While New York Fashion Week may get more publicity, Couture Fashion Week is taking place in New York on February 12-14. Couture Fashion Week showcases the work of independent designers who don't work for the major fashion houses but who still create some pretty amazing collections.
One of the many events taking place at Couture Fashion Week is a fine art display, including some intricately crafted wire dresses by Rhode Island artist Susan Freda. Like the dress pictured here (left), Freda's hand-woven dresses are made from one continuous strand of wire! After weaving, she fuses the dresses with glass, resin, or tree sap. Freda has been making these striking pieces since 1996.
When I asked Freda what inspired her to make dress and shoe sculptures, she said, "I am/was inspired by a range of things like body armor, natural architecture: wasp and bird nests, and bodily systems like neurological structures, arteries, veins... I like to make organic looking structures out of industrial and recycled materials."
If you go to Freda's Website, you can see some close-ups of the dresses and how the resin forms little droplets of pretty colors.
Freda also makes pastel colored shoes and boots from resin. Check out the tall boots (below) which are made out of resin and butterfly wings. I love that her work is so elaborate and beautiful, too. You can see more at Susan Freda.
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