baby's first birthday!

international playground turned 1 last night! there was dancing! wild, wild dancing. whip that hair girl! rap it out, rap it out. (also featuring the extra-special virginia guest ashley florence!)

arizona, me, six six sick party host tiffany and the masterminds behind international playground: virginia and johnny! i love all this daniel palillo! i hate myself and want to die=best shirt ever.

mary meyer and i in our tandem chromat/marymeyer combinations!!!!

#fashionsoulmatez

tara from study ny with johnny! and the one and only emily kappes partyin it up!

happy birthday!

international playground turns 1!

this thursday (aka tomorrow) international playground is celebrating their 1 year anniversary!

the wild party begins at anchor bar in soho with the magical girls from six six sick, also hosted by a slew of awesome designers from the showroom- h. fredriksson, study ny and mary meyer (who is also having a hilarious/genius 420 stoner sale today). and designer daniel palillo is djing! should be tight!

see you there nyc friends!!!!

becca mccharen

lately i have been spreading myself over the internet like warm apple butter on freshly baked bread. chromatgarments.com is currently undergoing a major overhaul and i'm working on 2 new zine projects (CANDYLAND and HOUSE PARTY), both of which should be debuting in the next few months. (release party info SOON!)

with all the new 2-D work i'm in the process of making for the new zines, i realized i've never really had my OWN website, just CHROMAT websites. so its time. please welcome beccamccharen.tumblr.com into the world and get ready for a summer filled with art and architecture and sex and fashion and fun!

at the skin

chromat in the new issue of faint mag-
photos by lindsay adler, styled by lsc

jessica chastain in FLAUNT

the gorgeous actress jessica chastain photographed by yu tsai in the chromat underwire cage for flaunt magazine!
she looks amazing, so excited!

USHER

check out usher's backup dancers whipping around the stage at the french NRJ music awards in chromat shoulder cages!

REED & RADER chromat gifs!

reed and rader are an amazing photog duo based in nyc. they make really strange and beautiful photos, and i love that the bios on their website include this description: "we enjoy cats, stuffed animals, nintendo, pizza, robots, outer space, augmented reality, pc's, deli sandwiches and computing on the internets." DON'T WE ALL?

i was so excited when i saw the chromat asymmetrical full body cage and the musclechrome dress in their latest set of amazing and bizarre gifs for the un-titled project! the gifs remind me of my favorite karen carpenter bio-pic. ya know, the one made by todd hayes staring all stop-action barbies? so awesome.

kat graham + BLUE BALLS

kat graham and dancers in chromat crane shoulders performing at perez hilton's blue ball birthday bash!

TIM TIME

the electro pop artist tim william has been stuntin in some chromat cages lately at shows with travie mccoy and the wild parties he hosts in downtown manhattan. this boy is wild, check him out!

NU-MODE REBELLION

check out the new issue of NU-MODE magazine: its got the chromat samurai face cage on the cover, a great interview with fellow nyc fashion designer mary meyer, and some really cool editorials! and here's a little behind the scenes at the cover shoot:

Rebellion From Within (NU-MODE MAGAZINE ISSUE 2)

LINKSLINKSLINKS CHROMATCHROMATCHROMAT

hey chromat blog friends! i've got a new chromat tumblr fetish, a freshly squeezed chromat youtube channel and have been goin nuts on the instantaneously gratifying chromat facebook and chromat twitter updates. CHROMATCHROMATCHROMAT!!!

here are some awesome things that have been happening this spring:

-got interviewed by iris magazine, the awesome feminist mag in charlottesville! thanks so much to lauren russo!

-got interviewed by enquire.it, the italian fashion mag! thanks so much to christina mainardi!

-got some big ups on wobblin betty, a gorgeous los angeles & milan based fashion blog. thanks so much to elisabetta giovi! (also, if you want to see the craziest website EVER, check out elisabetta's agency, GOLAB. the site is nuts x 1000 with flashy fun)

-got some sweetness on six six sick, my fav nyc fashion blogger friends. big thanks to tiffany gong! (ps we're having another party at anchor bar later this month- GET READY!)

-got a rad write up on kakofonie of sighlens, a sweet canadian fashion blog. thanks so much to stefanie kletke!

-got mentioned in the belgian marie claire magazine! big thanks to katrian and mieke fonck- the owners of closet, a cool concept shop that just opened in antwerp!

AND the weather in nyc is FINALLY nice today. my feelings about that can best be described by this inspirational song by big freedia: