wearable art

Tl;dr…if you aren’t a fabric craft geek, this post will just bore you. That’s okay. I’m taking aim at a beloved part of recent Fashion History and dissecting it. For the 2017-18 fashion season, Dior released a now legendary Tarot-inspired fabric coat. If you don’t know much about embroidery, this mix of fabric pieces and…

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For 43 years, Ornament Magazine has been documenting personal adornment through the world’s highest levels of wearable fine craft and art media. The magazine itself has a physical beauty that has never been compromised: thick paper, glossy finish, stunning photography, and deeply-researched articles. I first encountered Ornament in January 1979 in the skimpy magazine section…

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This is Adelaide, named for the charming little boutique that used to employ her. She’ll look a bit different when I’m done with her upgrades. If I’m going to do more wearable art and large-scale jewelry, I need a dressform!

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I have some free hours tonight. To help settle my manuscript submission jitters, I’m playing with several sewing projects that need to advance to their next stages. Not finished (cue hysterical laughter); any one of these will take far more than a couple of hours for that. Refine the patterns and start cutting UV-blocking fabric…

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