Tag Archive: fashion

Astronaut Fashion: Spacesuits Through the Years

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Fashion gets everywhere, even space. As NASA shows in this wonderful collection of how their space suit has evolved over the years. We particular like the silver foil look that seemed to be so wildly popular in the 70s. Click the pic to see.  

Scout Paré-Phillips Impressions

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In this rather erotic shoot, photographer Scout Pare-Phillips has spelt out the garments on the model by using their impressions only. The ghostly palimpsests of the clothes are enough to make your imagination run wild, as it’s entirely left up to you to imagine what the items of clothing were like before they were taken [...]

Christian Dior in Moscow, 1959

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The Khrushchev’s Thaw was to bring change to many aspects of the Soviet life, and fash­ion was one of them. The deci­sion to allow the Soviet fash­ion design­ers to learn off their French coun­ter­parts was made as high as at the gov­ern­ment level, which implic­itly put fash­ion above pol­i­tics or inter­na­tional ide­o­log­i­cal regimes. The colour [...]

Litographs: Entire Books on Posters and T-shirts

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Litographs offers unique posters featuring the text from entire books. Founded by Danny Fein, the company has launched a campaign on Kickstarter to create their next product: t-shirts that let you wear your favorite book on your sleeve. They have worked with Sharprint to produce these screen printed t-shirts with all-over designs, and are seeking [...]

Menswear by Tom Phillips

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Compiled from a collection of over 50,000 photographs, Menswear by Tom Phillips is a fascinating study of gentleman’s fashion from the first half of the twentieth century.  The book – the latest to be published by Oxford’s Bodleian Library – features 200 photo postcards documenting the day-to-day wardrobes of the fashionable chaps from – everything [...]

The first fashion photographer: Clementina, Lady Hawarden

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Photography as a recognised art form didn’t really emerge until the 20th century, but it was back in the 19th century that many of the roots of today’s image genres emerged. Over on rbklocalstudies they’ve found a stunning collection of photos that seem to suggest the dawn of fashion photography. Lady Hawarden was possibly the [...]

Apple’s Clothing Line From The ‘80s

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Before Apple decided that minimal was best, it experimented freely with the concept of stretching the brand beyond its IT domain. So, in 1986, it produced its own clothing line. We’re really not kidding. The pics you’re about to see were all pulled from a catalogue from that year. Cue rush to eBay to make [...]

A history of Cannes’ most stylish attendees

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When you think of the Cannes Film Festival, perhaps you remember that time last year when Ryan Gosling showed up in what can only be described as evening pajamas. Or the year Borat showed up in a Mankini (really, no photo necessary). It’s hit or miss, especially when it comes to men’s wear, as Hollywood’s [...]

X-Ray Fashion by Nick Veasey

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X-Ray photographer Nick Veasey has been snapping the world using an x-ray machine for a few years now. He’s shot flowers, plants, men, machines, and toys. But, his latest work has turned to the world of fashion. Picking iconic and instantly recognisable pieces of clothing, he reveals the emptiness within, while simultaneously highlighting the beauty [...]

Tomorrowland by Ben Sandler

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Paris based photographer Ben Sandler has created this cracking project examining the contradiction between projections of the future in the 1950s compared to our vision of that future now. Here’s what Ben had to say on the project: “There is a home where the inner mess of its inhabitants contrasts with the immaculateness of the [...]