Barbara Í Gongini

Beautifully dark gothic/pixie/fairy style clothing. I am a big fan of garments that seem to have neither beginning nor end to its form. Barbara Í Gongini creates this. With freeflowing and flattering pieces that can be worn in multiple ways. Her garments wrap around/under/over/unbutton/button and so on...

Also, along with a creative team,  Í Gongini produce the most magic and haunting fashion videos. Inspired perhaps by the Japanese horror movies The Ring and The Grudge. Garments come alive when you choreograph seemingly unnatural human poses and movements. It gives me shivers at the same time as I find it fascinating and rather sexy. I WILL own a Barbara Ingongini garment...and I am also inspired to make my own Barbara Í Gongini influenced clothing.

via cool hunting

via cool hunting

long chalk jacket

Middle length cardigan, with detachable sleeves.

Middle length cardigan, with detachable sleeves

Middle length cardigan, with detachable sleeves

Middle length cardigan, with detachable sleeves

Obscur - Beautiful

autumn/winter 2010

autumn/winter 2009

spring/summer 2010

There is something so neat and clean about these garments yet they are so skew and raw. It is that paralell that draws me to Obscur. 

 Richard Söderberg, a Swede producing collections since 2008. The garments, the brand and the designer's intent for making, is described as being:

'a language for the creator, a language that is intended to express a certain view of the world and a reaction. A reaction to the impureness and inconsistency that surrounds us.'

The way Obscur's garments are made is through an inspiration from a dark scandinavian heritage. This heritage being both the landscape around him and music according to Obscur's website. 

These garments are said to be for men, but I've gotta say that I'd wear them any day!