Muslim Lolita Fashion Is A New Trend Inspired By Japan

In an awesome fashion mash-up that nobody could’ve foreseen, Muslim fans of the Japanese lolita fashion trend have begun pairing these sweet-as-candy outfits with their hijabs, creating a unique new style that Japanese lolita fans are falling in love with.

These Strange Clothes Came Out of a Regular Old 3-D Printer

 
Clothes and technology share a surprisingly rich history. Mechanized textile production helped ignite the Industrial Revolution. Punch cards, which facilitated our interaction with computers for decades, were first developed in the 18th century to control textile looms. Which is to say, the idea that we might someday 3-D print our clothes isn’t nearly as wacky as it sounds.
Danit Peleg is the latest designer to explore the potential. For her graduate project at Shenkar, an art and design school in Israel, she developed a five-piece fashion collection that can be produced entirely with an at-home 3-D printer.
After experimenting unsuccessfully with the hard plastic filaments typically used in consumer 3-D printers, Peleg found a strong, flexible variety called FilaFlex. Paired with new cellular structures being devised by 3-D printing researchers, the material allowed Peleg to create “lace-like textiles” that she could work with “just like cloth.” She printed them using a Witbox—a $1,800 machine.

Masterpiece On The Runway- Viktor & Rolf Create Dresses That Are Made Out Of Framed Paintings

A runway of living masterpieces was the idea behind the couture “Wearable Art” collection.
Viktor & Rolf had models walk around wearing human size canvases for their Fall 2015 couture show. The girls were coming out wearing a denim apron and a framed canvas at first white and then punctuated by paintings inspired by Dutch golden age painter Jan Asselijn. As the show went on, both designers appeared on stage to undress a model out of three, delicately taking off the painting they were wearing as a dress and hanging it on a hook off a wall.
The show was held at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, a location known for it’s contemporary art and where designers have previously held their show. (Rick Owens, Phillip Lim and Maison Rabih Kayrouz to name a few). Viktor & Rolf gave an updated version of a fashion show, instead of having regular models strutting up and down the runway, the designers gave a performance. Trying to get as close to an art performance, blending art and fashion and demonstrating once again their genius in pattern making. Watching the video (see below) will make it much more clearer that this has nothing to do with fashion per say.
The designers are experimenting wearable art. Instead of trying to prove that fashion is art they are subtely implying that fashion is inspired by the excellence of art. By taking the clothes off the models and hanging up the garments they are claiming that fashion is humble and vulnerable compared to art. There is something naive and touching about this show. Fashion designers following the footsteps of art performers, clearly inspired and admirative of the art world.
By the end of the show, art collector Han Nefkens acquired one of the pieces to donate to the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in The Netherlands (via Dezeen).

How Victoria’s Secret Swimsuits Look On Everyday Women

This revealing photo-series compares models wearing Victoria’s Secret swimsuits and everyday women working for BuzzFeed. The shoot took place on a beach in Malibu where each woman tried to re-create the pose and look of the original Victoria’s Secret shot. Although there was ample opportunity to feel self-conscious, the experience yielded some insightful commentary.

One woman reflected, “I think everyone should get photographed on the beach in a bathing suit at some point in their life…it is a really fun experience that kind of helps you to get over any insecurities.” Another shared a similar sentiment: ”We may not all be models, but the world is a runway for ALL of us.”

These women tried to recreate swimsuit-model shots in Malibu

Danit peleg 3D prints entire graduate fashion collection at home

for her fashion graduate collection at shenkar, danit peleg wanted to do something very different. she skipped the sewing machines and fabrics, and went straight towards 3D printing machines. it was a struggle, because she barely knew anything about the technology, and creating entire dresses from home scale 3D printers hasn’t really been done yet. influenced by triangular painting compositions, her first piece was a red jacket. using 3D rendering software called blender, just produced files that danit started experimenting with a variety of materials and printers. alongside the help of 3D printing experts techfactoryplus and XLN, she got her hands a different printers polyactic acid plastics (PLA).

French Journalist Parodies High Fashion Ads in Hilarious Spoof

Only in Japan – The LED Illuminated Upskirt Skirt

By Sumitra

 

Japanese designer Kiyoyuki Amano has combined fashion and technology to create futuristic short skirts that illuminate the wearer’s thighs. Aptly named ‘Hikaru Skirt’, which means ‘Shining Skirt’, the garment comes equipped with LED lights and the miniature gyro sensors on the inside. So the skirt lights up, and the color and pattern of the light changes every time the wearer moves.
Amano said that he first placed light bulbs inside a skirt on a whim, and that’s when he noticed that it created a pleasant illumination of the thighs. So he worked on the design some more and soon created a whole line of LED-illuminated minis. The Hikaru skirts, he said, are meant to bridge the gap between everyday fashion and cosplay.

Le luxe à l'heure asiatique

Attirée par sa mode et ses standards esthétiques, l’Asie s’est longtemps laissée influencer par la culture occidentale. Depuis peu, la tendance s’inverse.

Entraînée par une nouvelle génération de blogueuses et de rédactrices de mode ultra pointues (telles Hung Huang, l’Anna Wintour chinoise), l’Asie revendique désormais ses différences culturelles et ses propres standards de beauté. Japon, Chine et Corée sont devenus les référents en matière de tendances beauté mondiales, à l’image des BB et CC crèmes coréennes qui ont envahi nos rayons. Ce sont aussi des marchés incontournables pour cette industrie, où Clarins s’est positionnée dès 1997.

Côté mode, ces pays sont plus que jamais source d’inspiration pour les maisons de luxe en quête de multiculturalisme. Celles-ci n’hésitent pas à revisiter des costumes traditionnels ou à s’approprier les codes esthétiques du Kawaï. Ce rapprochement entre Orient et Occident n’est pas un hasard, à l’heure où les ventes de produits de luxe commencent à ralentir en Asie et surtout en Chine.

Photographer Spends 20 Years Documenting How We All Dress Exactly Alike

by Johnny Strategy on December 22, 2014

For the last 20 years, unassuming Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom has traversed the world, picking a spot, be it in Shanghai, New York, or Paris, and meticulously photographed what he saw. “I take between 1 and 80 photographs a day, almost every day, 12 months a year,” he says, referring to his “Photo Notes” project, which has now been turned into a book titled People of the Twenty-First Century. The “Photographic Journal,” published by PHAIDON, is the largest, most comprehensive work of his to date, and includes thousands of photos that, together, create a fascinating picture of mankind.