When I first saw this image I thought it was a trash can, how amazing? A huge thimble shaped trash can for my sewing room to replace my lame, uninspiring plastic one!
But actually it is ceramic and more of a vase or plant pot but it is still super cool, no?
Indito is by Vito Nesta who often takes found objects and materials and gives them a “new identity”.
You can see more of Vito’s work here.
The 24th annual World of WearableArt (WOW) Awards kicked off on Wednesday here in Wellington.
Tickets to the shows are pretty exxy and sell out really early so I’ve never managed to go but luckily the local news website has a little slide show up for us all to enjoy 😉 Sorry link is broken 😦
You can read more about the WOW story here and there are more pictures on the official Facebook page.
A few of the shops in town have also been getting in on the fun by entering the WOW Window Dressing competition by displaying their own WearableArt in their windows.
Here are a few that I managed to get snaps of while rushing between meetings:
New World Metro, Willis street
Damn it, that’s what I should have made my wedding dress out of…chocolate! 🙂
The next four are from the windows of Kirkcaldie & Stains (Brandon Street Windows) and I think they are by Fashion Design Students but I was running late and didn’t get a chance to read the the signs:
Butterflies!
You know those times when you click on an interesting link and that leads you to another link and another and then you find something amazing? This was one of those times.
I can’t even remember how the link-loop began but I ended up on Berber Soepboer’s page looking at the Color-in Dress and I was amazed!
Berber Soepboer Colour-in Dress
Wow!
Have you ever heard about the 4th dimension in design? It’s often referred to when an object can also change over time, the 4th dimension. Sometimes we change it through our interaction with it and sometimes it changes by itself, like when metal rusts. Anyway, design babble aside, I love design that changes. Even in it’s starting state this dress is really nice…and then it gets even better.
‘The Colour-In Dress’ is a simple dress with a black and white print, which is especially designed to fill with coloured textile markers. Because the print is so flexible you can make many different designs by colouring it. Everybody can interpret the print the way they like it best.
Scrolling around I discovered even more amazingness. The dress under Fragment Textiles is great but I really really really want to have a go at making a skirt just like that.
Berber Soepboer Fragment Textiles
I love how some parts stand up and that hem is a bit spikey and the idea that you could take it apart and make it into another garment.
Berber Soepboer Fragment Textiles
There skirt is made up of star shapes, while the dress utilises squares, there is a picture of how the squares join up to make the “fabric”.
The goal was to design clothes with a second live; cradle to cradle. Completely environmentally friendly. Together they developed two small forms made of special biological wool. Squares and Stars, both can be put together with more of the same kind creating a fabric. Both forms have small slices, which gives them the possibility to click in each other and hold. Two cloths were made with these forms; a square dress and a star skirt. Both completely detachable thus changeable, in colour as in form.
The Replacement Dresses are also a cool concept and I’d love to see it developed further with other garments. I can see skirts being clipped together to make a dress, or tops becoming trousers!
‘The Replacement Dresses’ exists out of three dresses all printed with a multicoloured design. Each dress exists out of several pieces, which are attached to each other by buttons. The pieces can be exchanged between the three dresses. This makes it possible to combine the three different prints in a way the wearer prefers
There is quite a bit more on their website so I highly recommend you click through and have a cruise around for some inspiration, it definitely got my brain buzzing! 🙂
Sewing as Art – Origami Map Dresses
Sewing as Art – Paper Dresses
How ridiculously amazing are these?!
They are “Light Trail Dresses” by Atton Conrad, a London-based advertising and art photographer.
It’s hard to pick a favourite but I think I love the one top right the most, or maybe the one below it…argh, I can’t decide! How about you?
You know what would be amazing? Having to translate these to real dresses. Very cool project.
I have long been a fan of photographic light painting but this takes it to a whole new level!
See more of Atton’s amazing photography on his website.
Want to see something else really cool?
This is my future sewing room!
Ignore the furniture, this image is from the real estate website, so we’ll call this a “before” image.
Features:
Less than two weeks to go!
the curious kiwi 