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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“1.1 Negredo: The Raven”

12.24.10

A short film directed by Jez Tozer, inspired by autumn/winter 2010 fashion collections, set to beautiful melancholy string music. Featuring items by Haider Ackermann, Lanvin, Emilio de la Morena, Viktor & Rolf, Hussein Chalayan, Agent Provocateur, and others.

Tags: avant-garde goth, fashion films, hauntingly beautiful, haute couture, high fashion, medieval inspiration, melancholy, renaissance, short films

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“Anatomarie: The Autopsy Dress”

12.16.10

A beautiful life-size sculpture/costume design by CL Martin.

Tags: avant-garde goth, bandages, blood, conceptual, evisceration, high fashion, injuries, mannequins, medical-themed, melancholy, neo-victorian, red

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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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Vintage Dream Photography by Ellen Rogers

12.01.10

Ellen Rogers‘ gorgeous, experimental film photography, reminiscent of 19th-century hand-colored pictures, always makes me feel like I’ve entered an ethereal dreamland that combines the past and the present seamlessly, where beautiful princesses come out of the shadows and mists and lure you. Rogers does everything with analog cameras, film, and darkroom techniques only, with the resulting images being sometimes blurred, overlaid, and having other interesting and charmingly individual effects. Sometimes black-and-white, sometimes with the unreal, super-saturated color of vintage photos, her work is delightful and dreamy and piquant.

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Tags: art nudes, black and white, colorful, ellen rogers, flowers in hair, headdresses, high fashion, otherworldly photography, twins/doppelgangers/doubles, vintage

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Eugenio Recuenco

04.11.10

Check out Eugenio Recuenco’s photographic scenery. Inspired by medieval torture chambers, WWI hospitals, Greek art, the Titanic, Beauty and the Beast, Hitchcock movies, The Shining, futuristic androids, and basically all shapes and manners of stories, his scenes are endlessly creative and varied.

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Tags: eugenio recuenco, high fashion, historically inspired, photoessay, polyptych

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