Feast your eyes and remind yourself that these splendid creations are not historical costumes, but instead painstaking recreations fashioned from paint and paper. Belgian painter, Isabelle de Borchgrave translates her love of textiles into this impressive collection on exhibit through June 5th at The Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco.
Heather Ross of T Magazine has this review:
“De Borchgrave, a Belgian painter and textile designer, makes life-size paper reproductions of history’s most iconic costumes, from the billowing folds of Marie Antoinette’s gowns to the sleek lines and delicate pleats of Christian Dior’s “bar suit.” “Pulp Fashion,” which continues here through June 5, is de Borchgrave’s first significant American exhibition, featuring work from “Papiers à la Mode,” a dramatic overview of sartorial history, from Madame Pompadour and the French court to Charles Fredrick Worth and the rise of couture. The artist, whose interest in fashion was spurred after a tour of the Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute in 1994, has become expert in visually explaining costume history. In her “White Room,” for instance, we see in a series of stark white dresses how the immense pannier silhouette of the 18th century evolves into Coco Chanel’s slim 1924 flapper gown, which de Borchgrave has “beaded” by hand with thousands of minute dabs of paint.” – read more at: T Magazine
For a closer look of the instillation and the artworks view the videos from Eye on the Bay. http://legionofhonor.famsf.org/pulp-fashion-documentary
View the Exhabition preview at the Legion of Honor: http://legionofhonor.famsf.org/legion/exhibitions/pulp-fashion-art-isabelle-de-borchgrave
