Teacher Resource BLM#5: Examples of Wearable Art

Wrigley’s New Orbit Mist is being promoted with a print advertising campaign demonstrating the “hydrating sensation” experienced when chewing the gum. Three models pose for fashion photographer Nadav Kander with a packet of Peppermint Spray Orbit Mist, dressed in wearable art: adaptations of a shower curtain, umbrella and mop. The two flavours not represented are Mango Surf and Watermelon Spring.

The French designer, Malam, makes very feminine, playful pieces from recyclyed and reclaimed fabrics and embellishments; in this example, a pink dyed rice bag

Andrea Zittell (American) mixes issues of architecture, design, fashion and ergonomics; creates installations and objects that challenge traditional uses of tools, garments and living spaces; makes unique items out of recycled garments; anti “sweatshops”

www.worldofwearableart.com Website; fashion shows; awards; exhibitions

http://sharoncaldwell.com/wearable_art.htm

Save the Whales jacket; quilted wearable art pieces; remarkable detail

Walking With Our Sisters is a commemorative art installation for the missing and murdered indigenous women of Canada and the USA; collaborative art piece created on the “vamps” or top pieces of unfinished moccasins and represent the unfinished lives of these women

Student tie-dying project, SCDSB

Students silkscreening on t-shirts, SCDSB

Gum wrapper hat

Dress modified to look like a hamburger

The DIY Renewable Dress by Fernando Brízio has pockets sewn into the dress to hold washable markers. After about an hour, the marker ink has soaked into the dress creating a custom color scheme and pattern. The dress can then be washed giving you a clean palette to start all over again.

Alok Appadurai provide meals to 12 “food- insecure Americans” for every “Fed by Threads” t-shirt he sells.

Examples of t-shirts

Nam June Paik (Korea, 1932, died US 2006) Founder of video art; commentary on media (made robots from tvs); mixed media

Made with torn masking tape and sponging and/or spray bottles of slightly watered down paint.