Ana Strumpf Re-cover

When I was a child, I loved to paint the covers of my mother’s fashion magazines. I used to paint mustache and beard in the models, and also made their eyebrows very thick. But Ana Strumpf, Brazilian pop artist, …

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Faces Of Famous Figures Combined With Their Modern Counterparts’

 

In a series titled ‘Then & Now’, Toronto-based designer Marc Ghali takes a look at famous people from the past and fuses their faces with their modern equivalents.

Ghali chose the pairings based on the similarity of their faces, occupation …

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Book Paintings by Ekaterina Panikanova

 

Artist Ekaterina Panikanova creates densely layered paintings across large spreads of old books and other documents, resulting in artwork that blurs the lines between painting, installation and collage. Born in St. Petersburg in 1975 Panikanova graduated at the top of …

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Portfolio du jour: Beth Hoeckel

 

Beth Hoeckel, 34, is a multidisciplinary artist from Baltimore USA. She received a bachelor of fine arts degree from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she focused primarily on painting, photography, and printmaking. A whirlwind decade …

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Meadow Sweet – Harper’s Bazaar UK – May 13

 

This is the special issue of Harper’s Bazaar UK, in collaboration with the Victoria and Albert museum .

Every month Baazar produces a separate cover for the issues on sale at the V&A. With a limited print run, it’s every …

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Cathy Daley Drawings

 

If I could paint I would want to produce images like these! So simple, so wonderful…the Canadian artist Cathy Daley is my new passion. Black and white oil pastel, with a flavor of  vintage fashion illustrations. But with a twist. …

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Get to know Yves Drillet

 

At only 21 years-old, the photographer Yves Drillet has already worked for Dazed & Confused, Kaugummi, YBDPT, Kult, HUH and more. He also runs Honnête Magazine, lives between Paris, Nice and Rennes, and is currently studying in Villa Arson. An …

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Christmas Through The Windows

 

In 1909, Bon Marché in Paris kick-started the trend for Christmas windows, and since then, stores all over the world have celebrated the festive season with extravagant displays of fashion fantasy. With Christian Dior at Printemps, Oscar de la Renta …

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Royal Treatment: Three New Books on the Russian Aristocracy and Its Aftermath

 

In anticipation of the new film adaptation of Anna Karenina, starring Keira Knightley, comes a trio of nonfiction books on the twilight of the Russian aristocracy.

“The end of the nobility in Russia marked the end of a …

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The Cure For Greed By Diddo

 

By Amsterdam based artist-designer-inventor Diddo: 

Whatever we feel about greed, we can agree on one thing: it exists. Whether there’s too much of it in the world, or too little, is a matter of opinion, not understanding. We

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City of God – 10 years later documentary

 

In 2002 the movie ‘City Of God’ directed by Fernando Meirelles, impressed and shocked the cinematic world at the same time. It tells the story of 2 friends growing up in the suburbian favelas of Rio de Janeiro/Brazil in ‘Cidade …

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Editorial for VMan – The Shape of Things To Come

 

“2020s – The Shape of Things To Come” is the name of the photo editorial for the decades issue of VMAN magazine.  Fashion editor Tom Van Dorpe let loose chopping up and rearranging the photos of 7 Ford agency models, …

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Vienna Design Week – 2012

 

After Vienna Fashion Week,  the city is hosting Vienna Fair, a huge event promoting new artists and galleries. And now it is time for design. Vienna Design Week will be going on all over the city, until 7. October,  so …

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Samantha Hahn illustrations for The Cut Magazine – #NYFW

 

We are fans of Samantha Hahn , last time we showed her work for Refinery29. She lives in New York, and illustrated some key looks from New York Fashion Week S/S 2013 for The Cut Magazine. Her watercolor …

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Carine Roitfeld Fashion Book

 

Carine Roitfeld left French Vogue in December 2010 and last week she launched her own title CR Fashion Book, with the support of all the big names in the fashion industry.

The theme of Carine Roitfeld’s new semiannual fashion glossy

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High Fashion GIFs

 

Today, I found an amazing Tumblr of a fashion photographer who is using GIFs in a totally new way,  her GIFs are of a different class.

New York photographer Jamie Beck is reinventing the GIF by animating high fashion photography …

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Zippo Lighters From The Vietnam War

 

These customised Zippo lighters all belonged to soldiers in the US Army during the Vietnam War. The collection consists of over 282 lighters, and were gathered from war zones by American artist Bradford Edwards.

Mr. Edwards, 52, is an American …

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J. Crew Fall Campaign Starring Fashionistas!

 

It really is a new era in communication…fashion bloggers and street style muses are taking over what used to belong to super models and actresses. Who doesn’t want to have the wardrobe of Caroline Issa? We follow her steps in …

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Call parade – Brazil

 

I remember when I used to live in Zurich there was a public arts project with artists painting cows called cow parade. The beautifully painted cows were placed all over the city. I remember thinking it was cool but …

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Awesome Ink

 

I’ve been coming across the most interesting tattoo photos and decided it was time to do another tattoo post. I know some of you out there might be opposed to ink but I still find it a beautiful form of …

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Hope Gangloff

 

I’ve found the work of Hope Gangloff by chance, on Pinterest. Just Loved it! She takes pictures of friends, family and her surroundings, that then turn into super illustrations with a flavor of modernistic paintings.

I would love to have …

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Celebrities with vintage cameras

 

They seem to be having more fun behind the camera than in front of one…

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