Friday, February 16, 2007

The experimental fashion design of Sandra Backlund


The starting point is always the human body. I am fascinated with the various ways in which one can highlight, distort and transform the natural silhouette of the body using clothing items and accessories. I fabricate my articles of clothing with small pieces made by hand, that are united with others in methods that are always different, to discover the form I wish to have. My approach to fashion is more that of a sculptor than a tailor. In my opinion, clothes are the form of art that is most democratic, something which everything has, consciously or not. These are the words of Sandra Backlund, a Swedish fashion designer. Go check out her collection, rigourously monochromatic and hand fabricated: dismanteled, wild and contorted wool dresses. They seem to have come straight out a science fiction movie...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

This article was originally written by Simone Sbarbati on Frizzifrizzi.it (http://www.frizzifrizzi.it/archives/752) and stolen and translated by this blog.

Articolo scritto da Simone Sbarbati su Frizzifrizzi.it (http://www.frizzifrizzi.it/archives/752) e poi indebitamente rubato e tradotto da questo blog.

PC said...

No stealing, if you click on the picture you get redirected on yours and the same for the 1960's news