Dazzle camouflage of WWI.
Dazzle camouflage of WWI made it difficult to predict a ship’s speed and direction. Today’s stealth fighter jets employ the same techniques. So do zebras.
Haute recycling.
Construction mesh dress from Project Runway season sixteen. Phone wire dress on the IIDA runway. American Express gold card dress.
Yarn bombing is the feminine side of graffiti.
Knit caps on Shinto statues. Magda Sayeg’s yarn bombed city bus. Rasta lion. And more.
Flamboyant stitches.
Victoria Villasana adds big yarn stitches to found photographs of famous people.
Why the dots?
Yayoi Kasuma, Japan’s 90-year-old queen of pattern, would say dots are fun. She’s spent a long career designing clothing, fabric, paintings and rooms that vibrate with dots.
Ballet Russe costumes were vivid and graphic.
Designed to be seen, Ballet Russe costumes were grand opera for the ballet.
