Repent Fashion Sinners

GET THE LOOK: Makeup SS ’13

Posted on May 22, 2013 by therevivaloutpost

Like most trends, everything comes full circle, including beauty trends. As per usual, bare skin and minimal makeup is always one of the hot beauty trends hitting the runway not mattering the season.
While the minimal makeup trend held true to several designers on the runway this Spring/Summer, we have also seen vivid crimson hues on lips, lightly smudged eyeliner paired with bold brows and major lashes.

Rochas

Your makeup collection is defiantly in store for a colorful revamp this summer with Makeup Forever launching their best products in this springs hottest color, Cobalt!
While maintaining an average everyday makeup look try adding a pop of cobalt into you eye makeup routine. A really simple and easy technique, is just to smudge an eyeliner or eye shadow right under your bottom lashes. Using this technique will not only keep you in stlye but also bring attention to your eyes!

Moschino

Stella McCarthy

Written by Expert Makeup Artist: Lauren Kattan

STYLE ICON: Ulyana Sergeenko

Posted on April 23, 2013 by therevivaloutpost

What we want to know is who has been hiding this abolute golden ticket? Whilst browsing some of our favorite fashion blogs we stumbled upon Ulyana Sergeenko. She is not only one of the most attractive women we have come across, but she has talent. Like SERIOUS talent.

Ulyana is seen out in dresses reminsicent of the 1800′s. Romantic, classy, and fresh. We are loving everything she is giving and when we discovered her clothing line it was over. We are not worthy Ulyana! Take a peek at some of our favorites from her past and present collections, and you decide.

Spring/Summer 2012 Collection

Ulyana’s Debut Collection

Oh and one more thing…shes a photographer. A damn good at that too.

SPRING IN THE CITY

Posted on March 25, 2013 by therevivaloutpost

Photography: Hannah McSwain

Model: Ashley Dufresne

Styling: Jo Gremillion

INSPIRATION: Spring Fashion 2013

Posted on March 6, 2013 by therevivaloutpost

We are loving where spring fashion is taking us this year! Bright bursts of color layered through textures, is just too much for our eyes to handle. Everything we are crushing on has stong influences of vintage with many throwbacks seen in hair and makeup.

Louis Vuitton is always a staff favorite! The mesh inserts and cut outs in these highly structured garments, are well planned with a flattering shift style you don’t generally see in the original patterns.

Stella Mccartney’s eyelet ensamble takes us back to an Edwardian style that has always been drool worthy! Although we are not jamming on these shoes, we are happily reminded why we love vintage and what it inspires.

How is it even possible to love anything more then Dolce & Gabbana’s 2013 stampede of sets and such? We are even more inspired to finish our work on our 40′s two piece sets this summer! Thank you for this. That is all..

Collective Dreams and Stories We Tell Ourselves

Posted on January 13, 2013 by therevivaloutpost

Hi! My name is Bianca, and I’m the new girl ’round these parts, so, as you might expect, this is my first post. I thought I’d riff off the last post; I’m an avid reader and take seriously the material I choose to read, most of the time.

Number9Dream by David Mitchell is a novel I read fairly recently. The reason I’m writing about it and not a book I read more recently is because this novel has stuck with me, like a particularly catchy song lyric, since the day I began it.

The book follows Eiji Miyake, a young man from rural Japan who moves to Tokyo to search for the father who abandoned him. Upon hearing such a description, a reader might think the novel a typical bildungsroman type book–boy searches for father as an analogue for the actual search for his own self. But it’s about much more: the collective dreams we have–while awake and asleep–the stories we tell each other and ourselves, the sadnesses that attend being human, and the beauty. David Mitchell is an imaginative writer who sketches Eiji’s journey through a shifting, sometimes real, sometimes unreal, and dark Tokyo with such brilliance and talent you won’t be able to put the book down once you begin it.

One book now on my to-read list for the new year is Joan Didion’s After Henry, which a lovely person picked up for me from a bar on St. Charles. This collection of essays was published in the 90s and showcases Didion’s reporting on American culture as she travels from Los Angeles to D.C. with a focus on uncovering the narratives that the media construct around people and events.

NYE Resolution! Read More!

Posted on December 30, 2012 by therevivaloutpost

Anna Karenina:

A perfect book to start the new year, Anna Karenina serves as one of the densest and most enjoyable pieces of fiction ever written. It has it all: torrid love affairs, gowned balls and parties, backstabbing aristocrats, and geek tragedy. Serving as a rich panoramic view of 1800′s Russia, it has countless plot-lines and characters, but the heart of the story lies within Anna Karenina’s tortured and adulterous love for Count Vronksy, at the expense of everything else in her life. Though people are often intimidated by the size of the novel, its actually a swift read, the characters are so vivid and real, you’ll find yourself racing through the pages eager to discover their fate. Called “The Greatest Novel” by both William Faulkner and Dostoevsky, you can’t beat those kind of reviews.

Fun Home:

Fun House, as the author jokingly calls the Funeral House in which she was raised, is a portrait of Alison Bechdel’s kooky family, her coming out, and her blossoming graphic novelist career. Bechdel gained a devout following with her comic strip “Dykes to Watch Out For” , before writing this masterpiece. Proving that graphic novels can be as emotional poignant as any written work. This book is so funny that I was getting stomach aches from laughing so hard.

How Music Works:

I haven’t read this one yet, but it’s on my January shortlist. David Byrne knows his music. The official amazon review raves, “As the creative force behind Talking Heads and many solo and collaborative ventures, he’s been writing, playing, and recording music for decades. What is surprising is how well his voice translates to the page. In this wide-ranging, occasionally autobiographical analysis of the evolution and inner workings of the music industry, Byrne explores his own deep curiosity about the “patterns in how music is written, recorded, distributed, and received.” This seems like a great pick for the musically inclined, and David Byrne is a god to me, so I going to take a leap of faith and recommend this unread!

I SEE SEQUINS!

Posted on December 28, 2012 by therevivaloutpost

It’s Party time! Come get your glam goddess on!

Make this Eve the best yet! We are stocked full of vintage sequin ball gowns, jazzy tops, and dance all night dresses.

Now that the end of the world is behind us and the new year is upon us, its time for a fresh start! Be the girl you have always wanted to be! We put together some of our favorite items in our newest collage called “The New Chic” .

We are adoring rich colors, textures, and GOLD! Can you tell?

Xo, Revival

Revival Outpost Favorite: RookieMag.com

Posted on November 9, 2012 by therevivaloutpost

Rookiemag.com is an online diamond. The founder, Tavi Gevinson, has been working her butt off being young, fabulous, and successful with her fashion blog since she was 13. Tavi Gevinson is a teen fashion and style blogger , self-proclaimed feminist, and editor in chief extraordinaire of Rookiemag.com. She started off, uploading quirky, avant-garde ensembles she was wearing to her Midwestern middle school. She caught on with the generational z’ers of the early days of Facebook and Tumblr with her first website thestylerookie.com and blew up in the industry, before becoming the youngest working invitee to Paris Fashion Week.

Since then, she has shifted her new blog, RookieMag.com, to have a focus less clothes-centric and more holistic for young girls. It has original fiction and editorials, music playlists and recommendations, and a hefty supplies of easy, cheap projects for her rabid style loving followers. I have followed Tavi Gevinson since she was emerging on the fashion scene, about 3 years ago, where the subject of whether or not a 13 year old is capable of such defined style and self-possession. Many people suspected she was a gimmick or a corporate ploy, but has since proved her authenticity beyond any doubts with her enriching website with its positive message:

“I wanted to start a website for teenaged girls that was not kind of this one-dimensional strong character empowerment thing, because one thing that can be very alienating about a misconception of feminism in that girls then think that to be feminists they have to live up to being perfectly consistent in their beliefs, never being insecure, never having doubts, having all the answers. . . and this is not true and actually recognizing all the contradictions I was feeling became easier once I realized that feminism was not a rulebook but a discussion, a conversation, a process.” – Tavi Gevinson.

DIY PROJECTS

My two favorite crafts are the painfully adorable watermelon nails, which make for a nice touch of irony as the weather cools. I also adored the diy jacket project, which I modified to make my very own purple acid wash jacket, with a painted Day of the Dead skulls on the back, perfect for Mardi Gras.

FASHION

She also has lush, 35 mm fashion photo-shoots of various style shoots sent in by readers and collaborators Theses are breathing-taking shoots filled with real girls with real bodies, breaking at the seams with risky fashion trends and choices rarely highlighted by thin-fetishistic magazines. Also, these shoots promote diy clothing creations and thrift gems, which of course, Revival Outpost is a huge fan of. Not every-girl can afford labels, Tavi acknowledges this, by choosing to select her shoots bases on creativity and innovation, not on the total price tag.

AND DONT’ FORGET MUSIC!

DIY COSTUMES: Everyday wear to Halloween

Posted on October 22, 2012 by therevivaloutpost

We have racked our brains to show you how to take your wearable wardrobe to halloween fresh. With minimal added pieces you can have a perfect and creative costume that will save you time, cash, and sanity! Be warned we love the 90′s.