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From Hollywood, back to the future

Just for fun. Here are a series of pictures of movie stars photographed in costume from middle ages or Victorian times holding modern accessories such as a Starbucks latte, an IPhone or other cell phones, an IPad, a water bottle, a plastic cup, a designer tote bag or a bag of chips while filming scenes that take place in the days where none of those things existed.

Orlando Bloom

Milla Jovovich

Hailee Steinfeld

Robert Downey Jr.

Kate Winslet

Simon Begg

Rachel McAdams

Mia Wasikowska

Courtesy Vogue it

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Paris Fashion Week: John Galliano Spring/Summer 2011

John Galliano's theatrical collection at the Opera Comique was inspired by Maria Lani, a muse who persuaded many of Paris's most famous artists of the 1920s to paint her portrait. Each outfit in the collection was unique, representing a work by painters such as Matisse, Chagall and Braque.

Galliano's eccentric birds of paradise

Images courtesy Guardian.co.uk

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Maske by Phyllis Galembo

New York-based artist PHYLLIS GALEMBO has been documenting masquerade and carnival-based practices around the world, and she is most celebrated for images taken in West African countries and also Haiti, where she has traveled annually for the past decade to work in Jacmel. By returning to certain places over a period of several years, Galembo has developed an understanding with some of the more secretive societies in Sierra Leone, Mali, and Burkina Faso, and this has enabled her to document carnival costume and masking practices from a broad spectrum of groups covering an immense geographical area. After years of photographing indigenous cultures, Phyllis Galembo has compiled her new book MASKE, which shows traditional masquerades from Africa.
Galembo's photographs of African masks in their figural resplendence make one wonder with great regret what visual and artistic knowledge of masking in Africa is now forever lost. Masking is one of the most complex and secretive, yet profoundly important, phenomena in Africa.
Here are some excerpts from MASKE.

Makishi Masquerades

Zambia

Animal and Spirit Masquerades

Burkina Faso

Masquerades of Cross River

Nigeria

Gelede and Egungun Masquerades
Benin

Maske will be released on October 16, 2010

Courtesy Phyllis Galembo and publisher Chris Boot

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Charlene Gonzales for Mega Magazine (October 2010)

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Manish Arora at Paris Fashion Week

Indian designer Manish Arora creates an entire fantasy world with his Spring/Summer 2011 collection. Held in the Salle Wagram, a former Parisian boxing arena, the show featured exquisite beads/rhinestones, colorful patterns in Krishna blue and gold, shoes ornate with flowers and gilded straps wrapped around the legs like snakes, and a series of sculptural crystal dresses.