#fashion in the media

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ARCANE LEAGUE OF LEGENDS: 2x04 - “Paint the Town Blue”

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Cover art illustrated by Satsuko Okamoto for Teen Look magazine, circa 1960s ★

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The production studio at "Baby, the Stars Shine Bright" featured in an episode of Tokyo Fashion Express. Their designs typically require up to 50 sewing patterns, which is about 5 times as many as the average dress. Detailed notes on measurements and specifications are written for the sewing factory.

The sewing factory is in Ibaraki prefecture. For more than 20 years they've been sewing clothes exclusively for BTSSB. 17 people work there, most of them being veterans age 60 or over. Due to the complexity they work in teams for ironing, sewing lace and ribbons, as well as completing gathers and frills.

The manager of the factory, Sumiko Watahiki, says in an interview: "There's tons of gather, lace, and layering, which requires a lot of sewing. At first, I doubted I could do it! It was that hard. (But) I'm always impressed with the adorable designs when I see the finished products or while I work."

[sweetbunnytears]

[miamaimania]

Framing the Ephemeral: A Digital Dialogue

[texaschainsawmascara]

Gillian Anderson, Melody Maker ‘97

[prokopetz]

I love it when you see art of, like, a big fuckoff werewolf raging in perfectly fitted Regency finery. Like, that stuff doesn't stretch – there are only two ways this scenario happens, and both of them have fascinating implications:

Their werewolf transformation magically resizes their clothes to fit their hulking nine-foot-tall beastman form, and understands the principles of tailoring well enough to make that look good; or

They've had outfits specially made for their hulking nine-foot-tall beastman form, and the ravening ragebeast they become makes a point of changing before going forth to rampage and slaughter.

[copperrook]

Eugene's robe is real and it is mine.

You'll forgive me for not wearing it off-shoulder right at the mo, since Tumblr has a problem with tiddies and all.

Construction details under the cut

Now if you read my tags on the previous post, you'll know that it was my intention to make this robe out of some silk that had been languishing in my fabric storage, small problem though

Not all of it is black

(Left two are raw silk, different weights, right's a haboti silk scarf)

Now that's an easy enough fix

I did have to do about three passes to get them to match though, as black is a notoriously hard colour to dye

Next one must make a mock-up out of an inferior material, this here is poplin.

Now if you were just making this costume-quality, this material would be fine, slap on a collar, hem and overlock this guy and he'll do great, I'm just extra.

You'll also note the piecing on the shoulders here, that is because i did not have enough silk to cut it all in one piece

That picture to the right is how much in total was left as offcuts from all the silk used.

Fun huh?

Does also mean it's not floor length, but on the plus side it's my preferred length anyway

Eugene proper doesn't need to move his legs when walking after all

Anyways then it was just a matter of sewing the whole thing together (no pics, soz) most of it is machine sewn (silk thread) with top stitched flat felled seams, that includes the split in the back where it essentially runs from a flat felled seam to a hem by just pressing outwards and tucking under.

The entire collar was whipped stitched down on the inside within the seam allowance to avoid any top stitching lines on the outside or nasty flappy bits on the inside. (And because haboti LOVES to warp, which was not entirely circumvented with this method)

The arms eye seams were also hand finished with an invisible felling whip stitch, and the sleeve bottoms hemmed with a sort of invisible pad stitch.

The several days worth of hand stitching just listed is why this took me a while.

And so i chose a good-enough scarf for a shash-yeah jk i made the sash from scratch out of yet more Haboti silk and dyed it.

I don't think it's quite dark enough so I may dye it again later.

If you want a approx amount of fabric that's in this piece, the robe is a bit over 4 meters of silk Total?

And the sash is about 3mx70cm on top of that.

Now I'm gonna go luxuriate in this robe I stole from our fictional son, happy S3 E2 of Midnight Alley y'all!

[graceandopulence]

Kerry Washington for DuJour (Winter 2024)

[harveyguillensource]

Happy birthday, Harvey Guillén!!

It's been a year since he stole the show in Siriano at the Met Gala, so here's a collection of his fiercest red carpet looks since their collaboration began at the Oscars in 2023.

📸 Jen Rosenstein, Dan Bassini, Getty

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BRIE LARSON via Charlotte Prevel's Instagram on March 1, 2024

[sylvanitchi]

🖍️📚✏️

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Misako Aoki will appear in the upcoming lolita fashion romance movie "Happiness" to be released May 17th 2024!

Similar to the production of "Kamikaze Girls" it's a film adaptation of a manga adaptation, originally based on the novel written by the same author: Nobara Takemoto. It seems like the featured brand will be Innocent World this time. I'm looking forward to it!!

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[ryversreality]

new wienners songs = more swk