hairywire

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

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

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

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!

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

1980 – 2000

Commes Des Garcons print ads from the 80′s, 90′s & 2000′s. More here and here.

pinch dress

Polyester dress and overall by Hussein Chalayan.

via i’m revolting

we also ❤ Chalayan’s hooded backpack from Nike

Jeff Bark

Fashion editorial for Dazed & Confused, photographer Jeff Bark,  stylist Katie.Shillingford.

T-Rex Attack!

WWT spotted on-line this must-have pair of heels where the famous monster is not printed at the shoe! The monster IS the shoe! Via

hug me

Jacket from a small mens collection (A/W 2012-2013) , by Si Chan,  a young fashion designer from Macao.
(backstage photo by Hill & Aubrey,  model Tom Nelson)

Mary Katrantzou A/W 2012

Greek fashion designer Mary Katrantzou, collection A/W 2012

Rei Kawakubo

There is hardly a designer who does not respect Rei Kawakubo, the driving force behind fashion brand Comme des Garçons.  Ms. Kawakubo creates conceptual, yet wearable and always one-step-further fashion, using some unique methods of fabrication, challenging the established notions of beauty over the past decades. Rei Kawakubo, WSJ    -  portrait by Irving Penn, 1993

Ai Weiwei and Rei Kawakubo

“Collection after collection, for 40 years, all I have been doing is moving, questioning, creating a feeling never felt before” says Ms. Kawakuno “ but today I don’t feel too excited about fashion, more fearful that people don’t necessarily want or need strong new clothes, that there are not enough of us believing in the same thing, that there is a kind of burnout, that people just want cheap fast clothes and are happy to look like everyone else, that the flame of creation has gone a bit cold, that enthusiasm and passionate anger for change and rattling the status quo is weakening. But what I still love about it is that playing the fool, acting silly, showing off, being a celebrity designer are all integral and necessary parts of the fashion business. And creation excites me, because without creation there can be no progress.”

stills of an immediate future

Pictures by Alex Prager. Via but does it float

Street stone

Digitally dressed up statues in ‘Street Stone’ photo series, a collaboration between photographer Leo Caillard and art director Alexis Persani.
Check out the entire series here.
Found here.

Black, by Building Block

Black S/S 2012, a gorgeous handbag collection made of leather, rubber, and wood, from Building Block, aka designers Kimberly and Nancy Wu.

 

MA Collection, by Craig Green

Part of the MA Collection 2012 by UK menswear designer Craig Green, inspired from religion, nomads and utilitarian work wear.