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Hilarious Portraits of Pop Culture Icons as Zombies

By Judy Berman on

We were recently both delighted and spooked to see some of our favorite cartoon characters transformed into the undead. Today, the pre-Halloween zombification of familiar faces continues with Swiss comic-book artist Frederik Peeters‘ Portraits as Living Deads, a vast collection of illustrations that imagines what celebrities might look like as extras in a George A. Romero movie. Over the course of a long-term blog project, Peeters created hundreds of these portraits — since he finished in 2009, by far the creepiest images are of those who have already died, from Amy Winehouse to Muammar al-Gaddafi. After the jump, we’ve posted some of our favorite pieces from the pop-culture realm, including everyone from Bob Dylan to Karl Lagerfeld to Björk. And if those aren’t enough for you, page through a whole lot more at Peeters’ blog. … Read More

Fashion

Who Does Florence Welch Remind You of Here?

By Caroline Stanley on

For the past five years Vogue Nippon has only featured models on its cover, but the Japanese magazine is planning to shake things up in its October 2011 issue with this image of Florence Welch (who was recently named the face of Gucci) as photographed by famed fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld, the creative head at… Read More

News

The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories

By Caroline Stanley on

1. Perhaps in an effort to top last year’s strange decision to let James Franco and Anne Hathaway co-host the show, Brett Ratner (the Rush Hour series and X-Men: The Last Stand) has been chosen to co-produce this year’s Academy Awards. “This wasn’t even in my dreams, it’s so far out,” he said. “This is… Read More

Art

A New Tribe: Wild Celebrity Portraits by David Gomez

By Emily Temple on

Barcelona-based photographer/illustrator/mixed media artist David Gomez, whose work we spotted over at Pomocracy, certainly has a vision. Influenced by his shoe-designer father’s sketches and inspired by “indigenous tribes and mystical cultures,” he creates highly stylized portraits, turning his friends, family and cultural heroes into tacit members of his own, very colorful, tribe. In turns African-inspired, futuristic and baroque, the portraits are simply created but nonetheless satisfying. We’ve collected a few of his celebrity portraits here, so  click through to see your cultural icons in a whole new light, and be sure to visit Gomez’s website, where you can view many more of his illustrated portraits and also check out his other projects. … Read More

Art

Creative Habitation: Inside Artists’ Living Spaces

By Emily Temple on

[Editor's note: While your editors take the day off, Flavorwire will be counting down some of our most popular features of 2011 so far. This post originally ran on April 10th. Enjoy your Memorial Day!] This week, New York Magazine ran a series of fairly great articles documenting apartment living in New York City. One of these in particular, entitled ‘The Perpetual Garret: Where the starving artists slept’ caught our eye for its rare peek into the homes of some of our favorite artists. Inspired, here we’ve put together some of our favorites from the NY Mag article as well as some of our other favorite artists’ lairs from around the world (and the internet), the whole collection running the gamut from the tiny and cramped to the ridiculously messy to the spacious and modern. Click through to see how the other half lives. … Read More

Photography

Roxanne Lowit’s Black and White Photos of New York’s Heyday

By Caroline Stanley on

The work of photographer Roxanne Lowit depicts a vision of New York City that is now the stuff of legend. A fan-wielding Karl Lagerfeld (pictured with an almost baby-faced Anna Wintour) is nowhere near his current whittled down weight. Fixtures of the downtown scene like Andy Warhol, Basquiat, and Divine are all still alive and thriving. The original supermodels are not only in their prime; they’re all sitting at the same table, clowning around. Salvador Dalí kisses the hand of a woman young enough to be his granddaughter. If you’re in the mood for a little envy-inducing time travel, click through for a slideshow of our favorite shots. … Read More

Fashion

Pic of the Day: Karl Lagerfeld in a Room Full of Chocolate

By Caroline Stanley on

As we noted previously, it has been a strange few weeks in the life of famed fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld. For us, the photo above — which features the Kaiser awkwardly posing in a bedroom made out of 10.5 tons of Belgium chocolate alongside of a chocolate replica of supermodel Baptiste Giabiconi —… Read More

Fashion

Karl Lagerfeld Makes Ice Cream Ad, Book-Scented Perfume

By Judy Berman on

Well, the weirdest man in fashion is at it again. Karl Lagerfeld’s well-documented obsession with books — he apparently owns 300,000 of them, and photos of his library have been making the blog rounds for months — has inspired him to create a new, book-scented perfume called Paper Passion. According to Geza Schön, the perfumer working on the project, “the fragrance will have a fatty note” reminiscent of linoleum. Of course, Lagerfeld is hardly the first to make a book-inspired scent; in addition to the three The Independent lists, we’re partial to CB I Hate Perfume’s In the Library.

Meanwhile, Lagerfeld has also delved into the advertising arts. UnBeige points us to the first in a series of three commercials for Magnum Ice Cream, the frozen treat that kind of sounds like a condom brand. In this two-minute confection, Rachel Bilson (who appears in all of the spots) is a model who can do no right, infuriating a finicky photographer. But as soon as she spots a gent eating a Magnum and secures one for herself, she’s brilliant. This, from a man who subsists entirely on vegetables, Diet Coke, and the blood of virgins! Watch the ad after the jump and click here to check out the supremely bizarre making-of video. … Read More

Web

What’s On at Flavorpill: The Links That Made the Rounds in Our Office

By Caroline Stanley on

Today at Flavorpill, the design-minded among us fell in love with this CMYK version of Twister. We watched a baby gorilla attempt to take its first steps. We discovered Snack to the Future — a Tumblr that combines hilariously bad food puns with existing movie titles. We appreciated the… Read More

Celebrity

Celebs, They’re Geeks Like Us: Libraries of the Rich and Famous

By Judy Berman on

Celebrities may live glamorous lives, but at the end of the day, we’d like to think that a good number of them curl up at home with a good book. And that’s why it’s so gratifying to learn that a completely unexpected famous person possesses a ton of books. We gained newfound respect for Karl Lagerfeld, for instance, when the Observer published a photo of his enormous (and, of course, gorgeous) home library. Curious to find out which other celebrities are bookworms behind closed doors, we rounded up ten photos of famous bookshelves, from Woody Allen and Oprah to Greta Garbo and Michael Jackson. … Read More