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Artwear: Fashion and Anti-fashion

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I originally bought this book for the section on Kasik Wong- whose clothing art work is STUNNING! This book features other unique designers who have turned fabric into scultural show pieces. There are things in the book for everyone. I tended to like some more than others- but the sections that showed handcrafted exotic work -puffy and strange were inspirational to me. Others seemed more minimal and origami inspired. Most of the book has beautiful images.

There are two different camps in wearable art, the home sewer-crafter group and the artist group. This book DOES NOT COVER the home-sewer crafter group. IT DOES COVER those who want to become wearable artists, producing works fit for art galleries, art museums and major art to wear fashion shows.

This is NOT a project oriented book with pictures and instructions to take one through doing a particular project. There is no how-to aspect of this book.

What this book does do is show you the major art to wear work. Virtually all of this is imagined from the ground up, where the artist first tackles the making of the fabric and finally makes a design to showcase that fabric. The fabric comes first. These fabric treatments run the gamut too. Fabrics are dyed, painted, pleated, woven, refabricated, burned out, pieced, torn, etc.,
This is a formidable artistic undertaking in an of itself. After the fabric is created, an innovative design is used to best showcase the fabric on the model or on a wall.

The resulting clothing is not something that is worn day to day or in ordinary life. These are show stopping clothes which would only look right at a high end event.

In addition to clothing, accessories, such as headgear, are also covered.

The work is all beautiful.

I highly recommend this book.

This book has a lot of color pictures, fantastic, imaginative artwear, much to make new ideas flow, worth keeping to revitalize the thought processes every now and again.

I love the book but unfortunately the minute I opened it the cover detached from the spine of the book. I am not happy about that.

This is a beautiful book showing designs from many wonderful art-to-wear artists. I enjoyed it and find it to be an inspiration.