With the newest culture of fast fashion, retailers are able to keep up with the quick shifting demand of new trends, by mass producing and offering new styles at cheaper costs.

These clothes aren’t intended to last very long at all. As consumers, we are more opt to throwing out cheaply made garments as each new season of trends come around..

Fast fashion has caused a rapid increase in our global textile waste.

My beautiful cousin Angela Bustamante is modeling my first look on the mighty Santa Barbara Coast. She is a fresh zoology graduate from UCSB and she's hoping to find an internship that will help her grow as a genius/animal lover and experience beautiful new places. This year my line, Thunder of Ancients takes inspiration from the powerful and provocative Goddess in all of us. Our Goddess is a belly dancer, a warrior, a leader, a janitor, a zoologist, a priest, and a muse for all civilization. By incorporating lots of sheer fabric, revealing cuts, copper armor, and coins from around the world, the finished product should hopefully BLOW YOUR MIND!!!  Save the date!

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We decided to celebrate our new year in Lousiana this year, in New Orlean's world-famous Franch Quarter. I met this sparkly new friend in a bar on Bourbon St, and I had to stop her. What a purse! She bought this stunning baby blue beauty in a Casino, and yes she looks like a compete boss! She was by far the best dressed out of an array of women and men from all over the world. Not only does the design mix skulls with large gems and rhinestones, but the clutch's rings make the perfect glamourous defence weapon on the unpredictable streets of New orleans. Kudos Girl!

This is where we met. That's the Mississippi River!

I personally can't stand leopard print anything, that's just me but I still wear it and also I HAVE A QUESTION. Could leopard print be used to save real leopards in the wild?. WHAT IF companies such as Bebe, Betsy Johnson and Charolette Russe were to donate a percentage of their leopard print product revenue on protecting this species. Supporting wild life refugees could be a great move for their PR, and the timing couldn't be better. Below are the species of leopard that have no more than 50 adults left.

• Amur Leopard - Panthera pardus orientalis
• Caucasian Leopard - Panthera pardus ciscaucasica
• North China Leopard - Panthera pardus japonensis
• Indochina Leopard - Panthera pardus delacouri
• Sri Lanka Leopard - Panthera pardus kotiya

And there are few species of leopard that have more than 1000 members remaining. The snow leopards are becoming the rarest of the large cats left on Earth. They need humans to start noticing this situation and what better way than through the clothes we buy, sell and wear? If a company could put 10% of it's proceeds (specifically it's garments or bags with leopard print: 38 items specifically on Charolettte Russe' online site) towards nurturing the leopard populations back to a health, they could really turn some heads and make a big difference. Aside from an awesome way to support wild life refugees, this would be a great tool for them to real in animal lovers, activists, or anyone who'd like to feel like their purchase is making a difference.
Bring your leopard print wearer closer to impacting the fate of the creature that inspired the print.
I mean, will anyone wear leopard print when there are no leopards? Probably.. but I don't want to see that day!