Fashion – Page 7 – Necromantic

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“1.1 Negredo: The Raven”

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

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Twisted Kingdom: Otherworldly Costume Designs by Katarzyna Konieczka

Katarzyna Konieczka makes the most incredible avant-garde costumes with a dark conceptual bent. Encased in plastic, cage-like, wrapped in wire, and torturously beautiful, her designs evoke impressions of daemonic sci-fi medical fetish wear and insane asylum couture, artifacts from kingdoms of madness.

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Irina Ionesco

Irina Ionesco is a French-Romanian photographer who began exhibiting her work in the mid-1970s. Her photography is dark, dramatic, erotic, and strongly evocative of a vintage aesthetic, with lots of influence from the 1920s, reflecting the lavishly ornamental tendencies of that period, feathers, furs, headdresses, and all, with its vampish, sexy yet macabre vibe.

Irina’s images of her daughter, Eva Ionesco, were very controversial, as you can probably imagine. In these, the prepubescent Eva is displayed in an array of nude, erotic, and bondage-inspired poses, with an intense gaze, a seeming precocious knack for modeling, and a weird, Lolita-esque allure. I find these photos to be some of Ionesco’s most interesting work, however.

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“The Exorcism of…” by Anti Sweden

I love the movement in this film, the dark, wild kinetic energy. Directed by Marius Tharaldsen and modeled by Vilde Victoria Madsen, for design agency Anti’s newly launched black denim line, “Anti Sweden.” Inspired by the Norwegian “culture of darkness” and the spirit of black metal’s aesthetics.

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Una Burke’s Medical Armor

Una Burke’s Re.Treat is a conceptual collection of artwear inspired by prosthetic devices and medical braces and the process of healing from trauma. The warrior-like body armor is reminiscent of medical corsetry, and evokes the idea of using 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.

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“Before the Tide Comes In” by Zhang Jingna

Photographed by Zhang Jingna, featuring clothing by Mother of London.

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Fashion Designer: Mother of London

Mother of London is an innovative alternative couturier that contrasts rough with delicate textures: leather, gauzy, tattered layers, elaborate lace, metal, and corset lacing – resulting in a futuristic Victorian aesthetic, marked by asymmetry and lavish ornamentation.

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