What a GORGEOUS collection! Elie never disappoints with the most feminine, classic, and luxurious dresses most stars fawn over during awards season. These couture collections come out right before Hollywood’s biggest night, the Oscars, so look out to see which lucky gal will wear an beautifully embroidered, Art Deco Elie …
Read More »Boobies and Bums Needlepoint
Artist Sally Hewett has taken the old lady art of embroidery and stitching to a whole new ‘cheeky’ level. Although it may look like a wall of Cabbage Patch porn, it’s actually a statement about breast augmentations due to cancer and sucky things like that. Honestly, I just want to run up …
Read More »All Stitched Up
File this under : That bitch is crazy. British artist Eliza Bennett must’ve run out of cloth because this crazy lady decided to stitch embroidery right into her goddamn hand. I have to say this is pretty hardcore. I had my lipliner and lip shade tattooed on for years, but I think …
Read More »Thom Browne- Men’s -Spring 2013- It’s a Plaid, Plaid World
Holy Plaid! It’s like a golfer’s convention shat on the Tin Man from The Wizard of Oz! But I like it! Seriously, even though it’s a little overkill with the plaid, I LOVE the colors. Being a New Englander, I’m always pleased with lobsters being worked into fashion. And the …
Read More »Tulle and Candyfloss
Check out these cool, embroidered outfits all handmade by Tulle and Candyfloss ! They look really gossamer and ethereal and I’m sure it took a lot of hard work to dye it and manipulate it to look so fantastical. I believe they also glow in the dark, which would be great for a …
Read More »Dolce & Gabbana- Fall 2012- The Gilded Age
It was the usual gaudy Dolce & Gabbana show, except this time they laid on the gaudiness real thick. There were lots of gilded, gold embroidery upon black for a most dramatic impact. Seriously, it was like Liberace going to a Transylvanian funeral. In other words, I liked it. Anywho, …
Read More »Alexander McQueen-Pre-Fall 2012
Here is a taste of what’s to come for Fall from Alexander McQueen… So, beautiful with the structured silhouette for day and sheer structure for the evening. Really pretty how a free flowing sheer gown can look so sharp at the same time. Anywho, that Sarah Burton has done it …
Read More »Embroidered X-Ray Art
Philadelphia artist Matthew Cox wanted to capture the extremes of embroidery and X-rays. One takes lots of time and is reserved usually for leisurely old ladies covered in cat hair on the Bingo Bus to Mohegan Sun and the other a fast product required for health reasons and made in a …
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