A Few New (To Me) Innovative And Alternative Fashion Designers

I was perusing clips of London Alternative Fashion Week (admittedly a couple of years old now) and Brighton Fashion Week and happened upon a few I found very interesting.

Love these new (ish) clothes kittens or hate them, you can’t deny they’ll stick in your mind.

First is Jylle Navarro, somehow bringing punk, zombies and 90s rave to knitwear. This first clip is from Alternative Fashion Week and the beginning features a lot of standing around so you may want to skip on a bit:

This next clip from Brighton Fashion Week is probably the liveliest runway/rave/alien/fashion thing I’ve seen, however I’ve not seen many so let me know of any others:

And lastly here she is being interviewed at the London art cafe and shop for groovy kids Cult Mountain:

Next is the rather cute Wonderland collection from Victoria Bramwell, seen a bit first at London Alternative Fashion Week:

And more fully at The El Rey Theatre. The camera’s vantage point is a little unfortunate, almost looking up the model’s dresses, but at least you can see all the outfits:

Freya Von Bulow makes apocalyptic dresses out of tissue paper! Here’s a short interview with her:

And her show:

Here are some vintage frills and embroidered gas masks by Gemma McDonald:

And lastly here are some angry industrial aliens by Katarzyna Konieczka

14 Science-Fiction Fashions That Are Now Reality

Have a look at these futuristic designs which are available right now, from a dress that comes from a spray can to outfits that charge your phone.  

Now have a peek at this clip from the 30s predicting what we might be wearing in the year 2000. Ooh, swish!

Avant Garde Fashion by Kasia Konieczka

I really love freaky fashion as I’ve said many times, and this definitely falls under that category, have a look at plenty more on this link. I’d really like to see Britain’s Next Top Model do stuff like this (no, I actually would, I’m not ashamed to admit I love that programme).

Some surreal fashion and art, or: birdmen, spaceships and pencil sharpener women

Just some quick ones today of pictures that made my eyeballs explode with delight from blog Morfes.

Go to this blog post and have a look at these pretties by Russian artist Tatiana Kazakova. 

I love this pencil shaving fashion lady by Matthew Brodie. 

I do have a penchant for Georgian excess, photos by Helen Sobiralski. 

These digital collages by Catrin Welz Stein are quite pretty. 

The 3d art by Andrey Bobir was quite interesting I thought. 

Fashion photographer Eugenio Recuenco recreated Picasso’s paintings for a photoshoot. 

Bizarre fashion predictions from the distant past (some intentional, some not)

Well hello! Icicles hang from the trees outside (unless you’re in Australia, in which case I still can’t get my head round your weather, now sort it out). With the festive party season drawing near I’m sure everyone is wondering what to wear, and as I may have mentioned I love unusual and alternative fashion.

Why not take the old advice and learn from history? They appear to have had a spooky pre-knowledge for what the catwalks of today hold.

Before Lady Gaga was even a concept of a twinkle in the eye, this bacon sporting gentleman from 1894 and hardware displaying lady from the 1890s were strutting the streets. Of course, the man is taking part in a fancy dress party and the lady is a ‘banner woman’ for a hardware shop, but this diminishes nothing.

This 1917 May Queen must have seen My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding in her sleep:

Next up Big Brother was watching the Georgians long before Orwell or (sigh) that TV programme that will not end.

Apparently owning a small framed picture of someone’s eye on your person was quite in vogue, though they had very different meanings in France and England.

To the French it symbolised watchfulness, whereas to the English it was usually a token of love:

OK enough fannying about (it’s an English expression in case you’re unfamiliar), now for the serious stuff.

These billiant predictions appeared in The Strand magazine (very prestigious London publication) in 1893.

They’re all fascinating and the designers have used the past as inspiration. I recommend you have a jaunt on over to the original post of this even if you don’t the others, but I think this one obscurely deciding that society will form a medieval circus is my favourite:

Finally I absolutely love this news item from the 1930s. Designers collaborated to predict what we would be wearing in 2000. Ooh, swish!

A little list of post-Halloween weird for you

Bonjour, how are my little cocktail sausages? I decided to share a couple of things I’ve seen via t’internet over the last few days just to reassure myself that Halloween is never over:

Firstly is some stunning pumpkin carvery by artist Ray Villafane. Wander over to blog Halloween Culture for more (and you know you want to):

Secondly blog and home of loony literary kittens Bizarro Central will be alerting us to a new weird artist each day of December. Write it in your diaries! Not in blood, try this biro. Have a look at this blog post for more info and a list of last year’s December artists.

Next up is a facebook page (that’s it, I’m getting technical on you) dedicated to the gothic world of Old Hollywood: Decaying Hollywood Mansions. Enter a world of vintage stars, studio overlords and bootlegging gangsters.

Also included is this post on the Gashlycrumb Tinies, a children’s book for adults I remember reading many years ago. To read through the whole ghastly business (apparently Neville died of ennui, I know how he feels) visit this post on The Year of Halloween.

Lastly, it would be silly to miss out the Body Parts Bakery. Here is a picture and video stolen from Bizarro Central featuring the stash of bready body bits all made by artist Kittiwat Unarrom in Thailand (everything is edible and sold in the bakery):