World’s Strangest

This post is not part of the official “What Is It?” contest category, but I couldn’t resist presenting the subject in this enigmatic fashion. The object on the left above is crafted from gold, the right one from silver. Ponder for a while what possible practical utility they might serve. They are quite interesting, really. It [...]

Many, many years ago today (451 years ago, to be exact), the world changed when Elizabeth I took the throne. She’s been a popular subject in recent years with the Cate Blanchett Elizabeth movies and Philippa Gregory books, so you probably already know the basics… what you may not know about is her fabulous couture [...]

Franca Cuneo poses on Capri. In real life, the 28-year-old is a restaurateur in Hamburg. Brigitte, a German fashion magazine, has announced that it will no longer employ professional models for its fashion shoots. But something about the photos looks different. A prominent tummy here and noticeable wrinkles there reveal that these are not size-zero Amazons straight [...]

Would you ever wear a dress made from condoms, chocolate or newspapers? A big NO from me, but then, there might be some truly fashion conscious people who whould praise them as artworks. How about a dress made of salad? Can there be a better way to support the causes of the environment other than wearing [...]

Apple has always been much more about fashion than PCs are, so it’s only natural that an Apple computer fan has taken their message of individuality one step further by allowing people to customize their laptop with cool vinyl stickers. The coolest thing about the designs by Vinylville is that each one incorporates the glowing apple [...]

Artist Reid Peppard makes fashion accessories out of dead animals. Imagine cufflinks made from little mouse heads, a coin purse that was once a rat, or headbands with real wings. Shown is a hair comb made from a guinea pig. Link -via Digg

Human beings seemingly really enjoy getting creative with their cruelty, as these (mostly) out of fashion methods of execution illustrate, including the Spanish Tickler: Used to tear open the victim’s skin, this weapon could rip through anything, including muscle and bone. The victim was tied up naked, sometimes in public, and then the torturers begin mutilating [...]

(YouTube Link) Like many products appearing on high fashion runways, these one-of-a-kind products are not very practical — other than the fact that they can be eaten. The French-language video above shows many of the items available at a 2004 exhibition by fashion designer Jean-Paul Gaultier. At the time, Suzy Menkes wrote in The New York [...]

What would He-Man and the rest of the Masters of the Universe look like if they were into fashion? No need to imagine, as artist Adrian Riemann had re-drawn them as if they were Hipsters of the Universe: What would He-Man look like if he was really into fashion and indie rock? What if Skeletor was [...]

If you’ve ever thought that New York’s Fashion Week is taken way too seriously, then you might be like the Snuggie marketing team. Yes, they actually introduced new fabrics and colors, but the reasons behind the show has a lot more to do with silliness than displaying the new products. The host of the show [...]