Video: Wire Couture Collection: Haute Couture in Barbed Wire
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The dresses that Leigh Pennebaker creates are very reminiscent of fashion illustrations in the photographs. But in this case, they would hardly stand out among thousands of their own kind. In fact, the stylish and graceful works of our heroine are sculptures made of rigid barbed wire.
Style, according to Lee, is more than fabric or fashion. Style explains how to wear a particular item and, more importantly, why. In each wire dress, the author explores female forms and gestures without sculptural representation of specific body parts. “I am intrigued by the contrast between the material and the objects that come from it,” says Lee Pennbaker. Indeed, few would have guessed barbed wire would make such elegant and sophisticated silhouettes.
“My sculptures are the result of my constant admiration for fashion, women and beauty. I consider my work to be three-dimensional caricatures through which I convey the spirit of southern beauties, divas, bitches and ingenue,”says Lee Pennbaker. Each sculpture dress is named after a woman's name. As the author explains, the ready-made dress itself "suggested" which name would suit him best. So, in the collection there are sculptures named Audrey, Bridget, Camilla, Carmen, Coco, Vivien, Gwen, Isabel and others. In addition, all dresses represent different styles, and the "poses" of imaginary women are not repeated. The collection includes miniature models and dresses “in human height”.
Lee was born and raised in Star, Mississippi. Creating fantastic fashion illustrations was her favorite pastime as a child, and at the age of 14 she started taking drawing lessons. After graduating from college in 2001, Lee moved to Manhattan, where she had a better chance of fulfilling her dream of working in the fashion industry. Since then, she has achieved a lot: her work has been exhibited in the windows of Barneys New York, Saks Fifth Avenue, Calypso, Frock Vintage, Fragments, Shreve Crump & Low. Her works are in many private collections in the United States as well as in Europe and South Africa.
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