Archive for April, 2009

 

Beauty Marked

April 17th, 2009

You know those sexy lines a corset leaves behind when you remove it? How about a nickel slipped into your tightest jeans, just to see if you can read the mint mark? The unfortunate ring left by knee-high socks? Now what if this was your art form? Meet Ninette Van Kamp, embosser of bodies. Technically, [...]

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Arachnidian

April 17th, 2009

“they also talk about the desire of finery, carapace, protection, reinterpreted in a playful way…” Parisian designers Heal Fashionlab, via VividFluxury. “Always with this contrast of feelings between the structured side of the print and the arachnidan softness of the fabrics” More photos after the jump!

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Circus Chic

April 16th, 2009

A couple of days ago, I posted a pictorial (Spanish Acquisition) for which Paco Peregrin had done the photography and  Kattaca had done the styling and art direction. That article was my first taste of either artist, but since then I have been digging through the treasure trove of both portfolios, and will be bringing [...]

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Don’t Panic

April 16th, 2009

Do you know where your beach towel is? Breathe deeply.  We’re here for you. We can help. It’s that season again. The season when, sooner or later, you are going to have wear a bathing suit. Even if it’s just to huddle in the shade drinking vodka tonics, or to sneak into a jacuzzi after [...]

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Sexual Evolution

April 15th, 2009

Sometimes here at Haute Macabre, we just have to stray from that which is fashion in the most pedestrian sense of the word. In this case, the costume design of Isabella Rossellini’s Green Porno, produced by the Sundance Channel, make it enough of a tie-in to count. Or maybe I am just utterly, totally in [...]

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