I Dream of a World of Couture

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From heaven to hell and back again, life is a funny thing. Beauty can come from the most strangest of places even the most disgusting places.-
R.I.P Lee Alexander McQueen✝

Ralph Lauren Autumn/Winter 2012

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Karlie Kloss at Oscar de la Renta Autumn/Winter 2010

Karlie Kloss at Oscar de la Renta Autumn/Winter 2010

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Artwork by Maurizio Anzeri

Maurizio Anzeri makes his portraits by sewing directly into found vintage photographs. His embroidered patterns garnish the figures like elaborate costumes, but also suggest a psychological aura, as if revealing the person’s thoughts or feelings. The antique appearance of the photographs is often at odds with the sharp lines and silky shimmer of the threads. The combined media gives the effect of a dimension where history and future converge. The image used in Round Midnight is an early 20th century ‘glamour shot’ that at the time would have been considered titillating for both the girl’s nudity and ethnicity. Anzeri’s delicately stitched veil recasts the figure with an uncomfortable modesty, overlaying a past generation’s cross-cultural anxieties with an allusion to our own.

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