Where Fashion Meets Madness: The World's Most Extreme Clothes
What is the point of unwearable clothing? A new book from Gestalten helps explain.
"There have always been icons who lived their lives dressed like apparitions from another world," writes Greg French in the forward to Otherwordly, a new collection from Gestalten of the most outrageous, surreal, and futuristic of avant-garde fashion. There's the Milanese aristocrat Marchesa Luisa Casati, for example, who during the Belle Epoque era "would roam the canals of Venice on a gondola with whitened skin, kohl black eyes, and fiery red hair alongside her bejeweled pet cheetahs and white peacocks."