Showing posts with label ARMOR. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ARMOR. Show all posts
MATERIAL ARMOR
LADYFITS issue no. 5 focuses on the material to create our ARMOR.
(pick up your copies of no.5 at Cedar Rapids + Marion stores)
TRANSITION OF ARMOR
Iowa tends to stay cool during the first portion of Spring, creating an opportunity to embrace 2 seasons at 1 time: Winter + Spring.
This is my transition of ARMOR from Winter to Spring through layering + draping on to a simple black velvet dress. This item of clothing was a staple for this past Winter season. I transitioned it with colors + textiles I associate with warmer times. I enjoy pieces that I can evolve, depending on the days thoughts. The morning becomes a layering ritual for the day's tasks with weather being an important factor. This is a creative warm-up, beginning the day with a wearable composition.
These LADYFITS compositions are created from a materials list......veggie steamer, wall decoratives, grandmother's collection, recovered threads, scrapped hemlines, found objects, etc. Most of the objects on the list are being altered from its original definition of use, broken down to be wearable.
PILE IT ON
MATERIAL ARMOR_draping objects into forms of dress
This is a pre-look to the winter series finale on ARMOR (LADYFITS issue no.5, Goodwill of the Heartland newsletter). It is a good bye to winter and hello to spring, the process to ARMOR ourselves.
This particular garment represents the finals days of winter: black velvet of the dorment season + draping of objects as the awakening to Spring.
PIN COMPOSITION
I collect pins, hoping the collection makes sense enough to create a composition or storyline on my dress.
Story through adornment_everyone has a story to go with the pin they are wearing.
Curatorial Goodbye to Winter_Sweaters_MATERIAL USE
Sweaters become a skirt become a scarf become a skirt again. This single object has changed its use definition since April 2010 (part of Sustainable fashion programming in the Cedar Rapids area_Eco Fest + Solid Waste Agency of Linn County). I composed this skirt from a pile of sweaters that I was aesthetically drawn to. I plan to change it again for Spring.
Curatorial Goodbye to Winter
Over the next few weeks, I'm curating LADYFITS as an homage/Goodbye to Winter. This first composition begins to sum up the themes behind this winter season, definition through dress_ARMOR_LAYERS_PATTERN OF DRESS_MATERIAL USE.
The bottom half of the garment was once a sweater dress that became a skirt (pictured above). It becomes a composed dress again through the layering of the top half. I've mentioned before, this fascination with dress becomes something becomes something again_dress becomes body becomes dress.
I did manage to wear this out over the Iowa Winter season_boots + pinned up the hemline as I walked through the snow. I wore around 5 layers with this: 2 skirts, 3 tops (layered tops not shown).
LADYFITS_ARMOR (WINTER SERIES)
WINTER WARRIORS_ARMOR thy self for Winter explores our daily dress for survival. It is part of our daily ritual to dress for the day’s tasks. We are cognitive about our choices as well as ritualistic in our dress layers. ARMOR is our defense against the elements of weather. It can also serve as our ARMOR of expression. LADYFITS will explore the ARMOR themes through definition and function_in issues 3-5.
LADYFITS_ISSUE NO.4 OUT ON STANDS
LADYFITS ISSUE NO.4 is out on stands in Goodwill thrift store locations around Cedar Rapids + Marion
Currently, I'm working on issue no. 5 to complete the winter series on ARMOR. The layout will be heavy on image compositions_celebratory end to the winter series and a Hello to Spring. This issue should be expected on stands in late March.
I will be updating this blog with some exciting dates coming up for events in Cedar Rapids during the month of April.
tata,
LADYFITS_FOLK DRESS_ARMOR
FOLK ELEMENTS OF DRESS
PATTERN OF DRESS ARMOR
Inspired by a clay figurine of a woman from the Bronze Age, showing the elements of folk dress.
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