Stylecards № 8

This eighth issue sees us capping off our second year of publication, and with that it’s a good time to reflect on our accomplishments over the past year, as well as peeking at some plans for 2026.

I often describe Stylecards as a “quarterly fashion and lifestyle magazine for Second Life.” It’s a bit of a mission statement. While we often feature designers and love to show off a wide variety of fashions, lifestyle features about the things people do in-world have been part of our humble publication since the beginning. In Stylecards № 5, Sheristrawberri began a series of articles that started with a look at dating in Second Life. She continued the series in Stylecards № 6 by writing about the wedding industry in-world, and in Stylecards № 7 she wrote about virtual pregnancies. The series concludes in this issue as she writes about animesh babies.

This year has also been an exciting one for fans of mesh bodies. Whether you prefer the curvier physique of Muñeca from Yen Body Shop, the literally-flat Cardy and Cardo from Salt and Pepper, or the more traditional proportions of the Nhuma body from Nhumana, 2025 has given us a lot to consider. Sheri writes about all the changes we’ve seen in “A Year in Bodies.”

Hazel Nightwish returns this issue with an article on the MyStory system. I’d seen it around, but didn’t know much about it, so I’m glad to see Hazel write so enthusiastically about it. As with any system that has many parts, it’s often difficult to know where to start, so reading her article was incredibly helpful.

In this issue, we also had the opportunity to work with a couple of wonderful designers; Dan Redangel of Redangel Fashion Co. and Yannick Sands of Dotty’s Secret. Coincidentally, Dan recently celebrated ten years of creating fashions for male avatars in Second Life, while Yannick will be celebrating a decade of creating cosmetics in 2026. We’re consider ourselves lucky in being able to work with them and presenting their stories.

We also had a lot of fun shooting the pictorials for this issue. Considering the glamourous elegance of the era, we stepped into our time machine to take a look at some 1920s-inspired flapper fashions. Not content with fashions of a previous century, we also take a look at some more modern cocktail dresses suitable for any New Year’s Eve party. Since guys like to party too, we have a pictorial devoted to tuxedos. For readers who want something a bit more wild, we present a pictorial with animal print apparel.

Last, but not least, I’m still working on the book Fashion Photography for Second Life, and hope to have it completed in the first half of 2026. The book is about halfway done, but scheduling the time to write is sometimes difficult.

From all of us here at Stylecards, we hope you have a wonderful holiday season and we look forward to bringing you more of the fashions and lifestyles in Second Life in 2026.

Ciao,