Absurd, Angry, Baroque, Beautiful , Bright, Bubblicious, Cartoonish, Clean, Clever, Cool, Dark, Decorative, Dissonant, Distorted, Dramatic, Ecstatic, Excessive, Experimental, Fantastic, Figurative, Glamour, Grand, Improvised, Intense, Intimate, Masculine, Moody, Neurotic, Organic, Political, Pop, Primal, Psychedelic, Psychological, Rebel, Religious, Serene, Sophisticated, Spiritual, Surreal, Technology, Tranquil, Trippy, Violent, Whimsical, Wise assy, Witty

"Milliner" is too staid a term for Philip Treacy, contemporary sculptor of wacky headgear. The Irish, London-based artist dwells in an artistic field almost exclusively his own. He fashions extraordinary, otherworldly hats that threaten to throw the heads they adorn fantastically off-balance. Since

Elegant, Fantastic, Kinetic, Surreal, Voluminous, Whimsical

Jean-Paul Gaultier is a gleefully outrageous designer, a man who habitually defies or ignores the standard definitions of style and sensibility. He has brought kitsch into the mainstream of Couture, along with fetishism, male cross-dressing, and any number of other wild and innovative concepts. Ga

Existentialist fashion, Grotesque, Psychological, Queer literature, Rock 'n' roll, Whimsical