Some Bondage for Alex and Petra.... i tried choosing some from each kind of style i had...more to come!

by the way, love the straightjacket!!

bondage straight jacket fun

for michela!

Get it Off Your Chest

Püss Füst
Get It Off Your Chest, Pluck It From Her Breast
http://www.radarredux.com/2010/01/puss-fust-open-space/

Group Project Brainstorm Meet-up: Sunday January 31st

¡HOLA CLASE!
This Sunday January 31st @ 3pm we will be meeting at the Copycat for Group Project Brainstorming, "Speed-Dating" style!

Here is the location:
1511 Guilford Avenue
Apt. B403 (Copycat Theatre)

Directions from the station building campus:

-Follow Mt. Royal as it turns eastward around the lyric opera, passing UB campus... pass intersections with Charles, St. Paul and Calvert...
- the intersection after Calvert is Guilford... turn LEFT on guilford, over multi-colored bridge

- Copycat building is directly on your right after the bridge... call me (Pilar) at 443-255-8o86 when you arrive at the second entrance (1511, not 1501)

view looking east on Guilford and Mt. Royal intersection at Copycat Building...

(the sign on top of the building is now blank)

Work Dress (and Our Goods)

work dress

butterflies, Brian Froud

Illustration by Brian Froud

- Maya

Korean Traditional Dress: Hanbok

My significant fashion moment/article of clothing

In my closet, there are so many clothes that i don't even wear. For some reason, i cannot throw them away. As i was thinking about an article of clothing that is special to me, i thought about 'Hanbok'. I had this dress for a very long time. 'Hanbok' is a traditional dress that our ancestors wore everyday. When i was a child, i wore this dress in a special occasion such as New Year. However, no one really wears it anymore even in a spacial occasion. My mom bought me this dress when i was in elementary school, and i had this dress for 12 years. I only wore it once in my life and it's in a new condition. It does not fit me anymore but somehow i cannot throw it away or give it to someone. It is something that i want to keep forever in my life.

Most of my artworks are based on my culture and my experiences. My family immigrated to United States when i was in middle school. I don't really have memories from Korea (somehow i can't remember) but somehow my artworks are influenced by my culture.

'Hanbok' is one of the main thing that i'm focusing on right now. I love to make garments, and i find myself happy when i'm making them. Just like i mentioned before, 'Hanbok' seems to fade away and no one really think of it as a fashionable item. I also thought of it as ugly and non-fashionable item when i was in Korea (not anymore:P). However, i want to bring this dress back to people and let them see the beauty of 'Hanbok'. I tried to modernized the tradtional dress and i'm really happy with the result. I'll be doing this for my senior thesis next year, and show how fashionable 'Hanbok' could be. :D

*Yeji Byun

Drop Crotches

My significant fashion moment/article of clothing happened pretty recent.

It happened over this winter break,

Fall semester had ended, I had a new obsession with shapes (along with nylon and masks but thats another adventure), with how shapes interact with the body with use of cloth. And this image of some drop crotch pants had been sitting on my desktop since around November:

I had told myself when I get some time I am going to attempt to re-create some drop crotch pants. So with all this time on my hands now that the semester had ended I got to work on my

drop crotch adventure. I did not know anything about clothing creation, all I had was this picture and my hands. So for about a week I played with different muslins, and finally got to something that was exciting and seemed to fit perfectly. So then I went about creating the pants:

I wore the pants all winter break (for the most part) some people found them fascinating some people were confused some people mentioned MC hammer, and others didn't notice a change.

These pants remain so significant, as they stand for the first piece of wearable clothing that I had created for myself, and I hope their memory lives on as I learn, explore and grow.

(right now there is a tear in the left inner thigh that I need to attend to some day soon =( )

Alex P.

INSPIRATIONS

Lizards with feather costumes= Genius

I've been inspired by the costume work and set design in Alejandro Jodorowsky's film Holy Mountain.... <<<<<

And a film called Ashik Kerib >>>>


BEAUTIFUL

Sarah Konigsburg

one of the things im interested is

what celebs wear in the public. especially

this couple who are known for their outfits

everytime...like what and how much these

celebs dish out to the public by wearing

their bold and expensive dress (or tacky lookin dress..)

stacie

i was in tokyo last summer and when i arrived

my friend's mom gave me this japanese traditional

clothes 'yukata'. she said it's originated from

bath clothes (after bath)... during summer in japan,

since its made with cotton (and its thin) people

wear em outside casually. one thing i noticed

was, in korea (or some other countries) they wear

their traditional clothes only on special occasion,

but in japan, its very common that people wear

yukata everywhere anytime... even in clubs,

there were girls dancin in these. it was cool

experience that i walked around the streets

in tokyo with my friend wearing these, spottin

other japanese girls wearing the same

(but different designs!)

ok that was my fashion moment

stacie

" Anna Kim" by Anna Kim

This is a photo from Anna Kim's show "Anna Kim" which I gladly participated in. It was my second time helping her out and she was as ever ever lovely for each. I've chosen this as my important fashion moment. Balls out on the runway is a good place to plant a memory!

Ear of Corn

I was an ear of corn for Halloween 2007. This was before I learned how to use a sewing machine so I hand sewed the dress together. The kernels in the front is drawn with a sharpie on a yellow piece of fabric.

What seemed like a random choice of costume was actually a foreshadowing of my interest in the food industry. In the past year or so, I have found myself researching food histories and how they relate to contemporary diets. In particular, I have looked at corn-based snacks such as Fritos and Cheetos. Here is my summary of the history and process of making those snacks HERE!

- Jen

Article of Clothing: Outside T-shirt

Around the year 2000, I was in middle school, and my Aunt Elaine was moving. She gave me this shirt, and it inadvertently became my favorite shirt of all. "Outside" refers to Outside Magazine, based in VT, a magazine my Aunt used to be editor for. I've seen the magazine once or twice, but I'm not an especial fan. What I love about this shirt is how it says "outside" on my t-shirt, emphasizing that there is an inside, a divide. The more I learn here at MICA, the more I recognize that divide as being part of modern industrial society - it goes along with the alienation from labor and slavery to capitalism: the idea that there is an OUTSIDE/INSIDE... but really you are the same person throughout each. Through industrialization (which signifies the idea of 'work' leaving the domestic scene, into the 'work-place') we have made specific places for certain qualities of our lives to manifest.

I didn't always think this way about the shirt. For so long, it was funny, because it was obvious. I'd think "Well, ofcourse - OUTSIDE of my body!" But now the connotations are so different. First, there was realizing what a walking ad I had become. Now, mostly because of Henri Lefebvre's "Critique of Everyday Life" (which was written in 1947, I believe) this shirt takes on entirely new proportions.
-Pilar

smart vs. stupid

*Yeji Byun

Hand of God & Peggy, both machine knitted works by Freddie Robbins



Princess Diana in 1983 wearing her sheep sweater; See by Chloe sweater for Fall/Winter 2009

- Jen

Viktor & Rolf

Viktor & Rolf's unmistakably hacked up dresses






make something extreme :p

*Yeji Byun

proportion mayhem

-Yeji Byun

Current Inspiration: Lawrence Beck

Lawrence Beck is from the arctic region of Canada, from the Yup'ik tribe. He works in contemporary media, making the forms of sacred shamanistic masks with everyday materials and items. Pictured first is a traditionally made mask, followed by his translation.





Closely related is a photographic series by two Canadian artists, Terence Houle and Jarusha Brown. I've included a shot from their "Urban Indian" photo series...



My good friend Monica just showed me another amazing use of costume in the performances of Ennio Marchetto. I have embedded a youtube video, mostly for kicks...



-Pilar Diaz

Hello.
Recently fictional characters from Edgar Allen Poe stories/poems as well as fairy- tales inspires my artwork as well as my fashion.
Michela

Stefan Sagmeister

I had to add this, although he is a graphic designer. But as we talked about experimentation, risk taking, originality - Sagmeister's artwork and his person itself had always inspired me a lot.

Petra

NUNO Textiles from Japan!!!They are mechanically produced cloth that combine tradition and technological progress in gorgeous textiles!! <3 Natalie

Significant Article of Clothing, Maya

I went to high school in Greenwich, CT which is probably one of the preppiest places I know of. I never quite fit into this category, and was very proud of this fact, and always tried to wear outfits that kind of shocked people, although here at MICA I don't think anyone would notice. One of the things I wore quite often was this white furry hat that kind of became my trademark hat. I've never really been the quiet type, and my friends would always comment on how they would know when I was coming via my loud footsteps, jangling keys (I collect keychains) or the hat. They'd all steal it and wear it themselves, and I loved it, since it seemed that only guys ever wore hats, and I thought well if they can, why can't I? To me, a hat is kind of like the cherry on top of the sundae, often what competes an outfit, and in what was my case, what completed me. - Maya

Variation On the Cone-head and Nylon

Had to do 2, seems important for me to show both those images together: Margiela spring '09 (top) & bottom is unknown to me.
-Alex P.