/Impossible Couture

I had a conversation recently with a friend on the subject of imagination.  She made a great point, that we're encouraged to have lively, vivid imaginations while we're young, but once we hit adulthood, we're taught that fantasy is wrong, as though we run the risk of confusing the real with the dreamed.  We're forced to become literalists. Our fantasies and imagination, which were once encouraged, become taboo.



That's a shame. We should feel free to play and imagine, to explore the unreal, the surreal, and the fantastical.  I'm one of these socialized adults - I've lost my own imagination, so I'm drawn to the imaginations of others. Edward Gorey, Franz von Bayros, and here, Molly Crabapple, who was interviewed in the last issue of FGT about her live-drawing events. Through their imaginations, these artists create new, endlessly interesting worlds.



In the spirit of fashion and imagination, artist Molly Crabapple and photographer Najva Sol have collaborated to create this collection of images for FilthyGorgeousThings. With beautiful nudes as her canvas, Molly drawn a truly impossible couture of birds and burlesque, coked-up piggie-voyeurs, and mermaids in repose.

- CV