nah, this just looks like every hipster in my neighborhood in the wintertime. I swear, it’s like a contest to see who looks more like a mental patient.
the royal college of art, eh? i think remedial summer sessions are in order.
and if you’re going to draw this much attention to an outfit, why hide the face?
be proud of your knit hot mess, i say!
This is why when I say “Oh, I’m an art student” people laugh, and say art college doesn’t teach anything except bullshit. THANKS A LOT, ROYAL COLLEGE OF FART.
I adore these designs! I wouldn’t wear them, it must be said; still, it makes me happy to know that they exist and make the world just a little weirder.
Number 6 is clearly an evolution of the one-armed Sad Hipster Sweater, now there is one regular arm and one super long arm. That is one sad hipster in the green lion’s mane hat.
Wow, when did it become so dangerous to be a fashion model?? I mean, someone HAS TO HAVE held a gun to their heads to get them to wear this. Right? RIGHT??
I pray every night that Bronc will add “threw up in my mouth a little” to his list of banned words and phrases. That, and that tranquilizers will rain from the sky.
Shit. Now I have It’s Raining Pills running through my head and the singer of that version is insanely gleeful as she belts it out. Thank you for that.
I don’t know if I’m being PC or not, but I think these people designing these things are fashionably retarded. As in they never developed a fashion sense beyond what only a 8 year old would think is a good idea to wear.
oh dear, how dare i point out the fact they are men, when all the posts above call them she’s, i saw the original article wear faces were shown, and that it was a mens wear show…
lordy get panties in a twist much. wasnt a post about their orientation,
The problem is you stated something interesting, but it lacked snark. Try adding a sarcastic hook at the end next time you want to convey useful information. That way people will read it and like it, no matter what you say!
I would give you an example, but I’m visiting my parents and I just took a shower and accidentally used my dad’s shampoo, and it washed all the coherency out of my brain.
Exactly, I found it a useful comment. Plus, I am kind of glad to see it isn’t just women who get dumped into designer monstrosities (have we forgotten urinal dress?) Let’s humiliate both sexes equally.
I’m convinced there is a contingent of Etsians who have scheduled mass visits to Regretsy for thumbs-downing. Not reading, just thumbs-downing. Everything. From my observation (because I have no life), it happens three times a day, on average. For some reason, it’s around mealtimes, Pacific US.
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If it happens around mealtimes I guess that makes sense. I get bitchy when I’m hungry, too.
If it’s disgruntled crafters, that’s almost the most pathetic thing I’ve heard today. “Thumbs down to you! And you! And you! You will RUE THE DAY you mocked my vagina pants! There WILL BE CONSEQUENCES!”
Fashion is a subtle expression of the human spirit through textiles and movement. I really like the way these garments highlight the natural form, evoking an emotional, almost primitive response with their fanciful ahahahaHAHAHAH I can’t. I can’t even continue. These are ridiculous. Cat head nonsense.
the pink one with the long sleeve i think. there’s an eye on the shoulder and the white patch on the front is an ear. i guess the green floofiness is a circus hat or something.
This is what gets on the runway these days? I make better, more wearable things on a regular basis, without going to design school. This is just a huge waste of resources. It would be one thing if they actually looked interesting, but the colors are ugly and they aren’t actually that original. It looks like fashion designers get paid to fail at making children’s halloween costumes.
Wow…clothes that make runway models look shapeless and chubby…I wonder what they’d do for the rest of us…Probably make us look like three year olds who snuck into the liquor cabinet for some peppermint juice.
And I complained when my school’s creative director stuck helium balloons all over one of my final projects in our fashion show? I think I’ll go eat my words now. I can understand the importance of being trendy and fashion forward in this industry but SERIOUSLY?
maybe there’s something wrong with me, but I actually kinda want some of these. Am I drunk again? That raspberry sherbert I had earlier did taste a little off….because that monkey sweater is looking like just about the raddest thing I’ve ever seen. I’d wear it paired with the Cthulu mask for the perfect first date outfit.
You and my mother would’ve gotten along well. This is a woman who, right up till the year she died, used to hand out trick-or-treat candy on Halloween while wearing a gorilla mask, a wedding dress, a moth-eaten fur coat and a pair of galoshes (she kept the candy in a coal bucket).
If she were alive to see these, it’d be straight to the local crafts store to start buying yarn and knitting needles.
Very cool. I love them. I wouldn’t pay money for one or ever wear one, but I love the colors and bizarre blend of patterns and texture and senselessness of it all.
Fashion design: buying the ugliest shit from the early ’90s you possibly can and attaching industrial mop heads. It’s so much easier than I thought it could be!
1. Go to thrift store
2. Sew on grandma’s yarn art and mop heads
3. ?????
4. PROFIT!
Useful places to wear these….
1.Your kid’s Kindergarten Graduation
2.Your next Hajj to Mecca
3.Inuit Rave
4.Next tea party meeting
5.Your next “perp walk”
They’re all simply horrible, immense waste of time and energy UNLESS all “artists” were on meth the entire time and got bored taking apart clocks and spitting out their teeth. Having said that, I truly must admire the knitting or latch-hooking, or whatever they did. It takes mad skillz to make all that, even if it’s hideous, and I think we all agree on that point (the hideousness).
Oh wait I figured it out! This is a fashion show at an art school for sand people isn’t it? That would explain how anyone could keep a straight face through all of that horror. No one wants a bunch of pissed-off Tusken Raiders on their ass.
Probably as a psychic defense, I find myself focusing on the pants & boots. Call me dim, but “camouflage” pants in ridiculous colors always amuse me. And I’d absolutely wear some of the boots.
As for the rest of the outfit, let us never speak of that again.
You know what the saddest part is? I bet you these models have had to wear something WORSE than these. How you get worse than this, I’m not entirely certain, but these are certainly in the running.
I actually rather like the outfit that odd cube-head model is sporting – everything from the neck down, that is XD I’ll keep away from the head-box, thanks XD
I’m wanting to halfway believe that these were made by a Regretsy fan who a) wanted to get on Regretsy really badly, b) was making a statement about how ridiculous the fashion industry is, or c) is just such a fan of fuckery that they vomited up this shit and was punking everyone just for fun. But, alas, the world is not that kind and I must return to erasing the sorrow from my mind with family sized bags of pork rinds and off-brand mouthwash.
I very much want that tiger sweater in pic #2! In all serious though this post reminds me of a bad dream I once had after sniffing too much of my craft glue.
“Okay, class, the theme for this year’s fashion show is ‘jungle animal costumes for psychopaths.’ You must carry this theme throughout your outfit. Your outfit must feature yarn as a dominant element. They must also have abnormal sleeves; extra points for sleeves that further the theme. There will be a special prize for the entrant who uses the most colors. Okay, get to work!”
What gets me is that if this is a student project, then there’s gotta be some way to flunk.
“What? The colors blend harmoniously, you can walk in it without tripping and suffering facial fractures, AND you can see most of your face? GET THE HELL OUT OF MY CLASSROOM!!”
Hey, I think we are being totally unfair. This is the Royal Academy of Art! Art is supposed to provoke deep thought…discussion…and push the limits of the imagination and bounds of society. These students have clearly met that goal…..BWAHAHAHAHAHA Hahaha…
Sorry, I just couldn’t hold that in any longer…this stuff looks like the outtakes for the costumes for H.R. Puffinstuff! LMAO…oh oh oh..sides hurting!
I like the use of colors, textures and patterns, but all of it looks like they were trying too hard. The masks are far from original, and the use of knits make me feel the florida weather much more intensely right now. I enjoy designers making crazy stuff, but this is still very far from being fresh material.
It’s crap like this that gives knitting a bad name! I hang my head in shame as I admit to ever picking up a pair of needles. Darn you Royal College of Art! (Having said that-I wonder if they are still taking applications for the fall semester?)
I’d like to think that the finest products of the Royal College of Art are presented to Her Majesty. These would be just the thing for her and Philip to wear when they’re having a casual day in front of the telly.
NO,NO,NO!!!!!!It’s not a panda, they have round black eyes AND HEADS. Since this is from GB, the only animal that looks loke that is…..wait for it….a BADGER!!!
i JUST DON’T KNOW IF IT IS LACTATING OR EVEN FEMALE.
As a knitter I find this so sad – just because you CAN knit something, it doesn’t mean you SHOULD. Use your knitting for GOOD, people! Don’t make me come over there!
i usually laugh like hell at the stuff you post on your site, but i have to say, i’m not totally hating on this one. in the wake of David McFadden’s (curator of the Museum of Arts and Design, New York City) show “radical lace and subversive knitting”, the relatively new yarn-bombing trend, and artists such as Olek, i kind of get this. no, this is not as good as the work i just mentioned, but it’s not the worst i’ve ever seen… i’m not totally defending it, just putting it out there.
June 14, 2011 at 10:25 am
it’s SO avant-garde, definitely beyond us regretsy folks…snort!
June 14, 2011 at 5:53 pm
nah, this just looks like every hipster in my neighborhood in the wintertime. I swear, it’s like a contest to see who looks more like a mental patient.
June 14, 2011 at 8:41 pm
I’m so hoping this is based around some sort of fetish, because the idea of someone taking this seriously just terrifies me.
June 14, 2011 at 10:25 am
The most astounding part, to me, is that there are people sitting in the audience, and they do not appear to be laughing.
June 14, 2011 at 10:44 am
Yarn is serious business.
June 14, 2011 at 11:05 am
That’s the real challenge in being a Serious Designer: you have to look at stuff like this and NOT laugh. Takes skill!
June 14, 2011 at 11:28 am
I did not even notice there was an audience.
June 14, 2011 at 12:58 pm
Maybe they’re all busy trying to re-start their hearts.
June 14, 2011 at 11:20 pm
^username lust…
June 14, 2011 at 1:06 pm
They’re Brits. Rest assured, they’ll be tearing these kids to fibrous shreds later over some lovely tea and biscuits.
June 14, 2011 at 10:25 am
Technicolor hell…
June 14, 2011 at 4:45 pm
It’s not hell, it’s Burning Man!
June 14, 2011 at 7:06 pm
I thought this was level 4 photoshop fuckery until I read the description
June 14, 2011 at 10:25 am
Very glad that I now have a use for all the latch hook rugs my father has been making over the years!
June 14, 2011 at 10:26 am
You know as well as I do that this is a Senior Prank.
June 14, 2011 at 11:27 am
if this is a prank, it’s DAMN GOOD! lots of work gone into this prank!
June 14, 2011 at 10:27 am
the royal college of art, eh? i think remedial summer sessions are in order.
and if you’re going to draw this much attention to an outfit, why hide the face?
be proud of your knit hot mess, i say!
June 14, 2011 at 10:45 am
I think the models demanded anonymity.
June 14, 2011 at 12:00 pm
I’d say these kids have fine careers awaiting them in the fields of food service, housekeeping and/or landscaping.
June 14, 2011 at 12:33 pm
Or crafting on Etsy!
June 14, 2011 at 1:09 pm
This is why when I say “Oh, I’m an art student” people laugh, and say art college doesn’t teach anything except bullshit. THANKS A LOT, ROYAL COLLEGE OF FART.
June 14, 2011 at 1:10 pm
I didn’t double check my spelling, but I quite like my “FART” typo.
June 14, 2011 at 5:18 pm
I thought it was purposeful. Kudos on Typos!
June 14, 2011 at 10:27 am
I adore these designs! I wouldn’t wear them, it must be said; still, it makes me happy to know that they exist and make the world just a little weirder.
June 14, 2011 at 10:44 am
I like to imagine a world where random people dress this way. It would be so much more interesting.
June 14, 2011 at 11:02 am
There is a world where people dress this way. It’s Capitol Hill in Seattle. Also, most parts of San Francisco.
Thoughts on relocation?
June 14, 2011 at 5:58 pm
Come visit Wicker Park in Chicago.
June 14, 2011 at 1:34 pm
I especially Lurve the Chimp playing baseball outfit.
June 14, 2011 at 10:27 am
Proof that life as a runway model is not always glamorous.
June 14, 2011 at 10:36 am
very very true!
June 14, 2011 at 11:02 am
Number 6 is clearly an evolution of the one-armed Sad Hipster Sweater, now there is one regular arm and one super long arm. That is one sad hipster in the green lion’s mane hat.
June 14, 2011 at 11:52 am
I think that they are both long, but one is scrunched up and one is left to dangle. You can use multipurpose!
June 14, 2011 at 10:57 pm
but can you change the size of the smell???
June 14, 2011 at 12:18 pm
I think it might actually be an elephant sweater, and the long arm is the snout. If that is the case then it is GENIUS!
June 14, 2011 at 12:26 pm
Number 6 is an elephant! I want!
June 14, 2011 at 10:27 am
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June 14, 2011 at 11:03 am
I thought you were going to sneeze first, but then you lost it. The outfits looks like they could collect dust, to your credit.
June 14, 2011 at 10:28 am
Oh wow, latchhook has never looked so good.
June 14, 2011 at 10:55 am
That just punched me in the crafthole!!
June 15, 2011 at 3:48 am
best comment EVER !
June 14, 2011 at 10:28 am
Is it wrong that I kind of want the Cthulhu mask?
June 14, 2011 at 10:56 am
I want the panda mask.
June 14, 2011 at 1:00 pm
No, wanting the Cthulhu mask is appropriate. The Donnie Osmond purple socks are the abominations, in truth!
June 14, 2011 at 10:55 pm
i just bookmarked this motherfucker so i can sketch out a pattern for it.
June 17, 2011 at 6:26 am
No not at all. I’d love one too.
June 14, 2011 at 10:28 am
Fursuiting, you’re doing it wrong.
June 14, 2011 at 11:04 am
Furry hipshits on runways. Postmodernism, will you EVER STOP?
June 14, 2011 at 11:58 am
My furry son walked in about halfway through those pictures, blinked a few times, stated flatly: “No,” and walked out of the room.
June 14, 2011 at 10:29 am
The third one seems to have some spinach in her teeth, how embarrassing. Or is that kale?
June 14, 2011 at 10:44 am
Now I want to change my screen name to “Kalehurl”.
June 14, 2011 at 10:45 am
That’s Kalethulu.
June 14, 2011 at 10:29 am
They failed to mention that the students were in kindergarten.
June 14, 2011 at 10:29 am
they may be from the royal college of art, but i went to snark u, and i give them an F.
June 14, 2011 at 10:44 am
an F U by any chance?
June 14, 2011 at 11:49 am
No, that’s what you get from there.
June 14, 2011 at 10:30 am
Wow, when did it become so dangerous to be a fashion model?? I mean, someone HAS TO HAVE held a gun to their heads to get them to wear this. Right? RIGHT??
June 14, 2011 at 10:30 am
It’s like someone gave some really good acid to their granny and said “knit me a sweater and stuffed animal grandma.”
June 14, 2011 at 10:58 am
as a knitting grandma, I resent that remark.
a pile of yarn, a 50 dollar bill and a little weed would do it for me.
June 14, 2011 at 11:05 am
That better be some sticky purple fuzzy hydro chronic shit then Nana! =)
June 14, 2011 at 11:41 am
yet another reason why I want you to adopt me, Nana.
June 14, 2011 at 12:41 pm
We’ve secretly switched The Grannies Knitting Club’s tea with LSD. Let’s see if they notice.
June 14, 2011 at 1:56 pm
*envisioning NanaB as one of the ladies from Grandma’s Boy*
“…my grandma drank all my pot!”
June 14, 2011 at 10:30 am
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June 14, 2011 at 10:30 am
I like the panda outfit.
June 14, 2011 at 10:30 am
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June 14, 2011 at 10:38 am
threw up in your mouth? you have quite the week stomach. These are things made of yarn…
June 14, 2011 at 11:21 am
I peed in my mouth a little.
Might be doing it wrong, but it gets through the filters.
June 14, 2011 at 12:02 pm
I pray every night that Bronc will add “threw up in my mouth a little” to his list of banned words and phrases. That, and that tranquilizers will rain from the sky.
June 14, 2011 at 3:18 pm
Shit. Now I have It’s Raining Pills running through my head and the singer of that version is insanely gleeful as she belts it out. Thank you for that.
June 14, 2011 at 10:30 am
the first one looks like a Cosby sweater.
June 14, 2011 at 10:35 am
Crosby,Pills,and Hash sweater.
June 14, 2011 at 10:41 am
I was just thinking the same thing.
June 14, 2011 at 10:47 am
you forgot the multiplication factor with Jar Jar Binks!!
June 14, 2011 at 12:34 pm
I think I did my math wrong.
June 14, 2011 at 12:49 pm
Well, shit. There goes my witty comment with your post involving George Clinton.
June 14, 2011 at 2:02 pm
Aw, what the hell:
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June 14, 2011 at 12:56 pm
The 6th one looks like the shirt that Vanessa Made for Theo…
June 14, 2011 at 10:31 am
Their parents must be so proud of where their tuition went.
June 14, 2011 at 10:31 am
Proof that as a species, we are officially out of ideas.
June 14, 2011 at 10:31 am
I want #6 SO BAD! I would wear it and pretend I’m a lioness GROWL!
June 14, 2011 at 10:33 am
I’d totally rock the Cthulhu mask the next time I go skiing – I’d tear down the slope, tentacles flying in the breeze.
Sweeet.
June 14, 2011 at 10:36 am
Oh, I get it, CAT-walk. [/lamejokes]
June 14, 2011 at 10:32 am
This has to be the best modelling job ever. Getting paid to wear horrible clothing and nobody ever sees your face.
June 14, 2011 at 10:48 am
Except #6, he drew the short straw
June 14, 2011 at 12:25 pm
To be fair, even if we didn’t see his face, he’d still be easily recognizable with that unfortunately long arm.
June 14, 2011 at 10:32 am
More like Project RUN AWAY!
June 14, 2011 at 11:07 am
I read that title as that at first. Am I being shorted a pun?!
Ugh, where’s that guy who talks about the addictiveness of opiates so I can make a joke about pills and he can steamroll it with boring realities?
June 14, 2011 at 10:32 am
Never before has such skill and so much yarn been used to perpetrate a crime of fashion…
June 14, 2011 at 10:32 am
I don’t know if I’m being PC or not, but I think these people designing these things are fashionably retarded. As in they never developed a fashion sense beyond what only a 8 year old would think is a good idea to wear.
June 14, 2011 at 10:48 am
Here’s a hint: if you use the word “retarded”, you’re probably not being PC.
June 14, 2011 at 11:05 am
Okay, just remove the first part of my statement.
June 14, 2011 at 10:56 am
fashion challenged or tasteless twits might be more appropriate.
June 14, 2011 at 10:32 am
we be livin’ better now, Coogi Sweater Now
June 14, 2011 at 10:33 am
Is that Chthulu or is it an Ood? I am truly speechless at this. There’s just….so…much…going…on…head..is..going..to..explode..
June 14, 2011 at 10:53 am
It’s a Cthulood! Two flavours of awesome for the price of one!
June 14, 2011 at 11:23 am
It’s a Cthlood snood!
June 17, 2011 at 6:35 am
Another reason for me to covet it. FANTASTIC!!!!!
June 14, 2011 at 10:33 am
I’ll admit I’d be less bothered by these if the colors and clashing patterns weren’t so, um, clashing.
But I guess the point there isn’t to be subtle, is it?
June 14, 2011 at 10:33 am
This to me just says let’s take everything we’ve learned over the past 4 years and put it into one fucked up outfit.
June 14, 2011 at 10:34 am
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June 14, 2011 at 10:48 am
Oh, well that’s OK then.
June 14, 2011 at 11:47 am
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June 14, 2011 at 12:06 pm
Why the hell was this in reply to me?
June 14, 2011 at 12:15 pm
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June 14, 2011 at 12:28 pm
The problem is you stated something interesting, but it lacked snark. Try adding a sarcastic hook at the end next time you want to convey useful information. That way people will read it and like it, no matter what you say!
I would give you an example, but I’m visiting my parents and I just took a shower and accidentally used my dad’s shampoo, and it washed all the coherency out of my brain.
This is why I try to only shower once a week.
June 14, 2011 at 1:32 pm
For me the problem is that the observation that they are male models is, at best, trite.
Your comment is not offensive; it’s boring.
June 14, 2011 at 10:54 am
How would we realize that? They’re completely covered in rugs.
June 14, 2011 at 2:34 pm
Exactly, I found it a useful comment. Plus, I am kind of glad to see it isn’t just women who get dumped into designer monstrosities (have we forgotten urinal dress?) Let’s humiliate both sexes equally.
June 14, 2011 at 10:54 am
Men will be boys…
not that I know how it is relevant in this case…
June 14, 2011 at 10:59 am
…and no they are not all males… again, I am passing out my reading glasses… don’t make me give a sex ed class…
June 14, 2011 at 11:27 am
I think they’re all men too… thier hands, stature, eyes… maybe I need that sex-ed class?
June 14, 2011 at 12:42 pm
I see 2 who might be female…but I’m not placing bets.
June 14, 2011 at 11:00 am
..and a kick in the groin to whoever keeps mindlessly red thumbing stuff…
June 14, 2011 at 11:51 am
What’s with that? It’s like every so often, we go through a phase of having “high” standards of “humor” or whatever. Who are we kidding.
Then the clouds pass over the moon and we go back to normal and it’s all green thumbs again. Gotta just wait it out, I guess.
June 14, 2011 at 12:08 pm
I think it’s flouncers who are lurking and thumbsdowning to show how over us they are.
June 14, 2011 at 12:11 pm
I’m convinced there is a contingent of Etsians who have scheduled mass visits to Regretsy for thumbs-downing. Not reading, just thumbs-downing. Everything. From my observation (because I have no life), it happens three times a day, on average. For some reason, it’s around mealtimes, Pacific US.
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June 14, 2011 at 12:19 pm
right, I have to admit when I’m on here and I find a bunch of innocuous statements being thumbed down, I go and thumb them up on principle.
June 14, 2011 at 12:34 pm
On the other hand, I have seen someone (a semi-regular poster) admit to thumbsdowning a post because she didn’t understand it.
The moral of this: Use fancy words at your own risk.
June 14, 2011 at 12:44 pm
If it happens around mealtimes I guess that makes sense. I get bitchy when I’m hungry, too.
If it’s disgruntled crafters, that’s almost the most pathetic thing I’ve heard today. “Thumbs down to you! And you! And you! You will RUE THE DAY you mocked my vagina pants! There WILL BE CONSEQUENCES!”
June 14, 2011 at 2:16 pm
It appears to be a mindlessly strategic thumbs-downing campaign. So I thumbs-upped this entire thread just because I’m contrary.
June 14, 2011 at 2:17 pm
Or was that “strategically mindless”? I get confused by my own thought process, sometimes.
June 14, 2011 at 10:34 am
The theme of the Royal College of Art graduate catwalk show was based on Monty Python, I think. How Not to Be Seen.
June 14, 2011 at 1:19 pm
Now if only Mr. Nesbitt would explode so we need never see this atrocity again.
June 14, 2011 at 10:34 am
are the masks part of the outfit, or are they just there to conceal the models’ identities?
June 14, 2011 at 10:35 am
Fashion is a subtle expression of the human spirit through textiles and movement. I really like the way these garments highlight the natural form, evoking an emotional, almost primitive response with their fanciful ahahahaHAHAHAH I can’t. I can’t even continue. These are ridiculous. Cat head nonsense.
Where is Mister T when you need him?
June 14, 2011 at 10:44 am
Thumbs upupup – I would run screaming down the nearest dark alley to avoid this on the street…
June 14, 2011 at 10:58 am
That shouldn’t be necessary. Fashion doesn’t chase – it struts.
June 14, 2011 at 10:36 am
How long before someone on Etsy starts paying third-world children to mass produce these and claim they are home-made and their own original design?
June 14, 2011 at 1:20 pm
DON’T GIVE THEM IDEAS.
June 14, 2011 at 10:36 am
What the unholy fuckall hell is that????
June 14, 2011 at 10:37 am
I like the knitted one
June 14, 2011 at 10:38 am
Me too, that one is the best. The rest of them are crap but that one…woah.
June 14, 2011 at 10:37 am
I kiiinnnnda liked the elephant. But not the kind of like that I would actually wear that outfit. I just like it visually.
June 14, 2011 at 12:06 pm
elephant?? which one is an elephant?
June 14, 2011 at 12:47 pm
the pink one with the long sleeve i think. there’s an eye on the shoulder and the white patch on the front is an ear. i guess the green floofiness is a circus hat or something.
June 14, 2011 at 1:30 pm
that green thing threw me off, but I guess… I can… see it…if I tilt my head, and squint my eyes, and do three shots of Jack.
June 14, 2011 at 10:38 am
This is what gets on the runway these days? I make better, more wearable things on a regular basis, without going to design school. This is just a huge waste of resources. It would be one thing if they actually looked interesting, but the colors are ugly and they aren’t actually that original. It looks like fashion designers get paid to fail at making children’s halloween costumes.
June 14, 2011 at 10:48 am
It’s the natural evolution of the Garanimals concept.
June 14, 2011 at 12:46 pm
A lot of “haute couture” is stuff no normal person would be caught dead wearing. If this collection was done in as mockery, I’d respect it a lot more.
June 14, 2011 at 10:38 am
Is Royal Academy of art the one where you draw the picture of the tiger and mail it in? Cause that would explain A LOT.
June 14, 2011 at 11:06 am
June 14, 2011 at 10:38 am
Wow…clothes that make runway models look shapeless and chubby…I wonder what they’d do for the rest of us…Probably make us look like three year olds who snuck into the liquor cabinet for some peppermint juice.
June 14, 2011 at 10:50 am
I think these would look pretty much the same if the models were tubby. Who can tell?
June 14, 2011 at 10:40 am
It’s the “urban jungle” theme gone horribly wrong.
June 14, 2011 at 10:40 am
And I complained when my school’s creative director stuck helium balloons all over one of my final projects in our fashion show? I think I’ll go eat my words now. I can understand the importance of being trendy and fashion forward in this industry but SERIOUSLY?
June 14, 2011 at 10:41 am
maybe there’s something wrong with me, but I actually kinda want some of these. Am I drunk again? That raspberry sherbert I had earlier did taste a little off….because that monkey sweater is looking like just about the raddest thing I’ve ever seen. I’d wear it paired with the Cthulu mask for the perfect first date outfit.
June 14, 2011 at 11:57 am
I want the first one. I would probably have to break up the pieces, though. Wouldn’t want to go overboard.
June 14, 2011 at 12:16 pm
There are several among the collection that I’d wear as pajamas.
ANYTHING to avoid having to use a Snuggie…
June 14, 2011 at 10:17 pm
You and my mother would’ve gotten along well. This is a woman who, right up till the year she died, used to hand out trick-or-treat candy on Halloween while wearing a gorilla mask, a wedding dress, a moth-eaten fur coat and a pair of galoshes (she kept the candy in a coal bucket).
If she were alive to see these, it’d be straight to the local crafts store to start buying yarn and knitting needles.
June 14, 2011 at 10:41 am
June 14, 2011 at 10:42 am
Very cool. I love them. I wouldn’t pay money for one or ever wear one, but I love the colors and bizarre blend of patterns and texture and senselessness of it all.
June 14, 2011 at 10:44 am
I want ALL of those balaclavas! And I live in South freaking Louisiana!
June 14, 2011 at 10:45 am
Fashion design: buying the ugliest shit from the early ’90s you possibly can and attaching industrial mop heads. It’s so much easier than I thought it could be!
1. Go to thrift store
2. Sew on grandma’s yarn art and mop heads
3. ?????
4. PROFIT!
June 14, 2011 at 3:48 pm
Underpants Gnomes reference for the win!
June 14, 2011 at 10:45 am
The second sweater-coat is pretty awesome as well.
June 14, 2011 at 10:45 am
I don’t mean to be a snob or anything, but I just have to say that I’m not particularly enamored with any of these.
June 14, 2011 at 10:46 am
Which I just wrote to point out that at least some of us still value the understated.
June 14, 2011 at 10:46 am
I want to get one of these, wear it grocery shopping, and act like nothing unusual is happening.
June 14, 2011 at 10:50 am
And then yell “what the F&%$ are you looking at?!” to everyone who glances your way.
June 14, 2011 at 11:00 am
and of course throw bottles of milk just to emphasize what a badass you are.
June 14, 2011 at 11:58 am
“This is HIGH FASHION, you Philistines!”
June 14, 2011 at 4:13 pm
I’m not nearly high enough!
June 14, 2011 at 10:57 am
Useful places to wear these….
1.Your kid’s Kindergarten Graduation
2.Your next Hajj to Mecca
3.Inuit Rave
4.Next tea party meeting
5.Your next “perp walk”
June 14, 2011 at 11:26 am
I laughed until I peed at “Inuit Rave” and haven’t stopped.
Time to see the urologist.
June 14, 2011 at 11:59 am
Ain’t no party like an Inuit party, cuz an Inuit party don’t STOP…
June 14, 2011 at 12:00 pm
Also, (re:Inuit rave) would it be in poor taste to make a joke from the double meaning of “going clubbing?”
June 14, 2011 at 12:19 pm
Yes, but make it anyway. I think the thumbs-downers are on a tea-break…
June 14, 2011 at 3:14 pm
If the igloo’s rockin’… it’s probably a polar bear attack, please send help!
June 14, 2011 at 10:48 am
“avant garde” apparently means “make people wonder why the fuck you blow your money to learn this in school.”
i mean, not to be too mean, but these are graduate students! this is just tripe on a tacklebox.
June 14, 2011 at 10:48 am
If I were to be awoken by someone wearing one of these I would surely soil myself.
June 14, 2011 at 10:49 am
They’re all simply horrible, immense waste of time and energy UNLESS all “artists” were on meth the entire time and got bored taking apart clocks and spitting out their teeth. Having said that, I truly must admire the knitting or latch-hooking, or whatever they did. It takes mad skillz to make all that, even if it’s hideous, and I think we all agree on that point (the hideousness).
June 14, 2011 at 10:50 am
I really hope the “designers” are Regretsy fans and made these “outfits” as a tribute to show their love.
June 14, 2011 at 10:50 am
Fucking Royal College of Art! I didn’t even get an interview but they accepted this?! Bastards! Not that I’m bitter or anything…
June 14, 2011 at 10:52 am
SUPER RUN AWAY!
June 14, 2011 at 10:55 am
I can’t look away from the penis-hand in this gif.
June 14, 2011 at 11:26 am
You should see the ballerina that’s chasing them.
June 14, 2011 at 3:33 pm
Hammering the Thumbs Up button…
June 14, 2011 at 10:53 am
#2 strikes me as: “1974, the year my cat died and I started my period.”
June 14, 2011 at 10:55 am
I am absolutely horrified.
This is what fashion schools teach??
June 14, 2011 at 10:57 am
Help, I can’t stop looking! Number 1 reminds me of a Jamaican themed Predator.
June 14, 2011 at 11:02 am
I hope they are scholarship students ’cause if their parents had to pay tuition for them to create this crap, they’re going to be extremely pissed.
June 14, 2011 at 11:46 am
http://www.rca.ac.uk/Default.aspx?ContentID=161448&GroupID=161447&CategoryID=36767&Contentwithinthissection&More=1
I went to their open day. There’s a lot of overseas students.
June 14, 2011 at 11:03 am
I so want to post the clip from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy where Arthur is vomiting yarn but I don’t know how!
I’m not internet/video capable.
June 14, 2011 at 11:03 am
Oh wait I figured it out! This is a fashion show at an art school for sand people isn’t it? That would explain how anyone could keep a straight face through all of that horror. No one wants a bunch of pissed-off Tusken Raiders on their ass.
June 14, 2011 at 11:11 am
When was it decided that people should not be allowed to breathe freely?
Ooh I know! It’s a statement about the declining quality of our air!
No, I know. It’s not.
June 14, 2011 at 11:11 am
The models are thinking “Hell yeah! This is exactly what I had in mind! Childhood dream WIN!!”
June 14, 2011 at 11:13 am
I would TOTALLY LOVE to have a Monkey’s-Gonna-Beat-You-With-A-Stick sweater, pink cuffs and all!
June 14, 2011 at 11:18 am
I kinda like some of these. Do I need to hand in my Regretsy card?
June 14, 2011 at 11:24 am
a new take on furries maybe? the yarn looks a little “cooler”(temperature wise) than the “normal” outfits they wear.
June 14, 2011 at 11:26 am
Reminds me of the scene from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy where they all turn to yarn for a minute.
June 14, 2011 at 11:27 am
Probably as a psychic defense, I find myself focusing on the pants & boots. Call me dim, but “camouflage” pants in ridiculous colors always amuse me. And I’d absolutely wear some of the boots.
As for the rest of the outfit, let us never speak of that again.
June 14, 2011 at 11:27 am
You mean they get a degree for this?!? I’m going to sign up now, I have enough of this “creative designs” in my house for five degrees.
June 14, 2011 at 11:27 am
knitted kfc jones. yaaar.
June 14, 2011 at 11:30 am
You know what the saddest part is? I bet you these models have had to wear something WORSE than these. How you get worse than this, I’m not entirely certain, but these are certainly in the running.
June 14, 2011 at 12:25 pm
LOVE the shiny metallic purple tights. You think they come in a 2X?
June 14, 2011 at 12:44 pm
In model sizes, “2X” is a size six.
June 14, 2011 at 1:43 pm
Not quite the same color, but…
June 14, 2011 at 7:40 pm
Oh, nice! Thank you.
June 14, 2011 at 12:57 pm
I actually rather like the outfit that odd cube-head model is sporting – everything from the neck down, that is XD I’ll keep away from the head-box, thanks XD
June 14, 2011 at 1:26 pm
The hat reminds me of something Peter Gabriel would have worn in his Genesis days.
June 14, 2011 at 2:22 pm
If it makes me look half as cool as Peter Gabriel, I’ll take two of ‘em
June 14, 2011 at 12:57 pm
koosh ball on a stick
June 14, 2011 at 1:28 pm
Is the first model dressed up as a durian?
June 14, 2011 at 2:35 pm
But but but I LIKE Gareth Pugh! (Designer of the cube head)
His garments certainly aren’t wearable, not his earlier ones anyway, but they’re a hell of a lot nicer to look at than the knitted garanimals above.
June 14, 2011 at 11:30 am
If the assignment was “make the models look like things from H.R. Puff-n-stuff”, then I give them an A+!
June 14, 2011 at 11:34 am
I so want one of those sweaters…I think that means I spend too much time on Regretsy…
June 14, 2011 at 11:37 am
Speaking from experience, shooting student fashion shows is really quite painful.
June 14, 2011 at 3:08 pm
Just ask poor Kate Middleton…
June 14, 2011 at 11:40 am
I’m wanting to halfway believe that these were made by a Regretsy fan who a) wanted to get on Regretsy really badly, b) was making a statement about how ridiculous the fashion industry is, or c) is just such a fan of fuckery that they vomited up this shit and was punking everyone just for fun. But, alas, the world is not that kind and I must return to erasing the sorrow from my mind with family sized bags of pork rinds and off-brand mouthwash.
June 14, 2011 at 11:41 am
I very much want that tiger sweater in pic #2! In all serious though this post reminds me of a bad dream I once had after sniffing too much of my craft glue.
June 14, 2011 at 11:47 am
Well….I like them. At least they will be warm in the winter, daft yet warm. Nah…they’re good, so hide me.
June 14, 2011 at 11:49 am
I think they left out Dorothy!
June 14, 2011 at 11:49 am
June 14, 2011 at 11:50 am
These are the graduates?
What did the ones who failed make?
June 14, 2011 at 11:53 am
Shapeless and sweaty are SO in right now. We are all just jealous that we can’t have sleeves down to our calves and all-season balaclavas.
June 14, 2011 at 11:55 am
After seeing these outfits, I have upgraded my headache to a migraine. If only I had soemthing stronger than ibuprofen.
June 14, 2011 at 11:56 am
I like the last one. I would wear that. (of course I would wear that – look at my damn avatar!)
And they did say “cat walk”… get it? …Cat?
June 14, 2011 at 11:58 am
It does look like someone knitbombed a fashion show.
June 14, 2011 at 1:37 pm
“Knitbombed.” Thank you…that’s just a great verb!
June 14, 2011 at 4:15 pm
It’s not just a verb – it’s a movement.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knit_bomb
June 15, 2011 at 11:12 am
Well, I need to get out more. I had no idea. Thanks for the link!
June 14, 2011 at 12:02 pm
“Okay, class, the theme for this year’s fashion show is ‘jungle animal costumes for psychopaths.’ You must carry this theme throughout your outfit. Your outfit must feature yarn as a dominant element. They must also have abnormal sleeves; extra points for sleeves that further the theme. There will be a special prize for the entrant who uses the most colors. Okay, get to work!”
June 14, 2011 at 12:15 pm
For some reason I REALLY REALLY want to challenge Cthulhu to a game of checkers ala the Seventh Seal.
June 14, 2011 at 12:19 pm
The ever fashionable Victoria Beckham
June 14, 2011 at 12:51 pm
That monkey t-shirt is LOVE. I want.
June 14, 2011 at 10:29 pm
All that money, and they can’t afford a trellis for that vine growing on her head?
June 14, 2011 at 12:23 pm
SPEAK UP I CAN’T HEAR YOU OVER THE SWEATERS.
What gets me is that if this is a student project, then there’s gotta be some way to flunk.
“What? The colors blend harmoniously, you can walk in it without tripping and suffering facial fractures, AND you can see most of your face? GET THE HELL OUT OF MY CLASSROOM!!”
June 14, 2011 at 12:25 pm
If the urinal dress was “inspired” by Duchamp, these must have been inspired by Mr. Projectile Poo-Paint.
June 14, 2011 at 12:39 pm
Hey, I think we are being totally unfair. This is the Royal Academy of Art! Art is supposed to provoke deep thought…discussion…and push the limits of the imagination and bounds of society. These students have clearly met that goal…..
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHahaha…Sorry, I just couldn’t hold that in any longer…this stuff looks like the outtakes for the costumes for H.R. Puffinstuff! LMAO…oh oh oh..sides hurting!
June 14, 2011 at 12:44 pm
How the hell did they wear any of this without passing out from the heat?
I mean, you’d look pretty stupid walking down the streets of Winnipeg in January wearing any of this, but at least you’d be partways warm.
June 14, 2011 at 12:56 pm
I like the use of colors, textures and patterns, but all of it looks like they were trying too hard. The masks are far from original, and the use of knits make me feel the florida weather much more intensely right now. I enjoy designers making crazy stuff, but this is still very far from being fresh material.
June 14, 2011 at 12:57 pm
C’mon, these looks are HOT!
I mean that literally, of course. I break out in a sweat just thinking about wearing them.
June 14, 2011 at 1:02 pm
It’s crap like this that gives knitting a bad name! I hang my head in shame as I admit to ever picking up a pair of needles. Darn you Royal College of Art! (Having said that-I wonder if they are still taking applications for the fall semester?)
June 14, 2011 at 1:40 pm
How cool would it be to major in Whimsicle Fuckery?
June 14, 2011 at 2:51 pm
I’m not sure these qualify as “whimsicle.”
June 14, 2011 at 3:34 pm
Knitting…needles…darn….hehheh! Nice!
June 14, 2011 at 2:02 pm
I’d like to think that the finest products of the Royal College of Art are presented to Her Majesty. These would be just the thing for her and Philip to wear when they’re having a casual day in front of the telly.
Or maybe not.
June 14, 2011 at 2:06 pm
#4 = Insane Panda Posse?
June 14, 2011 at 3:30 pm
NO,NO,NO!!!!!!It’s not a panda, they have round black eyes AND HEADS. Since this is from GB, the only animal that looks loke that is…..wait for it….a BADGER!!!
i JUST DON’T KNOW IF IT IS LACTATING OR EVEN FEMALE.
oops cap lock on.
June 14, 2011 at 11:24 pm
I have no idea what you just said but it sounded awesome.
Also, this:
June 14, 2011 at 2:36 pm
When did Etsy start doing fashion shows?
June 14, 2011 at 2:37 pm
bf just saw this, laughed, and said, “The furries are winning.”
June 14, 2011 at 2:53 pm
I need to wash my car… I wonder if I can borrow that lion get-up.
June 14, 2011 at 3:05 pm
I’m beginning to think yarn should be registered as a controlled substance.
June 14, 2011 at 3:17 pm
more pictures!
June 14, 2011 at 4:38 pm
Ye Gads!!!
June 14, 2011 at 4:44 pm
So is the theme of this fashion show “what to do with your extra bath mats?”
I see some of these “designers” were inspired by Predator and the Ood.
June 14, 2011 at 6:45 pm
There’s no reason for that shit.
June 14, 2011 at 8:03 pm
Seriously?!
June 14, 2011 at 9:33 pm
This is what happens when you give hoarders acid.
June 15, 2011 at 3:42 am
As a knitter I find this so sad – just because you CAN knit something, it doesn’t mean you SHOULD. Use your knitting for GOOD, people! Don’t make me come over there!
June 15, 2011 at 11:36 am
A furry fashion show? And what the hell happened to the lion’s arm?
June 15, 2011 at 12:53 pm
So I guess this is what happens to models who put on a few too many ounces.
June 16, 2011 at 9:14 am
the Special Knitting Olympics?
June 18, 2011 at 6:28 pm
i usually laugh like hell at the stuff you post on your site, but i have to say, i’m not totally hating on this one. in the wake of David McFadden’s (curator of the Museum of Arts and Design, New York City) show “radical lace and subversive knitting”, the relatively new yarn-bombing trend, and artists such as Olek, i kind of get this. no, this is not as good as the work i just mentioned, but it’s not the worst i’ve ever seen… i’m not totally defending it, just putting it out there.
June 18, 2011 at 6:31 pm
P.S.
http://agataolek.com/home.html
and her current installation is selling for $90,000 and while i can’t afford it, i understand why it’s worth it.
November 10, 2011 at 4:52 pm
Please tell me this was a joke? I just stumbled on this one…I’m scared.