Temperley London created a 12 foot tall zoetrope in order to showcase their newest collection. It is amazing! I'm in love with older, slower forms of photography.

Temperley London Circus Zoetrope from LEGS on Vimeo.

Some more information about the company that created the zoetrope (Legs) with some pictures from creating it and filming it in action can be found here.

weird islands

Amazing Art Nouveau fantasy illustrations by Belgian artist, Jean de Bosschère, from his 1921 book, 'Weird Islands'

Found via BibliOdyssey

such a strange coincidence!

I am really quite freaked out about how similar in details this is to my senior collection! Yet the outcome feels and looks incredibly different. But there are the ruffles, the nude lace-netting, the corsetry, the suiting material, even the garters and multi-layered stockings! If there isn't a collective unconscious going on among the design world, then i have no idea how these sort of extreme coincidences happen.

Rachel Freire's Autumn/Winter 2009 collection.

Dip-dyed sweaters

The base pattern on these knits is pretty gross.. but it's somehow made surprisingly tolerable because of the dip dye! It makes me wonder what good you could make with leftover, not-necessarily matching yarn and a kitschy pattern. Hilariously, this style is called "Acid Tiger."

A description of the mittens: "Multi-coloured wool knit mittens from Henrik Vibskov . The mittens are dip-dyed black on the bottom half."

Henrik Vibskov, Fall 2009 collection. Photos from V-Store, found via OutsaPop









then again, he also made this next uncommonly weird-looking set of patterns combine in a way that makes sense as a sweater, so the primary color choice of the pattern above might be sort of simplifying, for him!

A Play of Dots

Vogue Italia, "A Play of Dots" editorial
Photographed by Tim Walker, model Hannelore Knuts.







the model reminds me of Robert Smith, though china-doll painted.
and,



apparently this dress is hand-painted, by Dolce and Gabbana? it looks amazing.