Dark Pony Designs Featured on Ruffled Blog!

So excited to have a Dark Pony Designs dress featured on RuffledBlog and The Wedding Standard Magazine!

This amazing Wizard of Oz themed photo shoot comes to you courtesy of an amazing collaboration of designers and artists.

Shoot Location: San Luis Obispo, CA / Photographer: Sarah Kathleen / Event Style and Design: {Ever After} Artistry / Floral Design: Panacea Event Floral Design / Venue: Flying Caballos Ranch / Emerald Green Dress:Two Birds Bridesmaid / Black Wedding Dress: Dark Pony Designs / Bridesmaids’ Dresses: Amanda Judge / Headpieces and Jewelry: Amanda Judge / Hair and Makeup: Artista Makeup / Bow Ties: Tux & Tulle / Desserts:Zest It Up / Martini Glasses and Stirrers: Lemonade Design Co. / Vintage Rentals: Julia’s Antiques / Tables and Chairs Rentals: All About Events / Paper and Design: Olive & Emerald

Very grateful to be included in this fanciful soiree.

Just click your heels together...

xoxo

Halloween Preview

 Find the new masks and headbands HERE

The new lightning bolts can be found HERE

xoxo

The Gods Have Spoken

Well, this Greek fascination started a long time ago. When I was around 13 I was watching the show Fashion File, one of the collections that was getting a lot of attention that season was Jean Paul Gaultier. His closing bridal ensemble was modeled by Madonna and I couldn't take my eyes off the screen. It was amazing. The staging, the concept, and I loved that gold winged headband. Another one of those iconic pictures that crept into my subconscious to stay. Over the years I have had this image (below) on my bulletin board or in an inspiration file. I have moved 8 times in the last 12 years and I have managed to keep track of it. I guess it must be pretty important.

 Madonna with Jean Paul Gaultier 1994. She closed his show in Paris with this bridal number.

 Love the drama of this image. What's in that carriage??

 Turns out there was a fluffy white dog in the carriage. I loved the humor and the spectacle.

After all that inspiration the Greek Goddess Feathered Headband was born 16 years later!

Just recently I came across this: Alexander McQueen for Givenchy from the 1990's. All I can say is that this is just all kinds of WOW! It took it to the next level.

So, tonight when we take the kids trick-or-treating, I will be a Greek goddess.  I have even created a new amped up version of my headband for tonight. Let the fun begin. 

Happy Halloween!

xoxo

Black and White Delight!

Lara Stone burning it up in French Vogue.

via Fashiongonerogue.com

Etsy Treasury: Hungry Like the Wolf

'Hungry Like the Wolf'  

by darkponydesigns

Wolf Moon - fine art hallowe... Raceytay $27	SHOT A SILVER BULLET THROUGH... plasticouture $22.5	Duran Duran Forever Vintage ... fashionredempt... $35.00
Leather Mask of a Grey Wolf ... teonova $79	Retro Classic Movie Monsters... flappergirl $24	Vintage Grey Velvet and Fur ... MamasVintagia $30
PADDED SHOULDER CROP BLAZER mondaymartini $20	Smoke and Mirrors - Crystal ... CreationsbyJul... $26	Nigel the Wolfman - PRINT redheart13 $20
Gray Flannel Secretary High ... magiebelle $30	boom bap 8.5x11 girlhula $25	Wolf Canine Tooth Fang Penda... mrd74 $12
80s COLORS in OPTICS EYE GLA... GreatGuyGifts $55.00	LUDOLF werewolf charm neckla... brideblu $14	HILLMOOR Striped Faux Fur Co... AttysVintage $65

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Dark in the city night is a wire

Steam in the subway earth is afire...

I'm on the hunt I'm after you 

Straddle the line in discord and rhyme 

Couldn't resist!

Werewolf meets Duran Duran...

Hauntingly Chic.

xoxo

Robin

Show Stopper

Step right up and feast your eyes on the circus queen! I love the spectacle and glamor that surrounds a show girl. There is something magical that inspires awe and transports the audience into a world of cotton candy clouds and twinkling diamonds. A high that's hard to come down from.

I had so much fun creating this costume!

The images below represent a life time of visual inspiration for this project. I hope my version lives up to the fantasy!

Madonna

The White Stripes

Nicole Kidman in Moulin Rouge

Madonna 

 Marilyn Monroe- I love the strangeness of this glamor shot.

My favorite show girl: Madonna 

It can be yours...HERE!