Catch inspiration from the World of Wearable Art without traveling to New Zealand, where the international competition is held each fall. After 25 years, it’s a mega-production described as a “glorious rebellion against the mundane.”
Organizers picked inspirations from previous winning entries, and sent some on the road in an exhibit that includes Skin (above). It’s from 2011, created by Quebec textile artist Marjolein Dallinga, who designs for Cirque du Soleil.
Other winners in the exhibit at Peabody Museum in Salem, MA (above & below).
Below, some of the winning designs at an event in Shanghai.
New Zealand hosts the annual design competition to encourage sculptors, costume designers, textile artists and makers to explore the boundary between fashion and art, and to “get art off the walls and onto the body.”
WOW culminates in a live runway show for winners in front of an audience of 50,000. Below: inspiration for the Costume & Film (Science Fiction) Category.
Main World of Wearable Art site, here.
Some runway shots from the past, here.
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Wowzer! Wish we had a competition like this here in Toronto. Well, it’s off to the websites, I go!
Love it.
So beautifully out there, me too.