Art and Fashion come together at SA Fashion Week

15 Sep '10

4 min read

The Goodman Gallery – will be showing the work of Madagascan born artist Joel Andrianomiarosia.

His work crosses boundaries into video, fashion, design, sculpture, photography, performance and video works. In his collections he experiments with a variety of materials and combine these to create installations works that hover enticingly between the ephemeral and the permanent.

Selected Fashion Designers will be collaborating with ARTS ON MAIN Galleries and Creative industry professionals to create a series of conceptual installations at SA Fashion Week that dynamically engage fashion through a variety of mediums. These cross-disciplinary installations will activate various spaces and Galleries at ARTS ON MAIN.

The Fashion designers collaborating in the installations include:
Lunar, Super Ella, Strangelove, Clive Rundle, Lisa Jaffe

Other collaborators include:
David Krut Publishers, Artist Kim Lieberman, Artist Marc Erasmus as well as Fashion Academic and curator Erica De Graaf

Paul Pamboukian Lighting Design
Light activations in collaboration with Lighting designer Paul Pamboukian will engage several spaces during the SA Fashion Week at ARTS IN MAIN. These include a light activation in the main square of Arts on Main before the evening fashion shows.

Ambient Projections
Anthony Tischhauser in collaboration with various image-makers will be using building surfaces to project fashion-related imagery onto, lighting up the urban Landscape around the ARTS ON MAIN precinct. Other events and collaborations at SA Fashion week. Workshops/ demonstrations

Artist Kim Lieberman will be hosting a lace making workshop demonstration in her studio during SA Fashion week. Lieberman creates delicate lace circles using lace making to form a structural web, radiating outward from her sculptural figures.

Ends Booyzen, “By hosting this year's Winter Collections at Arts on Main, we have returned to our creative roots by drawing on the artistic process itself for inspiration.”

SA Fashion Week (SAFW)