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Anatomy of Steampunk: The Fashion of Victorian Futurism
Anatomy of Steampunk:
The Fashion of
Victorian Futurism has gone into a second printing. Woot!
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The book contains:
• More than 200 color photographs
• Inspirational profiles of steampunks
from all over the world
• Step-by-step directions for ten DIY projects
Read an interview with me about the book on the Craftside site.
Here’s some more info from the book’s jacket:
From formal outfits to costumes crafted for the
stage, from ensembles suited to adventure to
casual street styles, steampunk fashion has come to
encompass quite a few different looks. But what
exactly is steampunk?
Originally conceived as a literary
genre, the term “steampunk” described stories
set in a steam-powered, science
fiction-infused, Victorian London. Today steampunk has
grown to become an aesthetic that fuels many varied
art forms. Steampunk has also widened its cultural scope.
Many steampunk practitioners, rather than
confining their vision to one European city, imagine
steam-driven societies all over the world.
Today the vibrance of steampunk inspires a wide range of
individuals, including designers of high fashion, home
sewers, crafters, and ordinary folks who just want to have
fun. Steampunk fashion is not only entertaining, dynamic, and
irreverent; it can also be colorful, sexy, and provocative.
Most of all, steampunk fashion is accessible to everyone.
Illustrated throughout with color photographs of the dazzling
creations of numerous steampunk fashion designers, Anatomy of
Steampunk is an inspirational sourcebook. In addition
to presenting the looks and stories of these creative fashion
artists, the book also details ten steampunk projects for
the reader to try at home. Allow steam to power your
imagination.
Designers, performance groups, and individual
steampunks
featured in
the book include—
Airship Isabella
Ali Fateh
Belladonna
Belleville
Berit
New York
Black
Garden
Blasphemina’s
Closet
Brute Force
Studios
Clockwork
Couture
Costume
Mercenary
DASOWL
Dawnamatrix
Disabled
Life Media
Edward
Von Arkham
The
Extraordinary Contraptions
Festooned Butterfly
Harvash
Hi Tek by
Alexander
House
of Canney
KMKDesigns
Kristi Smart
Kristin
Costa
KvO Design
Lastwear
The League of
S.T.E.A.M.
Margaret
“Magpie” Killjoy
Marquis
of Vaudeville
Mary
Holzman-Tweed
Maurice Grunbaum
Megan
Maude
Michael Salerno
The
M.I.S.F.I.T.s
Monique Poirier
Morrigan
New York
Ms.
Purdy’s
Muses Well
Nivi Hicks
Noam Berg
Painless
Parker
Phil
Powell
Redfield Design
RockLove
Sidharta
Aryan
Skinz-N-Hydez
Spyder Designs
Steampunk
Emma Goldman
Tokyo
Inventors Society
Tom Banwell
Tom Keeler
Tony
Ballard-Smoot
The
Gin Rebellion
Won Park
I’m honored to be included in The Steampunk User’s Manual by Jeff VanderMeer and Desirina Boskovich. Get your copy today and check out my essay on retrofuturist fashion.
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