Beatrice Oettinger II

Beatrice Oettinger creates amazing clothes and costumes from natural materials for theatre, dance, performance and installation.
As it is Valentines day I thought this 'Rosen Mantel', (top image) or coat of roses was suitably romantic, but so are her other ethereal creations

Beatrice Oettinger I

Working in a world of fantastical fashion Beatrice Oettinger has often used fairy tales for the starting point of her costume and fashion creations. Now she says that she simple needs to take a walk and see a weed growing from a crack in the pavement or a flower to be inspired.
This first of three posts, exploring the work of this German artist/designer, features her 'pea collection'. A transparent dress and underwear with peas sewn inside, inspired by the fairy tale "The princess and the Pea".

Time to go harvesting

Only a few weeks until the next amazing master class by Tim Johnson on February 24th, it's time to go harvesting I have storage space in under croft at college. What you need is natural materials, willow, drift wood, heather, hydrangea head's, pampas grass . . . and any others you can think of, get together and harvest you will need a lot of stuff x

Eun Yeong Jeong

Eun Yeong Jeong uses lots of natural materials to inspire her amazing collections of jewelry including; wool, loofah, wood and seed pods. Eun also uses felting techniques in a contemporary and innovative way. (Thanks)