Can Fashion be a kind of Art?
Hey Friends!
What do you know about fashion? Fashion is any trendy clothing that we wear to look cool 😎. We all have a favorite pair of shoes or a jacket we love and it is all a part of the bigger fashion world. Have you ever seen a movie with super heroes or magical creatures? Well, the clothes they were wearing were created by a fashion designer! There are artists we call designers who draw up cool ideas that later become the clothes we all wear. To answer the question, fashion is definitely art. You have to be creative and artistic to make clothes that other people want to wear. It connects us and helps us to express ourselves, just like painting and drawing.
What do you know about fashion? Fashion is any trendy clothing that we wear to look cool 😎. We all have a favorite pair of shoes or a jacket we love and it is all a part of the bigger fashion world. Have you ever seen a movie with super heroes or magical creatures? Well, the clothes they were wearing were created by a fashion designer! There are artists we call designers who draw up cool ideas that later become the clothes we all wear. To answer the question, fashion is definitely art. You have to be creative and artistic to make clothes that other people want to wear. It connects us and helps us to express ourselves, just like painting and drawing.
Have you ever seen a fashion show? Usually, models strut down a long runway in front of an audience to show off a designer’s clothes. These are really cool because everyone gets to see what a fashion designer has been working on. Sometimes, it’s fancy dresses for going to a ball or simple jeans and jackets for our daily lives. Ramadhan Mohamed is a designer who likes to make clothes that show her East African culture. She uses the clothes she makes to express how proud she is of where she comes from.
MADELINE ELLI PHOTOGRAPHY
MADELINE ELLI PHOTOGRAPHY
Find someone at home and talk to them about the fashion you see here. How is it different from the clothes we usually wear every day? What colors do you see? Would you wear them? Why or why not?
Fashion at the Albany Museum of Art
We have even shown artwork right here at AMA that relates to fashion!
Teresa Bramlette Reeves is an artist who works with paper. Her work is a part of our Cut & Paste: Works of Paper exhibition still going on right now. (The museum is closed to the public until July 17, but you can see a virtual tour of the exhibition HERE.)
She is so creative that she was able to use tissue paper and watercolors to remake life-sized doll clothes and dresses from old pictures. She took pictures of herself and others in the clothes to save the memory, then folded them up into these cute bundles like the one you see here.
Matt Haffner is another paper artist. He made these cool cardboard shoes that are also a part of the same exhibition. How cool is that?!
Want to learn more about fashion? Sign-up for our Fashion Forward summer camp at the AMA the week of June 22-26!
For middle and high schoolers, this hands-on class will be taught by Heather Ashberry, of Beatrice Wormwood. Students will get a crash course in fashion design. In the words of Tim Gunn, learn how to “make it work” in this unconventional fashion design class! Through fun and challenging projects, students will become familiar with a variety of textiles and develop drawing and problem-solving skills. They will explore pattern, form and function through a series of projects, including fabric printing, weaving, dying, and block printing. The class will culminate in a display of each student’s piece on Friday from 3-5 pm. Students will be required to provide some supplies. Sign up here! http://www.albanymuseum.com/summer-art-camp-site.html
For middle and high schoolers, this hands-on class will be taught by Heather Ashberry, of Beatrice Wormwood. Students will get a crash course in fashion design. In the words of Tim Gunn, learn how to “make it work” in this unconventional fashion design class! Through fun and challenging projects, students will become familiar with a variety of textiles and develop drawing and problem-solving skills. They will explore pattern, form and function through a series of projects, including fabric printing, weaving, dying, and block printing. The class will culminate in a display of each student’s piece on Friday from 3-5 pm. Students will be required to provide some supplies. Sign up here! http://www.albanymuseum.com/summer-art-camp-site.html
Want to design your own clothes?
Save this picture and get a parent or guardian to help you print it out! Once you print it, you can use whatever writing utensils you have around the house to design your very own clothes. I made the coolest shirt!
