Two things we love:
Two things we love:
1. When fashion can get its pretty head around art (or art around fashion…we’re ambivalently Reese’s-Peanut-Butter-Cups about it). Corollary: intersection/collision of art and fashion.
2. The lovely layered confection that results when conceptual art is pulled, folded in on itself and pulled again like a giant taffy pull.
What on earth are we talking about?
We’ve mentioned Ghosttown previously. It’s a project by arts group Red76. One of the components has been the Ghosttown Clothing Exchange wherein one can exchange one’s cast-offs for those in the store. Every donated item has a tag that has no price, but does have the name of the person who donated the item and a story about it.
We hear rumors that this Friday, January 27, artist Khris Soden (Red76, the M.O.S.T., “City of Roses”) is producing a fashion show featuring some of the donated garments.
Now fashion shows are always as much about the show as the clothes. And as this is part of an art piece rather than a marketing venture, it’s definitely about the show. But the currency of this project is the stories behind the clothing and the paths these garments follow from person to person…so it’s more about the clothes again, right? And what about the stories? Of Liz’s mother’s melon-hued bed jacket or that yellow prom dress? Saltwater taffy. Fun, see?
Incidentally, we’ll try to confirm or deny and get a time for the show shortly.
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