In 2002 I traveled to the Peruvian rainforest to meet with an "ayahuascero" – a shaman who works in particular with ayahuasca, a very powerful vision-enhancing elixir. For me, the plant medicine provided a range of extremely intense experiences.

During one "journey" in particular, I travelled to another planet where Jesus was debarking from a spacecraft wearing a white sparkly Elvis costume. He was also wearing sunglasses with an extra lens for the third eye. I said, "Nice glasses!" and Jesus replied, "Alyce, these are for you."

Since this experience I have been collecting old pairs of glasses from thrift shops with the intent to recreate the glasses in my vision. I've finally gotten around to assembling a few pairs – this is one of my favorites.

www.alycesantoro.com

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We have learned that we work better as a pair and suggest wearing this during brainstorming sessions.

Our piece is inspired by the Joon and Jung piece, "To Sad to Separate." Two ceramic mugs are attached and share an inner well, forcing two drinkers to share a common vessel.

www.fairfolksandagoat.com

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We have learned that we work better as a pair and suggest wearing this during brainstorming sessions.

Our piece is inspired by the Joon and Jung piece, "To Sad to Separate." Two ceramic mugs are attached and share an inner well, forcing two drinkers to share a common vessel.

www.fairfolksandagoat.com

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I've been making and showing art around the world for over 20 years and decided to take the work out of the gallery and onto the body. "Exhibit a small sculpture on your hand gallery." The shapes and colors were influenced by both modern art and crystalline structure. All jewelry is made from naturally-dyed pine.

Rings are $85, bracelets are $175
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*Note: if you're buying online, you'll be contacted shortly after purchase with a range of colors to choose from.

Balearic slip-on footwear

Every summer I live in Mallorca, Spain, where old ladies clad in shoulder-padded, polyester flower-print dresses and short haircuts wear shoes such as the ones I've customized. I've always seen them being sold in markets or tiny shoe shops and imagined them being equally rad in New York City worn by youngsters in jeans or worn-in T-shirts.

I decided to customize the shoes with all-natural twine string in a zig-zag pattern. My influences were Art Deco and the legacy of the shoes themselves, how they can be so old-lady-ish and so new at the same time.

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Seashell necklace with leather cord

Made from hand-collected shells, cleaned and polished by years being tossed around the vast Pacific, then strung together in an imaginative and compelling arrangement that resembles a necklace -- sort of.

Note: Makes a truly beautiful sound with the shells clang.

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My wife and I like to take evening walks on the winding roads in our neighborhood. The area is dimly lit at best. We have been close to being hit by speeding cars on a number of occasions.

Reflective clothing proved to be ineffective as did a flash light. I decided to place reflecting flashing lights on the front and back of a baseball cap. I call it The AutoEvader. It worked brilliantly. First, the speeding slowed down because what was ahead of them was a motorcycle cop who had pulled over a driver.

Better than that, however, was the hat's ability to cause road and speed signs to flash on and off at a distance of 30 yards. Also, the lights on parked cars would start to flash in sync with the flashes emanating from the brim of the hat.

The speeding cars slowed and we felt safe.

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Leather Welding Mask

The welding mask is an essential equipment for welding to protect from flying sparks and the bright light that is emitted. Normal welding masks are made of plastic with a glass visor -- very boring looking. This is a decked out version of that with metal and cowhide leather, also used for welding aprons.

The looks is clearly inspired by Daft Punk, Transformers, Star Wars, and the future in general.

I can't think of anything more badass than welding - except for welding with a sick looking mask such as this.

www.shootbooth.com

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Bra and Panties Set

It all started on a bus ride to a wedding...

We were discussing Stef's newly purchased Spanx and celebrating modern technologies in breast support/stomach masking. Jill came up with the idea of creating a "modern" brazier for Vena Cava's Fashion Night Out.

We then realized--without question--pubes must be involved. It really just comes down to genius.

With Love,
Hers/Hers

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Do your feet ever get cold in the mornings? Have you ever slipped on some socks to warm them up while getting ready and then walked back into the bathroom to put on deodorant or take a last quick swish of mouthwash and your socks soaked 'cause you had just jumped out of the shower and gotten the floor all wet??

Well I have. (and its happened more than once and it drives me crazy!)

That's why I asked a lady from my church to sew me some Bathroom Boot Socks out of some towels I had never used because, well, they didn't quite go with my bathroom which is more kinda blue with cream accents.

The good thing is that I can wear these Bathroom Boot Socks and they soak up any water on the floor! So my feet stay warm and my bathroom floor gets dried up in the process. I can just hang these puppies up with my towels and they get pretty dry by the next day 'cause they are made out of towels themselves!!

Works out pretty good and they look OK too.

I really like them and maybe you will too.

P.S.:
These are a brand new pair. (My lady friend made them in pink and grey from towels that her daughter hadn't used 'cause she was engaged and then the wedding got called off.)

These are nicer than the original ones but I'm sure they will work just as well.

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Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides Now" on repeat.

Materials: Translucent plastic in pink & grey & green.

www.UnchangingWindow.com

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I've always loved the Chinese proverb, "You can't keep the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair." After I made the raven, I added his supper for kicks.

Materials: Black and white acrylic

www.growhousegrow.com

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Laser-Printed Boat Shoes

Basically, I combined three important things in my life. my love of boating and water, my dog, and my partner. Whenever I wear these I can have what I love around me.

They say a person's shoes say a lot about them. They're right.

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Plastic Gaga Headpiece

We wanted to make a piece that utilized 3D Printing technology, while still remaining elegant. Our mission was to create a shape that spoke to modern culture and urban living.

The Daymond is made from ABS plastic, and then sandblasted.

www.lengthwidthheight.net

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Here at Dystopian Holdings, we aren't just making great tabletop games. No, we're actively involved, every day, in envisioning ways that the world could get worse, whether we're contemplating zombie apocalypse or designing feral AI policebots.

We don't know what the dystopian future will hold, but one thing we're sure of: there will be fashion, even if it's only rags scavenged from the ashes of society.

This soulless faceplate represents one probable outcome.

www.dystopianholdings.com

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Voodoo Headpiece

I developed an interest in Voodoo dolls as a teenager while studying religions of the African Diaspora after learning of a family connection to Hoodoo and Louisiana Voodoo.

My piece is a modern twist on the all-purpose Voodoo doll. I utilized traditional materials including sticks sourced from Brooklyn's Prospect Park (after a Sonic Youth show) and Spanish moss, but I decorated the piece in a contemporary style. My piece is not made in the likeness of a specific deity or individual, but is influenced by my life in Brooklyn today.

This piece is strictly for decorative purposes. No spells are included. I bear no responsibility for any events that occur from use of this headpiece.

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True: pencils become dull with use

False: pencil sharpeners are easy to find when you need them

GET SHARP, LOOK SHARP

www.monikawyndham.com

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Put your music where your tie is...
The Sonic Tie by Alyce Santoro is made out of the most magical stuff: Sonic Fabric.

Sonic Fabric is woven from 50% recorded audio cassette tape and 50% colored thread. Run a tape head over it to listen to the audio track, an audio collage.

Based on looped and layered samples collected on and under the streets of NYC. Looks great with dress shirt or t-shirt. This tie is 2" wide at the widest point.

www.alycesantoro.com

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FAKE GRASS, FAKE PLANTS AND ADVENTURES IN NATURE SIMULATION.

www.marisatesauro.com

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I like to see people in party hats...

Some images feature Grow House Grow wallpapers.

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Oxford Shirt

It's always seemed a bit absurd to me that so many designers opt to brand their apparel by floating an ostensibly random embroidered animal on the front of their shirts.

By adding a gentle, rolling field of green to this shirt, the pony in the Polo Ralph Lauren logo is given context. Whereas animal logos like this usually "float" on most products to which they are applied, the pony on this reinvented shirt is finally given a verdant world to roam.

The white shirt was bought used from a friend. The green field was created by simply dip-dying the garment up until the bottom of the Polo logo.

www.dulldesigncompany.com

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My favorite part of my job is working with a palette of plants and putting them into a context for others to appreciate.

In our part of the world we are fortunate to have a variety of seasons. This allows us to each year revisit our favorite leaves and flowers. The Living Floral Barrette pays homage to this process, hopefully encouraging us to visit the outdoors more in the hope of finding the perfect adornment.

rebelgirldesigns@gmail.com

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These ones are for the kids. From Remigijus and Egidijus Praspaliauskas.

From the designers: "not wearable on feet...first in fashion...for interesting lifestyle... needs no pressing...dries itself..."

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Triple-double-u.com which could be also read as World Wide Web was started as series of artistic projects for analysing digital information available on the Internet. We use material existing in the Internet as second hand material which could be still used for new purposes.

T-shirt/?s is an outcome of project carpet/?s, which generates a personalized carpet made out of ASCII (American Standart Code for Information Interchange).

The pattern generated for every t-shirt/?s or carpet/?s is unique. It is based on the time when the surfer goes to a web site and clicks the button. The time in a form of hh:mm:ss is then used as a keyword for the results taken from a search engine.

Note: There are ten styles, each with a different hyperlink across a white shirt

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Prescott 133 is a fairly "lousy" painter. He is "ok" at operating the machines necessary to work on his projects. Prescott 133 used to write his "name" on walls and pound for pound eats an "un-healthy" amount of tacos. Prescott 133 makes one offs for the person that loves digging through the waste of "civilized" society to find something to love. Prescott 133 wants to re-create the wanton desire that over takes you when you find something that you may never find again, a brief moment of humanity that you get when emotion takes control over the rational.

Prescott 133 wants you to feel. Then Prescott 133 wants you to pay.

http://prescott133.blogspot.com/

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Hand-knit alpaca yarn, silk-acetate.

Square-end necktie, featuring a diagonal rib pattern meticulously hand-knit with quite possibly the world's smallest needles.

Self-tie bow tie featuring hand-knit "bat wing" ends in a single rib pattern and custom faux tortoise shell sliders. Constructed in collaboration with my grandmother.

A craft no longer reserved for the geriatric generation, I refined my hand at knitting during a semester at Lund University in southern Sweden, effectively knitting myself into a metaphorical cocoon during the winter's extended hours of darkness. As a Non Fashion Person but regular maker with an interest in the traditional ideas behind menswear, I employed this technique to create a set of knit ties proper in their hand-made imperfection. Dropped stitches and extra loops are the flaws bound to happen during over 60 hours of tedious handiwork using needles typically reserved for baby garments. Their inherent nonchalance lends the Close-Knit Ties a certainly bearable wit.

www.stephenjameskennedy.com

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it's just a tie made out of recycled plywood. I could only work on it late at night, so I hope my saws didn't keep the neighbors awake!!

www.claireoswalt.com

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Hybrid skirt / shorts / scarf

The Skort was my husband Ian Kibbey's idea. He loves anything with novelty value (SkyMall is big at our house). He's a film director and a self-proclaimed "big picture" guy, so when it came to production of the piece I took the reigns.

Although Ian might have liked it to stay a joke, I wanted to interpret the Skort as a wearable, fashionable item for Fall 2010. I was inspired by Vivienne Westwood, Jean-Paul Gaultier, and Alexander McQueen--basically anyone who'd ever rocked a kilt, or dressed a man in a skirt. I like to think of the Skort as a gender-neutral item of clothing. In fact, the first fit model for this Skort was a man. Yet gender-neutral and gender-bending doesn't mean asexual; as anyone who tries the Skort will see it's very sexy.

The production of the Skort took place over the course of a week and was generally spontaneous. I bought a pair of used harem pants at a thrift store and a couple yards of wool in the bargain section of a fabric store and set to work. I thought a few pleats would add movement so I improvised those, and when I realized the elastic waist of the bloomers (née harem pants) prevented the skirt from being sewn on, I decided the entire piece could be component parts to be assembled with snaps at the wearer's discretion.

In it's finished state, the Skort is a cold-weather functional, day-to-night, unisex article of clothing. Even the snuggest winter coat buttons or zips up the front, exposing a bit of leg to the elements. Hence the skirt provides an extra layer of warmth and protection from the harsh winds of the avenues. No woman (or man) wants to expose themselves (and we can't be expected to keep our ankles crossed at all times) so the short bloomers provide freedom of movement without fear of indiscretion. As my mother says, there's nothing like a little something around the neck to keep you just the right temperature, therefore a supple scarf is built in, lest you find yourself scrounging around the bottom of your purse and come up empty handed.

The fashionable New Yorker might pair the Skort with a crisp button-down for the workday or a seductive camisole for a night out on the town. Make the Skort your own.

www.arockridgelife.com

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Shirt designed by William Lamson and a kite blowing in Urugay.

For more information, click here.

www.williamlamson.com

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Engraved necklace

The inspiration for the Gross Anatomy Collection comes from the idea of the body as a commodity which has established itself in popular visions of dystopian futures, but which may deserve a fresh look as the economy continues to stagnate and health care costs continue to rise. Post mortem body parts are used for medical research and the practice and testing of new procedures.

The U.S. is one of the few countries in the world that legally allows the use of human remains for education and research purposes. The cadaver collection and distribution trade, while heavily regulated is of course a privatized industry. Special thanks to the books Stiff by Mary Roach and Body Brokers by Annie Cheney.

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In a wholehearted effort to avoid purchasing unflattering swimsuits for the rest of our lives, we decided to design our own.

After about a month of research and testing out vintage suits from eBay, we decided that the keys to a great fit were cinching at the waist, a lower cut at the thigh and quality composition in the nylon. Anna has a built-in shelf bra, adjustable straps, and a hidden zippered pocket.

www.wintercheckfactory.com

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Greet destiny comfortably.

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Just snap a BeerStache onto the neck of your favorite bottled beverage and you'll have an instant mustache with every swig! You no longer have to drink an unaccessorized beverage like every other beer swilling schlub.

With a BeerStache drink identifier, your tasty beverage will transform your entire visage from sad to suave in an instant. Why wait weeks for that peachfuzz to turn substantial? With a BeerStache you can grow a mustache even the brawniest lumberjack couldn't hold a candle to!

And for the ladies who have mustache envy (and what lady doesn't afterall) the beerstache is the answer you've always been looking for!

It's that missing panache, it's the BeerStache!

www.beerstache.com

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You're buying art. It's benefiting the Ali Forney Center. Although everyone's shown diligence and craftiness, we can't make any promises. So: unless you feel deeply swindled, please consider all sales final and exchanges unlikely to be honored.

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