The Amazing Adam Lambert in Rocker Jewelry

Have you seen the photos from the recent photo shoot Celebrity Photographer, Robert Sebree did with Adam Lambert? They are truly stunning! We of course love the ones where Adam is wearing the Drop Keys Pendant that we just received back into stock from our Rocker Jewelry Line.






The latest issue of Rolling Stone Magazine has a great shot of Adam wearing the Scarab Pendant from our Rocker Jewelry Line that Adam has been wearing on stage quite a bit during the Idols Live Tour. We also received a great photo of Adam wearing the Scarab Pendant checking his look in the mirror right before he hits the stage. Adam really rocks this jewelry.

The Drop Keys Pendant, Scarab Pendant and the Spiked Pendant that Adam has worn alot are now back in stock at TattooApparel.com and RockerJewelry.com . If you are in the Southern California area you can also purchase or just come by to see the pendants at the Perpetual Vogue Boutique in La Habra. Many more amazing Rocker Jewelry pieces have recently been added to the collection so be sure to check them out.

If you are a big Adam Lambert fan be sure to check out the Mr. L blog. We find it to be a great place to keep up on all things regarding Adam. The site is updated often and has great articles, reviews, photos and videos on it.

Peace Sign Retro Cool Fashion Designs

They say that fashions cycle and always come back. A trend that we have noticed lately is the Peace Sign showing up in fashion again. The Peace Sign is no longer something you just see on old tie dyed tee shirts. Fashion seems to be giving a retro nod to the colorful styles of the 60's flower children. We like what we are seeing. The Peace Sign is artistic and symbolic - this time around fashion houses are utilizing it in new ways by adding a little bling, adding it to higher end mens fashions, combining it with hearts or flowers and making it a part of more intricate tattoo art designs.


Men can even wear a Peace Sign to the office by wearing the limited edition John Lennon button front shirts from English Laundry. Ladies have lots of choices with tank tops, short dresses, long dresses, wallets and handbags to choose from among the current hot items. Many of these items exhibit staying power and are destined to become favorite pieces in your wardrobe.








The Peace Sign fashions seen here can all be found at TattooApparel.com and at the Perpetual Vogue Store in La Habra California.

Edgy New Dresses from Los Angeles Fashion Design Houses

Over the past year or so when visiting big name Department Stores we have noticed a decline in the quality of the women's apparel from the big name brand companies. This may be caused by these big name brands trying to cut corners to try to deal with the declining economy while their production costs have risen. Something had to give somewhere and it seems to be the quality of the designs, fabric and styles that has suffered when it comes to these big name brands.


We recently decided to start carrying more women's fashions. To that end we decided to use our contacts in the Los Angeles Fashion District to find high quality items from smaller local design houses. Design Houses that target high end boutiques do not have the same overhead as the big manufacturers who try to target everyone and manufacture in mass - so this results in their being able to in many cases have better designs, use higher quality fabrics and come up with garments that are much nicer than most of what you see in big chain stores while keeping great price points. We are lucky in that TattooApparel.com and Perpetual Vogue are owned by a gal whose spouse actually runs a fabric manufacturing plant in Los Angeles and he can tell us which design houses use quality fabrics so we know where to go for great quality items.


We recently received in several shipments from these small Los Angeles Fashion Houses and are thrilled with the edgy designs and superior quality. The new dresses and tunics have been selling very well in our retail store where our customers demand unique designs and high quality. They are loving the very reasonable prices for these new items. Today we several of these new dresses and tunics to TattooApparel.com and PerpetualVogue.com so these great new fashions are now available to our online customers all over the world.

New Rock Star Style Rocker Jewelry items have arrived

We recently met with our jewelry fabricator to come up with some new Rocker Jewelry designs. We spend a great afternoon in her studio collaborating on ideas to come up with lots of new unisex pendant designs.

The first six new designs arrived this week and we will be receiving several more new pieces in the very near future.

We love all the new pieces but my personal stand out favorites are the huge Red Crystal design with the long metal spikes, the Skull and Crossbones Medallion on Yellow Snakeskin print Leather , the Venus Medallion and the Iron Cross Medallion on Black Leather. I love the larger bold pieces such as these. For those not into such large pieces we do have several pendants that are not as big including the new Sacred Heart Cross and Kitty pendants.














Watch the Rocker Jewelry category on TattooApparel.com or the Rocker Jewelry web site to see new styles as they arrive. We are expecting in some more amazing Spiked Pendants in our next batch of new designs.

Pin Ups and Rockers Photo Shoot for TattooApparel.com

When you are in the retail fashion industry photo shoots are something that have to be done for online sales listings and overall marketing. Those who are not in the industry tend to think that fashion shoots are glamorous and easy. Anyone who is actually in the industry will tell you that photo shoots are a lot of work and many retailers dread them.

We find that the way to make fashion shoots enjoyable is to work with people you enjoy being around and like anything else you need a plan. We did a shoot last Sunday for the Perpetual Vogue Store, TattooApparel.com and PerpetualVogue.com and it was nothing short of fabulous. We are calling it our "Rockers Meet Pin Ups" Shoot as some of the models we used were Pin Up Models and some of our male models were the guys from the up and coming Los Angeles Rock Band, Black Star Hollow. TattooApparel.com is in the process of a site redesign so we planned lots of lifestyle type shots for future use on the new site design. To bring our plans to fruition we worked with our favorite photographers, the team from Painted Pinups and also contacted the local classic car club, American StreetRodders and a local chopper designer to bring us some cool cars and hot bikes for the shoot.










We did our standard product shots in our warehouse but added in some other fun scenario shots for specific products such as a shot with two of our lovely models, Briana and Kristabel acting out the scene from the back of our Exclusive Lucky 13/Perpetual Vogue Tattoo Girls T Shirt and some shots with the girls dressed just like the stag party entertainers on our Lucky 13 Stag Party shirt - I think our male model, West really enjoyed the stag party shots!

















We like using guys in Rock Bands as models because they really fit our customer demographic and tend to be naturals at posing as they are accustomed to performing. We had a great time with Brian, Jack and Jackie of Black Star Hollow. We recommend that everyone check them out on MySpace. Their music is great and we are very excited about their soon to be released EP.

















For this project we did lots of location shots that came out great. We shot lots of photos inside of the the garage at White Automotive in La Habra. White Automotive is located right next to the Perpetual Vogue Store on Whittier Boulevard in La Habra and the garage has a great retro look...and by the way if you are in the area and need auto service they do great work. We have our cars serviced there and have always been very pleased with the work. We also took some photos at Perpetual Vogue's other neighbor, Magnolia Country Store to get some great urban looking shots of the models in front of retro looking Airstream Trailers. Magnolia is a treasure trove of interesting things for anyone into retro collectibles.

Night Ranger to Rock California with Journey

If you have read this blog in the past then you know that our staff are big fans of guitarist Joel Hoekstra. Personally I am in awe of the schedule that Joel keeps. He manages to be in New York on Broadway in Rock of Ages one night and then performing with Night Ranger somewhere else the next night. The dude must have tons of frequent flyer miles!

If you are in Southern California then you have the opportunity to see Joel performing with Night Ranger at the San Manuel Amphitheater (formerly Glen Helen Pavilion) next Saturday, August 1st. We checked with Joel this morning and he assured us that he will be there with Night Ranger that night as part of the double bill show with Journey.

Joel also sent us the above shot of himself in our Doctrine Shades and Swords Shirt. Looking Good Joel!

Speaking of shots of Joel we found the blog of a Rock Photo Journalist by the name of Allen Ross Thomas. Allen's site ArtistXposure.com showcases some of his amazing photographs taken at Concerts. We were blown away by the photos he took of Joel and Night Ranger at Rocklahoma. We recommend that everyone into Rock Music check out his site to see amazing shots of some of your favorite performers. Below are some of our favorite shots that he took of Joel. In these shots Joel is wearing our Rock Royalty Crown pendant from our Rocker Jewelry Line.

$200.00 Shopping Spree Video Contest Win Win!

Hot off the presses. Today TattooApparel.com announced a new monthly video contest. One winner each month will win a $200.00 Shopping Spree at TattooApparel.com .

We are going to be building out a video page as part of a site redesign next month. In anticipation we will start shooting some videos featuring our products and models but we know that we have customers out there that are WAY more creative than we are. So it's time to put your thinking caps on boys and girls and come up with some ideas for fun videos featuring you wearing fashions that you ordered from TattooApparel.com . You do not need to be a professional of any kind to shoot a fun video - just get out your Flip Video camera and show us what you've got! Videos submitted may be shown on TattooApparel.com and on our Stores YouTube Channel - and each months winning videographer wins a $200.00 Shopping Spree to TattooApparel.com .

See the Contest Page for all the details and get to work on your fun video!

Perpetual Vogue Store featured in the Local Squeeze Magazine

There is a nice two page spread about the Perpetual Vogue Boutique in the new issue of Local Squeeze. You can download a copy from the Local Squeeze website or pick one up at many locations in the Fullerton, Brea and La Habra areas of Southern California. The Local Squeeze can be found in many area night spots, bars, tattoo parlors and shops.

Perpetual Vogue is a the brick and mortar store - fashion boutique arm of the www.PerpetualVogue.com and www.TattooApparel.com family of web sites. Their Southern California boutique brings Hollywood/Melrose type fashions to the Southern Los Angeles and Northern Orange County areas.

Adam Lambert's Rocker Jewelry at www.TattooApparel.com

Check out this short video of Adam Lambert wearing Rocker Jewelry from www.TattooApparel.com

Adam Lambert wears Rocker Jewelry on Idol Tour

I heard from a customer in Vancouver yesterday who had attended one of the opening nights of the American Idol Tour - he reported that Adam Lambert was amazing on stage and due to become a real superstar. I could not agree more after checking out some of the recent videos on YouTube of Adam on tour such as this one.

I was excited to see that Adam continues to wear new pieces from the Rocker Jewelry Line while on tour. At the opening show he was wearing the Scarab Pendant. I own this pendant myself and believe me it gets lots of attention when I wear it. It is truly stunning.












Adam currently owns the Spiked Pendant, the Scarab Pendant and the Crossed Keys Pendant from Rocker Jewelry.


















Rocker Jewelry is available at TattooApparel.com , RockerJewelry.com and at the Perpetual Vogue Boutique in Southern California. I hear that they are close to being sold out on the Scarab pendant but they will have more designed/fabricated very soon.