Online - July 11, 2008

Beauty and the Beasts

Chandi Clothing

We all dream of the day when the lion will lie down with the lamb.

But what do you suppose will happen when the zebra lies down with the bunny?

That’s just one of the bizarre combos contemplated by designer Chandi Lancaster. Her line of T-shirts and totes features hand-drawn depictions of nature as it never actually appears, well, in nature.

Starting with the aforementioned Zebra Bunny (bunny head, zebra body), she moves into odder territory with designs like Jackalope Pattycake; Unicorn Mermaid; and a series of Rorschach-like patterns made from the repeated forms of tarantulas, scorpions, moths, and other creepy (but strangely beautiful) crawlies.

Of course, she also makes frilly blouses in cherry red with white hearts or blue and a repeated rope pattern.

But that’s another animal altogether.

Available online at starsandinfinitedarkness.com.