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The Dazed Beauty Community is our ever-expanding encyclopaedia of creatives and emerging talent from across the world who are redefining the way we think about beauty. From supermodels to digital artists to makeup prodigies transforming themselves in their bedrooms, these are the beauty influencers of tomorrow who embody everything Dazed Beauty is about. Discover them .
"I make jewellery and wearable garments that blur the idea of how accessories can be worn on the body," says Berlin-based creative Loki Dolor. They model many of their own creations on Instagram - extraordinary organic forms hanging from the nose, around eyes or mutating across the body in striking colour combinations.

These extreme body adornments are fascinating when still and the clips of them in motion make compulsive viewing. This is the evolution of their original practice - crafting hand-made masks as noted in the account bio, reflecting a background in graphic design and 3D modelling.

"I like to think about what we reveal and what we want to keep for ourselves on many levels," Loki says, of how they want their work to function. From a tear-like under eyepiece to a full-blown face covering with cut-outs, they expand and contract according to their whims, with the butterfly as a recurring motif.
Where do you live/where are you from?
Here, we speak to Loki about scratching the surface to create, being inspired by Tekkonkikreet characters Kuro and Shiro, and hiding packages of hair, nails and spit as a child to be discovered in the future.
Can you t ell us a bit about yourself and where you grew up? What's your earliest beauty related memory?
Loki Dolor: I was born from a Latina swan who mated with a French stork, hatched in France, before fleeing the nest to Athens for a Greek lover. Now, I'm currently living in Berlin.
What is it you do and why do you do it?
Loki Dolor: I grew up in the countryside, it was beautiful but also very isolating. I always knew I wanted to travel and visit other places. I moved a bit around, for studies, for love, and now I'm an artist, I spend obviously most of my time overthinking. I like to visualise myself as an observer or as a lo-fi 3D printer.
How did you get into it?
Loki Dolor: Watching horror movies with my cousins. I remember focusing on all the details of the make-up and masks and all the effort put in to make something look scary or deformed.
What is the story behind Loki Dolor?
Loki Dolor: I make jewellery and wearable garments that blur the idea of how accessories can be worn on the body. I started creating masks to hide behind which then developed into my current practice.
How would you describe your overall aesthetic?
Loki Dolor: I come from a graphic design background. I learned the proper way to compose images and experiment with 3D modelling until I realised I needed to create out of the screen. I wanted to design with my hands differently, to come back to a more intuitive and sensitive practice. There is a kind of relaxing and therapeutic feeling when you engage your body into a creative process. It empties my mind, calms my nerves and my thoughts.

Loki Dolor: When I scratch the surface with my nails, I discover underneath many layers to explore myself. It is a brutal eye-opener to understand the worlds I live in better. The wounds are alive, invisible and materialised into those forms I create. When they are worn by someone, it creates a specific relationship between them and become such a sensitive experience.
Who inspires you?
Loki Dolor: Organic, delicate, unpredictable, in mutation.
When do you feel most beautiful?

"Intimacy is a very important subject for me. I like to think about what we reveal and what we want to keep for ourselves on many levels. I want my garments to reflect this back and forth movement somehow" - Loki Dolor

How do you assert your identity and experiences through your creations?
Loki Dolor: Courageous and passionate people, their stories, mythology, nature and death.
If not your body, is there anything you would want to leave behind? An artwork you haven't done yet, a book, a bloodline?
Loki Dolor: When I feel connected with my feelings, confident in who I am and how I look.
Which fictional character do you most relate to and why?
Loki Dolor: Intimacy is a very important subject for me. I like to think about what we reveal and what we want to keep for ourselves on many levels. I want my garments to reflect this back and forth movement somehow. On the other hand, they help me back to connect with people, especially while collaborating with other creatives, it's interesting to see how we define those notions.
What is the future of beauty?
Loki Dolor: When I was a kid, I made small packages with my hair, nails and spit inside and hiding them in funny locations. I hoped they would be found after my death so someone could recreate me from my DNA. Since I discovered that nobody would want to do that and that the world doesn't turn around me anymore, I changed my mind. So I would kindly try to leave nothing, even if it's impossible as we are already pure garbage.

Loki Dolor: I've always had Tekkonkikreet characters Kuro and Shiro in mind. The two cats of the city they defend from external investors. I'm fascinated by their complex psychology and the absolute solidarity between them. They are codependent and so different, they have their own distorted perceptions of reality, I love them.

Loki Dolor: I see that boundaries are being pushed further in exciting directions. I want to see more people taking risks, being more playful and shameless.

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Organic, delicate, in mutation: Loki Dolor's 3D designs captivate Instagram

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The Dazed Beauty Community is our ever-expanding encyclopaedia of creatives and emerging talent from across the world who are redefining the way we think about beauty. From supermodels to digital artists to makeup prodigies transforming themselves in their bedrooms, these are the beauty influencers of tomorrow who embody everything Dazed Beauty is about.

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VICE News reconvenes some of the futurists that helped create the wildly prescient future depicted in "Minority Report"

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The brainchild of best friends Jules and Gebs, @ravvebeauty is the Instagram account dedicated to showcasing and celebrating all that is disturbing, disarming and alluring when it comes to underground beauty. Lending us their well-honed eye, here they pick their top beauty Instagrams of the month.
December is that strange time of the year when we simultaneously reflect on the past and search for hope in the future. The Beauty-gram too seems to hesitate between old and new, with many major influencers cashing out on traditional holiday looks, while others are already at work trying to define next year's hottest trends.

Helped by a plethora of futuristic Instagram filters, the rise of digital avatar influencers, the democratisation of computer generated imaging and the advancement of editing apps, the beauty underground is slowly shaping a brand new army of pretty robots: the beauty bots. The beauty bots are not here to play. They take the beauty game to places humans can only dream of: pixel-perfect skin, sensor-activated make-up, micro-chipped eye retinas, laser-cut features in ultra-HD colours. Even hearts and souls can be 3D-printed.

Now, watch us silly humans, spend 2020 desperately trying to be like them. The future is now. Or is the future, them?

Here are some of @ravvebeauty's faves:

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The future is here: Beauty bots are set to take over in 2020

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The brainchild of best friends Jules and Gebs, @ravvebeauty is the Instagram account dedicated to showcasing and celebrating all that is disturbing, disarming and alluring when it comes to underground beauty. Lending us their well-honed eye, here they pick their top beauty Instagrams of the month.

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TGIMAGE STUDIO on Behance | Retro futurism, Studio photography fashion, Fashion photography

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Nov 8, 2019 - A fashion photography and video production company founded in Shanghai, China consisting of creative team, top photographers in China, professional set designers, video crew and digital artists. Clients range from luxury brands to high street designer labels, magazines to advertising agencies.

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The Superb Bizarre AR Artworks By Nikita Replyanski, A Technological Artist And Cyber Fashion Designer

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Technological artist and cyber fashion designer Nikita Replyanski started his career as an 3d Artist for video games in 2008. Since then he's working in the Digital Entertainment Industry for 10 years.

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Last month, John Galliano sent a tribe of 'digital nomads' down the catwalk as part of the Maison Margiela AW18 Artisanal show. Some wore VR-style headsets, while others sported clamps attached to their limbs holding iPhones and iPads, and another had a screen on the back of her coat. The collection blurred the line between man and machine, and it was clear that Galliano had the collision of fashion, tech, and our always-on lives in mind - which, at this point, feels inevitable.

The latest evidence of that came just last week, Tommy Hilfiger announced the launch of its Tommy Jeans Xplore collection - a new line which sees t-shirts, hoodies, and dresses fitted with Bluetooth microchips. Each piece from the capsule offering will track wearers' movements, awarding prizes depending on how much people wear the garment. And if you pass by a particular Tommy Jeans location? Mr. Hilfiger is watching you - and bestowing goodies including cinema passes, gift cards, and discount codes with which you can buy more Tommy Jeans items (which may or may not follow your every move).

The Tommy Jeans Xplore range is just the tip of the iceberg, though. These so-called smart labels are actually something a number of companies have been developing - and implementing - for some time now. At Burberry, select items trigger fitting room mirrors to transition into screens and play catwalk footage and campaign films for the customer, while in late 2016, NY-based brand Rochambeau launched #borndigital, a campaign which meant that people who bought styles from its AW16 collection would be given exclusive access to clubs, gallery openings, and the label's own fashion show by way of an accompanying app.

Elsewhere, Avery Dennison, the international company that creates clothing labels for the likes of Nike, Underarmour, and Hugo Boss, has joined forces with tech start-up Evrything as part of a project that will see over 10 million garments and shoes imbued with 'digital identities' over the course of the next three years. For the customer, that means personalised digital content direct to your mobile device, as well as information on the item itself, offers and extras, suggestions as to what to buy next, and links to third-party companies they might be interested in (as if we really need any more of those).

As for the companies that implement the smart labels, the tech will allow them to collect data on their customers, follow their movements, and eventually map out fully-formed profiles as to their lifestyles, their preferences, and their buying habits to better be able to fulfil their every requirement. Or maybe watch them while they sleep, while plotting how best to unite with an army of Alexas to overthrow humankind.

This week also heralded the launch of a new app which will recommend clothing based on your Spotify data. Developed by San Francisco-based luxury menswear retailer Eison Triple Thread (which, if you ask us, sounds like some sort of fashion-focused Disney villain), the app invites users to take a lifestyle survey, before connecting to their Spotify accounts and working out what you're likely to want to wear according to your musical preferences.

While there is a correlation between some musicians and what their fans wear - take Kanye West's incredible influence on his audience, and the success of the Yeezy brand, for example - when looking closer at the app, it doesn't seem as clear cut as founder Julian Eison indicated in a recent interview with Racked.

"If someone was born in the 80s, and listens to upbeat music from that time, we can gauge that his style is probably similar to Joey from Friends " - Julian Eison

"A guy who was born between 1984 and 1988, likes hip-hop, and works in tech in San Francisco will probably like clothing that's on trend, so we'll feed him looks based on that demographic and see what he responds to," he says. "If someone was born in the 80s, and listens to upbeat music from that time, we can gauge that his style is probably similar to Joey from Friends." (...can we?) Eisom goes on to explain that people who listen to 60s music like The Beatles will have items like high-rise flares and corduroy styles suggested to them, and Lionel Richie listeners will be offered red ribbed sweaters and blue jeans.

What Eisom is perhaps overlooking is that humans rarely fit into such neatly defined categories and, in reality, are a whole lot more complex than he's giving them credit for. What is he going to put in front of the people who skip between Aphex Twin, Tommy Cash, Kate Bush, and Paris Hilton 's 2006 masterpiece "Stars are Blind" on the 45 minute bus journey to work alone (guilty)?

There are upsides to some of this new tech. Since 2016, Nike has been fitting its running sneakers with a chip that can track movement, mileage, and alert the owner when they're past their best, meaning their performance is never compromised. Smart labels can hold information as to who manufactured the garment, where it was made, the sustainability of the materials used, and how to recycle it, leading customers to make more conscious choices when it comes to the clothes they purchase, and offering brands the opportunity to improve and increase their transparency. Those of us who are prone to leaving items of clothing in the back of late night (or early morning) Ubers will have a better chance of tracking them down. And companies like Goat are developing an AI system that will be able to tell you if that tiny Louis Vuitton Speedy you just bought is real or not, with technology that can detect counterfeit items.

For the most part, though, it seems brands are using these new advancements to monitor their customers' habits to better sell them more stuff that they (probably) don't need, and collecting information for their own gain - which raises the question of security, and what companies will do to ensure the security of the data they have amassed. "Imagine a hacked pair of shoes telling your health insurer that you don't exercise and much as they demand for your given insurance policy, and at renewal your premium is doubled," Dr. Richie Tynan, a technologist at Privacy International, told the Financial Times in an interview about the future of smart labelling. According to Tynan, there are no laws currently in place to regulate this process.

"Imagine a hacked pair of shoes telling your health insurer that you don't exercise and much as they demand for your given insurance policy, and at renewal your premium is doubled" - Dr. Richie Tynan

A recent report by the New York Times also detailed how domestic violence cases are increasingly involving the use of smart tech, too. Abusive partners or ex-partners have been utilising home systems to intimidate (predominantly) women by suddenly blasting out music at high volumes, turning lights and appliances on and off, ringing doorbells in the middle of the night, and even changing security codes for front doors. With clothing fitted with trackers that show the wearer's movements, the worrying reality is the information could end up in the wrong hands: those of abusers, or perhaps even stalkers.

While the ability to see the production journey of a product via smart-labelling could set a revolutionary new standard for transparency in the industry, it's hard not to feel that all of this has the potential to get more than a bit dystopian. Who knows - in a few years time, it might not just be our laptop cameras we'll be sticking blobs of Blu-Tack over, or our phone's microphone we muffle when we're having private conversations. We'll also likely be frantically searching for (tiny) chips and snipping them out of our latest purchases in a bid to maintain a fragment of our ever-diminishing digital privacy. Thanks, but no thanks - log us out.

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Is smart tech hurtling us towards a dystopian fashion future?

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Last month, John Galliano sent a tribe of 'digital nomads' down the catwalk as part of the Maison Margiela AW18 Artisanal show. Some wore VR-style headsets, while others sported clamps attached to their limbs holding iPhones and iPads, and another had a screen on the back of her coat.

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Fashion and Technology: From Frivolity To Sustainability | Rachel Arthur | TEDxCoventGardenWomen

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Fashion Futures 2030 Scenario 1 – A story from Living with Less