Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Garbage Design?


About a week and a half ago, Shine, a website run by Yahoo, came out with an article based on fashion design inspired by the states in the United States. The dress designs include the following: Minnesota had a corn dress, New York had a trash dress, Iowa's dress was based on the prairie, Nevada's dress was made of casino chips, Maine had a pine cone dress, and the list goes on. From the examples that were mentioned above, I was really attracted to the garbage dress inspired by New York and the garbage collection that occurs within the state.
The garbage dress was made out of a large amount of garbage bags that were used to compliment the model. The dress' form was created to be a side shoulder dress with a large skirt, where trash bags were tied to create volume and were puffed up (hopefully not with garbage) from smallest to largest. This is a design that definitely defines New York, trash all around and fashion overall. Looking at this dress, I find it to be quite appealing due to the great use of volume created by the garbage bags and the form all together seem to appeal my eye (even though this is circulated around garbage) . There is a balance that is made with the trash bags because the bags increase from the model's stomach area to the bottom of the skirt. As a society, we are ones that judge fashion and our nation as a whole but this dress to me creates a true vision of New York. New York is famous for fashion and being the "big apple", bringing society's view of fashion together into a design; something that is out of the box, simply unique and couture. Society simply accepts this design of a New York garbage dress.

dG

http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/beauty/artist-creates-themed-dress-sculptures-in-all-50-states-2400848/#photoViewer=1

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