Magic Box: Thousand Year Ripple

(after Hapsical image 2010)

It had been a thousand years since he had last emerged from his watery lair. The pressure so far down pressed upon his chest, leaving a ghostly carbon-imprint on his body.

He pushed himself upward dislodging a millennium of thick soot that drifted around him as if it were sorry to leave him. He rose a thousand meters before seeing a glimpse of light and yet another thousand before seeing the undulating surface of the ocean. In one loud burst, in the middle of nowhere, he breached the water. For forty three minutes he stood soaking in the fresh, still air and without any will of his own he was dragged back to his watery lair, consigned to another millennium of solitude.

About Hapsical:

Hapsical is an intrepid fashion blogger. He can break down complex collections into a series simple concepts. His season hi-light posts are mammoth, dealing with the merits of all shows that deserve to be mentioned (good and bad). His slight obsession with Raf Simons has lead to an almost encyclopedic article covering 15 years of his shows (read it here). If its fashion blogging with brains that your looking for Hapsical is it.

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Image Credits:

Falling ink by xxwingxx, Freja Erichsen by Rafael Stahelin for Vogue Korea Sept 2010,  Jill Sander bag ,  S/S 2011 by Raf Simons, S/S/ 2011 by Raf Simons, GQ Style - Jacket by Raf Simons.

Magic Box: Mince Me Beautiful

Somewhere deep in the Johannesburg's meat-packing district* live two unique fashion designers. They are masters of sinew, sculptors of bone, weavers of cartilage and drapers of muscle. They can do with raw meat what people can hardly do with the finest silk.

Their tools: bone-saws and staple-guns, twine and butcher-paper, cling-wrap and shrink-wrap.

From these basic elements they create magical forms, almost alive (or recently so). Their wears have the shortest of life cycles. Their visions and materials are so cutting edge that their clothes come with sell and use-by dates. The epitome of consumerism, they have their clients coming back for more as if they were doing grocery shopping.

(Original image: Fake Sartorialist)

About the image:

This image was taken at a bar in Johannesburg. Claudette Pombo and Duncan Gosling, pictured above were hanging out in the bar's bathroom, at first I thought it was strange, did my thing, and went back to the bar. I just couldn't help but go back an ask them what they were doing and snap a photograph while I was at it. Their reasoning had something to do with the bathroom having actually surpassed the bar in 'coolness' factor, which might be a damning thing to say about the bar.

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*Johannesburg has no 'meat-packing' district.

Magic Box: Gaga Wedding

(Kien Nguyen and bridesmaids)

Two hours before the wedding took place, a secret-ops team dressed from head to toe in black descended over a picturesque seaside village to give this wedding a cutting-edge fashion make-over. Armadillo heels, crystal dresses, spiky balls, laser-cut fringes, candle wax crowns and bubbles were flying all over the place. All local stores were instantly out of stock of black lipstick and circular sunglasses. Like a fashion plague the black-clad operatives swarmed ever inch of the village.

They tore sleeves, puffed dresses, distressed jeans, bedazzled bags and spray painted shirts.

They vanished as quickly as they had appeared, leaving only the sound of crisp electro-pop beats in the air.

(Original Image © Kien Nguyen)

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Magic Box: Lynn and Horst

When Horst isn't eating organic German sausage, he is re-applying a smudgy coat of lipstick to his Cure-esque look. A great purveyor of the man-skirt, Horst has become a fashion activist traveling the fashion capitals of the world. On a chance occasion with Giorgio (Armani), Horst put his case across to him; Isn't it about time that man-skirts made it into the main stream? "Sure, sure darling. God knows I've tried, but let me give you some advice: Stop now before they come for you, this isn't a suggestion, it's a threat." he said, flashing a butterfly knife infront of his face. In a flash he had disappeared. This was not the only run in with the MaMSM (Males against Man-Skirts Mafia) that Horst had: Yohji, Jean, John, Hedi. It wasn't long before Horst had to go into deep, deep hiding.

He couldn't tell a soul where he was going, he had to leave everyone he knew behind because of his vision. A vision of a world with out gender biased fashion.

Horst runs a fashion commentary blog: 

Lynn and Horst

Lipstick and Sausage. Fashion with pride. Bad taste with risk.

(Original Image © Lynn and Horst)

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Magic Box: Threadbared

(Minh-Ha and Mimi)

They go by the names: Minh-Ha and Mimi, but their friends call them: Minh-Ha-Mimi. When they aren't researching articles for their blog they are out and about dressed in period dress time traveling to the greatest points of human progress. Pictured above, they have just seen the unveiling of the 'telephone' by Alexander Graham Bell, and are about to flash back into the future to view the unveiling of the iPhone by Steve Jobs. Then its off for a spot of brunch with Marilyn Monroe before she became famous, and a sitting for Picasso in his Blue period.
Mimi: "You think its hard dressing for a day at work! Ha, try dressing appropriately for three decades in two different centuries. Now thats challenging."

Minh-Ha and Mimi are:
"... two clotheshorse academics who write and teach the politics of fashion and beauty. "
Visit their blog Threadbared to get a fashion viewpoint with theoretical substance.

(Original Image © Threadbared)

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Introducing: Magic Box

So in thinking up more exiting content to create for you (the reader), I have come up with: 'Magic Box'. This is one of those boxes where what goes in is not what comes out! Somewhere in between some magic happens.

What you do:

1. You email me a photograph that you think needs that Fake Sartorialist touch.

2. My email filtering technology 'magically' sorts all your emails into a folder.

3. I get hard at work transforming your friends / family / fashion shoot/ some alluring stranger you've photographed.

4. I post it here on The Fake Sartorialist with full credits and links to the photographer.

5. You have a good chuckle/profound moment looking at the transformed work.

So send your photo through email by clicking HERE

or email thefakesartorialist {at} gmail {dot} com

with the subject "Magic Box"

I'm looking forward to seeing your pics!

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