Art meets Fashion
All my life I’ve been very intrigued by anything with a little more detail. I’ve always been interested in finding out how and why things work the way they do. I realized as I am getting a little older, everything is slowly becoming more simplistic, this less is more minimalistic culture is taking over.
Obviously theres a time and place for minimalistic design, however I feel it’s become lazy, mostly to cut corners, mostly to cut time.
Whether this is an architectural structure, menus for restaurants, technology design or mainly for my clothing design & the battle between fast fashion.
I never really touch on being eco friendly or using organic fabrics (which I do mainly use) & I dont really battle much against fast fashion anymore. I fully stand away from it, dont get me wrong…
However, I feel its just the way the world is going, I sit more as an artist rather then an activist. I dont feel too strongly when these fast fashion brands copy my work & I dont really have too much of an opinion on people making the same tracksuit over and over again, do what you need to do.
As long as I know I am 10 steps ahead thats the only thing that matters to me. I’ll always stay true to focusing on the finer details, putting that little more effort into the things I do & most importantly I think thats why a lot of my inspirations have come from the time periods/ art styles you see in my work…
…I am in love with the renaissance period, Italian architecture, 18th century book illustrations, old topographic maps, oil paintings, western cowboy culture & biblical scriptures…
just to name a few, basically anything that took more than a click of a finger to do.
I want to compare some of my works with the original paintings, shed some light onto the artists & most importantly showcase the details that go into all my pieces…
This is “The Atlas” Bomber Jacket, created for APOR. Made in 1863 this is a drawn Atlas/Map of the world, with shipment lines running through, as you can see I’ve altered the image quite a bit, changing the size & brightness in areas. I analyzed the fabric I was using and made sure it would match when printed, I wanted a super washed ‘tea stained’ theme. I wanted the jacket to look like a page out of an old book that had been sitting there for a few hundred years.
This jacket is called “The Painting Process” & I am involve with the backstory of this jacket. So for a while I’ve wanted to create a jacket with 3 different paintings. I was looking into the works of Gustave Dorè. I came across lots of different bits of his work, but finding the different unfinished paintings at different stages was exactly what I was looking for.
This Jacket features 3 different paintings, A start, middle and ending.
This is my “Descent into Limbo” Bomber Jacket, I used a painting called ‘The Descent into Limbo’ by Jan Brueghel The Elder & Hans Rottenhammer. A painting which depicts a pivotal moment in Christian mythology. Christ Entering Limbo where the righteous awaited salvation to entering heaven. I love how dark this painting is.
I also love that it’s not a super well known piece. If you know, you know type situation, I love resurrecting different paintings that almost get forgotten in time. The artists worked Ungodly hours on creating these. They should be appreciated!
