Tag Archives: avant guard

  Danish artist Maria Rubinke really knows how to strike a balance between cute and grotesque. Isn’t it a fine line? Anywho, I’ve written about her before so you may already know that I love love love her work. Above are the latest and greatest from her and yes, I would put …

Check out this awesome exhibit called “Arrrgh! Monsters of Fashion” at the Gaîté Lyrique in Paris, which is based on a book called ‘Not a Toy: Fashioning Radical Characters’. This is definitely my scene , man! Monsters, fluffy stuff, bright colors, fashion…. it’s all I love! I love the Napoleon monster in the third …

Japanese designer Anrealage has a taste for the avant guard. Last year they did a pixel- collection was pretty rad.  This season was all about the boxy cage dress in neon colors. LOVE! It’s like a birdcage and you’re the overgrown bird. My fave is the yellow dress with the huge shoulders… …

London-based designer Ziad Ghanem went all dramatic and theatrical this season with  models in vaudevillian make-up and dress. The collection didm’t look like it had a specific theme, it looked really random.  I would say he’s sorta, kinda the British Jean Paul Gaultier, but Gaultier is a bit more polished in …

If Silence of the Lambs was a theme on RuPaul’s Drag Race, you would get Amato Haute Couture’s mask collection. I’m not sure what season these dresses are from, but it looks pretty timeless to me. With all that studding and metal, you’ll never have to go to the gym …

Every season, I look forward to the graduate collection at Central Saint Martins for several reasons. One is that the students don’t give an eff about selling their clothes, so they don’t have a suit telling them to design wearable stuff. So it’s like a WTF free for all- yay! …

Designer Yui Tai of the London College of Fashion definitely was munching on marshmallows when designing this collection. I kinda like all the inflated, puffy silhouettes, especially the jacket in the last photos. It looks like you could be floating on a cloud wearing that or make you look like you wrapped …

Three as Four is one of those designers that pretty much spit out the same stuff every season, just in a different shade of color. I guess they are avant guarde still, but DAMN! mix it up a bit. The only look I like is the dress with the mirrors …

Ok, when you see the words Comme Des Garçon, you know you’re gonna get a bunch of crazy upon crazy. So, this season was not disappointing. Basically, take all the drapery scraps you can find and pile it high on you in some effed up way with no rhyme or …

Royal Academy of Fine Arts graduate So Takayama definitely is going to go far among the anime fans around the world. I personally love his anime collection, even though the masks look somewhat freaky. He should’ve just gone this route , instead….. maybe not. Anywho, That last dress looks like it can …