To read and see more about Marianne Maric´s lamp dresses, go to yatzer.  Photos via yatzer, too.

by Marija Luutonen. Seen at today and tomorrow.

Papercut work by Magda Malina

Dresses with little pockets for colored felt-tip pens that bleed into the fabric? At first glance this sounds kind of odd to me. But Portuguese artist Fernando Brizio disabuses me.
As part of the Turin-based exhibition “flexibility – design in a fast changing society” Brizio turns heads with his “renewable clothing”, based on the concept I mentioned before. Surprisingly, the dresses are very beautiful and wearable. And the greatest thing of all: the dresses can be cleaned and colored again…and again…and again. Stunning idea! For more, jump to designboom.

All photos from designboom

Another Magazine has exclusively commissioned some of the world´s leading fashion designers to create a dress in collaboration with an artist of their choice. And so, Maison Martin Margiela met Gotscho, Bernhard Wilhelm worked with Olaf Breuning, Riccardo Tisci collaborated with Paolo Canevari …
The creations bandwith goes from breathtakingly beautiful to  the sublime, some  are in-your-face theatre, others are as conceptual as their creators.
Each dress is electrifying as the partnerships that created it. For more, check out Another Magazine.

Photos via Another Mag

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Can´t help – i just see some analogies in the sculptural knitwear by Sandra Backlund and Lucas Nascimento.
Both work with the female silhouette and create artistic, unique shapes that are built around the body like artpieces. (more…)

When fashion is gently crossed with arts and still stays wearable and remarkably unobtrusive then it´s called Hui-Hui. When the three textile-designers Anne Schwätzler, Katharina and Johanna Trudzinski founded their label Hui-Hui in 2002 they stroke the road to success and soon gained international reputation and acknowledgement. (more…)

Not an everyday-item, but absolutely mentionable – Glasses by Linda Farrow Vintage.
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