Dolls and Gals: The Art of Caryn Drexl
Caryn Drexl is a remarkable and original experimental photographer based in Palm Coast, Florida. Her photography is conceptual and expressive, and explores themes of innocence, femininity, motherhood, and sexuality. It also has a vintage aspect/aesthetic. Teacups, baby dolls, divested braids of hair (and hair in general), things in models’ mouths are all motifs. Many of her photographs feature her as the subject.
Tea TimeTags: 1920s, caryn drexl, dolls, femininity, hair, teacups, victorian, vintage
Clothing Designer: Louise Black
Louise Black, also known as candycain, is probably my favorite fashion designer. When I first saw the pieces in her Dollflesh and Eye-Spy Eclectics lines, several years ago now, I thought she was the perfect designer for me. Never had I seen such splendid, wonderful taste and quality. Her designs are instantly recognizable for their distinctive style and superb craftsmanship. Anyway, here are some examples of her work that I just love incredibly.
Louise Black’s designs are heavily influenced by 1920s fashion, but unlike a lot of “flapper-style” clothing around, her garments are no flimsy, sloppy, simplified affairs with just tiers of fringe or something and barely any actual feel of the ’20s; she really pushes beyond the typical in a true fusion of past and present. The solid craftsmanship, intricate hand-beading, and elaborate trims on her work are her signature. She uses many antique trims, textiles, and other elements (such as buttons) in her clothing, and often revamps vintage clothing but goes way above and beyond what this usually entails. She makes accessories, beaded wrist cuffs, headpieces, necklaces, and neck cuffs, etc., with queen, Victorian, and flapper themes.
Opium Noir Set
Midnight’s Mesmerism Frock
Sapphire Venom Dress (reminds me so much of my idol Louise Brooks)
Tags: 1920s, beaded trim, dollflesh, flapper, louise black, revamped vintage
The Whimsical Photography of Darla Teagarden
Darla Teagarden is a wonderful surreal and whimsical fashion photographer based in Austin, Texas. Her dreamy photography combines influences from the ’20s and the Victorian era, and takes place in a beautifully pastel-colored, wonderfully artificial landscape with a radiant glow around everything. This world is populated by tender and strangely lovely denizens created with the aid of makeup and styling. Her images tell stories of the never-existent past brought to life in the bizarre and twisted present, of bow-lipped lovers, enchanted maidens, and dignified personages in a magical fairy-tale land. Her photographs are beautifully manipulated, with a distinctive style all their own. They are both vividly and softly colored. Soft, hazy photography with an edge.
Tags: 1920s, artificial landscape, hazy, pastel, victorian, whimsical
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