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May 08, 2013

gothiccharmschool:

I refuse to call that red & black striped with red & black brocade corset “steampunk”. I also am very sad that there’s no chance of it fitting my buxom, short-waisted self. 

theblacklacedandy:

strange—and—unusual:

papa-scotch:

logicallunacy:

Steampunk Corsets from Corset-Story.com.

These actually look cool. My problem with most steampunk stuff is it seems like an excuse to put brass and gears on shit for no reason, but these actually have a sense of design to them.

GET ON MY BODY

MY STEAMPUNK SIDE OF ME IS SCREAMING “PLEASEEEEE”

Quote
January 03, 2013
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Why is it art if Nam June Paik puts TV monitors on the breasts of beautiful and talented Charlotte Moorman and it’s “silly” when Yoko Ono puts bells on beautiful, and probably talented, male models’ nipples?

Men of this generation are not used to seeing themselves objectified, while women are inundated with sexualized images of their gender. It’s not true that only males in the animal kingdom are adorned for mating rituals: Look at the embroidered, wigged and high-heeled men of Louis’ court, knights in damascened armor, and by extension, ornately worked swords and firearms. Even up to the 19th century, dandies dressed in long frocks tended to their moustaches and walked with jeweled canes.

As Lyta Alexander of Santa Sangre puts it, “Finally, a fashion line objectifying the male body as a focus for sexual desire…I remember numerous fashion lines with hearts, hand-prints and other similar symbols in the female breasts or buttocks, and nobody bothered to get enraged. Now the prints are on the male genitals, and lo and behold, righteous indignation…Go Yoko.”

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Mirror Smasher: Yoko Ono’s Fashion for Men

Right on. I quite like the pants with the knees cut out.

Photo
March 12, 2012
fashioninhistory: Jean-Phillipe Worth The flowing S-curve silhouette of this dress is typical of its time. A water’s-edge pattern and plant pattern, lined up in a coordinated fashion, is appliquéd and embroidered onto thin silk chiffon and expressed three-dimensionally. The influence of Art Nouveau, a decorative art style popular from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th, is evident.It seems as if the plant pattern arranged on the skirt is of Japanese iris, blooming on the waterfront. This stylised pattern makes one recall the plants that appear in the sketch collection supervised by the artists Eugène Grasset (1845–1917) and E.A. Séguy (1889-1985) who were affected on Japonism. These stylised designs were first applied to textiles. Wooden furniture, flower vases, lighting, and various other products were later characterised by the Art Nouveau style.-Kyoto Costume Institute  Everything about this dress is stunning.

fashioninhistory:

Jean-Phillipe Worth

The flowing S-curve silhouette of this dress is typical of its time. A water’s-edge pattern and plant pattern, lined up in a coordinated fashion, is appliquéd and embroidered onto thin silk chiffon and expressed three-dimensionally. The influence of Art Nouveau, a decorative art style popular from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th, is evident.It seems as if the plant pattern arranged on the skirt is of Japanese iris, blooming on the waterfront. This stylised pattern makes one recall the plants that appear in the sketch collection supervised by the artists Eugène Grasset (1845–1917) and E.A. Séguy (1889-1985) who were affected on Japonism. These stylised designs were first applied to textiles. Wooden furniture, flower vases, lighting, and various other products were later characterised by the Art Nouveau style.-Kyoto Costume Institute 

Everything about this dress is stunning.

(via chardonette)