technical description
Light grey painted denim jacket embroidered with floral motifs, cinched at the waist with shaped maxi lapels, side cargo pockets, stitched and embroidered sculpted sleeves and a carnival mask hood with a matching long beak. Worn over a printed cotton top with contrasting raglan sleeves, a maxi front cut-out section and fleece hood, and a pair of soft striped cotton jersey leggings with a ruffled waistband and fringed and striped braid detailing along the sides and front.
Size 1700x600x350mm, 2000 gr., 2008
concept
Monsters translated into denim. Horror films have been criticized for their graphic violence and have often been dismissed as B-movies. With the dramatic changes in technology that occurred in the 1950s the tone of horror films shifted away from the gothic towards science fiction, with an endless parade of low budget productions. Jan's research looks at some of the most iconic characters: the werewolf, the monster of the lagoon, Freddy Kruger...ironically, she is depicting them as the actors playing them, after a hard day of filming.