SOTUs Leading Lady

With our new costume home, a showroom collaboration with Lifestyle Trimco and creative director Sean Sager, set-up and ready for an opening soiree, the SOTU design team is taking over our studio space in Brooklyn to create brand new costume pieces...not to mention preparing for the debut of Ami Goodhearts ready-to-wear line!

Ami, SOTU Productions owner and costume designer extraordinaire, is known around the globe for her surreal and innovative creations.  Her designs have been photographed by Deborah Turbeville, Reagan Cameron, Hedi Slimane, Sebastian Faena, Mary Ellen Mark, Josh Olins, Paola Kudacki, Terry Richardson and Maro Testino.  With the fashion world calling, Ami has taken inspiration from SOTUs wild live events and lavish costumes to create a trendy collection of ready-to-wear pieces from celestial leggings to feather trim cocktail dresses and much more.

Ami Goodhearts expert eye for amazing costume design didn't happen overnight...take a look at the beginnings of a lifelong career in these childhood snapshots!

Ami (right) as E.T. - check out that face paint!!

  

Wild lioness Ami (left) performing a play with friends

And our ABSOLUTE FAVORITE...

Ami made her own Mr. T costume!!!!!!!!! WE DIE!!!

We celebrate the stunning and sometimes hilarious (waffle pants, anyone?) designs of SOTUs pink-haired power house and all of her wild ideas...

Are you ready for what's next?!

New SOTU Showroom!

SOTU Productions and Lifestyle Trimco...

a match made in showroom heaven.

We are so excited join forces with Trimcos creative director Sean Sager to bring a little magic to West 25th street!

The creme de la creme of our costume collections will be on display along with the *drum roll* debut of our ready-to-wear line, inspired by SOTUs unforgettable live events, travels and extravagant costumes.

I sense a party on the horizon!

What better way to celebrate our new address and show Manhattan what it's been missing?

SOTU Scrapbook: 2008 W Hotel Opening in Istanbul!

We've been doing a little spring cleaning around the office and came across some fabulous pictures from our wild night at the 

W Hotel opening...

We can never stay away from Istanbul for too long!

SOTU Showgirls shaking a tail feather at the W 

Lovely SOTU ladies of our famous 'Human Chandelier'

Snapping up the jazz in a sea of suits

Our fabulous Ms. Ami Goodheart delighting the crowd with a special stage appearance!

SOTU loves a good party and a good party loooooves SOTU...

We've got our Turkish Airlines complimentary lip gloss on and sleep mask ready for the next Istanbul adventure!

SOTU Does Vegas...Again!

Who doesn't love Las Vegas?

We obviously can't stay away.

This time we had the pleasure of attending Global Shop 2012 with our partners Lifestyle Trimco and WanderLust fashion bloggers Emily Bache and Abigail Breslin, where several SOTU costumes were used in Sean Sagers incredible booth design for Lifestyle Trimco. It was no wonder that they were awarded "Outstanding Booth", Sean truly raised the bar and we are so happy to be a part of it!

Global Shop was quite an experience...exhibitors were anywhere from the finest decorative moss to gorgeous, meticulously crafted paper Marie Antoinette wigs.

We were in heaven!

Emily and Abigail even found their long lost third Wanderlust blogger...

After a successful show and before we headed home to New York, SOTU and WanderLust gave Vegas a run for its money...or was it the other way around?

And we had no idea that the costume design competition in Las Vegas was so intense!

Guess we better get back to the drawing board....

Spring Fever with SOTU

This winter may have been a bit mild in New York City, but we are ready for spring sunshine...could it be the fabulous samples of SOTU swimwear we've been designing that have us dreaming of beaches?

Luckily the launch of our online boutique is so very close!

We had a little case of separation anxiety at the showroom last week as so many costume pieces are out and about...did you catch singer Neon Hitch wearing a SOTU custom black and white beaded feather piece (inspired by our muse, Josephine Baker) and classic black aerialist suit during the NBA All Stars pre game concert on Sunday?

Wowowowow

Stylist Kyle Luu made some magic with that look...bravo! We loved it.

If you missed it live, don't fret! An online video is available here.

Last Thursday, SOTU attended our first RAW Artists event at the M1-5 Lounge.

Our dear friend, fashion artist Phil Gomez, curated a stunning collection of pieces from his favorite designers...including yours truly! Phils runway performance at RAW:Activate was absolutely inspiring, and it was a pleasure to show some of our favorite pieces amongst so many talented artists.

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