The imagination, something which gives us the ability to see humane face in almost everything. Maybe this is what makes Vincent Cantillon's masks so intriguing. An infusion of ancient gothic and tribal aesthetics distorts the human face with animal-like features, many of which include horns, feathers and fur. Natural shapes flow well with colours such as rich greens, deep reds midnight blacks and spectral whites; attention to detail is intimate, allowing each mask to be a truly one-off piece.
Monday, 1 September 2014
Wednesday, 20 August 2014
Designer Watch: Alice Auaa
Eccentric, gothic and beautiful Alice Auaa is without a doubt one of my favourite designers. His infusion of haunting features and fairytale-like characteristics is like seeing a Tim Burton movie come to life on the runway. Born in Kobe City and first launching Alice Auaa in 1995 his designs are described as a 'duality between light and shadow, beauty and ugliness, a decadent and surreal filter based on the colour black'.
Wednesday, 30 July 2014
Movie Fashion Watch: Beetlejuice
Tuesday, 22 April 2014
Coachella Mixing Art With Fashion
While the Coachella festival is one of the largest music festivals of the year a whole different world lives in itself, a world of expression, creativity and symbolism through fashion. Once you step into Coachella creative boundaries do not exist, the people who attend really know how to express themselves with how they look and they do it fabulously!! Coachella is rapidly becoming one of the biggest style events of the year and will most likely have a huge impact of this summer's biggest trends, let's take a look at the hottest looks of the 2014 coachella...
Monday, 7 April 2014
Insane Intimacy
INTIMACY 2.0 the transparent dress
It's best not to run for the bus if you're wearing the INTIMACY 2.0!! This high-tech futuristic dress is so advanced that it can detect when you're turned on, yes, a dress can detect when you're turned on. Designed by Daan Roosegaard and conceived by Studio Roosegaarde, this baffling piece of technology detects arousal allowing it to turn more or less transparent.
Saturday, 5 April 2014
'In Memory of Elizabeth Howe, Salem, 1692' Alexander McQueen's 2007 Autumn / Winter Collection
From the depths of McQueen's dark and angry edge of his creativity, full of personal passion and based on a daunting revelation from his family's history of witchcraft, paganism and prosecution lies this collection. His mother, who traces family trees made a startling discovery that her bloodline leads back to an ancestor who was a victim of the Salem witch trials, hanged in the Puritan hysteria of 1692.
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