Wearable art refers to individual pieces of handmade clothing or jewelry referred to as fine or expressive art. Here, our main focus is on wearable art dress. The main types of wearable art clothing designs are hand painted wearable art and sculptural wearable art. One fascinating thing about these dress styles is that they are not found everywhere, you can see most of them in galleries, exhibitions, and display. In Nigeria and Africa at Large, artisans and fashion designers expresses themselves through this form of dressing. Sculptural wearable art unlike hand painted wearable art is not an everyday wear, but mostly worn on special occasions.
The reason why you need to have at least a piece of this art wear in your wardrobe is because it gives you an outstanding and unique look. You can have your wearable art dress as a gown, shirt, skirt and blouse or trousers. Art wear with sculpture are made with any suitable material from the environment. These dress styles are for ladies, women and men.
Art wear will never phase out in history because some tribes makes use of it as their traditional wears. For your birthday photoshoot, you can try any of these outstanding styles. Choose the style that appeals to you and look for a good fashion designer that will give you exactly what you want.
1. Hand painted wearable art
These dress style are made as custom dress styles. In some cases, all you have to do is to get your favourite dress style and give it to an artist that will do the drawing and painting. Don’t be afraid because the paints are mostly of high quality and will not spoil your fabric. There are so many art designs that you can equally choose from. If you want to get more customized look, you can get other wearable art accessories like earrings, necklaces, handbags and so many others.
2. Sculptural Art Wear
Here is where the work of nature comes into full display. These dress styles can be made with many materials around. Like you can see in the pictures above, some of the styles were made with papers, snail shells, shoes, pins, leaves and so on. Such dress styles are mostly worn for art exhibition and special occasions. Most people use these Styles to express themselves.
Your choice of material for these dress styles is dependent on the occasion you want to rock it to. Instead of wearing a complete art wear, you can get a piece of your T-shirt or Polo and have it customized, pair it with a matching jeans or any other dress styles. It gives great joy knowing that you are the center of attention in that occasion because of your dress style, therefore, choose your combination wisely.
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