Month: October 2010

The Laurel dress: a photoshoot

What better way to celebrate Halloweek than getting dressed up with friends and taking lots and lots of pictures of each other in gorgeous dresses? At the end of the shoot, and after editing out tons and tons of images, I still have over 100 fabulous images of me in the laurel dress. But I’ll restrain myself and only show you the ones that are beyond fabulous. Need more fabulosity? Check out the entire gallery on the dress page. Most of the photographs are by the fabulous Sarah, the rest are by Madame Ornata.

Meat Dress

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Lady Gaga’s recent attire may have made waves, but it’s not entirely unprecedented. As part of my Halloweek celebration, let’s look at some other meat inspired clothes. This costume wins first prize any time. The wearer was a bacon and ham aficionado. Everyone needs a hobby. These bags (made for a weight loss advertisement) aren’t actually carry-able, but they sure are interesting! If neon green or checkered isn’t wild enough for you, you can have bacon printed keds: And for a more upscale look, Tokio Kumagai’s famous ‘eating shoes’ And this image is all over the internet, but, alas, I can’t find a source for it: There are also the more-than-slightly creepy ‘baby turkey carcass costumes’: So what do you think? Fancy being a slab of dead animal for your Holiday?

Those crazy (creepy) Victorians – take 4

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Some time ago, someone mentioned Walter Potter to me, but foolishly, I didn’t look in to him. Last week, I was reminded again. And boy, have my eyes been opened. This is Walter Potter: He looks like a lovely, staid Victorian gentleman. Until you see what he did for a job. This is Potter’s most famous work: Yes, those are kittens. Taxidermied kittens. Having a tea party. Felicity does not approve. (Damian Hirst does though, go figure) Potter worked with other animals too: Who thinks up exercising toads? I mean, really!?! Apparently they are all mechanised, and do their individual exercises. Freaky. When bunnies at school starts too look ‘normal’, you know you have seen too many of these works. Only the Victorian’s could have thought up, and celebrated, something like this. The genre is called ‘Victorian Whimsy’. Really. Potter ran a museum dedicated to his works in Brighton. Tourists could take special coach trips from Brighton just to see the works too. I kid you not. Should you really feel the need to see …