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January 23, 2008

Anna and the Grass

Melanie Pullen presents some great pictures of her portfolio "High Fashion Crime Scenes".

Melanie Pullen's collection of more than one hundred photographs that comprise High Fashion Crime Scenes is based on vintage crime-scene images she mined from the files of the Los Angeles Police Department, the County Coroner's Office, and other primary sources. Drwan to the rich details and compelling stories preserved in the criminal records, she began re-enacting the crime-scene, outfitting the "victims" (her selected models) in current haute couture, and photographing them in her staged settings.

(via Dadanoias)

January 20, 2008

Kirsten Dunst for Miu Miu

I'm not a fashion victim and I never care for fashion. However, I have a crush for bags, shoes and fashion photos. That's some of the reasons why I love the last Miu Miu's campaign starred by Kirsten Dunst. The gorgeous photos have a surreal atmosphere, remembering the red room of David Lynch's "Twin Peaks". The colours and the contrast of a red scenario, the lipstick and laces with her skin are beautiful, pure luxury. (via Notcot)

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September 23, 2007

The Italian Food Collection - Prosciutto

The agency Cayenne Italia produced a brilliant campaign for Italian Instituto per il Commercio Estero (Institute for the Promotion of Foreign Trade) highlighting two remarkable Italian products, known for their excellent quality: food and fashion. The campaign "The Italian Food Collection" was firstly created to the Japanese market:

The objective, effectively summed up in the title, was to communicate to the Japanese consumer - notoriously fascinated by Italian fashion - that the best of "Italian Style" is to be found in the wine and food sector as well, which boasts top-quality brands. [...] The campaign, which enjoyed a huge success, was considered a particularly innovative, high-impact operation, to the point of winning numerous prizes at the international level, among them the GOLD in the food category of the Epica Award 2003, one of the most prestigious European advertising contests. UN.I.P.I. representatives attended the awards ceremony held in Dublin on 23 January 2004.

Due to campaign success of the visually beautiful and attractive ads, it was possible to obtain the support of the ICE for the realisation of a communication campaign in the United States. Playing with the same concepts, food and fashion, Cayenne Italia created one more great campaign for the ICE: "The Taste of Italian Style". Check the irresistible ads for both campaigns bellow.

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July 28, 2007

Happy Sound

Tapedeck is a project of neckcns.com, built to showcase the amazing beauty and (sometimes) weirdness found in the designs of common audio tape cassettes.

There's an amazing range of designs, starting from the early 60's functional cassette designs, moving through the colorful playfulness of the 70's audio tapes to amazing shape variations during the 80's and 90's.

It's called a "nostalgia" site, and I hope it is nostalgia for all my readers. I don't believe I have readers to young to have ever used them. (Thanks Damien!)

Transformers Ravage Robot

Curiously, in the last years emerged a whole cassette tape culture transforming the audio tapes in icons. Vintage Japanese cassettes from 1980's are now been used to create transformer toys. The Italian designer Marcella Foschi transformed them in charming retro wallets, while in the U.S., Alyce Santoro used recycled audio cassette tapes and cotton to make pretty dresses. Those were some examples.

Etsy has tons of products made with cassete tapes or images of them, from T-shirts to cassette belt buckles, passing through necklaces, ipod cases, earrings and card holders. Using the iconic image of the cassette, the design site FRED life created a neat cassette tote bag. (via Smidigt)

Cassette Tote

I still have hundreds of those audio tapes on my closet. I should give them a proper funeral and take some pictures of them before I do it. However, I saw many great ideas about what I can do with them at Design Boom. One of them is to do a USB Flash Cassette Mod. The BBC, they also link to an article with 10 uses for audio cassettes. Another good idea is to make a cassette tape evening bag with that tutorial. That is, after I learn to crochet.

March 22, 2007

White Butterfly Sugar and Chocolate Chain Necklace

According to Food is art, the sculptor Prudence Emma Staite can create artwork in any food substance. Her portfolio presents some neat creations with chocolate: sculptures, games (including jenga), jewellery, paintings, and even life-sized chocolate rooms. You can guess where she got the inspiration for that last one: Hansel and Gretel fairy tale. Those very sweet rooms are composed by chocolate furniture and lickable sugar wallpaper. Ok, sugar enough for one post. (Blue Tea)

More cool stuff made with chocolate: Chocolate for Girls, The Chocolate Molecule and Chocolate puzzles.

May 18, 2006

Björk by Jean-Baptiste Mondino

You probably know Jean-Baptiste Mondino by the name. He is responsible for the direction of many famous videoclips and stunning photos os fashion. I would like to see more of his works on his portfolio, but since there aren't here are some more links: Mondino: The interview, Marianne Faithfull by Mondino and PHOTO article with pictures. (ponchorama!!!)

March 11, 2006

Chickens Suit

Chickens Suit: five models of clothes for chicken. Unfortunately all the models - Austria, Japan, Camouflage, Knitted and hairy, my favourite - are sold out.

The idea for suiting a chicken came in a dream. A dream of a chicken that was covered with hair instead of feathers. Well, you can’t take a chicken’s feathers off and then glue hair on it – can you? This is how the chickenssuit came about.
fashion is hu-man. if animals are wearing clothes it means hu-man-izing them. we love to make animals human (e.g. animation) because this way we believe to understand them better. if we dress animals then only those who appeal to our heart - "useless" animals like cats and dogs. a chicken is useful. it tastes good and it lays eggs - so why would we dress it? dressing a chicken means "secondary" domestication - first for use, then for love.

Hum... strange theory. I don't agree with all, but with those craziness about bird flu maybe we are going to need to keep the chicken at home. Scary! (Thanks André!)

March 09, 2006

Troubles Melt Like Lemon Drops

After the Alice in Wonderland Vogue came back with a new essay of fashion inspired in a children's book: The Wizard of Oz. Starred by Keira Knightley and shot by Annie Leibovitz, the glamorous essay was directly inspired in the film. More pictures can be found at Keira Pictures. (via Waxy)

Related post: Alice In Wonderland and media.

February 21, 2006

Grand Marnier Handbag

Girls love chocolate right? Most of them have a passion for bags too, no? So, why not put them together? Ok, someone made this. The Choco Choco House - Where chocolate meets fashion - made a delicious collection of little chocolate handbags in ten different flavours / models. Most of the beautiful handbags are made with milk chocolate and milk chocolate ganache inside, but they also have handbags made with dark chocolate, flavoured with almond, vanilla, coffee, Vodka and chilli pepper. What chocoholic and cat lover can resist to the Kitty in my garden? (via Slashfood)

South Sea pearls

Still talking about fashion and chocolate, visit L’Artisan du Chocolat. Their have some incredible luxurious and tasty chocolates in different flavours and shapes. Among them, the Chocolate pearls for glamorous chocoholic women. I can't think of a women that wouldn't love to win a box of them or the Liquid salted caramels, also from the signature collection. Looking for something more simple? Try the Truffles collection (ooh... I love truffles) or the Fruits and nuts chocolates. It's a pity that they don't have anymore the Black cat made with 70% dark chocolate. (Thanks again Sizi!)

January 20, 2006

Table Top

There is Illustration Friday, Photo Friday, Science Friday, Friday Ark and the classic Friday Cat Blogging. So why not a Friday Sex Blogging? Ok, this is just an idea, or an excuse to put all the links about sex and erotica, that I collected in the last few weeks, on a single post. The result is the list below, and most of the links are NSFW.

Adult magazine covers: a collection with lots of vintage covers of girly magazines at Sexblo.gs. It's over the session The Condensed History of Humankind that has more collections of vintage images.

Art or porn?: a safe and funny test from Guardian Unlimited with ten options to check if you know the different between a vintage film of art and a vintage soft porn. Apparently i have dirty mind and chose most of them as porn. (via ponchorama)

Audrey Kawasaki: paintings, illustrations, studies and doodles. Her oil and ink paintings in the wood of languid girls with pleasure expressions are great, they remind me of Mucha's works. Even her sketchbooks are very nice. She has a weblog with few more works and info about current works. (via Por fin es viernesss)

Dominique Portrait

Danielle Emerick: We Shoot Bad Girls. Naughty and famous pin-up models in sexy pictures. Galleries with pictures of Bernie Dexter, Masuimi Max, Dita Von Teese, Julie Strain and more gorgeous women.

Desinées: a French blog about heroines of comics, pin-ups and nude art. There is a huge archive of erotic illustrations for almost all tastes. BTW, when the pop up appears click at the "OK" button (that's an advice of the material of the site and about the age). (via Foire à tout)

Diodsex: ok, it's safe for work and maybe isn't fair post it here, but It's about sex. Or do you think those resistor-LED-capacitor-inductor creatures making Kama Sutra poses are indecent? Can I call this geek erotica? Will you match your impedance with mine?

Edwardian Delights: vintage risqué, erotic and nude postcards. The postcards are categorized into four sections: Lingerie / Bathing Belles (Risqué), which includes décolleté & lingerie studies, Nudes, Erotica, which may include cards that are perhaps more erotic than the standard nude but does not contain any pornography and Ethnic Nudes.

Vintage Edwardian postcard

Few podcasts about sex: Open Source Sex with Violet Blue, MXL: everything sexy, Sex Talk Straight and Gay, Sex With Emily: A Talk Radio Show and Whorecast: a work in sex.

Gay Artists Galleries: a page with many links to galleries of gay and lesbian art. Between the artists there are painters, photographers and comics painters. Don't forget to visit the virtual art gallery of Irit Rabinowits an check a look at her naive paintings. (via Sex?).

Jean Jacques André Photography. Beautiful black and white pictures of nudes and art works of oil pastels, mixed media and ink, divided in six galleries. (via Art Nudes)

Making love in 1976: 16 scan of pictures of Making Love. How to be your own sex therapist. It's a self help about sexual education or something like that. You can feel the 70's kitsch and innocent atmosphere through the retro images. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think we had a Brazilian version of that book, with big pictures and explanations.

Morgana Femme Couture custom made original corset designs, fetish and pvc corsets. They made custom corsets for each client, but you can take a look at the design page to choose a pretty model. (via Otomano)

Masuimi Max by Octavio

My Secret Life by Walter: The Sex Diary of a Victorian Gentleman. It was first published between 1888-1894 in 11 volumes in Amsterdam by the Belgian-born bookseller/publisher Auguste Brancart. Considered obscene and pornographic, the book was banned for nearly 100 Years. Choose a chapter, a suggested word or make a search to read the content. (via nonist )

Oh Wicked Wanda! is an erotic illustrated comic that ran in the back pages of Penthouse magazine from 1973 through 1980.The story of OWW, creators info, sample pictures, scanned images of the covers, faq, the characters and the stories. The cheesecake comics makes a mix of sexual escapades and political satire. (via sexblo.gs)

R.I.T.Z.E.: a collection of lobbycards of sexploitation films, maybe from 60's and 70's. Some of the "great" titles: "Sweet Bippy Blue", Housewives on Call", "Pain and Pleasure" and "Infidelity American-Style". (via happy palace)

Rare Erotica - Scarce Erotic Material From the Past. It's a daily weblog with texts, pictures, drawings, memorabilia and more vintage erotic stuff. (via Drawn!)

Oh, Wicked Wanda!

Retro Pics: a giant directory with thousands fo vintage erotica images divided in 30 galleries. Pictures, photo series, magazine covers, advertising and tons of Betty Page pictures. (via a best truth)

The Erotic Coloring Book was published in 1975 by Berlin & Associates with illustrations by Craig Berlin. The images, almost funny nowadays, reflect the psychedelic 70's influence, but they can be much better following Jmorrison advice: go grab some crayons and get to work.

The Spidergarden.net home of Shaalis the Sacred Androgyne and the Metal Spider Clan - an organic self-sustaining environment in which erotic experimentation is raised to an artistic level and the interplay of dominance and submission brings a new kind of freedom. Books, graphic novels, costume design, photography, tattoo and more art works by Michael Manning. (via stationsvakt)

Typewriter Erotica vintage pictures from 1920's and 1930's, most of the French, of secretaries in different stages of nudity in pictures ranging from innocent leg-shots to total nudes and beyond. They have safe images too. (via Sex?)

Underwood - boss and sexy legs

PS.: if you speak Portuguese there are two hilarious short animations about sex:

- Almas em Chamas - the story of a dangerous woman obsessed by a fireman with many kitsch dialogues (and that is the funnier part);

- Amassa Que Elas Gostam - a mix of claymation and film, it tells the story of a woman obsessed (yes, this one too) by a clay porn star.

January 08, 2006

Kostüm Biene

All I wanted: an Inflatable Costumes. Don't worry, that's not the single available model, they also have inflatable costumes of cook, pumpkin, clown, cowboy with the horse, princess with an unicorn, ballet dancer, witch, German Lady, personal trainer, Sumo ringer, Santa Claus, football balls for the World Cup 2006 and accessories. Be careful with the annoying background music. (via The Cartoonist)

November 14, 2005

Cecilia Bravo Flirt 1949

Fluffgirl Burlesque Society

The Fluffgirl Burlesque Society is an organization that specializes in, but is not limited to, the revival of Burlesque. Burlesque was and is an inexpensive form of entertainment, otherwise known as the poor man's follies. Sprung in the early 1900's, burlesque was a broad variety show featuring comedians and strip tease dancers. Like vaudeville, it owed much to the circus and circus sideshow acts. Originally the girls wore one piece union suits and then later began to develop more elaborate costumes with the popularity of Broadway review. The costumes became flashier and included increasing amounts of nudity. It was around this time that the actual strip tease was born.

(via Las insólitas aventuras del pez)

Martha's Girls The finest emulations of vintage erotica and pin-up, spanning the period from the Victorian times to the 50s pin-up era. NSFW. (via dadanoias)

Pin-up Covers from 1920 to 1940, 1940s, 1950 to 1954, 1955 to 1959 and 1960s. The same site, Comic Frames has also Playboy covers from 1953 till 1964, all safe for work. (via Sex?)

Striporama - celebrating the fine art of undressing in public. Galleries with pictures of burlesque dancers, also known as strippers, flyers of clubs, shows and events pre-1980, films, books, news, music and ephemera. BTW, some pictures are NSFW. (via TackyTimes)

Switchblade Stilettos: the portfolio of Sabina, a professional model specialize in Pinup, Fashion, Glamour, Fetish, Swimsuit, and Lingerie style shoots. She is also burlesque dancer. (Otomano)

WW2 Nose-Art Babes: in World War 2, many creative and talented pilots faced danger with a sexy babe painted on the nose of their aircrafts. Some were wholesome girls next door, while others were naked nymphos ready for action! (via sexblo.gs) On Retro Crush check out also the galleries of pictures of Bettie Page, Evelyn West, Julie Newmar, Yvonne Craig (The BatGirl), Jean Harlow, Raquel Welch and the eternal goddess Norma Jean Baker.

Related posts (about burlesque): Raoul Gradvohl Burlesque, Variety Stage, Burlesque and exotics dancers, Some interesting links, Lili St. Cyr and Dita Von Teese.

November 12, 2005

Picture from the Book Revenge

Ellen von Unwerth: Ellen photographs women like objects, almost like a voyeur. They're very sexy photos. If you look at her photos, you would say a man made them. I would say an older man who likes young girls, says Isabella Rossellini. Hundreds of fabulous pictures or actresses, models, famous people. Some of her pictures are NSFW. (via Hugo Strikes Back)

October 12, 2005

Princess Broglie by Dominique Ingres

Reine des Centfeuilles - Reproduction of historical clothing

Here you have the possibility to have your own historical costume made, following historical patterns and using authentic techniques.
Whether you like Late Gothic garments, Renaissance costumes, Baroque and Georgian (Revolutionary War) fashion or Regency, Early Victorian (Civil War) or Late Victorian robes, we let your costume dream come true!

Paintings, pictures and illustrations of costumes divide by historical periods. (via The Cartoonist)

TPerma-lift Girdles

Zona - The Girdle Zone. An exploration of the social and erotic significance of a controversial garment. The Gallery Lobby has tons of vintage girdle ads, take a look. (via IWR)

July 30, 2005

Bathing Suit

Victorian Clothing: The History of the Bathing Suit. It's a short exhibition, but the are some curious images of girl with bathing suit. ( via mcguffin)

July 27, 2005

Nancy Sinatra

I should have posted it earlier but.. well, now here it is: Go-go-boots because they are very cool. The homage site to those boots has images, texts, boot care tips, art, links and lists of go-go boots on TV and cinema. And I know that some fetishists will like this site too. (o zombie)

June 22, 2005

Billy & Hells

Marlene Ohlsson Photographers. The site of this agency presents the portfolio of eleven photographers and three stylists. Great images of fashion, beauty, animals, stills, campaigns, portraits, landscapes, people, advertising and transportation. (via En algún lugar de www)

May 17, 2005

40s corsets

Ivy Leaf's Tribute to the Corsetiere. A curious site about corsets with the history, pictures, vintage ads, girdles, corsetieres, brassieres, links, curiosities and more trivia. There are some very curious pictures. (thanks for the link Johnny)

May 15, 2005

Depeche Mode on TOTP

One super cool BBC site: Cult Television - TV, DVD and lovely stuff: news, reviews and fun. As they say the site is full of great stuff: fashion, film, music, TV, toys, photo galleries, quizzes, trailers, trivia, reviews and much, much more information. What you have to see there: I Love... by Year from 1960s to 1990s; Classic TV; Sherlock Holmes; and 2000AD and British Comics. It's not super cool, it's wonderful.

Update: Check also Doctor Who: rare and acclaimed Doctor Who novels available to read for free.

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