Hand-Stitched Fashion Magazines by Inge Jacobsen

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Another Vogue cover:

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Photography student Inge Jacobsen began her studies at Kingston University studying fine arts. She since switched to photography but combines continues to combine mediums in some of her works. She's intrigued by taking something commercial or mass produced and adding a handmade element to it, hence her stitched Vogue and Bazaar magazine covers and editorials.

She began with this Bazaar cover which took her two months to complete:

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and then stitched the two Vogue covers shown at the beginning of the post and she's presently working on an Elle cover.

Below are some editorials from within Vogue that she stitched as well:



All images courtesy of the artist. See more of her work at the link below.
Inge Jacobsen

Matador Chic

Say olé, darlings! Intricate embroidery, boleros, and dramatic red, black and white combinations have CC reminiscing about the torero at a bullfight she once saw in the little Spanish town of Ciudad Rodrigo, outside Salamanca.

On the runways, couturiers delighted in matador-inspired details.

Christian Lacroix (these four "fuchsia carpet" photos courtesy style.com)

Alexander McQueen, via nymag.com.

Note the gold leggings and the model's toreador stance - genius!

Givenchy black and white jacket detail; style.com
Alexis Mabille black and gold vest; runway shot courtesy Australian Vogue online
Want the look? ¡Corre! to Neiman Marcus for this delightful D&G tiered silk bolero.

Or tango over to Topshop for this fringed jacket.
If you are willing to take a fashion risk and don the toreador trend more literally, may I suggest Anna Sui’s velvet cape? This photo via elle.com.
And the shoes? ¡Qué fantásticos!
Christian Louboutin open-toe scarlet Passementerie hidden platform, at neimanmarcus.com.
Mary Norton rose satin pump with gold embroidery; photo via elle.com
Alexander McQueen black suede peep toe ankle wrap sandal with white embroidery, via style.com.

Grab the bull by the horns, ladies!!

Immortalizing Celebrity Screw-Ups in Embroidery: The Art Of Maria E. Piñeres

above: Lindsay Lohan's 2007 mugshot in embroidery

The description of her embroidered mug shots show, "A Rogue's Gallery" below is from the gallery's website:

With her signature medium of stitched needlepoint images, Maria E. Piñeres confronts media-saturated contemporary culture’s favorite guilty-or-not-guilty pleasure: the celebrity mug shot.



Celebrity culture exists today almost completely without boundaries. In adversity to the tightly controlled studio system generated publicity of Hollywood’s golden era, nothing today is off-limits. There is hardly any distinction between public and private - and the more private, stark, and embarrassingly real, the better. In the 1940’s and 50’s, readers of Confidential and other such scandal sheets collectively gasped a joyfully naughty, voyeuristic breath and eagerly wrung their hands at the novel site of police-file mug shots of Robert Mitchum and Frank Sinatra. The publication of Kenneth Anger’s Hollywood Babylon (1958) furthered the airing of Hollywood’s dirty laundry into a cultish pastime and created an outlet for a scandal-loving subculture. Today, especially given the access-all-areas manner of internet-disseminated information, such images are commonplace.


Above: Mel Gibson

above: Robert Downey Jr., 2005

above: Lizzie Grubman, 2005

In A Rogue’s Gallery, Maria E. Piñeres captures an eerily doll-like Michael Jackson and a seemingly helpless Lizzie Grubman among many others. All are depicted in the police station after the initial brush with the law, yet before the indignant publicist denials and the ensuing round of post-release talk show appearances. In her new work, PIÑERES goes one step further from her previous series. Homespun grandmotherly needlework, already turned on its ear, is taken into the world of stars which have crashed and burned, darkly glowing through the atmosphere, onto the decidedly non-lunar surface of central booking.


above: Sid Vicious, 2005


above: Nick Nolte, 2005

Both the dazed Nick Nolte and snarling Sid Vicious (shown above) are given true VIP treatment: vertical diptychs featuring kaleidoscopic serial imagery of their respective mug shots with hallucinogenic multicolored backgrounds—a conscious mirror image of the windmills of her iconic subjects’ addled minds. We see a variety of emotions in these faces, rather then blank slates: guilt or embarrassment sometimes, but, more often, defiance, smugness, sweetness and, most often, rebelliousness.


above: Hugh Grant, 2005

above: Bobby Brown, 2005

above: Bobby Brown II, 2005

above: Macaulay Culkin, 2004-2005

This is Piñeres’ second one-person exhibition in New York. Her work has been shown in one-person and group exhibitions at DCKT Contemporary and, recently, in group shows at both Sara Meltzer Gallery and John Connelly Presents.


above: Little Kim

above: Eminem, 2004

above: Billy Joe Armstrong, 2005

above: Vince Vaughn, 2005

See her website here.

Contact:
Walter Maciel
Walter Maciel Gallery
2642 S. La Cienega Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90034
310.839.1840
walter@waltermacielgallery.com

you can view a pdf of the artists resumé here.