Artwork by Maurizio Anzeri 

Maurizio Anzeri makes his portraits by sewing directly into found vintage photographs. His embroidered patterns garnish the figures like elaborate costumes, but also suggest a psychological aura, as if revealing the person’s thoughts or feelings. The antique appearance of the photographs is often at odds with the sharp lines and silky shimmer of the threads. The combined media gives the effect of a dimension where history and future converge. The image used in Round Midnight is an early 20th century ‘glamour shot’ that at the time would have been considered titillating for both the girl’s nudity and ethnicity. Anzeri’s delicately stitched veil recasts the figure with an uncomfortable modesty, overlaying a past generation’s cross-cultural anxieties with an allusion to our own.

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Sophisticated Bondage by John Willie, c. 1961

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INTIMACY, garments with adjustable transparency by Daan Roosegaarde

Research and experimentation on the relation between emerging material technologies and fashion design.

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Istanbul Fashion Week

Wed Deniz Kaprol 2012 Spring / Summer “Castle”

The concept was this year’s show will be Wed Kaprol CASTLES. Undefined, and lived in a timeless asset, consisting of 12 rooms each room is represented by the most important element ŞATO’da person in the kingdom of the mind to think and explain all the games of today, and vice versa, it is a game İçeridekini transfer from the interior, bringing out all the mysteries … So these are all internal organs and bones in jewelry design in three dimensions is underscored by the concept of sea Kaprol CASTLES, until now always shown in the human body is the fact that part of the body jewelry! CASTLES concept, the person is a journey into the kingdom. Assets and the rooms in our minds that it’s time to meet ..

The theatrical accessories of Deniz Kaprol aimed to recite that the accessories we use everyday are becoming a part of our bodies. The collection consisted of body-part like designs, an androgen model carrying a 3 kg uterus. The show also starred Turkish stylist Umut Eker (husband of designer Simay Bülbül) with an interesting choreography.

I must note, some pieces had alarming features which I will soon post about; but the show in full was extraordinary and taboo breaking.The collection will be sold after the pieces have been resized to wearable magnitudes.

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