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Dark, Gothic, mysterious, romantic, beautiful... uhm, bloodthirsty? If any or all of these adjectives apply to you then Avid may be just the shop you're looking for. Also, they are the only words that can properly describe the wonderfully detailed designs that drape the walls of the just as dark and gothic shop. Although Avid offers many styles and varieties in both men's and women's clothing, skins, weapons, and accessories, it's the men's fashion wear that, to me, possess some of the most beautiful designs.

Period style outfits, full of layered detail from the 18th century to modern Gothic, there's an outfit here for all you mysteriously dark boys. Consumer favourites, like Loves Mutineer($790L), a gorgeous 18th century inspired ensemble with frilly cuffs and collar, tie, vest, leather jacket with skirt, sword and boots will have heads turning. Another favourite, from the same period, The Van Helsing($780L), also comes complete with top, vest, jacket with skirt, dagger and boots. For something a little more modern, styles like the Jaguar($800L) with it's sleek black goth look, and buckle detailing, complete with skirt, boots and belt are sure to satisfy.

If you're in a more futuristic mood, outfits like the Divine Assassin($690L), a tight fitting black suit, with pikes details, side cloak, and studded boots, or the Praedator($780L), with its fitted body armour, laced sleeves, leather jacket with skirt, heavy fur cloak and studded boots are ideal. Of course, I don't want to take anything away from the women's fashion, which is as equally fabulous. Some breathtaking outfits such as Salem($890L) which comes with everything you can imagine including pant, skirt(short/ripped/flexi options), bra/glove extensions, garters fishnets, fingernails, and even a tattoo! For those girls who like to keep it cute, but retain you're dark edge, the Descending Angel($820L) is perfect. A buttoned blazer with wrap around scarf, belt, stockings/socks, shoes and lace trimmed pleated flexi skirt, complete with beret and an evil teddy.

Although clothes are main seller, Avid carries other great products like weapons, skins(mostly vampire/goth related), and other accessories. If you make your way to the back of the shop you will see a gorgeous Purity's Ghost bridal gown($1,500L), which comes complete with lace underwear set, 2 pairs of platform boot, gloves, tattoo, lace flexi skirt and veil, ceremonial whip/dagger and is offered in both pure and bloodied versions. So if you're looking for that refined and classy goth style, make your way down to Avid and explore your inner vampire.

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Lapointe & Bastchild has a huge selection of Gothic styled fashion and apparel, so it's wonderful that upon first arrival you're greeted with a convenient teleportation board. My first visit was to the mens apparel where i was surrounded by gorgeous button ups, suits, pants, boots and more. Like the Narcisse Bodyshirt($299L), that comes with sculpted cuffs, collar and belt, or the more simple Club Classic($130L). The full outfits are just stunning like the gorgeous Narcisse Slate set($800L) that comes with sculpted tie, collar, belt, arm/leg bands and even boots! The womens selections are just as stunning with gorgeous gowns like the Couture Dress set($599L) that can be worn in various styles including a pants option. Or their outfit sets like the totally cute Latin Flower($350L) with hipster pants and flexi ankle cuffs. Also available from Lapointe & Bastchild are Shoe/Boots, Lingerie, Jewellery, and even Formal & Bridal selections... all located on the teleportation board, of course. So if you're into darker, sexy, quality items and apparel check out Lapointe & Bastchild.

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When i first met Demetra Pastorelli we actually never spoke, to be honest, it was her beautiful jacket that first caught my eye. lol. It wasn't until i tracked the jackets origin that i first spoke with the equally beautiful Demetra... and when i also found out that she had a big part in it's design.

Finding Wild & Demetra was like discovering a little secret that nobody else knew about, the shop is quaint, but the product is larger than life, and my jacket that i ever so cunningly tracked down? A beautiful sleek, open breasted, trench style coat with flowing tails perfectly name Underworld for a phenomenal $100L. The amazing deals don't end there, the gorgeous Lilith skirt with lace can be worn in three different styles and also sells for $100L. And the Blood Noir latex booty shorts and buckled top for $70L almost stopped my heart. Tops, jeans, dresses, as well as great fashions for men like the I Walk Alone button up shirt($45L), or the mens version of The Underworld Coat($100L).

But don't leave just yet, at least not after checking out all the freebies and lucky chairs located upstairs... at Wild & Demetra, the amazing deals are all around you. And if you happen to see Wild or Demetra in the shop stop and say hello, you couldn't meet two nicer people. In fact, I was lucky enough to sit down with Demetra and ask her a few questions...


Kayleigh Hendrassen: Hi Demetra, thank you so much for speaking with me today about your wondering product.

Demetra Pastorelli: Hi Kayleigh! It's a pleasure to be here with you .


KH: First off, can you tell me your inspiration behind the designs, who are some of your favourite designers, in RL or SL?

DP: I am Italian and here in Italy there are many great stylists, I do not have a favourite stylist, I love them all. But I can say that the brands in SL I love are Gothicatz, Lapointe, House of Rfyre, IndyraOriginas ... (I could be here to list other for hours ^ ^).
Anyway I am not inspired to any of these in particular for my clothes, I love the style dark-goth as the elegant, the casual, the neko, and I try to put them together, always trying to give everything to a simple but unique line, so that clothes can please everyone and not just an elite group.


KH: You and Wild are not only working partners, but RL and SL partners, would you say has that helped your working relationship and the overall design of your product?

DP: Definitely yes. Working together in SL has united us very well in RL and I can say that I would not have thought that we would be able to combine love and work so well. Having the advantage of living together in RL, we have the opportunity to give us advice each other more easily and thus combine our ideas to create truly unique products.


KH: The one thing that stood out for me was your price tags, is there a special reason you and Wild can offer such great product at such amazing prices?

DP: All of us, just landed on SL, we were "newbie", and all we have always had difficulty finding beautiful clothes because most of the clothes are too expensive.
For this reason, since we opened our store, we have decided to remain at very low prices because they are accessible to all.


KH: What is the best way for your customers to stay up to date on your products and new releases?

DP: We have created the ***Wild & Demetra*** Fashion Design group ( secondlife:///app/group/31dcbcc9-5cdb-22e4-a64b-0758328456a6/about ) to stay up to date on our new releases and news about us. But we plan to create a blog to be updated about our store.


KH: Thank you so much for taking time out of your busy schedule to speak with me Demetra.

DP: Many thanks to you Kayleigh for giving us the opportunity to tell you about us.

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Walking into GothiCatz you would think you were walking into a Tim Burton film, black, grey & mauve are the prominent colours but then again, what else would you expect from Goth? But don't think this is your everyday goth store with depressing models wearing equally depressing fashion, the outfits at GothiCatz are not only colourful & unique, they manage to also keep true to the Goth tradition. The main floor is enormous(a little too enormous maybe?) & most of the outfits hang on the walls - get your wings on because you'll need them - trust me it's worth the flight. But First you'll be presented with the floor displays, the latest in GothiCatz fashion & if you can resist buying those super sexy leather, side-laced pants(Blackout - $420L for outfit), or the numerous pleated mini-skirt ensembles($300-$550L for outfits), or the sheer baby doll dress(FallenAngel - $395L)... my god, i could write 15 articles on the baby doll dress alone!... then you may have a chance to see the wall displays. Plaids, denims, laces, leathers - there's something here for every girl & boy. The prices are fair & you get what you pay for at GothiCatz, high quality & very detailed products, & quality-wise, what you see is what you get, no disappointments.

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