Other rules apply to the fashion of the future . new technologies and materials make things possible today that couldn t have even been imagined in the past . High- tech fabrics and melting forms are no lon- ger science fiction but reality . Fashion is constantly reinventing itself, but many designers and stylists are now taking it to extremes . inspired by the odd, mutant, and deformed, they are redefining cloth- ing to expand the body from wearables to the utter transfiguration of the human silhouette . Otherworldly showcases a fashion avant- garde between futurism and fetish . Featuring work by designers such as Lucy Mcrae, peter popps, Marina Hoermanseder, and Viktor & rolf, it not only explores this groundbreak- ing development but also its fruitful inter- play with photography .