Delightful Paintings of Clothing Tell Stories About the People Who’ll Wear It

Kaori Seno is a Japan­ese illus­tra­tor who cre­ates delight­ful paint­ings of cloth­ing that I wish I owned. There’s intri­cate lace­work, strange pat­terns, and fan­cy bird brooches woven with­in the flat­tened, styl­ized views. Note that there’s no one wear­ing these clothes, a fact that’s okay with me. Cloth­ing tells enough of a sto­ry on its own—these works speak vol­umes about the type of per­son who’ll wear these charm­ing garments.

Kaori also paints oth­er sub­jects not relat­ed to cloth­ing. I’m not sure I’d eat can­dy that has eyeballs…