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See my previous post on the Popovy sisters' beautiful art dolls here.

Mindblowing.

These images are from Schön! Magazine, photographed by Diego Indraccolo and illustrated by Pok U Chan.

Loom from Polynoid

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

via Haute Macabre

EREVOS AETHER’S GAPING VOID from KONSTANTINOS MENELAOU

+ Directed by Konstantinos Menelaou
+ Choreographed by Nathaniel Parchment
+ Photographed by Natalia Asimi
+ Jewelry design by Maria Piana
+ Design & styling by Erevos Aether

via Twisted Lamb

+ A surreal stop-motion sequence from Tarsem Singh’s The Fall:

Picture via Coilhouse

The Birds, an installation piece inspired by the Hitchcock film

Examples of Anouk Wipprecht’s “wearable tech” include Fragilis, a dress that eerily mimics the function of the human heart and veins through motion and lighting (similar to the Heartbeat Dress, which conversely uses sound, recording the heartbeat of the model and relaying it to the audience through speakers embedded in the dress):

Daredroid, a dress that “combines pneumatic technology with open-source hardware and human temperament to provide you with a freshly made White Russian cocktail”:

And Intimacy (a project headed by Daan Roosegaarde), a set of garments that become more or less transparent and opaque in relation to their proximity to each other:

An interesting interview with Anouk can be read over on Fashioning Technology.

I don’t particularly care for the background in this picture, but I love how it displays the leather corset and cowl/collar-piece by Antiseptic Fashion; it shows up all the details wonderfully, the tortured textures and sinuous shapes and asymmetrical lines, looking like hammered metal, some ungodly-beautiful combination of medieval armor and the modern avant-garde. Absolutely stunning designs in my opinion.

Found on the Tumblr circuits. I have no idea who the fashion designer is, or any of the other people involved, but I love this avant-garde, alien-warrior-like look.

Photographed by Katarzyna Widmanska
Makeup & hair: Marianna Jurkiewicz
Crown: Kasia Konieczka (previous post about her here)

Mandy Greer creates impressive and intriguing installations/works of fashion art that have a gnarly and very intricate look, an effect that seems both ancient and synthetic, like overgrown crochet/knit flora and plant life, like an embodiment of folklore in a modern DIY aesthetic. She creates “mystically driven and darkly beautiful” worlds, the studied chaos of entanglements at once symbolic and material, and deals with motherhood, eroticism, human relations to nature, and mythology in her works. Impossible to exactly describe, take a look at the pictures below.

The three images above display pieces from Mandy Greer’s 2008 Dare allo Luce show.

“I make large installations that transform spaces into seemingly enchanted environments, creating full-body experiences, like trespassing on a theatrical set. My current projects are about making visceral transitory states of the human emotional experience tangible through the overabundance of crocheted, knitted, and sewn fabric.

The act of creating decadent forms out of lowly or discarded materials, particularly fibers, is always at work in my process… Every surface and stitch is laced with the hope that exhaustive labor holds the promise of the transformative power of Spectacle.”
- Mandy Greer

Mandy Greer’s new show, Honey and Lightning, a mix of installations, smaller-scale pieces such as headdresses, and performance photos, is currently exhibiting at the Roq la Rue Gallery in Seattle (just my neck of my woods) until February 5th.

Also check out her beautiful work in her 2010 show Zuster Sweostor Systir:

Mandy Greer’s knotty fabric-works are an innovative and unique fusion of installation art and fashion, of the mystical, mythical, and homely.