Posted in About the Show, Ivalde, On the web! on April 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The final episode of Meta Makeover (we return as Designing Worlds on May 5) is now available on the Meta Makeover website at SLCN – and can also be downloaded free of charge from iTunes.
For our last episode, we visited a very special sim – a stunningly beautiful recreation of Monet’s home village – Giverny.
Giverny: [...]
Posted in About the Show, Ivalde on April 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For the most recent edition of Meta Makeover, Saffia wore what she describes as an old favourite from Ivalde – Dottir in blue.
“Dottir is an old favourite of mine,” explains Saffia. “It’s pretty and practical – I love the texture, with the rich velvet with same coloured dots. And the skirt moves so beautifully too!”
The [...]
Posted in About the Show, Ivalde on March 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For the most recent edition of Meta makeover, Saffia wore a stylish dress from Neferia Abel’s new range – L’Abel.
“The Ivalde sim has had a huge makeover itself!” says Saffia. “And now, as well as offering her well-known retro designs, she’s producing a range of beautiful, strikingly contemporary designs.”
For the show, Saffia wore Lanikai, a [...]
Posted in About the Show, Ivalde on March 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It was St Patrick’s Day – so clearly a green dress was called for! Yet Saffia, seen here outside the giraffe zoo in Dublin, was a little different …
“The dress colour was actually teal,” confesses Saffia. “But the material was just sumptuous, and the colour was a lovely deep blue green that worked very well, [...]
Posted in About the Show, Ivalde on March 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For our latest show, Saffia chose to wear Anja – a simple but stylish dress from Ivalde.
“I was looking for something simple but stylish,” says Saffia, “and Anja fit the bill. But what clinched it for me was the colour – the gloriously rich purple. Purple is my favourite colour, and this was a beautifully [...]
Posted in About the Show, Ivalde on March 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For exploring Zasa Rossini’s beautiful new sim of Dans les Montagnes and the village of Petit Chou, Saffia tried a different approach.
“The village is gorgeous,” she says, “Zasa said on the show that she had been inspired by bodice rippers and Disney’s French countryside in Beauty and the Beast in equal measure – and so [...]
Posted in About the Show, Ivalde on March 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This week, for our visit to the Remembering Our Friends memrial, Saffia decided to wear something a little formal – in a business sense, rather than a evening gown sense.
“This was a place where I wanted to pay my respects,” says Saffia, “and so, without being sombre, I wanted to wear something which reflected that. [...]
Posted in About the Show, Ivalde on February 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It must be admitted that Saffia’s look last week was rather different!
“When Elrik and I knew we were doing the show in Dresden,” says Saffia, “we decided on a look that was a little different. One of the most famous things to come from Dresden is the Dresden or Meissen porcelain, the first European hard [...]
Posted in About the Show, Ivalde on February 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ask Saffia this, and she smiles.
“Nothing you’ll be able to buyin Ivalde – at least, not in the material I chose!” she says.
The reason for this is that Saffia is wearing one of Ivalde’s special gifts.
Neferia Abel, the owner and designer of Ivalde, is always very generous when it comes to high days and holidays. [...]
