Dressed in Coke

[Docteur G]

The white&red suit or some kind of urban camouflage...
tucky7.com

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[Taro Toporific]

[Docteur G]

Yes it's not so fresh, she may be wait for a cola sponsor.

[GuyJean]

The white&red suit or some kind of urban camouflage...

Pretty cool.. I'd be more impressed if it was a vending machine for soiled panties.

GJ

[Taro Toporific]

It's kind of disingenuous for the New York Times to report that tongue-in-cheek anti-crime device was invented by an "experimental fashion designer" when is actually the " inventor" is an artist who has won an art show award way back in 2001 for this as an artwork she did as a student.

Fearing Crime, Japanese Wear the Hiding Place
New York Times, Oct. 19, 2007
TOKYO---On a narrow Tokyo street, near a beef bowl restaurant and a pachinko parlor, Aya Tsukioka demonstrated new clothing designs that she hopes will ease Japan’s growing fears of crime.
Deftly, Ms. Tsukioka, a 29-year-old experimental fashion designer, lifted a flap on her skirt to reveal a large sheet of cloth printed in bright red with a soft drink logo partly visible. By holding the sheet open and stepping to the side of the road, she showed how a woman walking alone could elude pursuers --by disguising herself as a vending machine...more...

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[kusai Jijii]

Holy fuck...Now thats fucked. Fuck me...Fuck.

[Neo-Rio]

With a deft motion, Tsukioka, a 29-year-old fashion designer, lifted a flap on the front of her skirt to reveal a large sheet of cloth printed in bright red with a soft drink logo partly visible. By holding the sheet fully open and stepping to the side of the road, she showed how a woman walking alone could elude pursuers - by disguising herself as a vending machine.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/10/21/news/japan.php

[kurohinge1]

[quote="Taro Toporific"] . . . On a narrow Tokyo street, near a beef bowl restaurant and a pachinko parlor, Aya Tsukioka demonstrated new clothing designs that she hopes will ease Japan痴]

I thought she was trying to avoid crime, but there she is cosplaying as a machine - which is just asking for her knobs to be twiddled, her flap lifted and her goods grabbed.

And surely the kind of "pursuer" that would be fooled by a cloth vending machine with shoes sticking out the bottom could be distracted by just dropping food on the ground. Anything mildly more intelligent than a bonsai plant is liable to just use the bag to carry her away.

However, it is Halloween next week, so maybe there is a market for the outfit.

[Tsuru]

And it doesn't work well in the dark I imagine...

[Taro Toporific]

... it is Halloween next week, so maybe there is a market for the outfit.....

Perhaps a limited market...Somewhere on the artist's site the price is listed at 80,000yen.

[Mulboyne]

[Taro Toporific]

The Vending Girl is baaack!

Transformation and disappearance of an "OL ninja" in Shibuya!
news.livedoor.com (in Japanese)

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[BigInJapan]

The Vending Girl is baaack!

I'm pretty sure Liu Bolin, the original camouflage artist won't be too happy about this cheap "made in Japan" copy of his work...

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[Taro Toporific]

The Vending Girl is baaack!

I'm pretty sure Liu Bolin, the original camouflage artist won't be too happy about this cheap "made in Japan" copy of his work...

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Actually, Aya Tsukioka debuted her disguise art 22nd S.I.C.F exhibition in 2001 and won the grand prix prize.
China’s Liu Bolin first started his “Hiding in the City” series of camouflage art in 2005. So, he’s just a copycat*, albeit a far more successful one.

*Ok, ok, the Trompe l'oeil type
of art has been around for centuries.