Scary Beautiful
Friday, August 10th, 2012
The South African designer Leanie van der Vyver takes our search for beauty and perfection to an extreme with her bizarre somewhat bootlike clothing/sculpture—fabricated by Rene van den Berg—which critiques the Western obsession with heels and long legs even as it ends up being oddly beautiful.. "Scary Beautiful challenges current beauty ideals by inflicting an unexpected new beauty standard," says the graduate of Gerrit Rietveld.
Tagged with: beauty • boots • Lady GaGa • Leanie van der Vyver • Rene van den Berg • shoes
6 Comments
Maria Marais
August 29, 2012Lady Ga Ga is wearing these in one of her new videos…..designed by a South African artist Leanie van there Vyfer of Scary Beautiful. What do you think?
Griet van der Meulen
August 29, 2012i think scary frikken dangerous
Mina Lovisa
August 29, 2012“F’UGLY” …. Seriously????
Sehba Sayeedi Mahmood
October 9, 2012I promise no matter how trendy these get I will never wear these…
Shany van den Berg
October 22, 2012Congrats Leanie met jou skoen / sculptures….video gekyk… baie interessant wat by my opkom is die dierlike houding wat amper n prehistories gevoel meebring….xx.
Sandra Romme Clark
November 10, 2014This is a fascinating project.