Tag: clothing

Garmenting: Costume as Contemporary Art

As well as putting artist-made clothing firmly into the category of art, this show also looks at its wider role in gender, protest and cultural differences
Shneel Malik – interview: ‘I’m a crazy optimist. I know that the right opportunity comes at the right time’

Architect and bio-designer Shneel Malik discusses bio-algae, eco-aesthetics, artisans pioneering ecological waste-water treatment, and the next steps for her award-winning Indus project
Celia Pym – interview: ‘I didn’t ever see the point of invisible mending’

Describing herself as ‘an artist who works in textiles’ Pym talks about her recent surgery for mending at the V&A, why she mends old clothes and artefacts, and why she feels it is so important to see the damage and…
Fashion in Colors

Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York 9 December 2005-26 March 2006 Costume is usually viewed through a frame of fashion: a piece of clothing is set against its context in chronology, trend and social ambience under normal circumstances of speculation.…