Hi Readers.
I assume that most of you are here because you have some interest in sewing and found your way here at some point via something else sewing-related, like BurdaStyle or Pattern Review or another sewing or crafting blog. And I also suspect that there is a teeny tiny handful of lurkers who have little interest in sewing but are personal friends and acquaintances and who have managed to find my blog and are spying in hopes of discovering something that they can use against me.
As it turns out, there is also one personal friend lurker who has (to the best of my knowledge) little interest in sewing and has managed to find my blog, and is now passing some good stuff my way to show to you. Hi, Steve! Thanks for the link!
Check out what Steve found- awesome illustrations by Hong Kong-based artist John Woo of Star Wars characters wearing designer clothes. No joke. Like Darth Vader in Band of Outsiders!
Or a scout trooper in Viktor & Rolf!
The whole collection is called He Wears It, and I’m not sure if the prints are available for purchase. But wow, what great sewing room decor they would make for! [Full disclosure: The Selfish Seamstress is a Star Wars nerd. The Empire Strikes Back is her all-time favorite movie. Largely because of the AT-AT battle scenes on Hoth. What. Shut up.]
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June 18, 2010 at 11:41 am
Elizabeth
HILARIOUS!!!
June 18, 2010 at 11:41 am
christina
total lurker. Love this blog even more now. Star Wars Seamstress nerds unite :D
June 18, 2010 at 11:52 am
Jan
Oh, SS, you may need to turn in your Star Wars geek badge. They were Stormtroopers, not Scout Troopers. But love Vader in the designer duds. Too funny!
June 18, 2010 at 12:08 pm
selfishseamstress
Ohooooooooooo. Do not go there, friend. Do NOT challenge the Selfish Seamstress on Imperial Stormtrooper taxonomy. :D
Scout troopers were a specialized set of Stormtroopers who specifically did scouting and reconaissance. And that one is *definitely* a Scout Trooper. You can tell because the headgear does not flare outwards at the bottom like a regular (combat) Stormtrooper.
Check out Wookieepedia if you don’t believe me:
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Scout_trooper
Ok. I’m not proud of this knowledge.
:D
June 18, 2010 at 3:02 pm
Beangirl
“Ok. I’m not proud of this knowledge.”
Really?
No. Really?
June 18, 2010 at 12:37 pm
Nikole
SS – 1 Jan – 0
June 18, 2010 at 12:46 pm
selfishseamstress
And yet the Selfish Seamstress is obviously the bigger loser :)
June 18, 2010 at 12:24 pm
D
this post and your response above make me want to steal you away from Dan and marry you myself.
Not because I’m a big Star Wars fan myself. Although I do know what an AT-AT is, and that TESB gave birth to Ewoks (eeew) and I also know that there are Taun-Taun on Hoth. You’ve seen the sleeping bag, yes? http://shop.starwars.com/catalog/product.xml?topcatID=1300264;product_id=1317594
It’s because of the shameless unmitigated geekery, of which I have my own special brand(s).
June 18, 2010 at 12:31 pm
selfishseamstress
OMG– sleeping INSIDE the Tauntaun, just like Luke did when he got left out in the storm on Hoth! Only in that case the Tauntaun was dead and he had to slice it open. But STILL. Thank you for that :D
Have you seen these?
http://gizmodo.com/5425974/star-wars-adidas-sneakers-the-full-collection
The Millenium Falcon ones are awesome. Okay, I just need to stop.
June 18, 2010 at 4:22 pm
D
I forgot to point out the lining in that sleeping bag – did you notice the pattern?
Yep, it’s intestines! :D
June 18, 2010 at 12:29 pm
Katie
Utterly fabulous.
June 18, 2010 at 12:39 pm
Meredith P
Just curious, do you recall the year, or how old you were when you saw Empire the first time?
June 18, 2010 at 12:51 pm
selfishseamstress
Hmmm… interesting question! I can tell you for sure that it definitely wasn’t in the theater during its initial release. I was alive at the time but certainly too young to have gone to see it. The first one I saw in the theater was Return of the Jedi, which would have been in 1983. But I was definitely aware of Star Wars before that, probably because of all the marketing and commercials for Kenner action figures. It may have been one of those movies that I always saw bits and pieces of on TV, but didn’t watch in its entirety until I was maybe 12 or so? In any case, I don’t remember a real first viewing.
You?
June 18, 2010 at 1:15 pm
Tasia
Funny. I have nothing to offer to this conversation, as I (gasp!) haven’t seen any of the movies… I know, I’m the only person in the world who hasn’t!
June 18, 2010 at 1:43 pm
selfishseamstress
Utterly unsurprising, Nemesis. You and Peter are probably looking at this and going, “Wait. Is Spock the one on the top or the bottom?”
June 18, 2010 at 2:43 pm
Tasia
He’s the one with the eyebrows! Yay, I know this one :)
Spock is in Star Wars? I swear, he was in a new movie I saw last year. I’m so confused…
June 18, 2010 at 2:03 pm
spottedroo
Ok, you are the second seamstress (after polkadotoverload) to admit recently to being a huge sci-fi nerd. also I remember Carolyn (of diaryofasewingfanatic) last year being all kinds of excited about the new trek movie. I suggest a poll: how many seamstresses are closet sci-fi geeks? or how many sci-fi geeks are closet seamstresses? and which are you more ashamed of?
June 18, 2010 at 3:05 pm
Beangirl
I just assumed that all seamstresses are sci-fi geeks.
Right?
No. Right?
June 18, 2010 at 3:41 pm
selfishseamstress
I’m not actually a sci-fi geek, except for Star Wars. And even then I’m not like a convention-attending, fanfic-writing, Princess-Leia-bikini-reproducing geek. I don’t read sci-fi or watch a lot of sci-fi movies. Though I have to admit that I got pretty hooked on the new V series. (I liked the original a lot when I was a kid even though a single episode would give me nightmares for the days.) I definitely identify strongly with the domination-seeking, two-faced, mate-eating, egg-laying emotionless alien leader Anna.
June 18, 2010 at 2:32 pm
Peter
Wake me up when it’s over.
June 18, 2010 at 2:53 pm
selfishseamstress
Will do. Or if Dan takes his shirt off.
June 18, 2010 at 3:05 pm
Beangirl
(I think we’d all like to be woken up for that one.)
June 18, 2010 at 4:30 pm
danny
One of my daughters for her 16th birthday this year received the book – Obsessed with Star Wars – 2500 trivia questions! The only gift I could think of that would go with the 2 lightsabers she got for her 15th!
http://www.amazon.com/Obsessed-Star-Wars-Benjamin-Harper/dp/B0032FO5AQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1276901617&sr=8-1
She also got a Mood shopping bag & T-shirt – hmmm – Sewing & Star Wars – must have something to do with ways of the Force or maybe the Dark Side!
June 18, 2010 at 4:33 pm
Brooke
Have you seen Missed Connections? Absolutely lovely: http://missedconnectionsny.blogspot.com/
Also, this new leopard-print jacket–what pattern are you using? It doesn’t look too cougary at all. Leopard can be beautifully classic.
June 20, 2010 at 5:30 am
Sarah N
Add me to the legion of sci-fi nerd/seamstresses! I originally stumbled into the whole online sewing community via the costuming site padawansguide.
Those Scout Troopers likely vastly prefer the evening look to the bulky unifroms
June 21, 2010 at 8:23 am
amber
<3 <3 <3
I didn't realize that Jim was such a huge Star Wars fan until after we had been dating awhile. For me, that bumped him up even higher in my book. I've lost track of the number of times I've seen the first 3 movies. They are awesome!
June 30, 2010 at 2:17 pm
Misty
You are so right, The Empire Strikes Back is one of the greatest movies ever!! Followed closely by A New Hope and Return of the Jedi. I love the bickering between Leia and Han throughout Empire… I need to watch all three again for the millionth-and-one time!