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08★28★09 MetroGypsy featured in NEW blog interview!
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06★17★09 TimeTravellers Wife - ABSINTHE Treasury:
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05★13★09 Indie5 Artists Collective Video Interview:
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Onto the BIO!
I love New York City. It's home in a million and one ways. I enjoy J Roget champagne, vintage crystal cut glasses of Absinthe, people with accents and sushi. I'm an singer/dancer/actress/performer originally from NYC via Pittsburgh and just about every other state in the USA. I had a truck driver dad, *not* an Army brat...good guess though...

I lived and worked professionally in NYC and L.A. pursuing Acting, Musical Theatre, Off-Broadway, Feature and Indie Film work for over 17 years. I even had a role in a film featured @ Cannes Film Festival in France and another distributed through Blockbuster and was featured numerous times on the IFC Channel and Showtime Channels. This pleased by parents VERY much, but I still get lumped in with "she was an actress but isn't super famous stereotypes"...*sigh*

What's this have to do with MetroGypsy?!
Well, my work performing on stage in NYC and my Bachelors Degree in the Arts from one of the leading musical conservatories in the US, led me to create "Absinthe Cabaret", a performance venue in the vein of old vaudeville, dark cirque and neuvo burlesque: www.myspace.com/absinthecabaret

MetroGypsy began as a creative side project alongside "Absinthe Cabaret". As the shows costume designs sprang forth I found myself creating original pieces for our acts, and daydreaming about hats and feather sketches at my "paythebills" day job. As I would the change the coffee filter, I'd have to pretend to be doing my corporate shuffle when meanwhile I couldn't stop going abroad during every break I had to gaze at new ideas: ostrich feather caps, hats, corsets, veils, gorgeous pasties, exquisite vintage...until finally I hunkered down on a Friday night with a bottle of J Roget champagne, an inspired idea, a Family Dollar needle kit and the glue gun of power all in a tiny Brooklyn apt...and made my first fascinator for a friend and MetroGypsy was born!

MetroGypsy's work is made to be dramatic, striking and unique, yet wearable. I want each person to feel like what they take away from MetroGypsy makes them feel more beautiful each time they put it on and can be as versatile as they are. MetroGypsy can be worn with a delicate Italian vintage lace dress, or in a simple pair of jeans a tank, it's all up to the dame who sports the piece.

A QUICK TIDBIT ABOUT MY WORK:
My focus is on original mini top hats, tilt hats, feather fascinators, custom Sally Rand feather fans and one of a kind vintage and up-cycled pieces created for stage performance, burlesque and anyone who loves standing out. Almost every single item that I create is 100% one of a kind. And I use only the best materials. All though my first item started out with a tiny budget, I will tell you this isn't some shoddy item pieced together with 50% off glue and the specials at Michaels or AC Moore with pics of it taken in the bathroom on a cell phone. I use only Grade A imported Ostrich, Hackle, Peacock and varied other feathers. I insist on using only fine silk ribbon, divine velvets and absolutely stunning vintage brooches I've collected while traveling acrossed the country.