The love affair continues....

Charlie Le Mindu SS11 Catwalk Show by Zaiba Jabbar from F.TAPE on Vimeo.

faceCULTURE's love for all things Charlie Le Mindu will never abate.  Long live Charlie Le Mindu!

Dr. Lakra

Untitled (Yokohama doll)

A hugely successful tattoo artist and illustrator, Dr Lakra is enjoying increased appreciation for his non-skin work, where he “tattoos” and otherwise transforms such iconographic images and objects as 50s pin-ups, medical illustrations, Japanese prints, wrestlers, superheroes, and children’s dolls. The poses of the glamour models in combination with the tattooing/illustration bring to mind the Vogue Italia shoot by Steven Meisel, where the viewer is reminded that the artistry in tattooing is not so much to draw attention but to trick the eye into revealing the subtext to the messages within.

Untitled (Cupido Lupita), 2006

Untitled (Hiroshima Tomonohira Take-Emon)

Untitled (Paris et de Hollywood, Lilly Lamont) (detail), 2003, ink on antique magazine

A splash of colour can brighten your day

As seen on Aperture

Photographer: Elvina-Mae Farkas
Makeup Artist: Shella Ruby

Beauty and the Beast

Beauty and the Beast.   Collaboration between Mario Testino and Amie Dicke for Visionaire Uncensored.

Speaking tongues

The German tongue is being used quite literally in an ad campaign aimed at encouraging immigrants to learn the language and integrate.  Celebrities from ethnic minorities stick out their tongues for the camera - tongues emblazoned with the German black-red-gold national colours.

It also brings to mind other forms of tongue painting, particularly the one immediately below which signifies speaking out.  However somehow I cannot imagine that the more intricate forms of tongue painting would have been as acceptable for the general public.

"Please feel free to say....you look gooood!"

Warped vision

Photographer: Wendy Hope

Distorted Beauty, was a group exhibition earlier this year in New York that featured the collaboration between artist and retoucher D Tyler Huff and a select group of commercial fashion and beauty photographers. The title of the exhibition refers to the connection between the fashion and beauty industry’s long-seated practice of transforming the photographic image by means of excessive retouching, ultimately creating a frame for what constitutes conventional beauty. While the current backlash against touching up of celebrities has taken center stage, similar techniques are employed on nearly all beauty and fashion images. The exhibition attempted to examine this state of hidden digital manipulation, and generate conversation about the nature of this controversy, by exposing the degree to which body image is distorted beyond what is “true” or “real”.

Photographer: Indira Cessarine

Photographer: Amber Gray

Photographer: Edwin Ho

Photographer: D Tyler Huff

Photographer: D Tyler Huff