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To help promote her new variety of Special K cereal, British TV personality Tess Daly and Kellogg’s created a dress made entirely of the cereal’s ingredients.
The Cereal Dress was created using 4,000 stalks of wheat, 500 whole almonds, 800 cut almonds, 50 vanilla pods, 50 vanilla flowers, 450 whole apples, and 100 curled apple peels, preserved peels, and apple slices.
Pass the milk, and let’s enjoy this breakfast couture.
[via Mental Floss]
What better way to conceptualize food as couture, than to actually use food items to complete fashion sketches?
Thankfully, artist Gretchen Röehrs enjoys fashion and playing with her food. She’s created a series of illustrations where various foodstuffs are cleverly-placed to act as dresses and other accessories.
Can’t wait to see these on the runway…
[link, via designtaxi]
Photographer Catherine Losing was recently commissioned for food magazine Cherry Bombe’s ‘Baked’ issue. The result, delicious and impeccably-styled desserts, made into patterns from iconic fashion brands.
Fashionable folk will probably recognize this pattern from Dior — only this time it’s recreated with fruit leather and macarons. Burberry’s unmistakable criss-crossing makes for a perfect topping to a high-end sponge cake. Now, that’s yummy couture.
[link, via TAXI and Feature Shoot]
When asked, “Who are you wearing?”… Wouldn’t it be great to answer, “Wonka, thanks for asking”?
Well, your chocolate couture dreams have come true, with news that a chocolate dress is now possible.
Presented at The Chocolate Show London, the dress was created by Downton Abbey costume designer, Caroline McCall, and required 132 pounds of chocolate to make.
[via BuzzFeed]
If you like to play with your food, and you’re all about the label, we have just the photo series for you.
FabFood, by Linus Morales, helps give a few food items a major upgrade, by simply applying the logo of high-end fashion brands.
A typical pork chop goes couture with the addition of a Gucci logo. And, if your unbranded toast isn’t helping you feel better about yourself, a Louis Vuitton logo burnt-in might help.
[link, via designtaxi]