Fashion can be less than fresh, but not when Govindira Galatea is involved - she's intelligent, creative and, along with Fade Dana, responsible for joint venture "D3volution".

Their fashion venue is an interesting collection of slightly (or sometimes very) used items of personal attire. Some of the most stunning are the Spetznaz Overcoats (for males and females, in clean and... not so clean versions).

The entire build is decorated with 'propoganda' advertisements, much lik graphic novel/comicbook cells. There is also the charming "grab bag of sorta used panties" for purchase.

The 'raggedy ass' 8-garterbelt stockings are a personal favorite of mine and come in
both 'rusty' and 'sooty' with the same single purchase. So really, they go with anything. Fade even made a 'roadkill puppet' (animated and with sounds). I own one, I love it, and I make a horrible admission about it in this article. But that will have to wait till later...

With all this absolute seriousness in slighty used couture...SLNN's interview with Govindira called for a equally serious line of questions. And it unfolded ins something like the following intellectual dialogue, beginning with the vital question: duckies or bunnies?
 
"Bunnies," was the definitive answer. "My favorites are bunnies in sunhats, overalls, and carrying baskets of flowers. Girl bunnies and boy bunnies so attired. In assorted pastels. At US $1.00 each, from the Dollar Store. I am addicted to that place. I'm currently on a Twelve Step program with respect to the Dollar Store. I have work to do, since I cannot yet bring myself to apologize for the 10 wash basins now filled with concrete."

"The first day I was in SL, on a 5-day free-trial account, I saw a contest for fairy avatars," she carries on, this time on the more sensible topic of when she started wanting to create inside Second Life. 

"It was in a small environment (512 square meters) of giant mushrooms, giant grasses, etc. Totally gorgeous avatars. The colors, the lights, the free form nature of everything made me feel elated. A world as a canvas! I fell in love with SL and wanted to create pretty things, too."
Her first creation, on her first land, was a sphere in which to change clothes.

"Before my changing sphere, I had been in appearance mode, changing, and when I came out, I found that I had been watched by a male avatar for I don't know how long. So I built an enclosure in which to change. I was clueless about how to build in SL. The person who sold me my land was having a friend build her a home on her land which was adjacent to mine. I was fascinated at the speed with which he worked."