Using colored pencils, Italian artist Marco Mazzoni creates surreal portraits of blank faces adorned with vibrant flowers and butterflies.
The works are a tribute to natural beauty as well as an exploration of identity. The exclusion of eyes replaced with whiteness hints at inner divinity, placing emphasis on flora and fauna. Marco states his work is inspired by “references to the Sardinian female-based societies of 15th century which conserved their culture through…
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Mario Testino's exhibition Todo o Nada opened in Rome at the Fondazione Memmo in the historic Palazzo Ruspoli on July 8 and will run through November 23, 2011. The exhibition, first shown in Madrid, brings together 54 photographs that reveal the two opposing concepts found in Testino’s work, fashion and the…
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Ray Caesar is one of the most celebrated digital artists of the Pop Surrealism movement. Born in London at the age of 17, he moved to Toronto with his family. There, he worked in the Art & Photography department of the Hospital For Sick Children, documenting disturbing cases of child abuse,…
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Added by Marica on May 29, 2011 at 11:00am —
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Step into the fantastical world of James Jean and get ready to be amazed. The Taiwanese-American visual artist is one of the most talented people of our generation. He's known in the world of comics thanks to his beautiful covers of DC Comics for which he received numerous accolades including seven Eisner awards, three consecutive Harvey awards, two gold medals and a silver from the Society of…
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Added by Marica on May 20, 2011 at 1:51pm —
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When Greek designer
Mary Katrantzou wanted to show off her fall/winter 2011-2012 clothing collection, she could have been like countless others, placing beautiful models in tropical locations, frolicking around an all-too-pristine beach. Instead, she breathes life into her colorful clothes, made with baroque and allegorical textures, by…
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Added by Marica on May 12, 2011 at 7:00am —
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Photographed by Cuneyt Akeroglu and styled by Ece Sukan, Malagosia Bela appears in the April 2011 edition of Turkish Vogue. The cover girl (Vogue Turkey and Numero in the same month) dons a wardrobe of long flowing dresses from the likes of Christopher Kane, Christian Dior and Fendi. An amazing garden filled with flowers surrounds the Polish top-model, while Malgosia looks like a Pre-Raphaelite…
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Los Angeles-based Bob Doucette has been in animation for twenty years. He's working as a director for many well-known animated children's programs, including the PBS hit
Clifford's Puppy Days and shows like
Tiny Toons and
Animaniacs.
In addition, Doucette is an accomplished artist and doll maker. Though he started making dolls as a hobby, he now works at it as his…
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Added by Marica on April 22, 2011 at 6:30am —
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These irresistible fashion cupcakes are the result of Swedish food stylist
Edsalv Lisa and photographer
Therese Aldgard. Their brilliant minds have created five delicious cupcakes inspired by the style of Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Christian Louboutin, Betsey Johnson and Agent Provocateur. Looks…
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Tim Walker enchants us again with his daring vision in the April issue of Vogue UK.
The Right Lines features models Lindsey Wixson and Kirsi Pryhonen syled in Prada, Jil Sander, Marc by Marc Jacob, among others. The shoot, featuring sets created by Rhea Thierstein, places the stripe-clad girls in a surreal Walker world of parrots and colorful smoke.…
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Added by Marica on April 7, 2011 at 12:30pm —
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Balloons are often used as props when it comes to fashion photography. I’ve compiled a set of photos where they become the stars! These playful balloons grab our attention, just like a model would. Enjoy!
Augusto Tavares…
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Added by Marica on March 4, 2011 at 5:30pm —
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Beginning May 4th, the Metropolitan Museum in New York will commemorate the remarkable fashion career of Alexander McQueen with the exhibition
Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty. It will highlight his significant contribution to the world of fashion from his postgraduate collection in 1992 to his final runway presentation after his death in February 2010. 100 pieces of work will be…
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Russian artists Alexei Lyapunov and Lena Ehrlich of Art Lebedev Studio present a new way of making flash drives. Using cardboard, they've created disposable thumb drives, which have biodegradable housing and are environmentally friendly.
They are also inexpensive to produce. Cardboard is a more cost-effective material than plastic, wood or metal. It wouldn’t require using costly inks…
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Added by Marica on February 23, 2011 at 1:00pm —
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If you never believed in the saying, "From tragedy to triumph," then you haven't heard the story of Daniel Arsham. In 1992, Arsham experienced a devastating hurricane that broke apart his house and nearly killed him and his family. Rather than wallow in self-pity, the calamitous experience became an inspiration for his art. An idea arose - that nothing is indestructible and that everything is…
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Added by Marica on February 19, 2011 at 2:00pm —
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Italian artist Nicoletta Ceccoli uses pastel colors to tell us a story of a melancholy world. Some common themes in her surreal works include loneliness, fear of abandonment, and apprehension about growing up. If her wonderfully whimsical paintings look familiar, you may have seem them in a children's book. Her work has appeared in over thirty of them around the world.…
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The Atlanta duo Amy Flurry and Nikki Salk have created a wonderful series of fantastic paper wigs! Flurry is a freelance writer, editor and stylist and she also co-founded Paper-Cut-Project. Salk has a degree in Fine Arts in Design and runs a fashion blog called
Fashion Gatherer and an art website called…
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Added by Marica on February 10, 2011 at 3:00pm —
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Photographed by Mario Testino and styled by Tonne Goodman, Lady Gaga appears in the March 2011 issue of Vogue US. The queen of pop (and Twitter) wears a pink bobbed wig and amazing outfits by Alexander McQueen, Louis Vuitton, Haider Ackermann and others. The editorial was shot at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium in November 2010.
Like it or not, Gaga is beginning to…
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