Month: July 2011

tasteful, sweet-smelling style

Swansea Metropolitan University’s Karen Ingham created a series of apparel, Pollinator Frocks, to bring to light the plight of the shrinking populations of bees and other pollinators. she marries technology and aesthetics to create a collection of clothes with beautiful, iridescent floral prints that are supposed to replicate the way insects view flowers. The apparel is […]

DIY-able couture

spotted at the recent fall couture show for Christian Dior with Bill Gaytten taking the lead, after the departure of John Galliano. Bill Gaytten sent out his debut collection fun, colourful, geomertric, exciting, architectural and a slight influence from the 80s. that aside, what caught our eye was the highly DIY-able couture acessories. some wood, aluminium, […]

knitted hair

hello recyclofashionistas, sorry for the lack of updates. moving on, recyclofashion spotted something at the Thakoon F/W 2011 show. models had their hair bundled with this delightful joy of crochet. something very DIY-able, especially if you have that piece of unfinished crochet that you have no patience on continuing. image credits: style.com