Carolin lerch, who is the founder of clothing line, Pelican Avenue, and a former assistant to Bernhard Willhelm, doesn’t produce clothing simply for the sake of fashion. She states on the website that, “The label’s intention is to question conventional codes of fashion, to propose a different approach, to avoid stagnation and complacency. Pelican avenue tries to form an opposition to constantly changing trends and the destructive attitude of hypes.”

Lerch is another designer who strays from convention by integrating video, performance, photography, and installation into the presentation of her pieces. Her work has more in common with fine art than it does fashion, which I think ads appeal and depth to her pieces.

I’ve posted pieces from her four most recent projects/collections.

I received this amazing cape/poncho by Makin Jan Ma yesterday.This isn’t really daily wear because I didn’t wear the shoes or the cape yesterday, but I had to try it on as soon as I got it out of the box. I love it.

Be sure to check out the link above. I’ve posted a few photos below from the ‘Can I Come Inside’ line. Makin Jan Ma isn’t just a clothing designer though, he blends film, photography, poetry, illustration and fashion into a fascinating creative melange. His clothing is created for the characters in his films, but you can buy the clothes his actors wear. An interesting concept.

Here it is looking a little less twisted in the front.

Some more photos. Via David Evenson, a photographer who lives in our neighborhood and has snapped some great shots of it (yes he even has a shot of our place, but I’m not linking it!). His landscapes are pretty great too.

1. Neighborhood at night
2. Neighborhood after snow
3. Nice shot of one of the three large wildfires that burned in early January of this year around Boulder
4. Neighborhood sunrise

Thanks to booooooom for the link to the works of photographer Todd Hido. (Hey, I ALWAYS credit anything I post that I found on another’s blog.)

Who thought it possible to turn something as pedestrian as suburban houses into something otherworldly, and downright creepy? Hido blows away the familiar and replaces it with a more sinister version. There is a desolate, abandoned quality to all of his photos. To me, they evoke the feel of a Don DeLillo novel.

Be sure to check out the full size versions at the artist’s site, along with his other equally thought provoking series.