NEWS: What's Zo Wearing?

CULTURE: What's Zo Wearing? December 24, 2006

Secret Photoshop Agent and resident Fashion Icon zoetica often has the staff at SGHQ asking, "What's Zo wearing?" Her unique and eccentric style is a rallying call to those who suffer from mainstream malaise. Each week, she tells us how she's combined ordinary items to create her extraordinary look. Undaunted by unusual combinations, "What's Zo Wearing" is SG's answer to middle-of-the-road makeover shows.












Zo Says: Sales! Rabid shoppers! Depression! Awkward family get-togethers! Wee...hoo? Now that it's almost behind us, it's time to dress up and party, or, at the very least, be glimpsed someplace—looking cold and fabulous.

Possibly the most fun I have inside my closet is with an outfit like this—spending time finding the right shade, texture and length to create the most exquisite of corpses. Especially nice for those of us who have trouble getting rid of clothes we haven't worn in years. A perfect opportunity to chop up an old velvet jacket into a makeshift obi, utilize a vinyl waist cincher from goth days of the past, and to have really very large hair.

So, in my best cheer mode, allow me to wish you happy days off, whatever your holiday persuasion may be! And if some family member too pickled in eggnog attempts to hassle you for "looking weird," don't hesitate to show him how it really is with a speedy platform boot-to-the-nose maneuver.

Embroidered Chinese satin top—handed down from a friend.
Coat—$100 Los Angeles Downtown Fashion District.
Red velvet—chopped from a skirt i hadn't seen in over five years.
Vinyl waist cincher—long ago at an $40 at an UZI store in Denver, CO.
Skirt—$35 small shop on Melrose Ave.
Turquoise knee high socks—acquired in a Moscow subway station.
Silk platform ankle boots by Luicini—$50 eBay.


Zoetica Ebb is a painter, SG style technician, make up artist, alt. model, photgrapher & occasional cosmonomad. Born in Moscow, Russia, she was raised by a troup of gypsy scientists from space, who coldly sold her to an American technological research facility in 1992. After a daring escape, she graduated from the LA County High School for the Arts, retreated into the rumored underground atelier where she studied with the much-revered fashion guru Madame Von Kuntzertag, followed by a brief stint at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She's traveled the world, gathering fashion expertise and is thrice certified as official Finesse Monitor to the Khan throne. For further details, visit Zoetica's member page, or her portfolio website, BioRequiem.

Oh my god this is a wonderful outfit, I applaud you on your choices. Every part of that outfit is just glorious, I love the top mixed with the cincher, the boots are just fab, and your hair is to die for This is definately my fav one I have seen from "What's Zo Wearing?"

It reminds me of something Michael Manning would draw and just in case nobody knows who Manning is take a look

zo, please don't stop being so amazingly fabulous.

You have amazing fashion sense.

I love chinese dresses. Love them.

The top looks really soft.
Layers are greatness in cloth,
and the shoes, wow the shoes.

love it all

you are a vision

to....much....greatness....my head is exploding

I read an article on TechCrunch tonight that reminded me of this segment.

Wow!! very nice..those shoes are awesome

Indeed, you are...

Simply remarkable.
I feel sorry for D, though. How can he possibly stand beside you in last week's outfit? This outshines it by far. These just get better and better.
I think I saw the shop in the Moscow subway station you mentioned when I was there in late August.

Have a happy holiday season. Will there still be WZW while you're away in Italy, etc?

Cute..

I am wearing a olive green quicksilver swim suit with camofloague inlays, black adidas plastic sandels, a paul frank t-shirt with julius monkey dressed as KISS, classic cats eye raybans and a black chornograph swatch.

Definatly one of the best ones so far! I looooove the shoes!

Thank you much - D has quite a few party-directed getups himself, i assure you

WZW will still happen while i'm away, though i ran out of time a the end of putting them togeher, admittedly, so one of the articles is cut a little short.

^_________^

thank you both! Drew's da man

Best outfit yet.