The Photography of Sylwia Makris

06.24.12

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Tags: avant-garde, corsets, dark, emotive photography, fashion photography, hair, hauntingly beautiful, historically inspired, medical braces, melancholy, otherworldly photography, queens, religious imagery, sylwia makris

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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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Olivier Chomienne’s “1842″ Series

02.28.11

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Tags: avant-garde goth, black lace, corsetry, corsets, fashion editorial, fashion photography, flour-white face, gloomy color schemes, hauntingly beautiful, haute couture, headdresses, neo-victorian, portraits, red, red and white, sea

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Cadaverous Beauty: Silent-View Photography

12.27.10

>>Silent-View Photography<<

Tags: avant-garde goth, colorful, corsets, emotive, fashion photography, geisha-inspired, headdresses, latex, neo-victorian, saturated color, teacups

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Twisted Kingdom: Otherworldly Costume Designs by Katarzyna Konieczka

12.15.10

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.

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Tags: alien beauty, asymmetrical clothing, avant-garde, corset lacing, corsets, fashion photography, headdresses, high fashion, insane asylum aesthetic, leather, medical-themed, post-apocalyptic

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