Newspaper

This one's actually made from pages out of a telephone book.

Creative people rock.

Now I know this is surely an idea older than the Roman Empire (yes it is, and don't call me Shirley), but I wanted to share with you a collection of garments created entirely out of newspaper by some very imaginative designers. Feel free to contribute to the visual goodness if you have any other suggestions (a.k.a. links, images, entire sites devoted to this kind of genius?)

First three are the highest scorers on last season's Project Runway, when they had the designers create a look using only newspaper, glue and dye (if they chose to color the newspaper).

Irina Shabayeva

Gordana Gehlhausen

Christopher Straub

Izaac Mizrahi

Gary Harvey

Hugo Boss

EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT! (yeah... i know...)

Ze Ztuds - DIY (pt. 4)

I know, I know... you all can now breathe because of all of those overly anticipated and suspenseful moments!

These are the jeanz. With a z. With the ztuds. With a z. Z's make everything cooler - so do X's but they're harder to pronounce - I think they're pronounced [ch] in Mayan. I guess all the rare letters in Scrabble - you know, the ones that only have one wooden game-piece equivalent, that are worth a whopping 10 points - are automatically bad-ass letters and should be substituted for their phonetic equivalent in everyday words.

Anyway,

Jeans: H&M (probably about $40 or so, that's generally the price for their jeans - this particular style is called "SQIN" - also known as skinny)

Studs: Mood fabrics (to be said with in a low voice, imitation of Tim Gunn) - I think about $4/per bag of 50 or so.

Make it work!

Inspiration DIY

Original look: Jak&Jil

The second I saw this I knew I needed to create a similar look. It's almost as if she were in Terminator or something and a layer of prosthetic skin was ripped off in an overly-aggressive battle, most probably involving some sort of automatic machine gun and/or flaming hot magma, revealing the inner mechanics of her robotic being. Anyway, in the words of Tim Gunn, I "took a trip to Mood" (although most definitely not on the same budget) and bought some studs. Ok, they DID have the larger, square ones, but I felt as though the smaller round ones were nicer and would look more detailed. Of course, this is something I regret insofar as it probably took me about 3 times longer to get them on the jeans than I would've had I bought the bigger ones. However, I am happy I got through them all - with a little motherly help of course, thanks mom! - although my left index finger seems to be permanently indented. Photos of the finished version to come soon. Take THAT Schwartzy!