Crystal Parade
Crystal Parade is among one of the prominent online retailer and wholesaler of crystal supplies. We offer an exclusive collection of crystals and beads available in multiple sizes, shapes, and colours that entirely fulfil your embellishment requirements. We deliver products with a fast, efficient and hassle-free delivery service!
You Too Can Add Extra Sparkle: Where I Find My Bling! Alongside the fabulous work that dress designer and maker James Maciver does with stoning my dresses with crystals from Crystal Parade and making sure the fabrics are dripping in sequins and rhinestones, I always like to add and add and add.
Crystalled by Jane creates shatteringly fabulous bling shoes, but sometimes I add more, I add beading, trimmings, extra colours etc to add sparkle and connect my entire outfit from earrings to bracelets. Now put your guilty pleasure for Strictly Come Dancing to one side and instead think of all the fabulous beading of the 30’s, 40’s and 50’s. Three decades which I have an unhealthy obsession with: the sparkle of sequins, the shimmer of glass, the shine of metallic! With such choice the creative possibilities really are endless. By emulating details from these eras, you can sew simple embellishments around arms, hems or necklines.
Either way, using tonal or matching colours of stones applied to your dresses will give a luxurious feel. With Love xx. My Obsession With Sparkle. We all love anything sparkly and shiny…oh come on it’s true.
Be it a sparkly jumper or Christmas card, a huge engagement ring or even shiny cleaned windows at home. Anything which is reflective and bounces back light, I feel gives us all joy. We adore the sunshine bouncing of the water on the beach, a crystal glass in a bar, or a freshly polished shoe. We humans are like magpies. Attracted to sparkle. If you think, sparkle also denotes your place in society. When I was creating my style and look as La Voix, I knew I wanted to resemble opulence, glamour and style.
When I did Britain’s got talent, and I got through to the live semi finals, it’s then that ITV take over and make your costumes for your act. Since them I’ve realized the importance of the costume to my act. James Maciver who makes my dresses now, knows that making a dress from just sequin fabric isn’t enough sparkle for me. Wardrobe Malfunctions & Dress Disasters. Well…as you know it’s my constant ambition to look glamorous, flawless and immaculately put together when I’m on stage.
The blended make-up, the large diamond jewelry, the coiffed hair, the encrusted stoned crystal shoes, the Barbra Streisand manicured nails and the ultimate dress. Right down to a fine perfume and freshly powdered t-zone. Its a lot of work, but I know when I feel this way I can give my best on stage to my audience up for a glamorous night. However, this “high-bar” of glamour and perfection doesn’t always work out, and sometimes there’s no time to fix it, I’m flung in-front of an audience with only a quickly positioned safety pin holding together my modesty, or an opened back dress, one earring, or the wrong dress completely. My first real bespoke dress I had made, which was jaw droopingly beautiful, was when I performed on ITV’s Britain’s got talent finals. In the camera rehearsal I was shown how I would rise up through the floor at the top of a illuminated staircase.
Xx. Catch up with London's 5 Star Burlesque peformer Tempest Rose. This month @primpmycostume speaks with London’s 5-star performer, producer and multi-skilled showgirl artist, Miss Tempest Rose.
With a string of prestigious credits to her name, Tempest Rose also possesses a stunning, critically acclaimed "snap, crackle and jazz" singing voice and more on-stage pizzazz than a barrel of dynamite. She runs House of Burlesque Ltd - the UK's top burlesque production house and is the creative force behind the ground-breaking, multi-media, genre-defining show House of Burlesque 2.0. They also run an Academy of Burlesque classes and courses, for all levels of experience.
She has performed at the V&A Museum, The Shangri-La Hotel at The Shard and London Fashion Week for Dame Zandra Rhodes. She also runs the annual Burlesque Idol competition, giving a platform for new talent in the industry (and sponsored by Primp My Costume!). Tempest Rose (TR): Thanks! TR: Ah when costumes attack! Let's talk Costumes, Corsetry, Props and all things Burlesque with Vic. This month @primpmycostume speaks with one of the UK’s most in-demand and Internationally adored burlesque artistes, Vicky Butterfly - @mlle_vicky_butterfly The daughter of an Irish showgirl and an eccentric Viennese aristocrat, her work reflects her Bohemian upbringing.
Notable as a real innovator, she uses contemporary technology alongside a richly decadent, sparkling aesthetic and lavish showmanship. Her performances incorporate her background in theatrical design, alongside training in disciplines including: ballet, lyrical dance, opera and circus and an insatiable desire for literature and history. In-demand from Paris to Bali, she has an enviable roster of clients (including Roberto Cavalli, Kensington Palace and the Moulin Rouge), co-created London’s award-winning Black Cat Cabaret and claimed for herself the trophy for “Most Dazzling Dancer” at The Burlesque Hall of Fame in Las Vegas in 2016.