shoplifter

more interesting hair stuff

i thought these pcs by cameron kelly were really great.

image fm art business, and more of his work on cameron kelly

hrafnildur arnardottir aka shoplifter is a total badass  she did the amazing hair mask on bjork's medulla album.

all images from shoplifter

can someone buy me this... please?

saw this page in lucky... leather jewelry.  someone buy me this quick.  HURRY.

lambskin chain necklace by erie basin

studded cuff by wendy nichol

nagi noda pt deux

some of nagi noda's videos -

this one is awesome, stick it out and watch (even if yuki is annoying the crap out of you in the beginning.


a coca cola commercial w/jack white - a reinterpretation of the video above


a scissor sisters video which is also pretty awesome using the black costume/puppet whatever you call it thing. (not the whole video cause universal music group is stingy!)


and her bizarre poodle/ex fat girl workout video?!

nagi noda

nagi noda did amazing hair sculptures, videos, commercials... and too bad i just started looking in to her, cause she passed away over a year ago at age 35!  more of her work at naginoda.com

these are from her "hair hat" series.  more photos at uchu-country.

she also did a line with the illustrator mark ryden - called broken label.  you can really see both noda's and ryden's influence on these photos/pcs.

all images above fm naginoda.com

some of mark ryden's illustration work.  more of his work at markryden.com

jr

photos from a few of jr's projects.  this top one is from a favela in rio where he put these large scale photos of the people who lived in the favela on their houses.  others are from a slum in kenya, and his wrinkles of the town series. 

 

he's also been doing these crazy pcs in paris - a tribute to women that he's photographed all over the world.

images from jr-art

my people! - jin young yu

i came across this on kanye's blog - jin young yu - interview here & more photos.

Jin Young Yu (JYY): My works are about the “invisible people.” I wanted to talk about the stories of the people who said, “I definitely don’t know them, but they knew me so well. They said they worked with me for over a year. To me, that person was a transparent existence that neither did or didn’t exist.”
It was too simple to define them as “the alienated people” or “the depressed people”. Instead, I thought that I, or we, could easily be one of them. My works are about people who, instead of getting along with others, choose to keep a distance from them, and be invisible or be left alone unconcerned. Instead of trying to fit into the world, they climb into a space of their own and reject other people’s intrusions.

My works feign expressionless faces. They are holding their tears back and swallowing them, or they try to put on a cool face despite the traces of tears on their faces. Or simply, they seem to have something hiding behind the hurried pretense of their expressionless faces. Looks on their faces that don’t make people approach them with ease - a subtle look of suspicion and caution keeps others from easily approaching them.

all photos from arrestedmotion.com

ideen

ideen is one of those lines that really makes me wonder how they hell they do it?  is everything draped?  how complicated are the paper patterns?  how do you even grade those pcs?  who does the sewing?  i would love to be able to do something as hands on (it seems that way to me) and as thought out as ideen does.

we (hyden yoo mens) showed with them at the 2008 genart fresh faces show (more info here and photos on hydenyoo.com), and i thought their stuff was nice, until i saw it close up at the oak nyc showroom and i was really amazed with the complicated patterns.
i was lucky to get a few of the items from spring 09 at a crazy discount... i'm hoping i can find the fall 09 stuff as cheap.

all images from stylesight

some looks from their spring 2010 show