Eyeliner & Bamboos

Thanks to the Billionaire Boys Club Blog, I’m able to show you this ubber cool sculpture designed by Xavier Veilhan. It appears on two floors in a new Paris resturant called Germain.

As apart of the opening Gala for SLASH! an exhibition of paper art at The Museum of Art and Design in New York, Eloise Corr Danch created this amazing sculptures out of paper. As a collaboration between her and the Ruffian, she created the Ruffian Paper Doll by taking pages from their book Ruffian: Inside Out and transformed them into a 19th century dress. Sexay, ain’t it?

For this sculpture I used many pages of the book Ruffian: Inside Out (Assouline). Her bustle features pictures of Brian Wolk and Claude Morais designing the collections, as well as images of their prints, inspiration reference, sketches and the lovely models who illuminate Ruffian’s silhouettes. The stripe pattern was made by cutting up quotes from the book and reassembling them to in a pinstripe pattern which was then draped into her skirting. Her bodice features a 2 layer floral pattern that I illustrated and then cut through.  She has a trademark Ruffian lace colar, lace cuffs, and a floral hat with feather detail. Her body is covered in LeMonde newspaper.

FYI Sarah’s dog’s name is Kuma and my dog’s name is Thomas.
I appreciate the fact that people want to save the earth and recycle, but I’ve always felt like there was something wrong with their methods. It’s like they’re doing it the wrong way. Check out a person who did it right:

London-born visual artist, Robert Bradford started to consider the possibilities that his children’s forgotten toys could be apart of something bigger. So he created life-size and larger-than-life sculptures of humans and animals from discarded plastic items, mainly toys but others include colorful plastic bits and pieces, such as combs and buttons, brushes and parts of clothing pins. Bradford says he likes the idea that the plastic pieces have a history, some unknown past, and that they also pass on a “cultural” history as each of the pieces represents a point in time. While recylcling may have not been his primary concern, each sculpture will def keep a lot of toys from becoming landfill. Some of the sculptures contain up to 3,000 toys and costs $19,000.