beauty call

This month Nick Knight and his team at SHOWstudio shot Dynamic Blooms, a photography series that captures the movement and color of some of this season’s hottest gowns by portraying them as blossoming flowers.  Knight and his collaborator Alistor Mackie filmed the shoots as well as photographing them, and SHOWstudio has edited the film down [...]

My newest artist obsession is Anika Smulovitz, an Idaho-based jewelry designer, metalsmith and art professor.  Smulovitz’s designs are brilliant both in their beauty and in their inspiration.  Her academic study of jewelry’s historical context—the traditions that gave rise to it and how the jewelry, in turn, shaped those traditions—and it’s physical interaction with the wearer [...]

I spent most of my morning enthralled by DIS Magazine, a year-old publication dedicated to deconstructing the norms of art, fashion and beauty.  The magazine’s creators, Lauren Boyle, Solomon Chase, S. Adrian Massey III, Marco Roso, Patrik Sandberg, Nicholas Scholl and David Toro tend to take themselves a bit too seriously, but they introduce seriously [...]

The most common theme in this year’s fall couture shows was exaggerated shapes—sharp shoulders, ruffled hips, sky-high hats, plunging V’s, overstuffed skirts.  Every runway rocked with severity or sumptuousness.  Designers developed last year’s trends into more extreme, luxurious versions of shoulder pads, one-shouldered, underwear as outerwear and color-blocked body-con.  Our 5 top looks… 1. Sculpted [...]