Extremely Chunky Knits By Anna Mo

Ukraine-based Anna Mo knits super chunky blankets with giant, three-inch stitches. This is the ultimate security blanket you can get lost in. She uses custom-made, two-inch-thick needles for her knits, which also include sweaters and scarves.

Mo began knitting to have a hand-based escape from her head-based design job. No surprise then, that her work emphasizes its hand-made nature. The yarn wriggles with every huge loop, imperfections are magnified, and each piece has a unique flair. This blanket will be yours and yours only!

The yarn is 100% Australian Merino wool, meaning that it is soft, warm, light, and perfect for wearing against bare skin. Winter seems forever away, but if you’re under one of these knits, it will be no threat at all.

Mo sells her knits, yarn, and giant needles at her Etsy shop, Ohhio.

Designer Turns Real Flower Petals Into Fashion Illustrations

Grace Ciao is a 22-year-old artist from Singapore who uses a unique style in her fashion illustrations. Instead of using watercolours, ink, fabric, or other conventional means, she preserves the beauty of dying flower petals by transforming them into clothing sketches. This way, the petals become not only gorgeous substitutes for lines, curves, and colours, but also become a source of inspiration themselves, introducing new kinds of forms and textures to her clothing designs.

Although she was interested in fashion design since she was a little girl, Ciao only recently came up with the idea of using flower petals in her work. The thought came to her when she wanted to preserve the beauty of a dying rose that she got from a boy. The discovery helped her realize the aesthetic and artistic advantages of this original use of petals.

“They help me create prints which I otherwise couldn’t have thought of,” Ciao told Buzzfeed. “I think petals work really well for illustration also because their delicacy and exquisiteness mimic those of a soft fabric.”

Ciao currently studies at business school, but she constantly works on new fashion illustrations as a freelancer, creating designs for everyday clothing, bridal wear, and haute couture.

Also see the plant artworks of Elżbieta Wodała which are similar in style with these beautiful designs.

Source: graceciao.com | Instagram (via)

The New Costa Brown by Amble Footwear

We know that this could be a good news for loafers lover! Costa Brown is coming with a new twist, the upper that made from the best grade of suede, and inside shockliner heels for your comfortable. We bet you don’t wanna miss for having this one. General information and product specification:

a.   Best quality of finest grade suede for the upper.

b.   A genuine synthetic fiber for the lining for your comfortable.

c.    Extra comfortable with inside heels sockliner.

d.   Thermal plastic rubber in the outsole.

e.   Strobble stitch with a high pressure system.

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Fashion in Leaves by Tang Chiew Ling

Fashion in Leaves is ongoing personal project by Malaysian illustrator and artist Tang Chiew Ling that explores various forms of leaves and flowers as if they were fashion sketches. Ling previously merged flora with illustration in another series of images called Object Art, and if you liked this, also checkout Drawing with Leaves. (via The Jackass Gardener)

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Underwater Photography by Alix Malka

Underwater photography is actually not a new concept in the world of photography. William Thompson in 1856, based on the record, takes the first underwater photos using a camera mounted on a pole. In subsequent periods many names popping successfully introduced this kind of concept, from Louis Boutan, John Ernest Williamson, until Bruce Mozert, which emerged in the 1930s. Underwater photography can be done with a variety of purposes, such as science or conceptual, including fashion photography which began to enter the underwater world. 

Alix Malka, certainly is one of the few fashion photographers who should be at the forefront of ever doing underwater shots. Born in the south of France and got his fine art degree in Aix en Provence, Malka moved to New York in 2002 and started his fashion and beauty photography career in earnest. It was worth putting his work after a series of photographs "Fairy Tales Come Alive" by Zena Holloway. Some of the photos you see here have also been published in a Japanese magazine, Numero Tokyo. 

Seeing all of his final touch, let's go back to its roots: exposure to the beauty of the dresses used looks well executed. This is an advantage of the underwater shot, where the overall flow always seems more dramatic. The water naturally move existing elements in a more slow and smooth better than the wind. Flat expression of the model with closed eyes is very safely take, this would make our first focus will be on the dress, rather than the model's gaze. Firmness of body gestures, checked! Obviously this is the result of collaboration between the models with Malka who managed to capture the best moments.

His perfectionism took him to the top. He has quickly become involved with prestigious magazines such as Numéro, Harper’s Bazaar, Flair and numerous international editions of Vogue. His first exhibition was “In Fashion Photo / Art Basel 2009” followed by an exhibition in a Soho Gallery in New York 2010. Today he is one of the most in demand photographers by the international magazines, who draws inspiration from the like of Pedro Almodovar and John Water, and designers like Alexander McQueen and John Galliano.  

Daizy Shely - "Doll is The New Black" Final Collection

Photo by Saxon Shao, styling by Natalie Sarel.

One night, I accidentally watched "Elizabeth (1998)", a film of the early years of the reign of Elizabeth I of England and her difficult task of learning what is necessary to be a monarch. Not only I do admire the plot of that film, but also the entire wardrobe worn by all the characters, especially Queen Elizabeth (Cate Blanchett). Then not long later I got a message from a friend named Daizy, a fashion designer from Israel, and now live in Milan. She just graduated from Istituto Marangoni fashion school. She told me about a special project for her final collection inspired by the queen Elizabeth the first and pierrot. What a coincidence! 

But really, when looking at the collection, it did make me immediately think of the dresses from the Queen, although at that time I did not know that she was inspired by the Queen. It's like looking back to the past, through the work of Daizy. With a touch of photography by Saxon Shao and styling by Natalie Sarel, I could still feel the classical luxurious impression. When asked about her collection, Daizy said:         

"I decided to design my collection “The Dark Kingdom” without any colors, just with black and white. Black-and-white is a form of visual representation that does not use color. That`s why I chose to express myself with volumes and silhouttes in this collection. The inspiration for this collection comes from a few different directions. 

One of the main inspiration is Pierrot – known as the sad French clown, he is based on a stereotype, and its origins are planted mainly in pantomime and comedy Del Arte in the late of the 17th century. The other inspiration for the silhouttes comes from the shape of the gorgera (neck and wrist ruffs) that was important part of the 1600th century fashion and popular during the term of the English queen Elisabeth the 1st. The Queen Elisabeth had dresses of all colors, but white and black were her favorite colors as they symbolized virginity and purity.

I took this amazing form of the volume of the old gorgera, that in the originally it was made from soft fabrics like lace and used as collar. I turned it into something completely different, i made the gorgera with hard fabrics as leather or taffeta and give it modern look. I play with the volume and the size of the gorgera shap and turned it into something else creating powerful dresses with lots of presence."

Photo by Saxon Shao, styling by Natalie Sarel.

Photo by Saxon Shao, styling by Natalie Sarel.

*If you want to know more about Daizy Shely, you can visit her Facebook page here!