Author: Jamie Clifton

Ryoichi “Keroppy” Maeda is a photographer and journalist. He has been obsessively documenting the rise in extreme body modification for the last ten years. In Japan, where doing so can still end careers. Ryoichi “Keroppy” Maeda is a photographer and journalist. For the last twenty years, he has obsessively documented the underground rise in popularity of Japanese extreme body modification. He also happens to be the man who brought the bubbly saline injection-based forehead look to Japan. Obviously, it’s now huge there. You’d expect body modification to be taboo in a country known for loo-roll dispenser hats, but it is. Journalists…

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Gianni Molaro’s CV reads a bit like the uncensored ramblings of a delusional schizophrenic with a taste for fashion and offending people. He recently unveiled his bizarre uniboob dress at Rome Fashion Week, designed a range of wedding wear modeled by a gay couple, designed screaming headdresses that look like the physical manifestation of a nightmare, and sculpted a figure of a white Michael Jackson shedding his black skin, which he made public, thoughtfully, on the day of Jackson’s death. Also, he broke the world record for the longest veil on a wedding dress—a full 1.86 miles—which isn’t that wild, but it…

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Female masking, put bluntly, is really fucking weird. The hobby consists of men wearing latex masks of female faces, usually looking into a webcam, creating confusing scenarios where they talk to themselves in character, then taking the mask off without revealing their face. Strangely, considering there’s a lot of latex involved, sex doesn’t seem to be the focal point here. Instead, female maskers enjoy the sensation of being a completely different person at their own leisure. I came across femalemasklover when I was Googling the topic and quickly became enamored by the soft doe eyes staring back at me. VICE: Hey Chris. Actually,…

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