Alexander McQueen Savage Beauty « Ironing Board Collective. If you love Alexander McQueen so much why don’t you prove it by flying to New York City and seeing the Savage Beauty show at the Met? It’s up until August 7th and I dare say it is worth the plane ticket and the Disneyland-sized line to get in. What is helpful is that the line winding through the Met is winding through the Met, so you can hang out with the masterpieces of the ages while you wait.
In his La Poupee collection, McQueen sent models down a flooded catwalk via a waterfall staircase, like some fucked up Top Model challenge. Savage Beauty screens the designer’s intense, gorgeous, performance-art runway shows throughout the exhibit, and they are deeply captivating. La Poupee was inspired by the mutant puppetry of the German sculptor, pervert and Nazi resister Hans Belmer, who began making twisted female mannequins in defiance of Nazi beauty standards and also cause he was a wild perv. Hans Belmer If the Nazis deemed him degenerate you know he’s good. Mutant sisterhood is powerful. Ying gao - designer. Mr Toledano : Hope&Fear. Glamorous cats in New York cat fashion show. We have all heard about New York Fashion Week, but what about the New York Cat Fashion Show? It’s a posh show that takes places in the lobby of Algonguin Hotel, and the participants are different kinds of cats dressed up in Haute Couture outfits.
The whole ceremony is rather odd with dressed-up cats parading around in front of their owners, but it still can be amusing, especially if you’re a cat lover. Speaking of cats, check out these photo montages of kittens and other pets transformed into famous people. Image credit: Katie Sokoler Like this: Like Loading... Iris van Herpen. Bizarre 3D Garments. “Escapism Couture” is a fashion collection by Iris van Herpen. Notes about the designer (from Herpen’s website): Normal rules don’t apply…..Iris van Herpen stands for a reciprocity between craftsmanship and innovation in technique and materials.Van Herpen forces fashion to the extreme contradiction between beauty and regeneration.
It is her unique way to reevaluate reality and to express and underline individuality.The essence of van Herpen is expressing the character and emotions of an unique woman and to extend the shape of the feminine body in detail. She mixes craftsmanship- using old and forgotten techniques- with innovation and materials inspired on the world to come.[...] Photos © Iris van Herpen Link via Triangulation. Paper Couture. “Sewing the Invisible” is a fashion collection by Jum Nakao. Runway photos by Fernando Louza, collection photos by Sandra Bordin, all photos © Jum Nakao Link via Upon a Fold.