Looks Could Kill

Ted Noten’s “Chanel001″ and “Dior001″ guns include lip gloss, perfume, and Viagra…you know, every day essentials. Read more on Trendland.

Real Men Wear Clown Noses

Just sayin’. Richard Pier Petit’s “Clowning by Numbers” featuring Michael Catarama and styled by Eugene Ong. More on FashionIndie.

P.S. I’m currently blogging on the Greyhound bus in Canada, on my way back to Boston. Oooh technology.

Happy Holidays

Hey all,

I’m flying to Boston to see my sister in a few hours. Just wanted to wish you all happy holidays and safe travels :) Things will be slow on the blog for a bit while I’m in the States, but I will leave you with this epic spread from Dazed & Confused.

Peter Gray hair via Dazed Digital. See the rest here.

The Birds

I love this very Hitchcock-ian spread by photographer Alex Prager for W. Styled by Caroline Tate Angel and featuring Irina Lazareanu.

via Fashion Indie

 

Hunger Pains

Fashion finally embraces carbs!!! ”Hunger Pains”, 2009, commissioned and photographed by Ted Sabarese. I don’t know about you but I would rock waffle trousers.

via Fashionista

Watch the making-of video here.

More Drool This Way

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Grungecake

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McQueen SS11

Possibly the most anticipated show of Spring 2011 Paris Fashion Week was Alexander McQueen, as it was their first womenswear show designed in the late Lee McQueen’s absence. It was all eyes on Sarah Burton, the new head designer, yet she somehow managed to deliver under the pressure. It couldn’t have been an easy to job to stick to the house trademarks of meticulous tailoring, dark influences and edgy, otherworldly designs, without simply regurgitating Lee Alexander’s previous designs…but the critics have weighed in and it looks like she pulled it off, all while adding her own flair.

“In an extraordinarily beautiful show, Burton succeeded in both being faithful to the late designer’s distinctive design ethos while taking the label into a new era.” -The Guardian “A tour-de-force that channeled McQueen’s darkly surreal style, remodeling his signature elements into strange and beautiful confections that managed to be at the same time new and reassuringly familiar.” -Associated Press

“A show laden with emotion that was made even more remarkable because of how right she got it.” – Vogue.com UK

“Inspired, this time, by the anatomy of the woman who chooses to wear it and by the flora and fauna of the natural world, it was both technically and artistically perfect.” -The Independent

“Sarah Burton … revived the late designer’s challenging legacy with a brilliant first collection imbued with a pagan, bohemian spirit and featuring spectacular hand-crafted detail.” -The Daily Telegraph

Photos by Sonny Vandevelde via A Shaded View on Fashion

Hair Envy

I’m having a major hairdentity crisis right now…its too short to do anything with other than my current Louise Brooks bob and I’m totally incapable of growing it out. Curses! Current inspirations;

Photo credit, top to bottom: Mario Testino, Mario Testino, Ben Toms

Button Blonde

This adorable Wildfox model is as cute as a button…and looks like she would be fun to hang out with, too. Its rare to see an editorial and go “Gee, that chick looks like she’d be fun to be around. And where can I find me some hair bleach right about now?”. Usually I think more along the lines of “Eff you and your impossibly long legs and perfect tan”. Now, about that hair bleach…

demeulemeester

Fashion is that thing that makes you want to wear zippers all over your face, just cuz.

Water & Oil

How do you guys feel about the controversial “Water & Oil” Vogue Italia editorial inspired by the oil spill? Personally I think its stunning, but I understand how it could be seen as an offensive glamourisation of a serious issue…thoughts? 

Photography by Steven Meisel, modeled by Kristen McMenamy for Vogue Italia August 2010.

Corrective Lenses

Things I love: Nicholas Hoult, Skins, Freja Beha Erichsen, Tom Ford, giant nerd glasses, crows.

More Tom Ford eyewear AW10/11 after the jump, apparantly shot by Mr. Tom Ford himself. 

My Two Cents

I know everyone is obsessing over the Givenchy haute couture that showed recently but I just HAD to post the lace skeleton dress. I just love that such a white, lacey, intricate, luxurious collection can have such dark undertones…

Happy Birthday D.I.P.

Oops I totally missed my blog’s birthday…I feel terrible :( So here is a belated happy birthday shoutout for Drooling Isn’t Pretty, my first post was on June 29th, 2009. Lets celebrate with some Freja, shall we?

War Hero

You can always count on Dazed for their creepy yet stunning editorials…”War Hero” was shot by Richard Burbridge for the July issue, and styled by Robbie Spencer. See the rest of the editorial here.

Sunset

I’ll take everything except the scarf and the nail bed please. Those trousers are amazing… Prete a Tout editorial shot by Mario Testino for French Vogue, via FashionIndie.

Molten Slinky

Iris Van Herpen AW10. Looks like she’s wearing molton slinkies…in a good way.

(P.S. Doesn’t “molten slinky” sound like a band name?). See more images after the jump.

Butterflies and Trashbags

This summer’s MUST-HAVES: Purpleface and flower lashes.

You can’t go wrong with trash bag couture…
An over-the-top editorial shot by photoTOM for Cliché Magazine, see the current issue and the rest of this editorial here.

Drowning

This is old but too good not to post…via Vogue Nippon. How good does the McQueen print look underwater?