A Stay At Home Model’s Rehearsal Assignment At The Intermediate Level

Posted on March 25, 2016 by Billy Beyond

Intermediate Level Assignment #7

This is your rehearsal track – Heaven 17 – Let Me Go 12″ Extended Mix – Learn it.

Assignment: Define through a series of half turns and paused poses, the
popular ’80s concept regarding “The Elegance of Ease.”
Tips: Express contentment and ultimate confidence with your most authentic half smile – no teeth.
Be luxury – as in a luxury ocean liner. Cruise. Keep an impossibly even keel. Float.
As you near the end of your imagined home runway, see how far to the side you can turn your eyes without turning your head…to the degree of appearing freakish for a hot second. Pose, then smirk and leave.
Peeling is permitted at the intermediate level but always remember to scrub off ALL jackets or coats. The accomplished S.A.H.M. will take this moment to show the lining.

Keep practicing. Don’t give up. Spring is a great time to stop eating, by the way.

Sneakers Under A Thousand

Posted on January 10, 2016 by Billy Beyond

Fashion Underground: The World of Susanne Bartsch Symposium 2015

Posted on October 17, 2015 by Billy Beyond

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Thursday and Friday, October 22 and 23
Morris W. and Fannie B. Haft Auditorium
Marvin Feldman Center, Second Floor
The fifteenth annual fashion symposium, Fashion Underground: The World of Susanne Bartsch, will explore the creative links between Bartsch’s 30 years of sartorial self-expression and its influence on the global fashion scene.

Twenty speakers will discuss the impact and the influence that Susanne Bartsch has had on fashion and nightlife. Speakers include Simon Doonan (Creative Ambassador-at-Large of Barneys New York), Stephen Jones (milliner), and Peter McNeil (professor at University of Technology Sydney and at Stockholm University).

Admission to the symposium is free!

Checkout the Brochure

Oct 23rd – 2-5pm

Dr. Ann Ilan Alter, “Costumes, Cross-Dressing, and Masquerades at Parisian Carnival Balls: Transgressive, Reactionary, or Fashion as Usual?”
Joey Arias and Dr. Peter McNeil, in conversation”
Zaldy and Dr. Valerie Steele, in conversation
Waleed Khairzada and Jessica Grindstaff, in conversation
Jeffrey Hinton and Billy Beyond (Erb), in conversation, followed by a screening of the film 80’s Is a Blur, by Jeffrey Hinton

Bodymap 1985 – We’re Experiencing Ourselves

Posted on October 5, 2015 by Billy Beyond

”Men can wear skirts,” Mr. Holah commented. ”I sometimes walk around in a dress just to show the world that we don’t have to be what they say we must be. I like it when people have strong feelings about it.”

”Our clothes are really a form of questioning,” he said. ”The whole girl-boy thing in our clothes is about how I feel about girls and boys. When I was in school the boys and girls were not allowed to mix. And as a boy you weren’t allowed to have a girl as a friend. You were forced to have a girlfriend. Otherwise you weren’t normal. There’s always been a macho thing here. So we make clothes that show that the sexes can be mixed together even to the extent that we can borrow from each other. We’re experiencing ourselves.”

One More Time With Claude’s Colored Coats!

Posted on July 9, 2015 by Billy Beyond

1984, kids. Biggest shoulder pads on record.

A Week-long ABBA Web Event is Being Scheduled!!!

Posted on May 23, 2015 by Billy Beyond

A certain Euro-compatible voltage of musical excitement and anticipation has been zapping around our headquarters as we begin to envision and to schedule our biggest Web Based Web Event to date.

The Week-long ABBA Web Event presented by BillyBeyond.com™© and blue eyeshadow.

UPDATE: A date for our upcoming ABBA Week-long Web Event has been firmed up after nearly five unanswered telegrams from BBHQ to the Ledendary Scando Quartet. It is with great pleasure that we can now announce that this seminal (to some) WLWE ( Week Long Web Event ) will begin pretty soon.

ABBA – the original yabba zabba

ABBA – In the industry, the result of their inventive approach to the very sound of recorded music became a technique known simply as “Perfect Production.”

ABBA – Is it true they own Sweden? Find out during our WLWE!!!

ABBA®©™

The Elegant Male

Posted on May 11, 2015 by Billy Beyond

Fashion and Sugar Free Tab

Posted on May 11, 2015 by Billy Beyond

Our roving reporter, Christy Minstrel has alerted us to this vital bit of TAB fluff.

Meanwhile at Fashion Week Birmingham, Alabama… ( for real ) tab tops and Pepsi skirts

Grape Knee-hi?

SJP is on Fire and Rhianna is HEATING UP

Posted on May 5, 2015 by Billy Beyond

but she cooks pretty quick so it will just take a minute…

thanks to Christy Minstrel for this LOL.

The Sammy Dance – By Milton H. Greene

Posted on March 31, 2015 by Billy Beyond

Ripped off by Apple to sell iPods – sorry – “inspired by”

Milton H. Greene – the man was a genius. This was a test he shot as an idea for the opening of The Sammy Davis Jr. Show.

The Making Of The Great Gatsby 1974

Posted on March 21, 2015 by Billy Beyond

This is the only cinematic version I recognize.

Flowers Falling Into Your Hair

Posted on February 21, 2015 by Billy Beyond

Erwin Blumenfeld. Inspiring innovator.

L’Orpheline by Serge Lutens

Posted on October 3, 2014 by Billy Beyond

This stuff smells great. Once again, Serge Lutens – stealing my dream. Dreamstealer.

Jean Paul Gaultier Spring 2015

Posted on October 1, 2014 by Billy Beyond

YAY WOW YAY !!!

Everything good.

Georgy Porgie – TOTO featuring Cheryl Lynn

Posted on August 28, 2014 by Billy Beyond

Here’s something in lieu of an endless supply of Secanol. A classic track with elegant, sophisticated ease for your fashion week ramp-up home modeling sessions. – not moving any furniture yet.

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DIET NOTE: Stop eating.

TVTOR

Posted on March 6, 2014 by Billy Beyond

Antonio around the web

Posted on February 28, 2014 by Billy Beyond

from Fashion Illustration Gallery. Click the pic to link.

Yes We Can, Yes We Kaftan, Yes We Can…

Posted on February 21, 2014 by Billy Beyond

…uh why Dont’cha make a kaftan?

Stay at home models will recognize the easy fit and flowy feel of a kafan as the perfect costume for some private modeling or a white hot Polaroid photo session. Making kaftans is easy. Modeling them properly takes practice and an honest dedication to the craft.

Styling tip : belts of all varieties.

Please : Model responsibly. Never model drunk.