OMG! We are on the same wave LENGHT! Just for clarification, "CURSED WITH FASHION" is my homeboy/BANJI-ANJI friend from way back. He is not the "LADY IN LILAC". He is friends of the "LADY IN LILAC" through the neighborhood and family / Pinoy connections. The "LADY IN LILAC" is in SEMI-RETIREMENT, sitting on a huge treasure trove of "DEAD STOCK / NEW VINTAGE / UNWORN VINTAGE" glasses. I'm featuring an amazing pair of GIORGIO of BEVERLY HILLS sunglasses circa 1989, VERY JACKIE COLLINS, with PURPLE to CLEAR gradient lenses that "CURSED WITH FASHION" gave me for my recent b-day. But the TREASURE TROVE the "LADY IN LILAC" has is EPILEPTIC SEIZURE inducing!!
Regarding a shoot of LA "movers/shakers/street kids/Banji-Angi/Transgen'd Fashion Freaks/Cholos/Cholas", WE WOULD LOVE TO PRODUCE IT!! Funny that you mentioned the idea because it just shows how KISMET is involved when people of the same ilk get together like ourselves.
I've started a new venture, as a hobby which I know will grow, with
"Cursed with Fashion". It's a "CONSULTING" company, which would pool our resources and talents to help others in the following ways -
1) Art direction / Art Consulation / Fashion Research / Industry Research / Market Research / Client Research / Branding
2) Help find out new photographers, clients, publications, online fashion resource sites (like The Imagist), advertisers, journalists, artists, and other related facets of "the business" AND MORE IMPORTANTLY connecting various peoples in creating and realizing "VISIONS" from an abstract / mental / artistic vision into actual real / online / photographic / hard copy manifestations.
Our company name, which I came up with "Cursed with Fashion" is going to be called "UHURA-MASAI" CREATIVE . We came up with the name by brainstorming various pop references that were of influence to us in the past, and that would be of important relevance and possible influence in the future. "UHURA" comes from Lieutenant Uhura from the original Star Trek series, and subsequent movies with the original U.S.S. Enterprise crew.
"MASAI" comes from the nomadic Masai tribe, which originally had a large range in East Africa but now are more or less based in Kenya and Tanzania. We were inspired by the tribe's cultural/spiritual use of tribal make up, jewelry, body modification, music, dances and traditions related to their way of life, as well as their fierce reputation as warriors.
Combining "UHURA" with "MASAI" as our new art resource venue's name seemed perfect because it combined both a modern/retro-sci-fi REFERENCE with an ancient but still viable and powerful REFERENCE.
Plus on a side note, it gives big props and references to SCI-FI, Black POWER (i.e. actress Nichele Nichol's role as a powerful strong black woman in the acting industry which had a lack of that type of representation), Women's Rights, and also RETRO FUTURISTIC ( PIERRE CARDIN / RUDI GERNREICH / PACO RABANNE) costuming AND also we thought the MASAI reference would bring attention to the tribes history of independence, the amazing visual influence of their make up, wardrobe, jewelry, body modification, as well as bring a reference to their status as a tribe in modern day Africa, and other related issues which are important in the GLOBAL VILLAGE and FIRST WORLD/WESTERN COUNTRIES about modern Africa.
OKAY...note that Uhura Masai is not a "COMPANY" created "for profit" but a project from the "heart", with a purpose of realizing visions from the "dream/abstract/epiphany" realms to the actual "hardcopy/digital/analog/production/manifestation" in the "REAL WORLD".
So, what WE will do at "UHURA-MASAI", in the next few weeks -
1) send you snapshots of the complete / best of selection of the LILAC LADY'S treasure trove
2)send you some snapshots / digitals of people / street / kids of influence / BANJI - ANGIE / Transg'd Originals. We only want to feature NEW / STREET / NON TAINTED BY FASHION people, WHO ARE TRULY INSPIRATIONAL
and then we can move further with your imput....

xoxo

T.M. AKA FASHION PARASITE & CURSED WITH FASHION