Showing posts with label DYI. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DYI. Show all posts

Thursday, April 10, 2014

Sideshow Cheerleader (outfit,DYI)

Freaks 1932 are my favourite movie and the chant "Gooble Gobble, one of us" is not only creepy as f*ck, but also it´s an incredibly strong chant of acceptance - of being different. I felt like having a shirt with it is a MUST, so I made myself one. The font I used and the design with stars is ironically similar to sport t-shirt designs, because I love the idea of Gooble Gobble being remixed and filmed into a fight chant with freakish cheerleaders dancing with pompoms...:) !









My outfit is basically inspired by 1950 ´s fashion - something like Grease´s pink ladies would wear in  parallel reality, where freaky is normal and "normal" is weird - exactly like in the Freaks movie.


I designed the motif in InDesign, printed it out, cut with scissors and use as a template for handwriting with textile colour. I used basic H&M asymetric long top.

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I also made a "REDRUM" shirt, a homage to King and Kubrick and their immortal classic The Shining. I´ll sow you next time.

Now a little more to Freaks. For my art exhibition I had in January I made 3 photographic self portraits impersonating Freaks characters - which were real people in 1930´s circus freakshow bussiness. I am fascinated by their lives and stories so much.

I used myself as a model because it was an inner experience for me to impersonate them. To feel like Daisy and Violet Hilton who are never alone, or like Josephine - neither woman nor a man, or like Elvira and Jennie Lee the pinheads, who are little girls in wonderland that never grew up though they are 30.

So here "they" are - all stylings/manips by me.










Feel free to comment - on the movie, or the self portraits, or the outfit - I really appreciate your words :3

Thursday, April 4, 2013

Kitch-iolina (daily outfit)


My DYI flower wreath and flower-decorated shoes have finally been worn together.
Lately I surround myself with kitschy things, paint kitschy pictures, take kitschy photos, so I naturally have urge for a dose of kitsch in my closet as well. This is my take on neo-pop in fashion. 
I am sort of borrowing the image of long blonde hair with flower wreath from Jeff Koon´s muse, italian porn-star and senator in one person, Ciciolina. 
And yeah, I do look like a tacky hippie barbie with a touch of fairy-kei.


More photos under the cut!


Monday, April 1, 2013

Flower obssesion (DYI)

As spring is still avoiding this corner of planet, I am compensating it by making flower accessories.
I like to wear flower wreaths on my head, so I made two this weekend and I also decorated my old Anna House shoes. Behold my flowery madness:)