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Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Ne me embrasse pas

Director Adrien Touret
featuring

Queen Mimosa

Previous video:

Androgyny

Source

Morphosis

Monday, March 21, 2011

Waltzing Olympians

Life Ball 2011

Spread the Wings of Tolerance

Photography Susanne Stemmer, Markus Morianz

Most of the inhabitants of Mount Olympus have been invited to Vienna's fancy Life Ball this year. The event, to take place in the "City of my Dreams" next May the 21st, aims to generate large amounts of donations, in order to fight HIV and AIDS on a national and international basis.

Celebrating the joy of life and the diversity of cultures, Life Ball unites the Viennese ball tradition with opulence, extravagance, glamour, provocation, fancy performances, committed speeches as well as emotional moments.

A large number of Greek Mythological creatures will seemingly be in attendance, stating with Zeus himself, the god of sky and thunder, king of the gods, as well as his father, Cronus, begetter of time, clearly depicted with his sickle and a sand-clock.

Other easily identified characters are Narcissus holding on to his mirror, Icarus falling from the sky, Hermes displaying his winged hat and a gem-studded caduceus...

I'm leaving the rest of the Olympic iconography for you to decipher. And to enjoy the kitschy, fanciful costumes!

Source

Homotography

http://www.lifeball.org/

From Vienna's Life Ball 2010

Saturday, May 29, 2010

From Vienna's Life Ball

Life Ball 2010

Photography Andreas Bitesnich, Markus Morianz

Model Nikolaus Fürhauser

The Life Ball in Vienna is one of Europe’s largest charity events. It's aim is to support people affected by HIV.

Among the many celebrities and world famous stars attending the Viennese ball, we have these beautiful mythological figures. One looks like a glorious Dionysus shining with with juvenile ardor in spite of being surrounded by autumn leaves. The other, some seductive Faun clad in not in fur but in dry foliage.

And lastly, a modern day Atlas, nude except for the not-too-sexy socks and dressing shoes.

Friday, October 16, 2009

Ye olde Buffalo

Skateboarding in breeches? Soccer shoes worn with a Renaissance ruff collar? Fashion or costume?

The tendency won't probably catch, but let's admit that the olde fashions of yore do have, paradoxically, a refreshing effect on today's style.

Perhaps their place is not necessarily the museum after all!

The collection is part of Buffalo Stance, and this particular segment is entitled, not surprinsingly, 'Past' - Monarchy in the

UK.

It was set up by the original Buffalo team, photographer Jamie Morgan with stylists Barry Kamen and Mitzi Lorenz.

The models are siblings: Phoenix and Callum Wilson, and Claude and Louis Simonon.

Footloose and Fashion-Free!

We are living exiting times in many senses: technologies allow us to stay in touch with people from around the word and humanity even starts reaching for distant planets.

When it comes to gender, we have gone a long way into accepting our ample, rich sexual diversity that goes way beyond the traditional gender binary: after many centuries of stereotypes, people finally start presenting themselves as bi-gender, non-binary, genderless, genderfluid.

Even cis-gender people, i.e. those falling into the conventional ”male” and “female” categories, are acting, even unconsciously, in ways far removed from traditional patterns: Ladies are becoming more assertive, while gentlemen are allowed to show their emotions and display their “feminine” side.

All this slow but steady modifications in our conduct, which I consider to be extremely healthy and honest, cannot help but being expressed in the way we dress.

Ladies wear pants and “power suits”, while the creativity, the flair, the colors, the design, which used to be reserved for the girls only, are finally reaching the menswear department. Males don’t have to settle for the same old boring, gray, stuff.

Skirts, heels, jewelry and flower-patterns in bright colors for men are not uncommon any more.

My blog, promotes designers and creators of non-conforming fashions.

WARNING: It’s not a blog about "cross-dressing". That's a word that hopefully will one day vanish from our vocabulary as everyone dresses the way they feel suit and that's that!

Feel free to post your comment!

Feel free to wear whatever you please!

Disclaimer

I do not own the copyright for any of the pictures I publish. My only intention is to promote the creative work of designers, photographers, stylists, and all the artistic talents involved in the production of alternative, inventive, unusually creative fashions.

I'm pretty sure that all those creators benefit from the costless publicity and world-wide promotion they obtain from bloggers around the globe. As a matter of fact, many of them have actually recognized our work.

I make my best effort to always include all the due credits and, whenever possible, to link them to the source where the images were originally published.

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