Kostume Kult Horned Ball Saturday April 13, 2013

Unicorns, Vikings, Goats, Brass section of the Philharmonic.. What do all of these things have in common? They all have HORNS of course! 

As all of us here on the East Coast wait patiently for Spring and the shorter skirts that come with it, there is one sign of Spring that comes before all others and that is the Kostume Kult spring romp Horned Ball. This year the horns are hornier than ever as the theme is Return to Skull Island. Oooh! Aaaahh!
Time travel with us back to a prehistoric land of primitive beats and gargantuan beasts. The venue is amazing and as per usual Kostume Kult will not disappoint with the decor.

Welcome to the Jungle:

3LD Art & Technology Center
80 Greenwich Street (at Rector street)
Downtown Manhattan, NYC MAP

What to wear:
That gorilla suit that is collecting dust in the hall closet cause it just never seems appropriate, skulls, dinosaurs, sexy fur, etc. Whatever you wear, dress to impress cause they dont call us Kostume Kult for nothing!

See below for the run down on the details:

Consider buying a ticket now cause rumor around the first tickets sold out in record time. You do not want to be outside looking in on the hottest costume party this side of the prehistoric era. 

Buy TICKETS!

- $25 Presale (lower tiers sold out)
- $40 at door (if available)
- $50 KK Contributor (presale tier including a chilled bottle of champagne and big thanks for supporting the cause)

RSVP

 Volunteer

Music Details:

DJs spinning electro/progressive house and breaks in two rooms including:
- Milk (Kostume Kult, OneLegUp)
- 2Melo (Cumba Mela/Bombeat)
- Barney Iller (Vitamin B/Mischief/Rubulad)
- Douggie Style (DISORIENT)
- Boris "Burning Elf" (Kostume Kult, TOAD)
- Been Jammin' (Entwined)
- DK (Kostume Kult, TOAD)
- B3AR (Digital Native NJ)
- Orange Krush (Entwined)
- Casey Skodnek (The People's Caravan)

Contribute Art

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

BUY NOW

$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.

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.


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.

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!

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

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.