Futuristic Fashion: 35 Out-of-this-World Designer Looks

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Futuristic Fashion: 35 Out-of-this-World Designer Looks

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[ By Steph in Design & Products & Packaging. ]

Looking straight out of a gritty sci-fi movie, these 35 futuristic and sometimes bizarre high-fashion looks envision a future of metallic artificial hair, dresses that dispense actual cocktails, accordion-like protective headgear and outfits that would fit right in on an alien runway.

Metallic Hair by Junya Watanabe

Human hair is replaced with sharp, shiny headwear in Junya Watanabe's Spring/Summer 2013 collection. Functional helmets they're not, and they certainly look a bit odd to our eyes, but imagine just pulling this thing onto your head every morning and walking out the door rather than spending time styling your hair.

Fashion Technogenesis by DZHUS

Ukrainian designer Irina Dzhus is certainly thinking outside the fashion box with her DZHUS concept collection, presenting pieces of clothing as 'metaphysical objects.' For all their striking weirdness, many of these garments appear to be quite practical, transforming or offering hidden storage. It's not hard to imagine the accordion-like headgear being incorporated into a functional rain suit of some sort.

Hypnosis Collection by Ara Jo

The 'Hypnosis' collection by young designer Ara Jo looks like something out of a strange dream, especially the garments that stretch over the wearer's heads and necks. Some look like medieval torture devices. Unsurprisingly, these looks caught the eye of fashion stylist Nicola Formichetti, who chose one for Lady Gaga.

Sharp and Monochromatic Looks from Gareth Pugh

Few designers deliver such consistently dark, futuristic and beautifully bizarre looks season after season as does Gareth Pugh. The Paris-based, London-born designer is known for his performance art approach to fashion, which frequently includes wearable sculptures and is based on visual themes like the apocalypse, aliens and carnivals.

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The Mind-Warping Animated GIF Art of Paolo Čerić

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The Mind-Warping Animated GIF Art of Paolo Čerić

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Digital artist Paolo Čerić is currently studying information processing at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing in Croatia where his experiments with processing and digital art have resulted in a steady stream of fascinating animations which he publishes on his blog Patakk. Čerić tells me that he began about two years ago knowing very little about digital art or animation, but was fascinated watching other coders create art with code. For a while he simply tried to mimic other animations he'd seen, but lately has truly developed his own personal style that varies from pulsating geometric patterns to glitch art and everything in between.

 

 

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Artist Shintaro Ohata Seamlessly Blends Sculpture and Canvas to Create 3D Pa...

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Artist Shintaro Ohata Seamlessly Blends Sculpture and Canvas to Create 3D Paintings

via Colossal by Christopher Jobson on 1/18/13

When first viewing the artwork of Shintaro Ohata up close it appears the scenes are made from simple oil paints, but take a step back and you're in for a surprise. Each piece is actually a hybrid of painted canvas and sculpture that blend almost flawlessly in color and texture to create a single image. The cinematic figures are sculpted from polystyrene while the backgrounds are made from traditional painting techniques. Via his artist statement:

Shintaro Ohata is an artist who depicts little things in everyday life like scenes of a movie and captures all sorts of light in his work with a unique touch: convenience stores at night, city roads on rainy day and fast-food shops at dawn etc. His paintings show us ordinary sceneries as dramas. He is also known for his characteristic style; placing sculptures in front of paintings, and shows them as one work, a combination of 2-D and 3-D world. He says that it all started from when he wondered "I could bring the atmosphere or dynamism of my paintings with a more different way if I place sculptures in front of paintings". Many viewers tend to assume that there is a light source set into his work itself because of the strong expression of lights in his sculpture.

Ohata will have work later this year at the Akita Museum of Modern Art, and you can see much more of his work online here. (via toxel)

 

 

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Meet Mark Landis, One of the Most Prolific Art Forgers in U.S. History

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Meet Mark Landis, One of the Most Prolific Art Forgers in U.S. History

via Colossal by Christopher Jobson on 1/22/13

The Avante/Garde Diaries recently released these two brief clips of an interview with master art forger Mark Landis who for the last 20 years created dozens if not hundreds of convincing art forgeries including works by Picasso which he then donated to institutions around the United States including over 50 art museums. Landis would often arrive at the museums dressed as a jesuit priest with elaborate stories of how he had acquired the artworks he subsequently donated. Incredibly, after a 2007 investigation it was determined that Landis may not have actually broken any laws. He never once tried to profit from the fake artworks but instead seemed to gain enough satisfaction from fooling curatorial staff members at various institutions. While the interviews above by the Avante/Garde Diaries are not a comprehensive documentary, they are a fascinating glimpse into the world of this rather bizarre man.

Last year curators Matthew Leininger and Aaron Cowan collected some 90 forged artworks by Landis, as well as his "jesuit father" costume (donated by the forger himself) and held an exhibition called Faux Real at the Dorothy W. and C. Lawson Reed Jr. Gallery in Cincinnati.

 

 

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