vegetables as fashion

Well, I like this kind of thing.............

This link has more images..... http://www.ecouterre.com/portland-farmer-jacinda-martinez-turns-vegetables-into-edible-fashion/jacinda-martinez-vegetables-3/?extend=1


This is the artist's site..... http://www.jacindamartinez.com/fashion-in-the-raw-1/


I keep thinking how we could have been caught wearing vegetables instead of in the nude back in the seventies....would have started much more interesting rumors........

This thread Vegan friendly warm and natural textiles - a big oldfashioned brainstorming thread reminded me of this thread...I like the philosophy behind the work.....
fashion in the raw

Artist and designer Jacinda Martinez began playing with her food to make bold and beautiful statements about slow fashion, in a beautiful series she calls Fashion in the Raw. Based on the coast of Maine, Martinez first combined her love of farming with art, when she was inspired to use the textural stalks of many of the plants she harvested daily in her art works. Made from stitched together amaranth, patches of leafy chard and sewn together broccoli stalks, her living creations appear as high fashion designs, captured in beautiful photographs to show how like fresh vegetables, fashion is here today and gone tomorrow.

Working on an organic farm showed Martinez the beauty of vegetables. Not just for their lurid color, but also their texture, durability and fragility. Her excitement for their beauty gave her the idea to combine it with her love of fashion. In 2009, after her first season working on an organic farm, she was inspired by an overgrown patch of leafy greens, which she envisioned as a drapey dress.

Over the past six farming seasons, Martinez has fashioned over 40 designs from her colorful and diverse bounty. Curls of scapes are arranged to make a full skirt, rhubarb is woven into a blood red bodice, and long leafy greens are dried to make a feather-like train. Each vegetable lends its own texture, color and story.

Together, her collection of Fashion in the Raw makes commentary that can be read in a variety of ways. Some see her works as a celebration of eating beautiful organic food. Others compare her fashions to the fleeting nature of the actual fashion world, while Martinez would like her viewers to be inspired to think about where their fashion comes from, with the same desire they have for buying only from organic farms.
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2015 events...2016 TBD

I like the messages one can think of with this medium.
My concern would be the itchiness of wearing these fashion statements, along with fragility of the "fabrics".

I can totally see this being in an art gallery or even a specialty fashion show.

Is that first one rhubarb?
Gosh

Closest I've come is a knitted handspun vest featuring a design of pumpkins on the back . . . still have the graph, but lost the vest at a Agricultural Show long ago.  Wasn't happy!