Gilding Primal Instinct: The Executioner

09.05.12

Gilding Primal Instinct‘s beautiful F/W 2012 collection The Executioner features blades, gauzy veil-like textures, and alluringly alien metallic masks and headpieces These pieces perfectly embody the mission to “create an aggressive dichotomy between subtle, elegant forms and vicious primal instinct [and] translate practices of ritual adornment into iconic character archetypes.”

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Tags: alien beauty, avant-garde, avant-garde goth, black garments, dark romantic, fashion editorial, hauntingly beautiful, jewelry, mystical/feral jewelry, primordial, witchy

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Mika Aoki: Glass Viruses, Microorganisms, and Biota in the Modern World

08.08.12

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Tags: alien beauty, bioart, biological/organic/alien, conceptual, fragility, glass, hauntingly beautiful, installation art, medical-themed, microbes, sculptures, strange beauty, syringes, transparent, weird sculptures

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“Femme Fatale” at Cella Gallery

02.28.12

Femme Fatale, a show exhibiting the work of over 35 contemporary artists, curated by Nicole Bruckman and Stephanie Chefas, is open at Cella Gallery in Los Angeles from February 25th to March 17th. A sample of the works featured is below.

L’ingenue by Stella Im Hultberg

A Letter to Three Wives by David Bray

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Tags: 1950s, alien beauty, art shows, enlarged eyes, femininity, hauntingly beautiful, innocence/menace, lolita-esque, lolitaism, otherworldly, pop surrealism, queens, realism, religious imagery, retro, sexuality, stella im hultberg, sweet/melancholy

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Jeremy Enecio

12.23.11

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Tags: (twists on) traditional art, alien beauty, animals, creature, hauntingly beautiful, illustrations, mythology, realism, sexuality, surreal

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Anja Millen’s “Carnival” Series

11.28.11

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Tags: alien beauty, anja millen, children, enlarged eyes, hauntingly beautiful, otherworldly photography, photomanipulation, portraits

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The Popovy Sisters’ “mod.” Collection

09.13.11

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Tags: alien beauty, architectural fashion, avant-garde, bjds, collars, conceptual fashion, distorted bodies, dolls, edo-period japan, futuristic, hair, headdresses, historically inspired, hoopskirts, kabuki-inspired, otherworldly, red and white, samurai mask, white hair

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Short Film/Mindblowing Animation: “Loom” by Polynoid

07.27.11

Loom from Polynoid

Tags: alien beauty, animations, avant-garde, bugs, experimental, gloomy color schemes, hyperreal, moths, short films, spiders, trippy, violence, visceral

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Image of the Day

07.16.11

Winter Is Coming by Anja Millen

Tags: alien beauty, anja millen, antlers, otherworldly photography, photomanipulation, white, white hair

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Una Burke’s META.MORPH

06.28.11

Úna Burke’s beautiful A/W 2011 collection of armor/medical-inspired sculptural fashion, META.MORPH, is complemented by stunning wet-plate collodion photography from Andreas Waldschütz and Stefan Sappert. Witness below:

Further delight yourself by viewing this video, inspired by “the cinepoems of Man Ray and jarring aspects of psychological horror”:

via Haute Macabre

Tags: alien beauty, architectural fashion, avant-garde, black and white, conceptual fashion, corsets, fashion films, fashion photography, fashiontech, haute couture, high fashion, man ray, medical braces, medical-themed, military/warrior chic, prosthetic, psychological horror, short films, trauma, una burke, vintage, wet-plate photography

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MadinSpain Opening Titles

06.17.11

MadinSpain is an annual design and creativity convention in Madrid. This amazing little video is Toch Studio‘s opening titles for this year’s conference, which took place on June 3-4. Sound design by Cypher Audio and typography design by Pablo Abad.

Tags: alien beauty, biological/organic/alien, bizarre, creature, monsteresque, short films, tendrils, typography

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