Maggie: Burcu Buyukunal’s face-altering jewelry. Domesticity and yellow gloves. Young Li Lee‘s be-ribboned designs. A blush on a dress. Birdcage. BDSM. Hideko Takamine in The Kiss (1955)....
Neck brace and fitted hood borrowed from the excellent Jonny Negron. Modified white dress shirts, à la Victor & Rolf S/S 2010. Medieval armor with coattails. A look of perplexity. Layered patent...
Drop-crotch might be played out, but I once saw a photograph of a pair of ill-fitting pantyhose that stayed with me. Thus–drop-crotch sheer tights. The ballerina sequence in Runaway and phyllo ...
Adele: Wide-waisted pants from this editorial: Femina, held up by one across-the-shoulder suspender strap. Padded boots. A wishbone brooch. Jack Kirby’s costume designs for Julius Caesar. Napol...
Esha: Lately I’ve wanted a pair of mesh/chiffon overalls to go over a bodysuit, so I drew it in lieu of dropping cold hard cash on a seamstress to sew the overalls for me. Note that there’...
Anahit: Red plastic antelope skull, with charms (and her house key cast in gold) dangling off the horns. A capelet of synthetic hair tightly curled into ringlets, layered over dip-dyed straight hair....
Helen: This Valentino dress. Silk-lined flower wig. Floral mesh shirt faking tattoos on your arms. Oversize cotton jersey onesie borrowed, with slight modifications, from Connor Willumsen. Gold-plate...
Peg: The album art for Alopecia. Raw wool necklace, ephemeral jewelry. I still think about the fringe in the Jil Sander Spring 2009 collection. Summer. Sunglasses printed with a cloudy blue sky. It&#...
Georgia: The Good, The Bad, The Weird. Girl mullets. Prada S/S 2010 styling, especially the glasses. Blazer cut out like a swimsuit, belted. Marian Churchland’s impossible jackets. Tightly woun...
Irene: This editorial, though I can’t decide whether the necklace would be agate or enamel. The boots are inspired (though warped beyond recognition) by the last page of Michael DeForge’s...
Carmina: A cowhide cape/poncho/habit, still slightly furry, shaped into an enormous bow. Mori girls. Ruffles sewn onto a nylon skirt. Thick ribbed socks under wraparound ribbon wedges.
Sally: Women of the Dunes. “Dolce & Gabbana” painted-on sunglasses à la Edith Zimmerman. Lace ribcage. A heavy collar of chipped red stone, or possibly rusted-over iron. Gold cameos....
Wei-Wei: Beijing Opera makeup. Janelle Monáe’s androgynous look and dancing shoes. The trains in Threeasfour’s S/S 2010 show. A jeweled harness and bib. Ruffled shorts with chaps in a con...
Laid up in bed sick and coughing. Please excuse the delay! Aurélie: The music video for “Why Don’t You Love Me?”–particularly the martini-swilling, tear-streaked incarnation o...
Sorry I missed last week’s update without any warning–I was in Toronto and also quite sick. I’ll strive to make it up to you with extra accessory posts. Crust: Michael DeForge, whom...
Chisato: The telescope octopus and other creatures of the Mariana Trench. Stretchy chaps over a short skirt. A squared-off headband and a bow on the zipper (it’s not a real bow—tug it up and do...
Pauline: A recursive dress featuring a girl wearing a dress featuring a girl wearing a dress featuring—and so forth. I had a set of four tiny plastic bears when I was little that were covered in some...
Colleen Baran’s Ring A Day project. The translucent plastic bones on the bracelet jangle pleasantly with every gesture. 24K gold finger bones on navy elastic ribbon. If you wear all nine on one...
Lauren: Opalite spines. Armor and vulnerability. A headband with carded, twisted wool (dyed pink) attached, or a volcano cerebrum made of cotton candy–either one. Elsien Gringhuis, Matthew Hard...
Diane: Gareth Pugh F/W 2010, Rick Owens F/W 2010. Cage/armor/ribbons. Hussein Chalayan’s laser dress. Anna Dello Russo’s jeweled cape. A ceramic deer. Nobuhiko Obayashi’s House.
Flesh: Anatomy, manicures, and shoe fetishes. Dominic Jones’s nail gloves and YSL Tributes. A cloven hoof. David Lynch and Christian Louboutin’s collaboration on “Fetish”. Nec...
Ciara: Yamanba (street style of the mountain hag). A Kabuki ghost wig, a hoodie, and a furry scarf. The translucent dress Lady Gaga wears during the diner scene in Telephone. Furry glasses and earrin...
Ikebana: Woven bamboo ikebana baskets. The illusion of geta supported by plastic. Coral or dead branches. Tanner Springs Park. Cherries, pansies, springtime. Like Cinderella’s sister, you would...
Pia: Lamija Sulijevic’s sleeves, A/W 2010. Shibari. Crumpled aluminum foil and titanium-bonded (rainbow) quartz. Tetsuya Nomura. Florals. Bebaroque brassy studded tights. Dried bean curd. John ...
Insect: Prada’s clear heels, Spring 2010. Ellis Scott photographs the jewellery of Dominic Jones. Silk knot cufflinks. Iridescent beetles suspended in lucite. Nicholas Kirkwood for Jean-Pierre ...
Astrid: The pearl shirt from The Pearl Shirt Reencountered. The 1964 “Japan” issue of Life Magazine. Sea urchins. Storm clouds. Uncomfortable femininity. The beginning of Yeasayer’s...
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