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Wearable Art 3 - August 17, 2007: Dunedin Fine Arts Center
from volume 02 issue 05 // Becca Nelson
Wearable Art 3
Words: Becca Nelson
Photos: Marina Williams
Appeared:
August 17, 2007
Dunedin Fine Arts Center, Dunedin
On Saturday, August 17, the central lobby of the Dunedin Fine Arts Center saw considerably more flesh than it does on a typical weekend. Unless, of course, it happens to be the one weekend a year that the facility plays host to Wearable Art, the now yearly fashion event that has become one of DFAC’s most successful fund-raising activities. Wearable Art 3 proved the biggest installment of the series thus far. A record over 900 people attended the fashion show, which took place on a massive 80-foot stage that snaked its way through the main atrium into a side gallery with VIP seating.
Among those participating this year was Tia Gugliotta, a Tampa-based fashion and costume designer who is new to this year’s crop of artists. In designing her line for WA3, Gugliotta drew on her experience of the fashion industry. Gugliotta showed 7 pieces, characterized by unconventional materials (yarn, for instance) in unconventional colors (hot pink and neon yellow) worn on the occasional unconventional model (“I have to put at least one queen in a dress,” she joked).
“For this line, my theme is Fashion Slave.” Though she caters to a high-fashion market in New York, Gugliotta still feels bound by rules of fashion. “Even though I get to do avante garde stuff in the city, I still have to follow the color theme, trends, what shape is in that month. For this, I wasn’t bound at all by fashion.” Her line is a truly visceral exploration of the theme; all of Gugliotti’s models walked with hands bound and mouths sealed in hot pink duct-tape.
Gugliotta’s models weren’t the only ones in non-traditional garments. Frank Strunk III, who has been at the forefront of WA since its inception, was on hand to discuss his current line.
“The concept for my line this year is really a celebration of the shape of a woman.” Strunk’s clothes are truly wearable art: made of welded and formed metal, they look a cross between Gaultier and R2D2. However, this year, Strunk explained, he has perfected the art of shaping metal to form curves. “Last year my line was really robotic, very much informed by geometry. This year, it’s really about the sweeping curve of the female form.”
Words: Becca Nelson
Photos: Marina Williams
Appeared:
August 17, 2007
Dunedin Fine Arts Center, Dunedin
On Saturday, August 17, the central lobby of the Dunedin Fine Arts Center saw considerably more flesh than it does on a typical weekend. Unless, of course, it happens to be the one weekend a year that the facility plays host to Wearable Art, the now yearly fashion event that has become one of DFAC’s most successful fund-raising activities. Wearable Art 3 proved the biggest installment of the series thus far. A record over 900 people attended the fashion show, which took place on a massive 80-foot stage that snaked its way through the main atrium into a side gallery with VIP seating.
Among those participating this year was Tia Gugliotta, a Tampa-based fashion and costume designer who is new to this year’s crop of artists. In designing her line for WA3, Gugliotta drew on her experience of the fashion industry. Gugliotta showed 7 pieces, characterized by unconventional materials (yarn, for instance) in unconventional colors (hot pink and neon yellow) worn on the occasional unconventional model (“I have to put at least one queen in a dress,” she joked).
“For this line, my theme is Fashion Slave.” Though she caters to a high-fashion market in New York, Gugliotta still feels bound by rules of fashion. “Even though I get to do avante garde stuff in the city, I still have to follow the color theme, trends, what shape is in that month. For this, I wasn’t bound at all by fashion.” Her line is a truly visceral exploration of the theme; all of Gugliotti’s models walked with hands bound and mouths sealed in hot pink duct-tape.
Gugliotta’s models weren’t the only ones in non-traditional garments. Frank Strunk III, who has been at the forefront of WA since its inception, was on hand to discuss his current line.
“The concept for my line this year is really a celebration of the shape of a woman.” Strunk’s clothes are truly wearable art: made of welded and formed metal, they look a cross between Gaultier and R2D2. However, this year, Strunk explained, he has perfected the art of shaping metal to form curves. “Last year my line was really robotic, very much informed by geometry. This year, it’s really about the sweeping curve of the female form.”
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