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20 Aug

Alice Potts desires to turn your sweat into art

Alice Potts desires to turn your sweat into art
“People have a extremely bad stigma about sweat and naturally find it disgusting,” says British designer Alice Potts. To Alice, nonetheless, sweat could be nothing short of gorgeous. A lot in order that the RCA graduate has spent the last two years turning other people’s bodily fluids and even her own into intricate crystal embellishments and fashioning it into wearable art, something she debuted earlier this yr as a part of her MA collection. Using the technique of chromatography, and in collaboration with Imperial College London, Alice took sweat samples from worn-out football jerseys, ballerina flats and sneakers, extracting organic compounds from the traces of bodily fluid to permit each crystal to grow. The human body comprises two major sweat glands –...
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20 May

Filmmaker Matt Lambert on beauty, sweat and success

Filmmaker Matt Lambert on beauty, sweat and success
This week is #DefineBeauty week on Nowness, a special week of programming exploring the politics and provocations of attraction. As a part of the programme, Dazed Beauty and Nowness are teaming as much as release some latest editorial collaborations, like artist Frederik Heyman's Define Beauty: Virtual Embalming and director Rhea Dillon's Define Beauty: Process. Also this week, we're celebrating the proven fact that Matt Lambert's Define Beauty film His Sweat hit 15 million views on the Nowness YouTube. Matt Lambert's style is unmistakable; soft flesh, soft light, soft focus. His subject material is usually the human body, pictured at times with almost uncomfortable intimacy. By reshifting the male gaze onto men, in each his film and photo work, he asks us to rethink our assumptions about who's the...
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27 Mar

Alice Potts desires to turn your sweat into art

Alice Potts desires to turn your sweat into art
Meet the designer finding beauty in bodily fluids “People have a extremely bad stigma about sweat and naturally find it disgusting,” says British designer Alice Potts. To Alice, nonetheless, sweat will be nothing short of lovely. A lot in order that the RCA graduate has spent the last two years turning other people’s bodily fluids and even her own into intricate crystal embellishments and fashioning it into wearable art, something she debuted earlier this yr as a part of her MA collection. Using the strategy of chromatography, and in collaboration with Imperial College London, Alice took sweat samples from worn-out football jerseys, ballerina flats and sneakers, extracting organic compounds from the traces of bodily...
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27 Dec

Tobacco, soil and sweat: My life in perfume by

Tobacco, soil and sweat: My life in perfume by
We were a really anti-cosmetics family growing up. My mum didn't even own a mascara and the one fragrance my dad could tolerate on her was Givenchy L'interdit because he fancied Audrey Hepburn for whom the perfume was apparently made. I wasn't even allowed deodorant. My parents were from the hippy generation and were totally comfortable with BO. The primary scent I can remember is my brother's bottle of Dior Fahrenheit and once I moved into his room, age six, I kept the bottle together with the Terminator poster and a glossy topless girls Budweizer poster above my bed. I feel growing up in a room that was full of boys’ stuff shaped my aesthetic. I religiously read his FHM subscription back to...
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