I've always been someone who makes clothing for myself and I've even on occasion made clothes from unusual items: a skirt made entirely of flattened bottle caps for instance, or a dress made from the used wrappers of a thousand York Peppermint Patties, but that's nothing that hasn't been done to death. This artist, however, completely blows me away and on so many levels too. Utterly. These dresses appeal to my driving obsession with Marie Antoinette and the fashion of 18th century France. They feed my need for the spiritual in that they are very much like the sand mandalas made by Buddhist monks and nuns in that they embody the idea of impermanence. Spend a great deal of time and effort to create a truly breathtaking piece of art but know that in the end it will ultimately be destroyed. Clothing from leaves and flowers has a very short shelf life and I'm not sure I could bring myself to create something so exquisite knowing before I even begin that it will be gone in little more than the blink of an eye.
Everything about these dresses is a joy to behold: their construction, their materials, their artistry. I would have loved to have seen them in person.
Dresses from the Weedrobes series made by Nicole Dextras, nicoledextras.com
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