Tag: Fashion
Meet Frida Affer from Milan. This is her newly opened gallery on Redchurch Street in Shoreditch, amidst all the street art. It’s called Brooom, a play on broom closet, and measures only 168 cubic feet which is equal to about 30 square feet. Turns out that “the shoebox space” it’s just enough room to give that artist, designer […]
After much frustration with her current schooling at Parson’s, senior fashion design student Isabel Simpson-Kirsh decided to “base” her entire senior collection on someone who had helped her get through her schooling with his message. The popular bay area rapper Lil B aka Brandon McCartney has extensive catalog of releases includes a plethora of mixtapes, albums and videos, one that’s seemingly impossible […]
For her ITP class project, NYU student/designer Xuedi Chen used 3D-printing software and chia seeds to spawn these mossy fashion accessories. Their origins are somewhat grotesque: The Invasive Growth Series was directly inspired by a parasitic fungus. The cordyceps operates by infecting an insect with spores, growing inside the insect while performing a sort of “mind control” […]
Artist Ryan Gander is entering into the world of fashion, collaborating with Tokyo-based firm A.Four Labs. The British artist has created a starry pattern which will be used to create jackets, scarves, and t-shirts for the upcoming menswear line. The design is a familiar one — it appeared previously in Gander’s work, specifically The Universe as […]
After the public trial and imprisonment of Pussy Riot, two of the activists are currently serving two years in some of the most dangerous and notoriously decrepit prison work camps in Russia… for 40 seconds of dancing in a church. According to activist Nadezhda Tolokonnikova’s husband Peter Verzilov, Tolokonnikova spends eight hours a day sewing these outfits. Things weren’t exactly cool […]
Spanish artist Eugenio Recuenco’s fashion portrait series as homage-to-Picasso is impressive. The fragmented composite frames and prop-styling work to emulate some of the 20th century master’s most famous cubist paintings in a tasteful, restrained, more-than-straightforward-imitative manner. They may not have the conceptual rigor of Addie Wagenknecht and Pablo Garcia’s Webcam Venus, the populist appeal of Hillary Smith’s […]
With the help of certain organic light-emitting materials, engineers from the National Taiwan University in Taipei are developing fingernail polish that interacts with your smartphone or tablet. The polish will literally turn your nails into extensions of your smart device’s screen, displaying text and images that would otherwise be blocked by those inconveniently non-transparent fingers of yours. About time! While […]
Yesterday in the East Village, 28-year-old Melissa Scott attempted to steal a pair of $350 Jimmy Choo boots, then bit a store employee and drew blood when she was apprehended. Scott then fled from Cadillac’s Castle on 9th Street to St. Mark’s Place, where a police officer made an arrest. Then Scott bit the cop, […]
Sometimes it seems like every day, a startling new practical application for the sci-fi-worthy technology behind 3D-printing comes to light. This week, it’s in high fashion. Monday, Dutch designer Iris van Herpen (the woman behind some of Björk’s more memorable recent outfits) debuted the above two 3D-printed outfits, a dress and cape/skirt combo. This isn’t […]
Artist Adam Harvey–the guy behind this anti-facial-recognition makeup–is back ,with more practical, surveillance-busting work: Stealth Wear, a line of clothing designed to block thermal imaging, a tracking and surveillance technique often used by drones. According to the artist, Stealth Wear “continues to explore the aesthetics of privacy and the potential for fashion to challenge authoritarian surveillance.” […]
