Tattered Rouge

Say Hello To Lily Fleur

2010-01-05T13:56:00.000-08:00

Sinfully Romantic

Sweetly Decadent

Luxe all the way through...

LILY FLEUR

Fairytale Wedding

Couture

Adornments
Perfumes

Solstice Evergreen Cuff Bracelet

2009-12-07T11:36:00.000-08:00

Available at Tattered Rouge and le enchantement.

Winter Collection - Recent Additions

2009-11-23T13:47:00.000-08:00

Available at le enchantement and at Tattered Rouge.

Need a Santa Helper??

2009-11-21T06:49:00.000-08:00

Find the perfect Holiday Gift at 1000 Markets!
We're very pleased to have our work included in this Christmas Collection.

Old Hollywood Glamour

2009-11-16T17:27:00.000-08:00

The New Romantic Holiday Gift Guide is Here!
Gale Bez, editor/art director

Read the first issue of The New Romantic Market E-zine. A quarterly publication dedicated to the elegant romantic lifestyle.

Perfect Little Black Sequin Beret

2009-10-30T21:50:00.001-07:00

Available @ tatteredrouge

Parisian Chic Retro Glamour

2009-10-28T16:58:00.000-07:00

Photo Credit - GBZ and C. Rose

The first teaser piece of apparel in my Holiday Shimmer Collection has been posted in my stores. This designer created couture ensemble is available for purchase as separate pieces or as one set. Inspired by the glamorous 1920's through 1940's eras....Parisian nightclubs and Berlin cabaret lifestyles.

Charming and retro unique, this one of a kind Parisian style is the absolute definition of decadent glamour. Available at Tattered Rouge and le enchantement.

The Journey of a Perfume Devotee

2009-10-07T08:46:00.000-07:00

Photo Credit - GBez

Read about my transition from synthetic chemical perfumes to
using only natural materials to blend my perfumes.

Announcing the debut of our first all natural
Shimmer Perfume Oil
Ready Now for Holiday Gift Giving

Our Winter Holiday Collection

2009-09-03T11:46:00.001-07:00

Photo Credit - GBZ

Debut date is October, kiddos.

Mark your calendars and come round for a visit.
You'll find wonderful and glamorous in our stores!

Sparkle Rocks - Art Jewelry
Sinfully Decadent Accessories
Elegant Party Couture

Photo Credit - GBZ
This year we are releasing a limited edition Couture Perfume
with our Winter Holiday Collection.

le enchantement
SHIMMER
Perfume Oil

Hand blended with all natural essential oils, botanic tinctures and jojoba oil.
(You will never find synthetic scent chemicals in our perfumes.)
Perfume oils are long lasting and so smoothing good for your skin.
__________ _ __________

Our Holiday Collections are all about glamour, sparkle and shine. We're shimmering with loveliness! Your holiday wearables and gifts do not have to be boring. They also don't have to be bought at a discount store.

Because of tight personal and gift shopping budgets, we've decided to offer as a part of our regular holiday collection, a special collection of very affordable trinkets, treasures and wearable beauties.

Everything in this collection is priced at $50 and under, with many pieces falling in the $25 range. Very affordable designer items - quite unique, all hand created in the seasonable hot, haute fashion colors! Let us help you trounce your Christmas shopping 'light in the pocket book' dilemma.

The Rest of the Story

2009-08-17T09:01:00.001-07:00

Photo Credit - Stephanie Sherwood

Go here to see the rest of the story about The Steam Belle Cuff

Wild Rose Tatters - Demoiselle Couture Collection

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Photo Credits - GBZ
Tatters wild rose - Waspie with separate cake layer skirt.
Teaser Images - New collection to soon debut at Tattered Rouge

Black velvet lycra stretch fabric wraps around the hip for wearing comfort.
Layers of sheer fabrics fall from pale lavender pink underskirt. Cake layers are
embroidered black netlace and black sheers with vintage pink pleated
lingerie textile and a sheer pink georgette side flounce.

Front zip waspie (easy to get in and out of) with multi-layers of over-sewn textile strips that fall in a tattered uneven bottom edge. Boned under layer wasp with elastic hook belt to nip in waist.
Guimpure frog closure at waspie center top between breasts.

Wild Rose Tatters
Sexy, sweet, tempting and tart glamour dressing!

Exquisite Evening Glamour

2009-08-06T08:08:00.000-07:00

August Moon

2009-08-05T11:59:00.001-07:00

Graphic Credit - Gbz

Excerpt from Wikipedia

The Moon Festival is a long lived festival celebrated by Chinese people and Vietnamese people (even though they celebrate it differently), dating back over 3,000 years to moon worship in China's Shang Dynasty.

Ch'ang-O, according to Chinese legend is the moon goddess who resides on the moon. On Mid-Autumn day, the full moon night of the 8th lunar month, an altar is set up on the open air facing the moon to worship her. New pastries are put on the altar for Her to bless. She endows her worshipers with beauty.

It is a date that parallels the autumn and spring Equinoxes of the solar calendar, when the moon is supposedly at its fullest and roundest. The traditional food of this festival are the many different varieties of mooncake, which are given as gifts during this time.

The Mid-Autumn Moon Festival is one of the two most important holidays in the Chinese calendar, the other being the Chinese New Year, and is a legal holiday in several countries. Farmers celebrate the end of the summer harvesting season on this date. Traditionally, on this day, Chinese family members and friends will gather to admire the bright mid-autumn harvest moon, and eat moon cakes and pomeloes together.

Moon cakes may have lotus cream filings or fruit jam fillings, even nuts.

Modern Moon Cake Gift Box

Traditional Moon Cake Gift Container
Photo Credits: aveoree, Popoever, pphaomtom, Prettydaisie, Bret Arnett

Hopeless? Nope!!

2009-07-30T10:19:00.000-07:00

Photo Credit - GBZ

Yes, I admit it! I am a 'hopeful romantic'.

Notice I didn't write 'hopeless' romantic, the customary descriptive phrase applied to dreamers. I proudly wear a mantle of infinite colors, textures, materials and inspiration, which I refer to as my "dreaming canvas".

The term "hopeless romantic" has never been in my vernacular. It implies that a romantic is somehow pathetic, unrealistic, a rose colored glasses wearing dreamer who will never amount to anything nor ever find what they are seeking.

Au contraire.....!

Artists have always been dreamers who have led the way toward new social thought, altered perceptions and most of all hopeful imagining. We are known for our unique way of seeing and interpreting our worlds. It's our imagination, hopefulness and ability to sweat it out alone in our studios that makes these dreams a reality. Many times, the end result of our dreaming helps bring needed change to the world.

In order to function on a day to day basis, I have to be pragmatic, down to earth, in touch with reality. But how I walk through my life? As an artist...constantly gathering the worldly wealth of visual, tactile, aural, olfactory and intellectual bounty into my dreamer consciousness.

I choose to surround myself with beauty and visual romance. I intentionally protect my daily work time and lead a determined peaceful existence. My choice of looking forward into the future of possibilities rather than ticking off on my fingers wrongs done is the strength that carries my day.

The idea of being an "Agony Auntie" whose everyday is filled with drama and intrigue is an anathema to me. I prefer being a "hopeful romantic" who dreams of....

Implementing effective communication, creating beauty filled art pieces that may inspire, this is important to me. I cry for the woes of the world, but don't dwell, incapacitated in the midst of negative, backward looking hand-wringing.

Yes I am proud to be a "hopeful romantic" as I sit here working, with a freshly cut bouquet of scented roses in a beautiful vase next to me. Roses placed right at nose level where I can inhale their exquisite fragrance and see their delicate lavender shaded beauty.

It's my choice to be a dreaming romantic. It's also a self defining choice to be hopeless or hopeful.

A Study of Ice Roses

2009-07-29T05:12:00.000-07:00

Rose en Hiver

Photo credit - Raphael Goetter
CC BY 2.0

While searching for an image of a perfect pink rose, I found myself mesmerized by the beauty of these ice roses. The above crystaline pink rose was dusted by first frost. Photographer, Raphael Goetter caught this suspended moment in early morning light before the heat of the sun melted away the delicate ice layer. A spectacular beauty!

Photo Credit - Somerslea

CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

As I continued my image search, more ice roses appeared in my browser and I thought, "why not?" What better time to post a study of ice roses...in the deep hot days of summer when we all need a cool-down.

Rose Petal Ice Cream
Photo Credit - Quintana Roo

CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Delicato rime.
Photo Credit - sramses177

CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Ice Rose'

Photo Credit - GGastronome

Asleep Sweet Briar

Photo Credit - Andrew Stenning

CC BY-NC 2.0

Rose Shape Amuse
Photo Credit - Spushnik

CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Beauty's Last Breath
Photo Credit -AndreaTX

CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Rose Room at the Ice Hotel, Sweden
Photo Credit - Findfado

CC BY-ND 2.0

Pinks on ice.
Photo Credit - T Chays

Iced white rose snow.
Photo credit - kidron rids

Photo Credit - Alchemilka

Announcing the Opening of Atelier Maji

2009-07-10T11:30:00.000-07:00

Atelier Maji is open for business!

One of the artistic pursuits near and dear to my heart is graphic design and especially now with the digital revolution in set-up and printing app's. It's so much easier to do the set-up now - luv it! Due to interest from a number of peeps who've called on me to give them a hand with their business branding and graphics, I decided to open a digital delivery graphics business on Etsy.

These are a few samples of what you'll find in my etsy store.

Flourish - Client Highlights

2009-06-27T22:37:00.000-07:00

We're delighted to bring to you our first client highlight featuring Dev, who's shown wearing our Black Countess Fringe Earrings. Thank you, Dev, you look absolutely stunning in your new earrings.

"What attracted me to these earrings was their design. Lace has historically been an elegant touch for women and to see that could be mixed in with a modern edge is great and definitely a new take on an old tradition.

There is something very glamorous about the shape of the earrings that Gale makes. I wanted to purchase something with modern elegance and also a bit of flair. I tend to go to many gallery openings and receptions and am always looking for accessories that stand out. When I came across these I knew they would be very unique and different from anything anyone else would be wearing. I had to have them!"

"I'm an artist who resides in Baltimore. I constantly attend different functions, gallery exhibitions and openings so its always important for me to look my best. I look for unique little finds like the earrings seen here. I'm also currently a student and do some modeling on the side. I'm always on the move, traveling from coast to coast, seeing what's new in the art scene. During my travels, I collect curiosities."

Cotton Candy Haute Hot

2009-06-27T22:33:00.000-07:00

Treasury created by Gale @ Tattered Rouge

At The Movies - Part 2

2009-06-17T16:09:00.000-07:00

Video Created by Bez Art Studio

Wearable Art Market @ 1000 Markets.com

2009-06-10T09:57:00.000-07:00

Video created by Bez Art Studio

Don't Miss This Party!

2009-05-31T17:04:00.000-07:00

Dior Style Lace Neck-piece by Gale at le enchantment....

Read about the party right here:
http://www.1000markets.com/groups/newromantic/blog_posts

The party location: http://www.1000markets.com/forums/444

The Whisper of Love Wedding Neck Piece

2009-05-29T08:47:00.000-07:00

After a very busy few weeks, I've finally completed my "Villeta Inspirations" piece. A neck piece created with layers of Venice Lace, freshwater pearls and sheer rose color chiffon. Romantic enough for a bride and elegant enough for a fancy dress ball

Villeta Masterpieces and Inspirations

2009-05-16T07:07:00.000-07:00

Adrian Villeta, artist, photographer, visual poet has a profound understanding of elegant romanticism. His exquisite portraiture reflects a refined visual sensibility and the eye of a connoisseur. His work is an elegant, romantic celebration of women. Read about Adrian and view selections of his artwork at
The New Romantic Market

Click on image to see the Villeta inspired artworks of the NRM artists.

A Fine Mothers Day

2009-05-10T10:48:00.000-07:00

Sitting here on the patio, enjoying the morning birdsong, watching Indigo Buntings, Red Cardinals, woodpeckers and this year's first crop of baby sparrows at the feeder, I stretch and embrace the day. The sweet scent of blossoming black locust wafts it's motes through the early day air. This evening when their sensual fragrance intensifies, I'll gather these succulent flowers for my first enfleurage of the season.

The opening of bright yellow flags greet me in the garden today, their delicate beauty gently swaying in the breeze. Columbine in all shapes and hues bring color to banks of shade garden ferns. Spring May days....it doesn't get any better.

Two phone calls arrive from my daughters and grand children sharing lovely Mothers Day wishes. Then we put in our annual call to my dear little Mama, who is 92 this year, still active, still engaged with life. I'm so grateful we've all descended from the strength of her genetics.

Puttering about in my garden, planting herbs and new rose bushes, filling the summer water pond with its tinkly waterfall and then sitting for a moment to share snuffles with our Ms. Patou puppy while sipping a cup of aromatic Columbian bean coffee...all this makes me happy and contented. It's the simple, seemingly small moments in life that sometimes have the greatest meaning. Life is good.....very good.

The Garden.....preserves my sanity, expands my soul,
helps me remember what is important.

Happy Mothers Day.

Ah-h-h-h Spring!

2009-05-01T09:01:00.000-07:00