Bliss Lau body chains and new shoe chains

[chauss]

Bliss Lau has added shoes chains to her collection for fall 08. see pix of several styles of her new shoe chains. and you must wear high heels with them.

i have also included a pix of bliss lau wearing her body chain called "twisted skirt". these body chains are amazing.

and for a different spin, i have included a pix of me wearing bliss lau's "tuxedo" body chain.

photo credit to alexo wandael for bliss lau pix. last pix is my personal one.

[chauss]

here is an excerpt of a recent/article interview i did on Bliss Lau for your reading pleasure:

ckparis: bliss, your body chains are so versatile. what inspired you to create such a line?

bliss lau: I studied at Parsons the New School for Design and received a bachelors degree in Fashion Design. The program teaches apparel mostly womenswear. I think that knowing how to make clothes and drape (I love to drape!) has definitely contributed to the development of the jewelry collection.

ckparis: how long have you been in business?

bliss lau: I have had the business for about five years now. I started my business at the ripe age of 22, a few minutes before I graduated from Parsons. Bags were my first love then belts and now jewelry. Each additional product was a gradual progression into the next. The belt collection got me back on the model form draping and the jewelry collection developed my love of holsters and alternative products.

ckparis: do you have any specific ideas about how your body chains can be worn?

bliss lau: The body chains should be worn however you feel comfortable, powerful and sexy. Often times clients will show me a new discovery of how to wear the chains I always photograph them and run with it! I like wearing the chains between two layers of clothing or under a t-back dress, shoulder blades are a beautifully forgotten part of the body. The chains are designed to spotlight the best features of our bodies.

ckparis: are you planning on adding new items to you body chain collection?

bliss lau: We have already designed over 30 new styles! The Fall 2008 collection has just hit stores last month. It can be found in Ron Herman on the west coast, Leo in Miami, B Boutique in New York and a variety of stores across the east coast. We will be updating the website to show the Fall 08 collection very soon....

ckparis: what is something you would like to share about yourself that most people don't know?

bliss lau: Something people may not know about me is that I used to live in Hawaii. I was a tandom surfer back then. My surf partner and I loved to paddle out in a storm. I would stand on his shoulders while surfing small waves, and spin on his back. My favorite position was being held in a backbird over his head, nothing beats looking back towards the face of a wave upside-down and backwards!

[wheneveriwakeup]

I think I may be one of the few who isn't mad about her work...
It just seems so contrived, imo...
I am sure it could look great on the right individual...
but I fail to see what is so fuss-worthy about it, rly...
You could get a few chains and artfully wrap them around yourself
for a fraction of the cost, I think..

[masquerade]

I love the body chains. I hope one day I could be bold enough to wear something like that.

This is the first time seeing the shoe chains. I love those as well.

[MissMagAddict]

For me there's something really genuine & exciting about her chain work. The body chains are statement pieces & I think it would be fun & feel sexy to wear one.

Thank you for the thread chauss

source | blisslau

[sill]

i love these! i would love to have one of those body chains.. they're too expensive for my wallet though

[marisaidwhat]

I really like these. They're way too expensive for me though, so I'm gonna try DIYing a couple of em.

[SapphireCouture]

I don't care for the shoe chains but I really want one of the body chains.

[chaneladdict]

I am sure I would be a complete disaster with the shoe chains as I am extremely clutzy!! I like the body chains too but I also think I would get them caught on everything.

[saann]

I'm not that fond of the shoe chains, but some of the body-chains look good. I esp like the first one MissMagAddict posted, it gives me a 20's feel which I love

this is probably something I will love but then later on hate if it goes mainstream

[kindi]

i've never seen something like this before but i like the one you own, chauss.

[chauss]

kindi, thanks.
btw, bliss lau new shoe chains are up on her website for sale now.

[softgrey]

so funny...
i was just looking at her website yesterday...
i think her jewelry is the strongest stuff...the body chains are really lovely...
really elegant rather than weirdly bondage-y...
which has a lot to do with how they are represented/photographed on the site..

i'm a fan...
and you look great wearing yours chauss...

great interview as well..
i love what she said about being upside down and backwards in the air while catching a wave...that sounds absolutely incredible...what an experience..!!!
clearly this is a girl who isn't afraid to take risks ...

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thanks so much for the thread chauss...and for sharing the interview...

[RachelleChar]

those bodychains are really avant-garde...

[nangnangnj]

I love the body chains, especially the first on the left in post #5.
Love the interview too. She seems to have real talent as opposed to the throngs of people who come out with a line of stale stuff and some gag-worthy pretentious dialogue to match.
I wish her heaps of success