Probably the most frequently uttered observation about fashion is that what goes around comes around (and then keeps going, and coming, etc).. Sometimes, however, the turning gyre of fashion death and rebirth comes to an unanticipated halt.
They became partners, fashioning the Death Stick hammer for carpenters and contractors who frame houses.
As the BBC notes, quite a modern way to announce a very old-fashioned death.
This is his death mask, fashioned from a cast of his face, sitting on a table in front of me.
Yet she closes the exhibition with an emphasis on the philosophical alliance between fashion and death, quoting Coco Chanel's statement, "Fashion must die and die quickly, in order that it can begin to live".
By night he strangled prostitutes to death, fashioning intricate nooses from their bras, which allowed him to throttle his victims before tying off the ligatures at enormous tension.
"I had a section on 'goth' sub-cultural style but I also showed how fashion designers like Alexander McQueen, Riccardo Tisci, Yohji Yamamoto and Rick Owens have explored themes such as dark glamour, beauty and terror, and even fashion and death".
The future of fashion is death, disease, and gore.
Chuck proposes avoiding the Constance party by going to a bar mitzvah in a similar fashion to Death Takes a Holiday, which Blair accepts.
The photos also figure as a clever examination of the relationship between fashion and death, a relationship that remains continually fascinating.
