGHT

ON THE OTHER HAND...

On the other hand...The future is looking BRIGHT.
I take off to Europe on Sunday and I'm super excited.
I can't think of a better way to bring in the new year than in Paris.
I wish everybody love, happiness, and success through the holiday and into the new year.

A YEAR AGO

This time, a year ago, I felt loved.
This time, a year ago, I felt warmth and comfort and acceptance.
This time, a year ago, I felt complete; I saw my future, the rest of my life.
This time, a year ago, I had you.

PROJECT WHITE T-SHIRT

Tonight I went to the opening reception of Project White T-shirt at Welcome Hunters in chinatown. Project White T-shirt is an art exhibition and auction curated by Triple Major in which all proceeds go to Designers Against Aids. The project challenged 31 designers from 13 countries to "transform a plain white t-shirt into something more. The designers can turn the shirt into anything they want, however they want. They will redefine the definition of the t-shirt as we’ve understood it for so many decades." These type of challenges always intrigue me, especially trying to redefine such a basic part of culture as a White T-shirt. This is partly why I'm constantly obsessed with Slow and Steady Wins the Race, because I think Mary Ping's series based fashion always tries to redefine a type of clothing we take for granted. In any case, I wasn't impressed with ALL of the designers creations, but a few stood out to me. I think the thing I really wanted most though was the GIANT plain white T shown in the picture above, sadly I don't think that is up for the auction, and I'm sure if it was I probably couldn't afford to win it.













The exhibition is showcased at Welcome Hunters now through January 27, 2010, and then will have a moment at Space 15Twenty in Hollywood in February 2010, but bidding has already begun online so visit www.projectwhitetshirt.com to view all the pieces and purchase some for yourself.

I <3 FAKE

My "Cube Bangle" in the new I LOVE FAKE magazine.
Check out the "lets get lost in La La Land" shoot styled by Brett Bailey.

BIRTHDAY PART 2: PRESENTS

My birthday weekend went pretty well, despite a few inappropriate conversations and the car accident that happened to me. I celebrated 3 nights: Friday I went to dinner with a few friends, then Saturday was RHONDA, and then on sunday night I had a dinner with my family. I love every single person i saw for my birthday over those 3 days. I wish I could've seen a few more as well. Anyway, a bunch of amazing people gave me gifts and I felt like sharing those here, especially since I don't feel I was fully able to appreciate the gift in the midst of the partying. Here's a breakdown of what I got from my friends.

Kimi made me this 3-D "strength" broach and this rhonda symbol necklace:



Adelaide gave me this medly of "The Vixen Manual" (very useful book you should pick up) and the most amazing jacket that incorporates all the things i love: black, cropped, shoulder pads, sheer, sequins, lace, and fringe. It's like somebody made the jacket specifically for me, I love it. oh and her card to me was written on the inside of her vhs "Clueless" movie cover which caused quite a controversy amongst our other friends.



Jeppe gave me "The Bionic Woman," a big bottle of Absolut 100 proof vodka, and a magnum condom in hopes that I'd find somebody to use it on, haha.



Audrey actually went to Rough Trade and asked them about me being registered in their gift registry, which I had made a joke about. Since they in actuality do not have a gift registry and I wasn't registered there she got me this leather cuff and 90's porn magazine.



Laura Sutro gave me a gift along the same lines. She gave me this leather eye mask, which I'm guessing is also from rough trade.



Aaron Mendoza gave me this vintage "beach bum" shirt with a Lacoste headband and an animated gay porn magazine. Oh and I should also mention how creatively it was wrapped in old yearbook pages where he changed all the messages to say "dear greg" instead of "dear grant."



Kristin Condia gave me this cool porcupine quill choker. I also took a liking to the phrase she wrote for my card "lovin you is easy cuz you're beautiful."



Michael Shane got me a very useful H&M giftcard.





Christian Bustamante gave me this gorgeous little vintage "Sagittaire" jewelry box filled with mini earths and a diamond key chain with a note that called me a "diamond of galactical proportion."



Oh, and I almost forgot the amazing cake Adelaide got me:



She said that the woman who made it said to her "oh he rook rike he rike to pawtay." Amazing.

Thank you to all my friends who wished me a happy birthday, especially to all those that came out to see me, and especially especially to those that gave me gifts. ; )
Love you all.

xoxo
-Gregory

ANDREIA CHAVES SHOES

I WANT I WANT I WANT I WANT
I can't even say anything more.
I'm speachless
I just WANT them.



(via yatzer.com)

BIRTHDAY

It's my birthday today. This fact is a little bittersweet. This past year has been a doozy. I've been put and put myself into a lot of difficult situations. I've wound up nowhere near where my "life plans" that I had set for myself when I was younger had planned for me to be, but that's life isn't it.

I think that through this year I've found out a lot about myself as a person. I feel that I know myself better, I know what makes me tick, what makes me love, what makes me mad, and what makes me sad. I've learned that I'm a little bit crazy, that I have high expectations for myself and those around me, that I'm emotional and that's ok, that I'm a sucker for love, and that I'm strong enough to get through anything that's thrown at me.

A lot has changed for me this year, it feels like a rollercoaster. Some believe that this is the year for change and that 2010 will be for new beginnings, I now believe this to be true and I can only hope the next year of my life makes me grow further yet yields many new beginnings and the rewards of the obstacles of this past year.

I wish I could relax today, but there is alot to be done.
This is my moment to breathe and say Happy Birthday to me.

MALL RAVE

GOOD OLD FASHION NYC CHINATOWN MALL RAVE AT 4 AM

RACHEL BILSON ASOS MAG COVER

Check out my jewelry Rachel Bilson is wearing for this month's cover of Asos magazine. It can also be seen on the inside pages and on the website "behind the scenes" video.

Ultra Fabulous Beyond Drag Part Deux

Tomorrow night (Wednesday Dec. 2nd) there is this crazy screening of drag/tranny centric films accompanied by a panel on "Gender Identity and Transploitation in Contemporary Media" and a workshop on how to get that "Tranimal" look just right.
Included in this mix is the first music video directed by friends Mathu Anderson & Andrew Schneider for RuPaul's next single "Devil Made Me Do It." And in that video you will see jewelry I have made on Rupaul like the necklace pictured here on the right:



also included in the video is Drew Hinckley as Jesus:


so go get your tickets now:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/89066

More info on event here

HEARTBREAKER

FULL MOON EMOTION

The full moon on november 2nd was/is supposed to make alot of things for a lot of people more intense. For me that usually means my emotions run wild. Everything seems life or death to me, and though I try to fight it I just can't help my psychosis getting the best of me sometimes. I completely embarrassed myself on the night of the full moon, but that's ok. I've learned to accept that I'm a little crazy and a lot emotional, and I'm happier about it now. I've also realized that I love when other people are open and truthful about their emotions, especially the ones that normally people keep to themselves or try to hide. I'm so into being the most open person I can be in 2010 and I hope everybody else follows that as well. Just think how insane and truthful we all can be. It's scary and it fascinates me. I want to know every emotion that every person has at every moment. Twitter could become a great resource for this, and actually, my friend's twitter post is what inspired this post:

"Last night driving home at 3am I was listening to 'sistser sledge - thinking of you' and crying"
via MuOP

It's these simple things, like sorrow and yearning, that make me think humans are beautiful.

VIVIENNE WESTWOOD SANDAL

These sandals are obviously perfect for me. I mean....a plastic platform sandal with Hermes wings on the ankle? HELLO! I already have Hermes wings tattooed on my ankle and i think these would perfectly accent that. Since it's ALWAYS summer in Los Angeles, i"ll need these as soon as possible, thanks.

HALLOWEEN

Halloween this year in L.A. was really "whatever." I just didnt feel like any party really unified the masses into a fun frenzy. I stopped by a few house parties and the shits & giggles 666 church thing, but nothing really TOOK ME THERE, you know what I mean? Nevertheless I had worked on my outfits already and was pretty proud of them so I went out anyway.

The first night (Friday) I was a press-on nail. My costume was made of actual acrylic too, so i guess it was pretty true to form, especially being painted zebra print, with a french tip, bedazzled and slightly chipped:



The second night (Saturday) I was Kim Kardashian from her playboy spread:



Here's some pictures of a few other people's outfits:

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THIS IS IT

I saw the Michael Jackson movie "This Is It" last night. It was pretty amazing. His voice during rehearsals seemed astonishingly concert ready, which I guess I should've expected. Seeing how the concert was supposed to come to life made me wish all over again that his death was merely a bad dream. I'm sure the tickets were way out of my price range but I would've done whatever I could've to get into it. It's feels so weird being reminded that he's not in this world anymore.

Of course, the parts I was really into were his rehearsal outfits. It seemed like he got dressed in the dark of a gift closet half the time. Especially with those Ed Hardy sweatpants and shirts mixed with tight orange jeans, black loafers, turqoise oversized shirt and oversized boxy silver blazer......um, what? The looks I really did appreciate was when he was wearing those evil looking female pointed shoulder coats with black cargo pants or baggyish slacks. I think the coats were Margiela womenswear, but I'm not sure. He looked like an evil witch in them and I loved it. I forgot to bring my camera to the theater (idiot!) so this is the only picture I could snap of his look with my camera phone: