Erik Madigan Heck is a New York–based photographer with a signature style for which I have nothing but extreme levels of admiration, love and affection. Oh ok, and slight envy dammit! His work contains multiple rich layers and crosses the genres of photography, fashion, fine-art and mixed media. In today’s world where digital post-production is routinely performed on the majority of photographs, Erik’s work is almost always jazzed up the good old-fashioned way—using his camera or in the darkroom…

I spotted this delicious looking fashion editorial over on Vogue’s online pages, featuring Natalia Vodianova (wearing clothes by the likes of Proenza Schouler, Marni, Etro, Prada, Valentino, Marc Jacobs, Balenciaga and Dior) photographed by Mario Testino in his incredible LA home. Beautiful clothes aside, it was Testino’s home which blew me away really hard. To be honest, I don’t know why I was so surprised by it—I mean—of course one of the world’s most well known and celebrated fashion photographers would have a totally amazeballs home, right? The man’s job is photographing and capturing exquisite beauty, and you’d hope that decades of this work would have rubbed off on his design taste buds…

I am completely smitten by Hiroko Nakajima’s graduate collection titled “Welcome Home” in which she used interior furnishings, reminiscent of her childhood room, to create these sculptural pieces of clothing…

If you are a regular reader of yellowtrace (high five to you – woohoo!) you would know that I don’t usually post about fashiony wearable type stuff. Alas, today I decided to break one of my own rules and post about this experimental jewellery by Swiss luxury design firm Atelier XJC. These incredibly intricate pieces, which reference feathers, scales and large delicate ruffs, were commissioned by Atelier XJC for their 10th birthday, resulting in a collection of cuffs, collars, a hat, a bag plus a few other sculptural pieces.

Now… that’s all well and good, super amazing and beautiful, etc, etc. But what I am really intrigued about is the awesome photography by Milo Keller & Julien Gallico, and even more so – the exceptionally intriguing choice of models…

Did you ever have a moment where you saw something so awesome that you immediately proceeded to hyperventilate and had to quickly look for a paper-bag to breathe into and calm yourself down? No…? Yeah, me neither. I’m waaaay too cool for that… *Fidgets nervously* Oh ok, except maybe when I saw this.

At the recent Dries van Noten menswear fashion show at the Grand Palais in Paris, five painters were busily working on a 30m long mural while a bunch of well-dressed models strutted they’re stuff on the catwalk. The painters ignored the models walking behind them and continued working on their canvas wall, carefully recreating the work of typographer Job Wouters (aka Letman) and Dutch artist Gijs Frieling…