Video: Dead Birds and Men's Vegetable Hats: Strange Headwear Series
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
What designers don't make hats out of! Everything is used: live plants, fruits and vegetables, china and felt toys. It is difficult to surprise the modern public with something new. But headdresses with stuffed birds, invented by a Japanese artist, are really unusual things.
Japanese Takaya has been creating extraordinary hats, using only natural flowers and plants as a material. Skillfully interweaving them together, the author gets surprisingly complex and graceful compositions, so multi-layered that many are surprised by their hand-made.
Recently, the author has created a new collection of hats, which was a big surprise for the audience. First, some hats include real dead birds. Secondly, hats appeared especially for men, made up of blue and purple flowers, dried herbs, twigs and roots. Many of these hats were created right during the presentation - the girl gave the plants the desired shape using scissors, in just a few minutes.
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