Map Fashion

Dresses and bags that show you where you're going.

Handmade paper dresses and bags made from recycled vintage maps. How cool is that?

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The Story Of a Girl And Her Hardy Amies Coat

Sometimes, superficiality can be deep — and hilarious. Here’s Sam Taylor of The Lady Magazine at Claridge’s Hotel talking about the coat that came and went. The coat was a 1950s Hardy Amies (the Queen’s official dressmaker), so all bad behavior excused.

Lots of nice pics of vintage coats.

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Tactical Duty Kilt For Dudes

Perfect for the guy who wants to leap buildings in a single bound!

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Mind-Controlled Dress

The Mechapolypse Dress, created by London designer Nange Magro, is a mind-controlled wearable piece of technology that allows its wearer to change its shape and appearance with nothing more than concentrated brainwaves.

Mechapolypse -Mind Controlled Dress- from nange magro on Vimeo.



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Shoe Styles Of The Rich And Famous

LIFE magazine's photo gallery of the footwear of famous folks.

Canadian PM, Pierre Elliot Trudeau wore these prior to his life in politics.

Mules worn by Pope Clement XIII in the 18th century.

Celebrity chef Mario Batali's signature orange Crocs

Buddy Holly wore these brown suede monkstrap shoes.

Madonna's Concert Shoes

Photo Gallery - LIFE
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Glow in the Dark Jeans

Charge them up in the sun and a phosphorescent coating makes them glow under UV light.

 
Naked and Famous Denim
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Elisabeth Lecourt's Map Fashion

Elisabeth Lecourt  is a French artist currently living in London - Via Frogsmoke

Vintage Batman Dress

I'd look like some eccentric old lady if I wore this but I want it anyhow.

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Biocouture

Biocouture is a research project harnessing nature to propose a radical future fashion vision. We are investigating the use of microbial-cellulose, grown in a laboratory, to produce clothing. Our ultimate goal is to literally grow a dress in a vat of liquid...

When you're done with it simply toss it in your compost bin.

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"Nove Gonne (Nine Skirts) — Roberto Capucci

Italy's Roberto Capucci's designs will be highlighted in the 'Art Into Fashion,' exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art from March 16 to June 5. The skirts are lovely works of art but each and every one of them would make me look even shorter and fatter than I am.

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Paris haute couture: Chanel and Givenchy - in pictures

I can't see myself wearing any of these even if they were free.

See the gallery at guardian.co.uk

Full-Body Sweater

I wouldn't be caught dead in one of these but I might buy one for Mr. Nag for Christmas. I'm sure he'd love it!

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Fabulous Food Fashion

Korean artist Sung Yeon Ju creates beautiful garments from food. The yummy outfits below are made of chives, red cabbage and tomato.

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My Prayers Have Been Answered

At last a bathing suit that will make me look thin! "Why, she's just skin and bone," is what they'll say. This is from a new collection from Australia's Black Milk.

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'scuse me while I kick the sky

Jimi Hendrix Converse Shoes
Curved White

Fashion fit for Queen Elizabeth II

Perhaps she wasn't always quite as dowdy as I thought?

The Royal Wardrobe: Autumn 1953. The world waits for the first sight of its new leader. After half a century of middle-aged men, the idea of a beautiful young woman ruling over the Commonwealth seems like the stuff of fairy tales. For millions of Australians, Canadians and Indians, Queen Elizabeth II is more than a figurehead; she is the living embodiment of authority, elegance and grace. Stepping out in a series of dazzling dresses, many of them by the legendary couturier Norman Hartnell, the 27-year-old embarks on a six-month tour throughout the Commonwealth countries that will cement her position as ruler of much of the free world.

Visions Of The Clothing Of The Year 2000

I don't have any of these outfits in my overflowing closet but Mr. Nag dresses just like the dude at the end of the clip.


Visions Of The Clothing Of The Year 2000, From The 1930's - Paleofuturism

The Colour-In Dress

The Colour-In Dress by Berber Soepboer & Michiel Schuurman 2008

This collection is created especially for an exhibition about 'de Ploeg', a famous Dutch textile factory. ‘De Ploeg’ was a great inspiration with their amazing textile prints, fashion designs and their admirable ideology. It resulted in 4 dresses created around 2 concepts, ‘The Colour-In Dress’ and ‘The Replacement Dresses’. In both concepts textile patterns were the essence of the design, these patterns originated in collaborating with graphic designer Michiel Schuurman. He designed some beautiful textile patterns to fit in the concepts and with a touch of ‘de Ploeg’. The concept of the dresses make it possible that the cloth is partly designed by the person who wears it, which hopefully makes them more valuable to the wearer.

Believe it or not I had a similar dress way back at the beginning of time. It was white with a pattern of multiple strings of beads printed on the front and came with a set of markers. I haven't thought of that dress since I coloured outside the lines and had to trash it.
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These shoes were made for walking.

Shoes rule in this photoshoot by Miles Aldrige. See more at Your source for all things wicked and awesome.

Dior in Moscow 1959

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