Art meets fashion in "Art on the Run" presentation
Saturday, 20 June 2009
The Art on the Run collection - a fruitful alliance between the Visual Arts and Fashion Clusters of the Jamaica Business Development Centre (JBDC) - opened the show on day two of Caribbean Fashion Week 2009, where (you guessed it) fashion designers and artists fused their ideas to create "wearable art". Actual fabric comprised no more than 40% of the materials used to make
any one piece, resulting in an eclectic presentation of ‘clothing’ made from bottle corks, sea shells, copper wires, leaves, plastic, juice boxes, feeding sacks, cardboard, rope, bed springs and other such materials that many might consider to be trash.
The runway show featured 14 designs in four categories: accessories, swimwear, urban chic and evening wear, all created by emerging and established artists from the Visual and Performing Arts Cluster and the Fashion and Apparel Cluster.
