technical description
White cotton dress with V-straps and a sweetheart neckline featuring irregular, digitally printed, contrasting edged and embroidered panels crossed by contrasting bands and secured by plastic hooks and ruffled knots with asymmetrical hanging panels and draped sections. Worn over a pair of high-waisted white denim trousers with a dropped crotch, narrow legs at the bottom, and ankle cuffs fastened with matching buttons and featuring an irregular print with contrasting lettering.
Size 1640x440x260mm, 3000 gr., 2006
concept
Stencils, graffiti and the ability to communicate powerful messages to the public. Joan and Karen's idea was to transfer this style to clothes. They created outfits the wearer can interact with by writing or drawing, leaving traces of their own life. Joan interacted with Karen’s clothes with screen-printing, textile pens, sewing and spraying, hoping to stimulating the wearer to continue drawing and personalising. Elements of communication and play come together in a synthesis: while waiting for a bus in the city, one can spread the jacket on the ground and play the board game drawn on the inside. Simple words in different languages were stitched in the lining of the pockets, for a travelling, metropolitan man or woman living in a globalised world.