Jean Paul Gaultier Haute Couture

Cathedral Dress, by Iris Van Herpen

'Could a dress create the impression that it is moving by itself or make the viewer believe that it is making the wearer compelling to walk', is in short a description used by fashion journalist Jean Paul Cauvin about Van Herpen her dresses. It illustrates perfectly her groundbreaking innovations

If you fancy this tree bark looking ensemble, you may belong in the element of Arbis.

lace wood

Here are designs meant for a dissolute Cinderella, a Sleeping Beauty awakened with a kiss, clad in an artfully tea-stained gauzy gown.

Lily Donaldson in Hussein Chalayan’s Table Dress, photographed by Nick Knight for Vogue UK

I stumbled across the work of Phoebe Washburn today. She creates *amazing* sculptural installations from scavenged bits of wood! Heavy Has Debt, 2004 Nothing is Cutie, 2004 Nothing is Cutie, 2004 True, False and Slightly Better, 2003 Her work is also reminicent of artist Rosalie Gascoigne, who I found these great images of on iwishsun Beaten Track Lamplit 1989 And slightly unrelated but whilst thinking about wood...Kathy pointed out fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto the otherday and this…

Unusual use of natural materials.