The Zodiac Avatars of June Dion

Posted by Alpha Auer

One of the things that I have been failing to grasp for the longest time is why the whole metaverse isn't singing the praises of June Dion from morning to night. True, the "Bare Rose Tokyo" has more green dots than just about any other location on the Second Life® map, so this lady most certainly does not seem to be in need of any further endorsements from the likes of me. However, I am still surprised that so many people of exquisite NPIRL taste do not seem to have heard of her utterly mind numbing volume of output, imagination and creativity. I cannot do much better than Xiamara Ugajin, my own freebie/cheapie shopping expert alt, in describing the Bare Rose, June Dion's amazing clothing emporium:

"... The Bare Rose Mall covers a wide range of clothing and accessories that runs the gamut from Cyberpunk and Goth to Japanese Ethnic. And what makes the whole place even more perfect is that no matter how well made (and everything there is extraordinarily well made and detailed to perfection), the prices are still very reasonable. However, reasonable or not, the main avatar has still managed to spend several fortunes in there simply through the sheer volume of what she bought... although June Dion's style is diverse, pretty much everything in the mall itself is wild. Cybermythologies transformed into spectacular, elaborate outfits..."

The Bare Rose carries literally hundreds, indeed maybe close to a thousand (and possibly even more) separate outfits, both for men and women, and it would be impossible to make an even superficial coverage of this bounty with only just one post. Thus, I am planning on making a number of posts about June Dion's clothes and avatars, which I intend to undertake based upon themes such as "mythical", "historic", "cyber", "fantasy" and the like.

So, without further ado, here is the first of these themes: Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you a selection of the Zodiac Avatars of June Dion...


The Lord of Capricorn and the Lady of Gemini...
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The Lady of Libra...
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The Lord of Scorpio and the Lady of Leo...
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The Lady of Cancer...
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The Lady of Aquarius...
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All of these, as indeed most of Dion's eccentrically beautiful apparel is made out of multiple attachments, usually modeled as sculpties, which will need to become attached to just about every part of your virtual anatomy. Thus, whatever the Linden Dollar cost of these garments might be, they will doubtlessly be prohibitive in terms of avatar render cost. But in her defense I have to say that I have been wearing oh so many June Dion outfits ever since I first discovered the Bare Rose, and I have yet to crash in any one of them.

It is quite obvious to me the this lady spends extraordinary amounts of time not only in front of her image processing software, rendering to perfection the complex designs of her clothes (every seam, every pattern, every stitch on these garments aligns down to the very last pixel!); but also in research: The patterns and styles used in her garments make it quite obvious to me that June Dion knows her art history and her stylistic references backwards and forwards.

And yes! Prices: What is probably the most befuddling about all of this is that virtually nothing that you purchase at the Bare Rose, no matter how complex, no matter how many attachments involved, ever goes over 180 L$'s and most of it stays around the 120 - 130 L$ mark! Amazing or what?

You can teleport to the Bare Rose Tokyo directly from here. You can view more and larger images of the Bare Rose Zodiac Avatars here.