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It’s been a busy year for 27-year-old designer and tattoo artist Laura ter Veer, AKA Star Bunni, as she’s known on social media. In January, she graduated from the Amsterdam Fashion Institute, where she spent six years studying fashion and textiles. She moved to Paris soon after and landed a job at Margiela as a textile assistant, before leaving the role just a few months to focus on tattooing full-time.Â
With the help of social media, Star Bunni is booked and busy for the foreseeable future. Why? Because she’s turning rare pieces from fashion’s most treasured archives into permanent body art. Can’t afford or don’t have access to vintage Margiela, McQueen or Galliano? No problem: this tattoo artist will recreate it...
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As our identities become increasingly enmeshed with digital worlds, it’s easy to feel split between who we are online and who we are IRL. It’s a reckoning that’s led us to view our real-life selves as avatars we can upgrade, customise and deck out into new forms. One medium that has been expressing those ideas is the world of SFX and body art. Once more firmly rooted in film and TV, we’re now seeing SFX mutate its way onto runway shows, fashion campaigns and music videos, where distorted, contorting and varied takes on the human form are becoming increasingly popular.
Some of this work channels anxiety: a fear of technology infiltrating the body, of the human form itself becoming obsolete. iPhones...
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