Fashion – Page 5 – Necromantic

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Noir et Blanc for Vogue Korea

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The Fashiontech Marvels of Anouk Wipprecht: “Smoke Dress” & “Spider Dress”

Dutch fashiontech designer Anouk Wipprecht, who specializes in interactive garmentry that responds to its environment and to human presence/input, has created a breathtakingly beautiful dress in collaboration with technologist Aduen Darriba, which emits clouds of smoke when it detects someone approaching.

Also a source of delight and awe, born of a collaboration between Wipprecht and hacker/engineer Daniel Schatzmayr, is the dramatic, eerie, and hauntingly lovely animatronic “Spider Dress” – a prototype of a mechanic dress equipped with sensors, indicators, and controllers, created with the aim to give more power and “psychological thrills” to the sugar-sweet character that performative wearables often have. Sensoric, servo-controlled, mechanic, microcontroller-based, and reacting/attacking upon approach, surprising the audience with different moods and behaviors. To boot, it’s inspired by LIMBO, one of my favorite video games.

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Immortal Coil: Fashion Designer Iris van Herpen

Iris van Herpen’s intricate, coiled, and highly conceptual pieces are the perfect illustration of the intersection of art and fashion. Using unconventional materials as her textiles, her extremely structural, fierce, avant-garde, precisely constructed designs startle the viewer with their sometimes delicate, sometimes armor-like beauty and strikingly architectural qualities.

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Gilding Primal Instinct: The Executioner

Gilding Primal Instinct’s beautiful F/W 2012 collection The Executioner features blades, gauzy veil-like textures, and alluringly alien metallic masks and headpieces. These pieces perfectly embody the mission to “create an aggressive dichotomy between subtle, elegant forms and vicious primal instinct [and] translate practices of ritual adornment into iconic character archetypes.”

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Laura Mulder’s “The Unreal Reality”

This stunningly beautiful, structural collection, entitled The Unreal Reality, was designed by Laura Mulder as her graduation project at the Art Academy of Utrecht in 2011. Modeled by Thiska van den Heuvel and Lara Aimee, photographed by Cor and Leonie Baauw of Local Androids, with hairstyling by Jenny Kroese.

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The Photography of Sylwia Makris

In her series In Search of the Divine and Diadema, Sylwia Makris collaborates with avant-garde fashion designer Katarzyna Konieczka to produce haunting, emotive, and sartorially fascinating imagery.

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“Magical Thinking”: Tim Walker for W Magazine

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Miyu Decay’s Bat Skeleton Necklace

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Sorcha O’Raghallaigh’s Fall/Winter 2011 Collection Lookbook

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Bloodmilk – “The Messenger”

A new piece available in the ever-lovely Bloodmilk’s Etsy shop. Titled The Messenger, this intriguing, gnarled, and beautiful necklace in bronze and rose gold plate features the delicately detailed shape of a crow’s claw, clutching an amethyst crystal.

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