WearableArt

Amazing! Stunning! Beautiful!

One of the most remarkable cultural success stories over the past 25 years in New Zealand has been the spectacular growth of the World of WearableArt®, an annual competition and award show that explores the intersection of fashion and art.

This unique event, which draws an audience in Wellington of over 45,000 people every year, has encouraged an explosion of creative activity, inspiring a wide range of fashion designers, artists, costume makers and other designers from all over the world to participate.

Expanding on earlier editions of WearableArt books, WearableArt has been completely revised in a lavish large format with all new photographs. It features the best garments that have been entered over recent years, both in a studio setting with closeup details, as well as photographs taken onstage during the WOW Awards show. This book is a remarkable celebration of the diversity and creativity of wearable art, and anyone with an interest in fashion, design and the craft arts will find it utterly inspirational.

Published by Craig Potton Publishing, WearableArt is available from bookshops and libraries nationwide and online at www.craigpotton.co.nz

340 x 260 mm, approx 300 pp, PLC hardback with dustjacket, colour photographs throughout

standard $79.99

ISBN: 9781877517945

deluxe $120.00

Signed by Dame Suzie Moncrieff, slipcased

ISBN: 9781927213056

 p44 TUBULAR BELLE, Ann Skelly, New Zealand.jpg

 pg 82 PREHISTORIC PRINCESS David Walker, United States.jpg

pg 28-29 CR MANA UHA Olivia Hall, Nelson, New Zealand.jpg