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1 Mar

TTSWTRS is the Eastern European designer creating wearable tattooed

Here she picks her favourites TTSWTRS pieces are like a type of body modification: You may't tell where the clothing ends and begins. The designer Anna Osmekhina, a former costume designer and stylist based in Ukraine, works with emerging and established tattoo artists, transforming their designs into cotton pants, viscose blouses and denim blazers, structured shirts, lace wedding dresses and even cycling shorts. The result finally ends up looking like a body covered in tattoos โ€“ an extension of the clothing and skin. โ€œThe concept of TTSWTRS was created by a wierd incident that got me involved on this exciting subculture,โ€ explains Osmekhina. โ€œMy friend was in a relationship with a tattoo master who...
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18 Nov

How Rustinโ€™s Costume Designer Toni-Leslie James Payed Homage …

David Lee/Netflix The George C. Wolfe-directed Rustin tells the story behind the historic 1963 March on Washington with a twist. Fairly than centering around Martin Luther King Jr., the film tells it from the vantage point of Bayard Rustin, a gay Black activist who isnโ€™t often related to the monumental moment. Played masterfully by Colman Domingo, Rustinโ€™s life is depicted in a way that feels deserving and intimate largely attributable to the costuming spearheaded by Toni-Leslie James.ย  โ€œIโ€™m a Broadway girl and Iโ€™ve done quite a lot of period plays,โ€ Leslie James says in a Zoom call from her home. โ€œ[Iโ€™ve also done] quite a lot of period musicals and small, short movies.โ€ She expresses that she has a long-standing relationship with...
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3 Nov

Photos from designer Yaz XLโ€™s apocalyptic party in Ibiza

On a warm, winter All Hallowsโ€™ Eve, celestial sea creatures from the depths of designer Yaz Exall AKA Yaz XLโ€™s imagination clambered their way from the โ€œradioactiveโ€ shores of Formentera to The Standard Ibiza for an evening of devilish Halloween debauchery. Picture this: an apocalyptic beach brimming with mutated marine life that each XL and long-time friend and make-up artist Mathilda Mace reimagined into cunty beasts of the deep. Paying tribute to her obsession with natureโ€™s perversions, the standard beauty pariah curated individual looks that echoed the personalities of every of her muses. From the nightโ€™s set design to everyoneโ€™s fishy fashion including SFX by Mace, the space was transformed into XLโ€™s rendition of a radioactive splurge. โ€œI actually revisited certainly one...
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