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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The Stunning Sculpture of Motohiko Odani

03.06.11

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Tags: conceptual, installation art, medical braces, realism, sculptures, textured, white

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Una Burke’s Medical Armor

10.10.10

I’m probably the last person to blog about this since it’s made the blogosphere rounds, but I thought I would anyway, just for the record. This is Una Burke‘s “medical armor,” a conceptual collection of artwear inspired by prosthetic devices and medical braces and the process of healing from trauma, titled Re.Treat. The warrior-like body armor is reminiscent of medical corsetry, and also of wearing human flesh as a shield against psychological harm. The means of protection also become a means of entrapment, binding the body tightly. She cites a few of her influences as Hans Bellmer, Alexander McQueen, and Erwin Olaf. On her Website she states the pieces were made from “undyed vegetable-tanned leather which is reminiscent of Caucasian flesh” – I couldn’t help finding that last part a little funny.

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Tags: avant-garde, collars, corsetry, erwin olaf, fetish, hans bellmer, historically inspired, medical braces, medical-themed, sinister arts and crafts, trauma, una burke

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Body Remix/Goldberg Variations

08.17.10

I really like this medical/”handicap”-themed dance routine from Compagnie Marie Chouinard:

reposted from Haute Macabre

Tags: ballet dancers, crutches, medical braces, medical-themed

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