WEARABLE ART

WEARABLE ART
I began making wearable art costumes and jewelry around 1979. I had made costumes before for events like Halloween, but not serious endeavors. Most everything is hand forged in copper, bronze, steel, and other metals. I incorporated fabric when necessary. I began photographing and copyrighting my designs and became the first person to copyright wearable art (not the name, but the designs).

I created the White Outfit for the launch of the fashion photography book, FASHION: 2001, at Studio 54 in NYC. The Washington Times put it on the front page of their entertainment section.

Included in this book of the top 100 fashion designers by photographer Lucille Khornak. Book was published in 1983.

The fashion shots of my costumes were a collaboration between me and various photographers to show my design and wearable art skills. At the time I was working with Playboy on a Girls of Summer pictorial and being considered by them to do an outfit a month for a one page spread in the magazine.