Wearable Art – No, it’s not wearing a painting around your neck
By Portia Favro
“I wore a bird on my head!” cried Carrie Bradshaw.
“Is that what that was? I thought it was a feather?” replied her friend, Miranda Hobbs
Looking down with a heavy sign, “It was a bird,” Bradshaw replied.
This scene, played out by style and television icons Carrie Bradshaw and Miranda Hobbs in the 2008 movie Sex and the City, encapsulated both the impracticability and fun of fashion – especially about materials some designers use and ladies choose to wear. Fresh off the heels of the 2011 Paris, New York, Milan and London Fashion weeks, various materials were used across the world to literally create wearable art.
Leather made into black feathers, parachutes cut into blouses and even skateboards taken apart and glued into accessories – new trends are showing clothes do not have to be made out of just fabric. Since the eco-friendly “boom” of the past decade, major and amateur designers alike are making creative pieces, with a story and artistic expression behind each stitch.