The Super Sexy Dress from Etsy shop LinaSpyroS can be best described, in our opinion, as a butt cleavage dress.

This super sexy dress is made of synthetic fabric. It reveals the most attractive part of the women’s body.

Oh yes it does.

via Hillary Buckholtz and sprywhimsy

French artist Lou Giesen has designed a series of anatomical organ-shaped jewelry pieces which includes a necklace that looks like a large gold pair of lungs, a long intestine-like neckpiece, a kidney-shaped neckpiece and more.

via Street Anatomy

James Lillis of Australia-based clothing shop, Black Milk, has designed Muscle Leggings, a pair of leggings that look like exposed leg muscle flesh. The leggings are somewhat reminiscent of Heidi Klum’s 2011 gory skinned dead bodysuit that she wore for her Halloween costume.

via Dangerous Minds and BuzzFeed

Las Vegas-based fashion designer Malina Sharoni is behind Randy Candy (“tasteful edible lingerie”), a line of strung candy bead bikini tops and bottoms. They are available to purchase at Fab.

Randy Candy is for the lovers among us. These bikinis and bottoms, threaded with colorful, edible candy beads, make for confectionery fashion like we’ve never seen before.

Simone Baruzzi shot a beautiful photo of colorful Chuck Taylor All-Stars arranged in a flower pattern.

via mikl-em & Gaks Designs

photo by Simone Baruzzi

Made from high-end French terry fabric, the Dress Pant Sweatpants from San Francisco-based clothing firm, Betabrand, were designed to give ‘boardroom style” with “bedroom comfort”.

Whether you’re in the office or on the road, rest assured that these trousers will make any day feel like Casual Friday. But no one will be the wiser.

via Time NewsFeed

Catalog Cover Art, 1933 Reinterpreted

For their 100 year anniversary celebration, Maine-based outdoor retailer L.L. Bean brought on commercial photographer Randal Ford to create modern-day photo reinterpretations of their classic catalog cover art from the past. For the photo of the 1933 catalog cover art, Ford shot the images of local residents at Maine’s Acadia National Park incorporating some pieces from the L.L. Bean wardrobe archives.

Maine magazine went behind-the-scenes and talked with L.L.Bean creative directors Marcia Minter and Jenna Klein Jonsson about the project:

The apparel is a mix of old and new. For example, the older man is wearing vintage L.L.Bean waders we found on Ebay, while his fly rod and coat are from L.L.Bean’s archives in Freeport. The young boy in the same cover is wearing an outfit borrowed from the Metropolitan Opera. The woman is wearing a shirt from L.L.Bean Signature, but it is remarkably similar to the shirt in the original painting. The man is wearing a chamois shirt, pants, and belt from L.L.Bean’s current menswear line…

The reinterpretations of the 1933 and 1956 covers will appear on catalogs coming out in late January and late March 2012, respectively. We know people may be intrigued by the art, so we are making the images available for purchase as canvas reprints.

via L.L. Bean Blog

photo by Randal Ford

image via L.L. Bean and BusinessWire

Zombie Friendship Necklace Set via ThinkGeek

via Technabob

Dame di Cartone, Fifties II

Dame di Cartone, Cubism III

Dame di Cartone, 17th Century I

Dame di Cartone, 17th Century III

Dame di Cartone (“cardboard ladies”) is a project from photographer Christian Tagliavini where models are posed in cardboard wardrobes meant to resemble cubist, 17th Century and fifties fashions. Dame Di Cartone is currently on display until February 4, 2012 at Diemar / Noble Gallery in London as part of Tagliavini’s Cut Out & Keep solo exhibition. The entire image gallery is viewable online.

…Using cardboard & paper in place of material allows Tagliavini to design each item from the patterning to the final construction of form completely. In his series Dame Di Cartone (literal translation: ‘Cardboard Ladies’) several influences from art history & other eras are again present resulting in striking imagery.

From beginning to completion Tagliavini’s work is a labour of love. He admits that he enjoys the process as much as the resulting photograph, constructing an aesthetic from scratch he feels is incredibly satisfying from a creative & philosophical point of view. With as much done in situ as possible, including the illusory lengthening of the neck Tagliavini reduces the amount of postproduction needed thus retaining the immediacy of the image beautifully.

Tagliavini is fully aware of the irony he portrays & playfully indicates the impermanence of fashion throughout the ages.

via PetaPixel

photos by Christian Tagliavini

Archie McPhee wins the Internet with their latest Cult of Unicorn video featuring a Unicorn in a Unitard on a Unicycle.

Eyewear company Warby Parker created a beautiful interactive infographic as their annual report.

via Ellie Rountree

The Empty Memory jewelry collection from designers Yoo-Kyung Shin and Hanhsi Chen also doubles as USB memory sticks. Each one of these conceptual pieces, one called Structure and the other Transparency, is cast in “high-quality 316 stainless steel” and then hand-polished to create a unique wearable USB stick. Available for pre-order at Logical Art.

What is the physical boundary of an electronic device? While function was detached from its form, the outline it needs to be or it supposed to be can be different. As flash drives was made extremely small, the Empty Memory was given a hollow space, implying the invisible technology.

via 2Modern

images via Logical Art and Yoo-Kyung Shin

The Fall 2012 Menswear Collection from designer Thom Browne is sure to turn some heads with it’s odd blend of preppy, punk and fetish styles. Be sure to take a look at the entire collection over at Style.com.

via Super Punch

images via Thom Browne

FLORA is a new open-source wearable electronics platform by Adafruit Industries. The platform is based around a programmable circular microcontroller that is less than two inches in diameter. Adafruit is developing the platform for sale in the near future.

For the last few years Ladyada has been thinking about everything she wanted in a wearable electronics platform for Adafruit’s community of makers, hackers, crafters, artists, designers and engineers. After months of planning, designing and working with partners around the world for the best materials and accessories, we can share what we’re up to. The hardware is now in the hands of our staff and testers!

We call it the FLORA.

Maine-based clothing and outdoor equipment retailer L.L. Bean is celebrating 100 years in business with a unique 16-foot-tall vehicle, the L.L. Bean Bootmobile. The vehicle is in the shape of their first (and now iconic) product, the waterproof Maine Hunting Shoe. The Bootmobile will be traveling the United States in 2012 “as a symbol of the quality and craftsmanship that L.L. Bean is known for” for their 100 Year Anniversary celebration. In similar veins, also check out the giant promotional shoe car or the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile we have posted about previously.

via Autopia Wired

photos by Jon Simon/Feature Photo Service for L.L. Bean

Thanks to Mel Waldorf for the tip!

A Year of Sun with Mr. Persol is a fun retro-styled animated commerical directed by Kevin Dart and Stéphane Coëdel for Italian eyewear brand, Persol. The short was produced by Passion Pictures in London through advertising agency, Winkreative. You may remember that Kevin Dart and Stéphane Coëdel also collaborated on the short animated film Yuki 7: Looks That Kill that we posted about in August 2011.

via Kevin Dart

From Shove Mink of Croshame, the creator of that wonderful crocheted Krampus we posted about recently, comes the easy-to-make slip-on Star Trek-inspired Crocheted Spock Ears. She’s even included a pattern for them which she estimates will take half hour to produce.

While we might not be traversing far-off galaxies, transporting ourselves onto to Klingon spaceships, or shuffling off to the holodeck for exasperating Sherlock Holmes RPGs, many of the objects people use today – cell phones, video conferencing, GPS devices, stun guns — were predicted by Star Trek many decades ago.

Well, Christmas has come and gone and you’ve already gotten all the fancy stun guns and tricorders and communicators your heart could desire, so why not try out some of that fabulous Star Trek fashion sense with my pattern for crocheted Spock Ears?

images via Croshame

via Allee Willis Museum of Kitsch

images via OOOK

The SoundsGood hearing aid for women allows the speaker to visually see their voice as graphic sound waves. Of course, for the wearer of the device, it provides amplification of sounds and a unique high-tech earring-like device. SoundsGood is a 2011 best of the best red dot design concept winning entry from designer and RISD Industrial Design graduate student Peiqi Tang.

Description of SoundsGood from RISD website:

SoundsGood is a hearing aid specially designed for women who have hearing problems. While collecting and enlarging the sound waves, SoundsGood also translates them into readable signals and show them on the little screen so that the speaker can have immediate response on the volume of his/her own voice. The changing signal is also an elegant decoration. It makes SoundsGood not only a medical device but also a piece of beautiful jewellery.

images via Yanko Design

Laurent Theophane Bertrand of The Theophany posted an image of awesome 3D fingernail gun art recently created for the cover of London-based SuperSuper! magazine.

via Who killed bambi?

After seeing his girlfriend snap photos of herself in her favorite outfits, Seth Porges had the idea to make an app. The resulting iOS app is called Cloth and it lets you “save, categorize, and share your favorite outfits”. There is also an option for saving outfits for “the world to see”. It is now available to download

via The Next Web

If you enjoyed these scans, the folks at WishbookWeb have posted several collections of wish book images issued by different companies over a variety of years.

via Modern Kiddo

images via Wishbook and Enniskillen

In what may be one of the earliest evidence of mainstream fat acceptance, this vintage clip called Miss Fat and Beautiful (from a longer piece titled Plump and Lovely) describes the London fashion house movement to accommodate women of all sizes. This 1962 British Pathe newsreel footage seems to celebrate the ‘plump lass’ and includes scenes from London’s “Miss Fat and Beautiful” beauty contest. Be sure to watch the entire clip to catch a glimpse of Mrs. Waugh, “Britain’s most glamorous fatty”.

Timberland has created the Radler Trail Camp Shoe, a unique pair of folding zippable hiking shoes.

Introducing the Timberland Radler Camp Shoe. Use it; Fold it; Zip it; Clip it. Perfect for any camping or outdoor adventure.

via Red Ferret and Technabob

Threadless just released The Preppy Collection, a premium line of humorously emblazoned polo shirts and cardigans. All of the designs used on the new clothing line were made by the Threadless community including the Honey Badger by Ross Bruggink, Where The Heart Is by John Tibbott and more.

Introducing The Preppy Collection, designed by our community. Pick up an embroidered polo for your next sailing regalia and an embroidered cardigan for your next fireside encyclopedia reading.

Honey Badger Polo Club

Where The Heart Is Cardigan