‘Tattoo couture’: The designer turning fashion history into body

1 May

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. 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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28 Apr

Jewel Yang’s photos turn the female body into a

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Jewel Yang’s photos turn the female body into a

Jewel Yang, Genesis VanishingGallery / 10 images Jewel Yang experienced a sacred moment while painting a friend’s pregnant stomach. Unlike her usual work, doing make-up for Yueqi Qi and Oscar Ouyang runway shows or Dazed cover shoots, Yang felt the tension: “Her belly was hard, resistant and elastic, making it very easy to paint,” the 28-year-old make-up artist and Dazed 100 alumni says. “I tried to be very careful with my brush strokes.” A shy, sleeping angel was etched onto the smoothly domed belly, divine iconography unfurling with new life on a human body. Religious symbols, and the weight that they carry, had been tugging at Yang’s interest for a while. “I once had someone unfollow me because I wore a skirt with...

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25 Apr

How Tilda Mace built – and cut apart –

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Tilda Mace performanceGallery / 12 images You’re standing in the audience at London’s coOc on a Saturday night. DJ Daniel Fabari is on the decks, playing a psychedelic soundscape of humming, shamanic chanting, drumming, breathwork, animal noises, poems, and the thud of a punching bag being struck again and again. The lights around you glitch. On stage, make-up and SFX artist Tilda Mace stands beside a bare-chested model wrapped in furs. There’s something uncanny about him, though you can’t quite place it – until Tilda begins cutting him open. The music grows heavier, hyena cries filling the room. And then a figure emerges from the ruins of the skin, which you now realise was prosthetic: a second head, another pair of...

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25 Apr

5 more body art and SFX artists you need

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5 more body art and SFX artists you need

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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