The Blackening

Photographer Flemming Leitorp
Hair and makeup May Naes @ Scoopmodels
Model Louise Nymann @ Scoop Models
Retouch Flemming Leitorp
Published in SLAIIB

A seen on Behance.net 

What Sophy did next

She calls it nail porn, and the more I look at the site the more I tend to agree.  Sexy, sassy and unapologetic for her love of all things bling,  luxury nail artist Sophy Robson exposes a side to her visual preferences that she doesn't necessarily reveal to her own clients. Her So So Fly Nails is a site to keep a keen eye on.

Masks and Doves

JUDEX au bal masque.  A film by Georges Franju, 1963.  This scene is influenced by french cartoonist J.J. Grandville, who depicted people with the heads of animals and birds.  Here the use of white birds symbolises the offer of freedom and protection.

Release - Solent University Graduate Show - Final Year Student Show

Release - Solent University Graduate Show - Final Year Student Show

Swimcap

 

Olivier Chromienne as seen on Behance.net

In the late 1910's bathing suits covered most of a persons body, particularly if that person was a woman.  And she typically bundled her hair under a hat. By the 1940s gender integration combined with the downsizing of swimsuits eroticised municipal swimming pools.  The modest swimsuits initially donned to dampen the sexual charge between men and women interacting in such intimate public spaces began to shrink and reveal more curves and skin.  As a result swimming pools became erotic public spaces where scantily clad males and females displayed themselves and visually consumed others. 

During the 1940s swim caps became scarce as rubber was needed for war materials. By the 1950s decorated caps come into vogue, and during the 1960s colorful flower petal swim caps became popular.  Men's long hair styles of the late 1960s and early 70's made swimming pool operators change rules requiring swim caps for swimmers with long hair. Without swim cap requirements wearing swim caps fell out of fashion during the early 1970s. Competitive swimming in the 1980s and 1990s and the worldwide construction of indoor lap swimming pools for fitness swimming, made the swim cap popular again.

Pirates! A motley crew.

 

The pirates who operated during the Age of Exploration have become synonymous with a definitive style.  The legendary apparel of a pirate has created a pirate stereotype, but much of it was developed through necessity and befitted the style of a pirate seaman.   Elizabethan Sumptuary Laws dictated what colour of clothing and the materials and fabrics which could be used for each social level.  these laws also enforced what clothing individuals were allowed to own and wear, an easy and immediate way to identify rank and privilege.  Pirate clothing, especially that of the successful and wealthy pirates took great delight in flouting Elizabethan Sumptuary Laws.  Anything went - fine velvets and silks and such fabrics which had been previously banned to anyone than those in the Upper Classes. 

The fabrics used in pirate clothing depended on how wealthy they were and what clothing had been stolen!  Pirate clothing for ordinary seamen was therefore often ill-fitting! Many of the tasks performed by the pirates were arduous, loose fighting clothes would be dangerous when performing tasks like climbing the rigging - clothing could be easily ripped, tattered and torn.  Clothing worn aboard ship was by necessity tight fitting, however the clothing of the captain or ordinary pirate worn on land did not need to follow such requirements.  Flamboyant, expensive and adorned with gold jewellery and adornments, there was no clothing affectation that could not be appropriated. Motley was a multi-coloured woolen fabric woven with mixed threads in 14th to 17th century England.  Since the mismatched clothes of pirate seamen were also multi-coloured - the expression 'Motley Crew' evolved.

Photo by: Magda Wunsche & Samsel
Editorial for K-Mag
Hair stylist: Kacper Raczkowski

Mask Project

Bartlomiej Lurka's Mask Project is a cycle of self portraits. Man assimilated to the surrounding environment which is a kind of self-preservation, or quite conscious autocreation.  Depending on the place where we are and who we spend, we assume a mask.

In this project, Lurka introduced the idea of himself if he was "the owner of the masks."

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