RTW looks from The Light In The Garden

The Light In The Garden is a collection full of editorial looks, so here is a shoot devoted to singling out the more wearable garments.

Hair, makeup, modeling and photo editing by Sarah Mariah.

Video from The Light In The Garden

Filmed by my wonderful photographer/videographer/awesome dude Landry Nd, this video gives you a feel for what the day was like, before, during, and after the show!

Music is by Cocorosie.

The Light In The Garden Lookbook

Hair by the Michelle Donnelly Hair Team. 

Makeup by Lancome.

Photos by Michael Blase.

Lookbooks are available in print or digital versions HERE. Email me if you are a fashion industry professional and I will send you one free of charge.

 Modeled by Genevieve Cherry

Jessie Seeherman

Sarah Mariah

Caroline Cartselos

Miss Stephanie

Margaret Owens

Freddie Fae

Michelle Danielle

Nancy Ferris

Jenefer Taylor

Frankie Marie

Olga Axentii

Ivy Dominique

Kimberly Katsigianis

Marie Lein-Mathisen

Lookbooks for The Light In The Garden are available!!

Lookbooks are now available! If you are a retailer, editor, stylist, or anyone else associated with the fashion industry, write me an email about yourself and your company, and I will send you one free of charge!

For everyone else, I am selling them to fundraise for next season's fashion week! You can purchase one by clicking the image below!

                 

     

       

                     The Light In The Garden                  

     

     

       

         By Kristin Costa                    

       

         36 pages, published 9/12/2013        

     

     

             

     

                               

Runway Footage From NY Couture Fashion Week!

Filmed by Jen Rudolph. Hair by Michelle Donnelly. Makeup by Lancome. More to come!

First Shots from Fashion Week

This is more of a teaser, since these are shots from my mother's cell phone, but hopefully you are all hungry for some glimpses of my new collection!

Makeup by Lancôme, hair by the Michelle Donnelly hair team!

Models include: Jessie Seeherman, Michelle Danielle, Sarah Mariah, Genevieve Cerri, and Caroline Cartselos.

Fashion Week

Tickets to the show can be found on the Couture Fashion Week site, and a special 30% off promotion can be found HERE!

Fashion Week!

My Spring/Summer 2014 collection, "The Light In The Garden", will be presented at NY Fashion Week, at the Couture Week shows, on Thursday, September 5th, at 6pm. It will be held at the New Yorker hotel.

More info soon, when I have it! Suffice it to say, I am extremely excited!!

Sneak Peek for Spring 2014

I've been working on ways to add textured knit stitches in a non-overwhelming way to this spring collection.

Inspiration for Next Season

I have been playing around with lots of concepts having to do with Shibari, a Japanese Rope tying tradition.

I'm still finishing up my garments, but here are some images from last weekend when a Shibari enthusiast/expert named Sparr let me play with his snazzy orange rope. He made the wrist gauntlet, and then I made a chest harness for Fiona, the sculpture that holds my business cards when I vend.

Pinterest!

I'm now on PINTEREST!! Wooo! What the heck took me so long?

Tags

I finally got around to making tags for my clothes! It only took like 3 years!

Saints Magazine Editorial

Editorial for Saints Magazine

Photographed by Nikolai De Vera

Styled by Francis Urrutia

Modeled by Briauna from Direct

Many of the gorgeous pieces in this editorial is by designer Ella Gendler, who was really fun to talk to at the shoot, and I'm a big fan of her work. 

I made the corset and the white dress in the above Photo.

Resin Jewelry

I've been expanding my jewelry making vocabulary by playing with resins! Check them out! I'll also be selling these at Midsummer Fantasy Renaissance Faire this weekend, in Ansonia, Connecticut.

IN Magazine Tear Sheets

Styled by Francis Urrutia, Shot by Nikolai DeVera. More photos soon, when I have the magazine in my hot little hands!

You can order one for yourself HERE

http://www.contactme.com/501140f5ca57ed000200845f

Renovations

I am in the process of purging and reorganizing. This is all encompassing in my life at the moment: I've sorted and thrown away huge bags of clothes that were so torn and stained that the salvation army would sneer at them.

I reorganized my van, as the dog helped. Now it is my supply storage shed, which makes sense for me as I often have jobs that take me to new locations for days at a time, and I never know what supplies I might want to play with in my off time.

The other thing I've been doing is rebuilding my website. I now have a website that includes a blog, and all the previous posts in this one. I haven't officially launched it yet, since I still have to label many of the photos in the gallery.

So I'm still not sure what will happen to this blog but I'll let everyone know soon!

Kristin and Kristin Take the World!!!

Kristin Etzold and I have started making webisodes, in attempts to become famous on the internet. Isn't that what everyone wants?

Here is our first attempt at video editing and will most likely only be funny to the people who were with us that day, but whatever! First episode! GIve us a break!

Enjoy!