From the August 23, 1943, issue of LIFE and a story about Amateur VS. Professional Ways of Achieving a Summer Coiffure (!). Photo by Nina Leen
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Water dress
Daphne Guinness in a one-of-a-kind dress created by Iris Van Herpen, for the Splash project by Show Studio. Nick Knight captured Guinness being splashed with black and clear water, and then offer up the footage to Van Herpen to create this unique Water dress.
Check out the Splash project @ Show Studio
it’s Monsoon season
The winner of Ru Paul’s Drag Race season 05, the amazing narcoleptic queen Jinkx Monsoon aka drag performer Jerick Hoffer, as Little Edie Bouvier Beale and my fav gal Alaska Thunderfuck aka drag performer Justin Andrew Honard, one of the top 3 queens this year, serving fish at RPDR.
Gifs by illustrator Chad Sell, plz visit Sellout for more.
outrageous grey
Drag performer Detox Icunt aka Matthew Sanderson with a mind blowing total black & white look at RuPaul’s Drag Race S05 finale party. Read More
Bottle caps facade
Location: Russian village of Kamarchaga, Siberian taiga
Artist/Designer/Architect: Pensioner Olga Kostina
Material: 30.000 plastic bottle caps
Technique: conventional macrame technique of weaving and knit knots
via Demilked
Schiaparelli gloves
Long suede gloves with gold metal talons by Elsa Schiaparelli ((1890 -1973, made around 1936
via luxury culture
Previously: vein gloves by Meret Oppenheim
Donne
Following mixed media artworks on fashion magazine covers created by Italian illustrator Francesco Chiacchio
Merging
Fashion editorial in Contributor Mag #5 featuring London-based Ukrainian fashion designer Masha Reva‘s collection S/S 2012.
Photo by Synchrodogs / styling by Julie Pelipas.
via chasseur mag
Europe’s Wild Men
France
Spring festivals in the Pyrenees feature local men playing the role of bears awakening from hibernation
Portugal
During Carnival in Lazarim characters called “caretos” parade through the village in hand-carved masks to a bonfire where effigies known as the comadre and compadre are burned.
Austria
Every five years the men of Telfs collect lichen to create Wilder Mann, or Wild Man, costumes for the town’s Carnival festival. Tradition dictates that they nibble on a piece of this lichen before the festivities.
Italy
Schnappviecher (snapping beast) on Shrove Tuesday
Poland
Macidulas on New Year’s Day
Germany
Strohmann at Carnival
Bulgaria
On New Year’s Day men cover themselves with goatskins to impersonate the Kukeri, who both embody and chase away evil spirits. In the past they’d brush against women to bestow fertility.
Spain
Juantramposo, a mischief-maker, appears on Mardi Gras in Alsasua. The festival ends with all the participants taking part in a celebratory dance.
Portraits of men in traditional ritual costumes for festivals that occur across Europe from the beginning of December until Easter by photographer Charles Fréger
Read more @ National Geographic
previously:
Miss Idaho Potato 1935
Miss Idaho Potato 1935 via retronaut
Finally together
Pushup bra commercial by Wanda Productions, directing duo Camille Hirigoyen and Julien Choquart (aka JACK) for French lingerie maker Valege.
the girls are easy
A hand-picked selection from Americal Apparel‘s slideshows presenting an ideal word were all the girls are pretty, long-haired, young, stylish, fit, gracious, healthy, full of promises, the sun is shining and everything smells of candy!
Vanity
Editorial for Garage magazine inspired from artist Cindy Sherman by French fashion photographer Patrick Demarchelier.
The models are wearing masks of Sherman’s face created by Thatsmyface.com a service that takes your 2D mugshots and turns them into super-realistic custom wearable facemask, origami, desk objects or action figures.
new sneakers crash
Pietro Sedda
Works by Milan based tattoo artist Pietro Sedda.
Found here.
wearable drawings
Laser-cut garments at Fashionclash 2012, from the collection Drawn by Dutch fashion designer and illustrator Elvira ‘t Hart
via i’m revolting
