Wood dress

Cathedral Dress, by Iris Van Herpen

'Could a dress create the impression that it is moving by itself or make the viewer believe that it is making the wearer compelling to walk', is in short a description used by fashion journalist Jean Paul Cauvin about Van Herpen her dresses. It illustrates perfectly her groundbreaking innovations

Christina Chalmers

lace wood

I made this a few years ago but was photographing it for a portfolio I'm doing. I used disks I cut from birch wood I salvaged from my brother's fallen tree. I wired everything together to make this dress. I loved sculpture class!

This wood and wood veneer dress by Hickok Cole Architects won the Best Haute Couture Award.

I stumbled across the work of Phoebe Washburn today. She creates *amazing* sculptural installations from scavenged bits of wood! Heavy Has Debt, 2004 Nothing is Cutie, 2004 Nothing is Cutie, 2004 True, False and Slightly Better, 2003 Her work is also reminicent of artist Rosalie Gascoigne, who I found these great images of on iwishsun Beaten Track Lamplit 1989 And slightly unrelated but whilst thinking about wood...Kathy pointed out fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto the otherday and this…

A spectacular gown made of Treefrog wood veneer and Chemetal metal laminate won two awards at IIDA Fashion Remix in Salt Lake City.

If you fancy this tree bark looking ensemble, you may belong in the element of Arbis.