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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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  • Ice Queen: Fashion Editorial for Dazed and Confused Nov. 09

    06.13.11

    See more after the cut

    Tags: collars, dark romantic, fashion editorial, feathers, flour-white face, hair, haute couture, high fashion, historically inspired, medieval inspiration, portraits, queens, renaissance, ruffs

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  • “A Monsoon Litany”

    05.17.11

    A Monsoon Litany by Luki for DEW Magazine

    See more after the cut

    Tags: colorful, dark ethereal, fashion editorial, flowers, hauntingly beautiful, high fashion, makeup, nature, otherworldly photography

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  • Space Oddities in Black and Silver: Erevos Aether’s “Gaping Void”

    05.09.11

    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

    Tags: alien beauty, architectural fashion, avant-garde, avant-garde goth, dance, distorted bodies, electronic music, experimental, fashion films, futuristic, haute couture, high fashion, jewelry, masks, military/warrior chic, performance art, sci-fi, short films

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  • Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty

    04.16.11

    A special exhibition dedicated to Alexander McQueen’s fashion designs will run from May 4 to July 31 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

    {Pictures by Sølve Sundsbø}

    See more after the cut

    Tags: art shows, avant-garde goth, conceptual fashion, dark romantic, feathers, flowers, haute couture, high fashion, mcqueen is dead, nature

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  • Eye-Love [007]

    04.01.11


    Joao Ruas


    Photographed by Ben Hassett for Vogue Paris February 2008 {scan by Céline M.}


    Igor Pavlov


    Lost Fish

    {Previous Eye-Love posts}

    Tags: avant-garde goth, bandages, cute/creepy little girls, dollflesh, fashion editorial, heart, high fashion, joao ruas, lost fish, medical-themed, pop surrealism, queens, self-portraits, white hair

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  • Tim Walker’s “Dreaming of Another World”

    03.29.11

    Dreaming of Another World
    + Photographed by Tim Walker
       for the March 2011 issue of Vogue Italia

    {via Haute Macabre – see the complete editorial there}

    See more after the cut

    Tags: avant-garde goth, baroque, fashion editorial, hauntingly beautiful, high fashion, historically inspired, mystical, psychological horror

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  • Anouk Wipprecht: The Merging of Technology and Fashion

    03.27.11

    Anouk Wipprecht is a Dutch fashion designer who works in the emerging field of “fashionable technology,” defined by Sabine Seymour as “the intersection of fashion, design, science, and technology.” Anouk seeks to create a “higher state of connectivity between the body and our clothing,” a physical and psychological relationship wherein what we wear responds to us, and we are also affected by what we wear, producing something more than just the traditional function of coverture/adornment. What results is one-of-a-kind, architectural, avant-garde garments with bold silhouettes, vested with circuitry and a regalia of plastic tubes and the ability to respond in a unique and remarkable way to human bodies.


    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.

    Tags: anatomical-themed, anouk wipprecht, avant-garde, bioart, biomechanical, fashiontech, fragility, futuristic, high fashion, wearable art, weird science projects, white

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  • Ann Demeulemeester Fall 2011 RTW

    03.13.11

    These are my favorite looks from Ann Demeulemeester’s Fall 2011 Ready-to-Wear collection. Rugged, chic, and elegant, with lots of different textures and layers, this all-black collection channels fashion from after the apocalypse.

    Tags: asymmetrical clothing, black jackets, corset lacing, high fashion, leather, runway fashion

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  • Fashion Fix

    01.27.11


    Photographed by Sam Hernandez
    Model: Velocity

    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)

    Tags: antiseptic fashion, asymmetrical clothing, avant-garde, conceptual fashion, corsetry, dark romantic, futuristic, haute couture, headdresses, high fashion, leather, military/warrior chic

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