Stunning Fashion Illustrations By Esra Røise
Esra is a Norwegian freelance illustrator based in Oslo. She has been drawing since she was little, and has formal training from The Einar Granum School of Art, and a BA in Visual Communication from The Academy of The Arts in Oslo, Norway. Continue reading »
Artist Created A Fashion Collection Made Entirely Of Washed Up Trash Found On The Beach
According to an artist Marina DeBris: “This haute mess was created in an effort to raise awareness about the massive amount of waste that is ending up in our oceans. All of these garments were made from litter that I picked up off the beaches of Los Angeles & Sydney, Australia. Continue reading »
Soviet Fashion: Style Pages From 1980s U.S.S.R.
Were Soviet women dressed in drab, utilitarian garb – not according to their fashion magazines.
I recently came across some Soviet fashion magazines from 1987-1989 and thought I’d share. Like most Americans, during the Cold War, I pictured all Soviet women as homely and hardened by their harsh life, dressed in drab utilitarian garb. As these pages prove, that was far from the case – and certainly not in the last years before the break up. What we find are fashions not so different to a JC Penney catalog of the same period. Let’s have a look… Continue reading »
Belarus Cyberpunk Fashion Week 2018
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Models prepare backstage before presenting creations of Belarussian designer Tatyana Efremova during the Belarus Fashion Week in Minsk, Belarus, 14 April 2018. Continue reading »
Street Fashion And Lifestyle Female Portrait Photography By Iván Olivares
Awesome female portraits by Iván Olivares, talented 19 years old self-taught photographer and retoucher currently based in Caracas, Venezuela. Iván focuses on portraiture, he shoots marvelous fashion, beauty and lifestyle portrait photography. Continue reading »
Fashion Designer Sylvie Facon Creates Dresses Like No One Else
French creator Sylvie Facon sews dresses with such beautiful fabrics and attention to detail, they would steal any catwalk. Facon even crafted one of her outfits from the spines of old texts. She worked on the dress with costume designer Morgane E. Grosdemange, and the steampunk-inspired garment highlights the incredible versatility of Facon’s skills. Continue reading »
This Cheeky Fashion Collection Reminds Us About The Dog-Eat-Dog World
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That fashion is a dog-eat-dog world was perhaps the message from French designer Julien David, whose models for fall-winter previews all donned comic canine masks. Continue reading »
Fascinating Fashion Photography By Yuliia Stepanok
Yuliia Stepanok is a photographer from Lviv, Ukraine, where she studies History of Arts. She has been shooting analog only since 2011 and her main subjects are her friends, underground parties, street and fashion photography. Traveling she gets to take a lot of photos, loves her models and believes everyone can be a model. Her camera of choice is an Olympus mju II. Continue reading »
“Lamb Of Future”: Cyberpunk Noire Fashion Collages By Alexander Berdin-Lazursky
Alexander Berdin-Lazursky is a multi-talented 34-year-old photographer, digital artist, designer and educator from Samara, Russia who currently lives and works in NYC. Alexander focuses on portraiture, he shoots amazing fashion, beauty, lifestyle and fine art portrait photography. Continue reading »
Winter 2017 / 2018 Tortoise Fashion
For a long time tortoises have got away with being basically the only pet that can’t be dressed in silly costumes. Not any more! Enjoy the latest tortoise fashion collection that will keep your pet warm this winter. Continue reading »
Polish Street Artist Denounces The Misery Of Fashion With Striking Billboards
With a series of striking fake billboards, the Polish artist Igor Dobrowolski attacks the fashion and ready-to-wear industry by revealing the working conditions behind the famous brands. The artist reminds us that three of the four biggest tragedies in the history of fashion took place in Bangladesh in 2013, such as the collapse of the factory that killed 1134 people. Continue reading »
French Fashion ’71: Stunning Women’s Styles From 1971
While seventies fashions already were pushing the envelope – the French added their own brand of flair, and the results were off-the-charts dynamite. Here are a handful of gorgeous fashion pages taken from 1971 French fashion magazines that demonstrate the high-water-mark in groovy garments. Continue reading »
French Artist Louis Stimes Hacks Fashion Spreads With Graffiti
French artist, Louis Stimes, is hacking fashion magazines with hand drawn typography. With his unique style – Stimes moved from urban supports to the object support with a certain ease, he evolved his work on fashion spreads starting from the simple observation that the models wore less and less garments. It’s then equipped with its markers that he dressed the models with his graf’ by hacking magazines covers or other spreads that inspires him. Continue reading »
Model Born With “Cat Eye Syndrome” Stars In Stunning High Fashion Photo Shoot
Caitin Stickels, 29, is a Seattle-based model/actress/singer who was born with Schmid-Fraccaro, or Cat Eye Syndrome – a rare chromosomal disorder which can cause facial disfigurements such as a cleft palate and an absence of tissue from the colored part of the eyes which gives them a “cat-like” appearance. Continue reading »
Men’s Shorts In The 1970s: The Fashion Style May Make Men Look Cool
The 1970s were really the thighlights for quad-baring shorts. Shorts are one of fashion styles that makes women look sexiest. So how about with men? Just check out these snapshots to see what men looked like in shorts in the 1970s. Continue reading »
New ‘Anti’ Fashion Modeling Agency Debuts Its Stunning Avant-Garde Stars Of All Sizes And Backgrounds
A New York City modeling agency is defying fashion stereotypes, one arresting beauty at a time. The Anti-Agency, which began four years ago in the UK, has launched its New York City branch, eager to represent personalities deemed to strong for the roster of a classic modeling company. On its catalog of models are gender-bending fashion fans, a punk musician, and a member of one of New York City’s best-known all-female skating crew The Skate Kitchen. Continue reading »
Fashion In Early Photography – Glamorous Photos Show Female Models In Victorian Era
Clothing for women in Victorian era was utterly feminine, and was designed to emphasize the much-admired small waist. Ladies wore as many as seven petticoats under their voluminous skirts, and bodices were high necked, long sleeved, and tightly fitted to the body. Continue reading »
Albino Twins From Brazil Are Challenging The Fashion Industry With Their Unique Beauty
Lara and Mara Bawar are not your average supermodels, but their striking appearance is sending shockwaves through the fashion industry. The 11-year-old twins from São Paulo, Brazil, have albinism, a condition that causes a lack of skin and hair pigment, and they embrace it to the fullest. Continue reading »
The Graphic Designer Reworking Fashion’s Most Iconic Logos
Things are taking a rather different turn in the hands of Reilly, a London-based, Scottish-born graphic designer and art director who for several years now, has been toying cheerily with the logos which we see day in, day out – reworking them with fashion’s greatest mainstays. Continue reading »
Photographer Olgaç Bozalp Captures Fashion People In Iran, And It’s Not Easy
Antidote magazine approached turkish photographer Olgaç Bozalp with the opportunity to shoot an entire issue of the magazine around the theme “borders”, which the photographer saw as “the perfect opportunity to go to Iran. Travelling with his best friend and stylist Ruth Higginbotham, Olgaç Bozalp set his sights on the country’s capital Tehran and the city of Kashan in the Isfahan province, undeterred by one glaring problem: “un-Islamic” modelling has been forbidden in Iran since the Islamic Revolution. Continue reading »
The Nightmare That Was ‘His & Her’ Fashion
Yes, in the 1960s-80s a couple could wear matching sweaters without the slightest sense of irony or self-reflection. Catalogs and fashion magazines were littered with guys and girls in identical attire looking just as cheesy as you can imagine. Granted, the styles themselves weren’t always horrible – it’s the mere fact that dressing alike was ever a “thing” is what gives us cringe decades later. Continue reading »
Kurdish Dandies Start Iraq’s First Fashion Club
It’s not just about bringing fashion to Iraq. For these Kurdish peacocks it’s also about promoting a positive image of their homeland to the world. In early February 2016, a group of young men gathered in the ancient citadel at the heart of Erbil, the capital of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan Region. It was deep into the second winter of the Kurds’ war against the Islamic State and the region was mired in economic crisis. As a result, restoration work on the ancient UNESCO-listed site — said to be one of the oldest continuously inhabited places in the world — had ground to a halt, leaving the citadel with the air of an abandoned film set. Continue reading »
Fashion Portrait Paintings Of The Tattooed Girls By Philip Muñoz
Philip Muñoz is a self-taught painter based in Bristol city, UK.Focused on portraits and figures immersed in the “urban” context, Philip created vibrant and youthful, care-free characters caught in the beautifully eclectic area of Bristol city. Continue reading »
Impressive Color Photos Of 60’s Women Fashion Taken By Norman Parkinson
In a career that spanned seven decades, Norman Parkinson (1913 – 1990) dazzled the world with his sparkling inventiveness as a fashion photographer. His long association with Vogue, and his numerous assignments for Harper’s Bazaar, Town & Country and other international magazines, brought him worldwide recognition. His impulsive and unstructured style changed forever the static, posed approach to fashion photography, while his enchanting, idiosyncratic persona charmed his sitters and projected an alluring and glamorous public image. Continue reading »
Black Model Recreates Famous Fashion Campaigns To Highlight Lack Of Diversity In Fashion Industry
Deddeh Howard is a Liberian-born model based in LA, and she’s hoping to raise awareness about the lack of diversity in the modelling industry with her new photo-project called Black Mirror. In it she recreates some of the world’s biggest fashion campaigns by taking the places of major modelling stars such as Kendall Jenner, Gigi Hadid, Kate Moss and Gisele Bundchen. Continue reading »
