Category Archives: fashion
Insect Fashion
I haven’t been able to find out who was responsible for creating the giant insects for Uniqlo‘s fashion advertisements announcing their new Uniqlo Undercover line by Jun Takahashi, but I am in love with them. Well, the insects, that … Continue reading
The Golden Fleece
Like the endless nature documentaries that invariably used a football field as the default unit of measurement for flea-jumping, nearly every educational book or film that mentions spiders always talked about the incredible unrealized potential of spider silk. “Pound for … Continue reading
Posted in art, fashion, JD, spider
Tagged Art Institute of Chicago, Golden Orb, Madagascar, Nicholas Godley, Paul Camboué, silk, Simon Peers, spider
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Elite Elytra
A famous Victorian dress worn by Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth is being restored to its original splendor. Part of that splendor involved the replacement and repair of over 1,000 buprestid jewel beetle elytra. . Check out the history of … Continue reading
Posted in fashion, insect
Tagged beetle, buprestid, cyndrekit, Ellen Terry, elytra, fashion, John Singer Sargent, McKelvey, Victorian Dress, wing
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