Party Dress – Dana & Karla Karwas
January 29th, 2008
Party Dress by Dana Karwas and Karla Karwas is a roving performance that is part living architecture: part monumental fashion. It functions as a pavilion worn exclusively by five women that seamlessly injects architecture into fashion by using the body as space.
The dress begins as a shared, bustled garment that gradually unfolds to create a temporary, inhabitable structure. Each seam, each dress, and each body are interconnected by a single, amorphous surface of flowing material.
With room for spectators beneath the fabric, Party Dress flirts with traditional concepts of public and private space while adding sparkling wit to the conversation between fashion and architecture. Party Dress works across multiple scales and environments, unraveling conventional notions of space, materiality, and temporality.
Party Dress is part of seamless v.3 fashion show at the Boston Museum of Science on January 30, 2008 at 8pm.
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4 Comments Add your own
1. Steve | January 30th, 2008 at 7:48 am
really cool execution of an interesting idea
do the models just hang out there for hours while people browse around under their dress???
2. Ruairi | January 30th, 2008 at 8:41 am
Yeah looks like it
3. Ben Hanbury | February 8th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
man that is pretty freaky …
wicked though!
4. Stephanie | February 25th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
The unique play on a structure as simple as a tent is facinating. Its a very original idea and i really like the intermixing of fashion and architecture. All arts overlap, this just emphasizes that fact.
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