St. Peter In Chains: The Collection. [OPEN!]

[meanwhileback]

Who: Penelope Lane, her models, her muses, her admirers, the curious and the critics. ANYONE. EVERYONE. GET IN HERE!!
What: Penelope's long-awaited runway show! Finally!
Where: St. Peter In Chains, abandoned cathedralish church.
When: Friday, June 29th! Eveningtime. Show starts at 7pm and goes... well. Until everyone isn't there anymore, I guess!! For whatever reason.
Notes: IMPORTANT: There's going to be a bunch of subthreads for different parts of the night. Feel free to tag around in them as you want! I'd like fabulous things to happen here, people. Fabulous. Things.
EDIT: NOW WITH ADDED TERROR!! SEE LINK BELOW!!
Warnings: Scary things, NPC death, injuries... horrors!!

The venue has been done up quite well for the occasion, all things considered. The old pews that were still salvageable have been repurposed and rearranged to face the aisle down the center of the enormous main room, where a raised runway has been set up. Lighting and temporary walls, and even an audio system have been brought in and installed for the occasion, and the impressive wreathed columns have been dramatically lit from below to emphasize the height of the room.

All told, it looks like it cost absolute scads of money to renovate an abandoned space to this level of elegance; whether this is actually true or not is largely immaterial. As with so much of society, it's the appearance of the thing that matters most, not the reality of it. Perhaps that's a statement Penelope Lane is making intentionally. Everyone knows the designer is one of the most outspoken members of her cohort, after all, and not one to misrepresent herself.

And she is, tonight, for one, brief, shining moment, entirely in control. Take plenty of pictures; it won't last long.

AND NOW: THE REAL SHOW BEGINS

Comments

[boomvox]

If Sunny fidgets with his sunglasses that's fine, it's better than him picking apart any of the jewelry (or his pants) that Jae's wrangled him into. When it comes to his partner (!), he doesn't particularly care about rising to imaginary designer standards, but he'd like to show some respect and enthusiasm for Penelope. His own attire is formal and fashionable but not in the attention-grabbing way his work clothes are - tonight is not about his clothes.

Inwardly excited and outwardly cool, Jae eventually nicks Sunny's hand - ostensibly to prevent him from lurking behind him so much, and come socialize like a normal utterly charming dork versus looming.

[yeouiju]

Sunny's hand is nicked but Jae's hand is kept, for as long as it's not hindering him. Like, literally, if he needs both hands to navigate, or figuratively; this seems like the last place for people to be jerks, but Jae is a ~public figure~ and all. Maybe being supposedly single is better for his image or something. (Too bad!!)

"This is cool. I've never been to anything like this back home. And yet it makes me feel like I'm at home?" he speculates, in Korean.

[boomvox]

He had a few days of mild panic over the issue of being properly out in all these ways, but logic (the mass media in Baedal isn't like it is on Earth, his primary following is centered in a sex club who would in no way be deterred by any of this) and something else entirely (mine go away) soothed those impulses.

"I've been to a few but they always sort of sucked," he replies in kind, "Huge overblown press affairs with watered-down work, and I had terrible seats." Jae smiles. "This is better."

[yeouiju]

This gets a laugh out of Sunny, a sort of suppressed one where maybe it's a little bit at Jae, because it's so young society to bitch about fashion walks, Sunny thinks, but it's not mean spirited or even cynical. They probably did suck for the reasons he states, in all fairness.

"That's because I'm here and because I'm good at fashion," he proclaims.

[boomvox]

"Shut up," Jae says, though he's laughing in kind. That was work, this is an event. It's different, and he's thrilled; he just doesn't feel like being dismayed at the contrast between worlds tonight. He has this and he has Sunny.

"Well you're good at looking good in it."

[yeouiju]

His shoulders go up along with a brilliant smile. Kawaii. "I'll take that."

Tipping his chin up, Sunny's free hand is used to tip up his glasses and peer out from beneath them at the décor, before letting them sit on his head. "I'm trying hard not to shame you. Do we have good seats?"

[boomvox]

"Our seats are baller." Well.

They are.

In the milling crowd, Jae sees various people he recognizes - it's easy for him to socialize, having perfected the ability to chat, charm, and disengage in a matter of heartbeats. He introduces Sunny to people he actually knows, and doesn't try too hard to fit his public persona. He seems relaxed, here to have fun and be supportive of a creative woman on his cohort, not critique anyone's work.