Pulp Fashion

Yoriko, Xavier, Kalin and I went to see Pulp Fashion The Art of Isabelle de Borchgrave at the Legion of Honor. The Belgian artist takes inspiration from European paintings and costumes in museums recreate these dresses on paper by painting, creasing, pleating, and weaving it. The result is a work not quite fashion or painting but something wholly other. It is paper dolls and (mostly) dresses all grown up (maybe that is why most of the visitors were women). She simplified the patterns she saw on fabric to get the spirit of the fabric rather than copy the exact detail. It was fascinating how she manipulated the paper to look like fabric. The use of lens cleaner paper to look like chiffon, transparent fabric was amazing.