Thursday, February 7, 2013

Valentine's Night Party - NYC Kostume Kult Original Sin



Valentine's Night, Thursday, Feb 14th, please join Kostume Kult, Friends and Lovers for an unforgettable evening.

The apocalyptic year is over and rebirth is at hand.  Some call it sin, most call it love and we call it an all-night, naughty garden of eden.

Mixing the Chinese 'Year of the Snake' with forbidden fruits, phallic flowers and suggestible natives, expect a night of divine naughtiness and dirty pleasures in a crazily creative venue with a pumping sound system and convenient downtown access.

Valentine's Night
Thursday, February 14th
8pm til 4am

WIP (Work In Progress)
34 Vandam Street
Betw 6th Ave and Varick
(near Spring Street C/E trains)
West SOHO, NYC

$5 limited presale + before 10pm
$10/stylish after 10
Cheap drinks all night 
($6 beer, 7 well + special V-day cocktails)

RSVP on Facebook Event Page

DRESS:  Colorful, flowery, reptilian, juicy fruits, birds, bees and black light reactive.  Clothing optional, body painting, candied hearts and prickly cherubs.  A Thursday night, costuming is not required, but encouraged.

DJs spinning funky-house and sinful breaks...

Alt. Oscars 2013: The Best Costumed Oscar Viewing Event in NYC

Awards season, when we come together to celebrate and recognize the great performances of the past year. Join Costume Cultural Society (Kostume Kult's high brow alternative persona) along with XL nightclub present the 7th Annual Alt. Oscars, Sunday February 24th.



Come rub elbows with faux celebrities on the always wacky red carpet.  Enjoy drinks and food specials all night then dance the night away or watch the awards show in special viewing areas.

Read all the details at http://altyawards.com
Buy your ticket early in the presale for the incredibly low price of $5.
Tickets will also be available at the door for $10.
RSVP on our facebook event page.

Some photos from last years event. I'm in there dress as The Tree of Life.


Sunday, December 9, 2012

NYC SantaCon 2012 is Saturday Dec. 15th. Get your Jollies on!

The temperature is dropping, the reindeer are restless and the elves need a f*cking break from that damn workshop!

Get your red and white on and follow Santa on the craziest, merriest day of the year...
Saturday December 15, 2012!

For text updates where the Santas will be around town go to the NYC SantaCon website. There you will find helpful information if you are a first timer or just forgot how this wacky thing works.

Some helpful hints from KostumeGirl.

Dress to Impress. If you think a Santa hat "will do" you are lame. Put more than 10 minutes of effort into your costume. Pirate Santa, Toddlers & Tiaras Santa, Evil Elf, Cowboy Santa, get weird with it. Do a group costume! I have a post with ideas for you cause I got your back.

Watch the Kids. Kids are going to be way interested in thousands of Santas parading down the street. Stop for pictures, be nice, the bars will still be there in a few minutes, don't ruin their image of Santa cause you had 12 Irish Coffees for breakfast!

Pace yourself. I cannot stress this one enough. Every year I see Santas passed out on the damn sidewalk by 4pm. WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! Not to say I have never been tragically over-served, but you don't want your friends telling you that you missed the massive Rudolph sing-a-long cause you fell asleep on the 2 train. Eat food, have a water break, go for a walk, trust me the Santas will be there when you get back.
Drunk Santa Passed out

Things to Bring: At least 2 non-perishable food items for Santa's food drive, a Metrocard, CASH (Tip bartenders and waitstaff for putting up with us), Gifts, Games, Props, Comfortable footwear, your jolly Christmas spirit (nobody should be getting into fights at SantaCon)

Well that's about it for now. Back to working on my 2012 SantaCon costume. This year look for me in winter white fur and diamonds. SantaCon's twitter can get overloaded and slow so follow me on twitter @kostumegirl as a backup plan. I'll be tweeting Santa's whereabouts all day or until I get too drunk to use Twitter.

Thursday, November 8, 2012

Alt. Oscars 2012 photos from Time Out NY


While checking out some party listings on Time Out New York, I stumbled across some photos of me from the Alt. Oscars 2012. Such a fun event when you can really get to know some Kostume Kulters or as we are called on that fancy evening of stars, Costume Cultural Society!
Check out the pictures and start thinking about what you will dress as for Alt. Oscars 2013!

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

KOSTUME KULT presents Fairytale Apocalypse NYC Halloween 2012 Parade Afterparty


    *KOSTUME KULT **presents*
    *~ Fairytale Apocalypse ~*
    An NYC Halloween Parade Afterparty

    The End is Nigh for all Fantasyland Creatures. The cushy, cutsie life is
    done and all the cuddly characters of childhood lore are thrust out into
    the cruel, cruel world. Think Mad Max in Never-Neverland, Big Bird with
    prison tattoos, Cinderella as a brain-thirsty zombie and YOU adding your
    style and dementia...

    *HALLOWEEN NIGHT*
    *Wednesday, October 31st*
    *9pm-4am+*

    UNION SQUARE BALLROOM
    27 Union Square West
    Between 15th & 16th Streets
    *Under 'Coffee Shop', a short walk from the end of the parade*
    21+

    *TICKETS*
    *$20/ $25 limited presale *BUY NOW*
    $30 Door in Costume (if available)
    $50 No costume (and shame on you!)
    DRINK SPECIALS ALL NIGHT
    *** Get there early - this will sell out ***

    RSVP 
    THEME
    Kostume Kult encourages all forms of creativity while bringing wonderful
    people together. At this party, all types of costumery are welcome,
    fairyland or not, with artistic license extending to any fantastical
    concept. Absurd or sexy, foolish or fabulous, overdressed or bodypainted---
    HAPPY ENDINGS FOR ALL IN COSTUME!

    DJs spinning Electro House and Funky Breaks including:
    - Rusty Neadle (Kostume Kult, Journeys by DJ)
    - Orange Krush (Kostume Kult, Disorient)
    - Barney Iller (Vitamin B, Mischief)
    - Tektite (Vitamin B)
    - Cindy Kim (Beat Pulse Invasion)
    - HAVOK (Osiris, Snap Music)
    - Dollpartz (Entwined)
    - HOHME (NYC)

    ART
    - Fairyland Destruction Video Art by VJ Krunch and Metal Tiger
    - Twisted Cartoon Characters
    - Interactive Art Installations
    - More TBA


    MORE INFO

Thursday, October 18, 2012

Cool Kids Halloween Costumes

Some kids are just straight up cooler than I am. Its a fact I've come to grips with. So now I feature a few kids who with their awesome parents help, rocked Halloween!


Why no Tootsie-Pops?
Holy cow, this kid has swagger. The outfit is complete with his bad ass attitude. Baby Joker doesn't have time for you if you are not bringing the good candy.



Born Burton Fans
The kid on the left was clearly born 20 years too late for Edward Scissorhands, but that isn't stopping him from being the coolest kid I have ever seen. Someones parents are Tim Burton fans.




WALLLL-EEEEE!
Wall-e traveled across the universe for love and this kids parents went to the ends of their creative world for this costumes. A-MAZ-ING! Read about the process of making this authentic costume here.

8th Annual NYC ZombieCon Saturday October 20, 2012

8TH ANNUAL NYC ZOMBIE RAMPAGE
SATURDAY OCTOBER 20, 2012
APOCALYPTO ULTIMO THE LAST APOCALYPSE


The clock ticks and the ancient gods stir.
The Mayan calendar winds down and the end is near...

~ Or so they keep saying !!!~

In honor or all the Mayan apocalypse lore soon coming to an end, ZOMBIECON NYC takes a break from social commentary with a good old fashioned, bloodthirsty, bar crawl with much tequila, Mexican fare and swarthy Mayan warrior braiiiiiiiiins... Pay homage to the end of another era of apocalypse hype in any undead, blood-, brain- and booze-thirsty form.

Human Sacrifices, Feathered Serpents, Luchadores and Taco Trucks are encouraged.

Zombie Con begins at noon and crawls all over Manhattan scaring the living day lights out of humans who will soon become the evil hordes next meal.

Zombie Bawl continues shambling into the night after the pub walk, 7pm-Midnight


BAR 13
35 East 13th Street
@ University Place
Union Square area, NYC
(2 floors + roofdeck)


TICKETS
Presale: $10 (fee waived)
BUY NOW

Door: $15 Bloody (or any costume)
Door: $20 Boring
Cheap Drinks all night.




DJs
- Undead DJs
- Cindy Kim
- Boris Burning Elf

FEATURING
Mexican Wrestling
Zombie Go-Go
Brain Feasting
Body Shots

WIN!
Zombie Competitions for tickets to Nightmare Haunted House and a most creepy Frankenstein Fleshlight! 

STOCK UP Zombiecon NYC partner-
ABRACADABRA NYC is offering 15% off all purchases and 25% off all rentals with mention of ZOMBIECON!
19 West 21st St to stock up on zombie and Halloween supplies. 

If you need help on how to use the makeup you bought at Abracadabra check out my Zombie Make up Tutorial!

FOLLOW  @zombieconnyc & myself @KostumeGirl on Twitter and don't miss a thing on October 20!