April, 2013
Cadaverous Beauty: Silent-View Photography
Tags: avant-garde goth, colorful, corsets, emotive, fashion photography, geisha-inspired, headdresses, latex, neo-victorian, saturated color, teacups
“1.1 Negredo: The Raven”
A short film directed by Jez Tozer, inspired by autumn/winter 2010 fashion collections, set to beautiful melancholy string music. Featuring items by Haider Ackermann, Lanvin, Emilio de la Morena, Viktor & Rolf, Hussein Chalayan, Agent Provocateur, and others.
Tags: avant-garde goth, fashion films, hauntingly beautiful, haute couture, high fashion, medieval inspiration, melancholy, renaissance, short films
Two Songs
Currently among my favorites.
+ “March Funèbre” by Soap&Skin, off Lovetune for Vacuum
+ “Keep the Streets Empty for Me” by Fever Ray, off their self-titled debut album
Tags: dark ethereal, electronic music, experimental music, fever ray, hauntingly beautiful, music videos, soap&skin
The Drawings of Mako
Gorgeously delicate line drawings featuring macabre/erotic depictions of languid maidens tangled up in choking undergrowth, deadly flora, murderous branches, their hearts and anatomies (literally) exposed, from Japanese artist Mako.
Tags: anatomical-themed, black and white, death and the maiden, dolls, erotic, femininity, intricate line drawings, nature, skeleton, strings, surreal
Preternaturally Beautiful Horror Photography by Jenn Violetta
Visit Jenn Violetta on Flickr for more of her wonderful photography.
Tags: abuse, blood, bruises, children, colorful, emotive, flour-white face, hauntingly beautiful, horror photography, injuries, innocence, jenn violetta, medical-themed, military-themed, otherworldly photography, photomanipulation, political, surreal, trauma, violence
“Anatomarie: The Autopsy Dress”
Click to enlarge A beautiful life-size sculpture/costume design by CL Martin.
Tags: avant-garde goth, bandages, blood, conceptual, evisceration, high fashion, injuries, mannequins, medical-themed, melancholy, neo-victorian, red
Twisted Kingdom: Otherworldly Costume Designs by Katarzyna Konieczka
Katarzyna Konieczka, sometimes known as Kasia Konieczka, makes the most incredible avant-garde costumes with a dark-conceptual bent. Encased in plastic, strapped into body-cages, wrapped in wire, and torturously beautiful, her costumes give off impressions of dark, twisted kingdoms, space-age worlds, daemonic sci-fi medical fetish suits, and labyrinthine strapped insane asylum couture.
Tags: alien beauty, asymmetrical clothing, avant-garde, corset lacing, corsets, fashion photography, headdresses, high fashion, insane asylum aesthetic, leather, medical-themed, post-apocalyptic
Eye-Love [006]
Johanna Knauer
Nicola Samori
Nicoletta Ceccoli
Laura WachterCheck out previous Eye-Love posts here.
Poetry: “Black Rook in Rainy Weather” by Sylvia Plath
On the stiff twig up there
Hunches a wet black rook
Arranging and rearranging its feathers in the rain.
I do not expect a miracle
Or an accidentTo set the sight on fire
In my eye, nor seek
Any more in the desultory weather some design,
But let spotted leaves fall as they fall,
Without ceremony, or portent.Although, I admit, I desire,
Occasionally, some backtalk
From the mute sky, I can’t honestly complain:
A certain minor light may still
Lean incandescentOut of kitchen table or chair
As if a celestial burning took
Possession of the most obtuse objects now and then —
Thus hallowing an interval
Otherwise inconsequentBy bestowing largesse, honor
One might say love. At any rate, I now walk
Wary (for it could happen
Even in this dull, ruinous landscape); sceptical,
Yet politic; ignorantOf whatever angel any choose to flare
Suddenly at my elbow. I only know that a rook
Ordering its black feathers can so shine
As to seize my senses, haul
My eyelids up, and grantA brief respite from fear
Of total neutrality. With luck,
Trekking stubborn through this season
Of fatigue, I shall
Patch together a contentOf sorts. Miracles occur.
If you care to call those spasmodic
Tricks of radiance miracles. The wait’s begun again,
The long wait for the angel,
For that rare, random descent.
—–Sylvia PlathTags: nature, poetry, sylvia plath, trees
Amore de Mori Taxidermy Accessories
Cute and morbid one-of-a-kind taxidermy headdress creations from Amore de Mori 
Tags: animal skulls, antlers, bird wings, fascinators, headdresses, spooky animal-themed jewelry, taxidermy
