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Extremes of Style: When Antifashion Becomes Fashion
Posted by Katia on April 19, 2011 · 2 Comments
Fashion is the vehicle through which a particular beauty ideal travels from the towering skyscrapers housing the offices of the industry’s most influential glossies to our mass consciousness. Across the pages of fashion magazines lay perfectly symmetrical faces with flawless, porcelain skin, and long and lean statuesque models of near perfection. It’s odd then to … Read more
Filed under Culture and society, Designers, Extremes of Style, Fashion, Lookbooks and editorials, Musings, News and commentary · Tagged with antifashion, Art, Beauty, design, designers, fashion, Fred Davis, Jean-Paul Gauthier, Mugler, Nicola Formichetti, Rick Genest, skeleton, Style, Vogue Hommes Japan, zombie