jeudi 31 juillet 2014

Un-theme party

In the previous article I show picture of other performers wearing my costumes, on this post, with the help  of Sylwia, I am wearing my own creations, embodying various characters. 
Each of my costume have their own persona and their own energy, wearing them is like entering in someone else skin, it influence your physicality, your attitude and your body motion, it even influence on your way or thinking. Like in a classical play, The costume is not created for a specific character but the costume itself create his on character, by this chemical reaction created by the meeting of the costume and the body of the performer. 

By Sylwia Grzegórzko
Lots of people are  telling me, "you make costume but you also wear them, usually people just do one of the two".  I know a lot of really talented costume designer with a really minimalist style. I also met people creating amazing outfits but terribly dressed, as we said, "It's always the baker's children who have no bread" But for me costume is a second nature, this is my art and I like to wrap myself with my art and not making a separation between me and my work. Some people, who are often really professional  like to dedicated  themselves in the creation for other people, I guess it is just a different approach and way of life.  

By Sylwia Grzegórzko

 I have been fascinated by tribal & ethnic outfits. It is made only with black heads dolls (they are harder to find!) and I create the same beading in their hair than on the top  creating a continuity, the skirt twirl and the fringe creates a lovely movement.  
3 dolls necklace available on my online shop 

By Sylwia Grzegórzko


Exploring the dolls theme, I wanted to create a folkloric doll dress. They are the embodiment of the kitsch and useless object, sit on a shelf picking up dust between a little dolphin made out with shells and a glittery frame of a punk puddle. 
By Sylwia Grzegórzko

In my creations, I like to use discarded objects and try to make something beautiful with them by giving them a second live. Lot of people consider them are creepy and ugly but their clothes are made of an amazing variety of fabric and texture, each of them have their own story and adorable tiny and cute accessory like a little  basket or a nice hat with flower crown.  The all dress creates the powerful attitude of a graceful  flamenco dancer.  


3 heads blond Frida Kahlo barbie available on my online shop

This is a performative and evolutive dress. At the beginning, it is very graphic and futuristic structure with dynamic shape, even  a bit aggressive, 

By Sylwia Grzegórzko

By Sylwia Grzegórzko

. It is the wire netting base to grow the flower as a costume designer/gardener.   As you add the flower it  become more colourful and organic. Which version of the dress do you prefer?  

By Sylwia Grzegórzko

By Sylwia Grzegórzko


By Sylwia Grzegórzko

I like to play with cliche so I decided to turn into a 20's charleston parisian girl wearing my customised beret and my Ken and barbie love necklace as Paris is considered as the capital of Love! 


By Sylwia Grzegórzko

By Sylwia Grzegórzko

Ken & Barbie love story necklace available on my online shop 

By Sylwia Grzegórzko

By Sylwia Grzegórzko

More picture with my Lego dress & accessories,  Sylwia had an arty little play around with my Legos, between art and photography! 
By Sylwia Grzegórzko

By Sylwia Grzegórzko

By Sylwia Grzegórzko

By Sylwia Grzegórzko

Great honour to have been featured again on Sara's blog with the vampire aztec bag she got from me. 

She  revolutions the idea I had of the sportswear, feel you can be stylish and sporty! 

See the full article here
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And last but not least, an interview with Britt Foe for Inlight TV at Cult Mountain during Sue Kreitzman show, such a good memory, can't wait for Cult Mountain to open its door again in September in a new secret location! 

dimanche 27 juillet 2014

Enchanting costumes


Pictures taken on Pendle hill, Lancashire, The hill continues to be associated with witchcraft; large numbers of visitors climb it every Halloween, a supernatural atmosphere perfect for my creepy garments! 

picture by Anthony Lycett

You can imagine the face of dozens of hikers, wearing raincoats and hiking shoes passing me in a dolls dress and heels trying to climb the 557m of the hill to reach the top!  

picture by Anthony Lycett

The real star of this picture are the sheep on the background, it is actually  really hard to go close to them without scaring them  and have them looking in the right direction for the picture!  

by Violetta Lizka 

Violetta Liszka is a photographer specialised in dramatic, striking portraits that often capture the theatrical or artistic experience.

Within her work she plays with the concept of art and performance using location, depth of field and light to dramatic effect.
by Violetta Lizka 

In her multi-disciplinary work, Violetta likes to intertwines different creative fields like dance, fine art, performance or theatre. 



It was the perfect collaboration for my creations, because theses creations are between the theatre costumes and the fashion garment. they are not costumes created for a specific character in a play , containing there own persona in themselves, and they are too dramatic and atemporal to be considered as fashion items.  


by Violetta Lizka 

I liked the fact that Violetta didn't take traditional  models to wear my design  but performers or dancers, expressive bodies. Behind her lens, my costumes suddenly take another dimension, become alive,  floaty , twirl and move in the dynamic of the creative gesture, celebrating grace and femininity.  


by Violetta Lizka 

by Violetta Lizka 

by Violetta Lizka 

by Violetta Lizka 

by Violetta Lizka 


by Violetta Lizka  

by Violetta Lizka 

by Violetta Lizka 

by Violetta Lizka 


by Violetta Lizka 



by Violetta Lizka 

by Violetta Lizka 

by Violetta Lizka 

by Violetta Lizka 


by Violetta Lizka 

by Violetta Lizka 

samedi 19 juillet 2014

Pop culture disney fairy tales




by Sylwia Grzegórzko
It all came out of an egg… I was finding a disney princess in my kinder egg for easter and the idea came to make a kitsch fairy tale necklace for Sue Kreitzman
(imagine how much kinder I had to eat to have the all collection (I have the worst job in the world!) 
Even if this necklace is marshmallow pink, full of glitter and sequins, it is mistakenly girly, in fact, it is a new age  fairy tales story that I just made up in the creative process: 
by Sylwia Grzegórzko

The prince is wearing a  "Prince" glitter jacket but he is singing "YOU HAVE TO BE RICH TO BE MY GIRL" so he is playing to Bingo love princess in Vegaswonderland.  He his choosing between 6 disney princess (Ariel, Jasmine, Snow White, Belle, Sleeping Beauty & Raiponce). But the witch is spelling a cast on the bingo love creating a magic filter for the Prince to fall in love with her and access to the royalty protected by the dwarfs bouncer holding sub-machine gun.  
The prince marry the witch, have lot of monster children and create the own  successful freak show that they are touring everywhere in Vegaswonderland.  
THE END 
by Sylwia Grzegórzko
On this pictures took by the great Sylwia Grzegórzko I wanted to embody the equivalent of the modern princess, hit girls,  void icons venerated by millions of young girls like Kim Kardashian or Paris Hilton, spoilt rich tacky girl  promoting money and artificial beauty as happiness. Far from the model of Grace Kelly or Lady Diana, their are wearing the bling crown and reign over the planet People of fan.  Their balls are private parties in  hype night club and their white horse have been replaced by Limo.  
by Sylwia Grzegórzko


by Sylwia Grzegórzko
by Sylwia Grzegórzko


The amazing thing with Sue, is that she gavel me total freedom in my creation and allow me to explore the concept of narrative jewellery, piece of jewels that tells stories. 



I went to Sue's house wonderland, definitely better than disneyland to present my princess necklace to the queen of style! 


Entering in Sue's house with my barbie hands sunglasses & yellow lego jacket


Sue wearing amazingly my fairy tales nacklace




With the amazing Diane Goldie creating wearable art piece with a the favourite painting of Sue on her new jacket,
check her great creations here! 



Sue wearing another of my necklace with 3 Aztec vampire dolls


Why it is always funny to turn fairy tales upside down? Because princess and fairy tales are strong archetypes, fundamental myths of our societies that play on the deconstruction of theses icons.  

Postmodernism uses common references know by everybody to divert them from there original function, creating pop culture that is always self-referential. Because  folkloric tropes have near universal relevance , he sacred and polished image of theses model of perfection and purity are more easily battered and re-appropriated by the artists.


Dina Goldstein
That’s what Dina Goldstein is curious about. In her gripping photo series FallenPrincesses, Dina Goldstein envisions how Disney’s most celebrated females' lives would have played out in the real world.

Dina Goldstein
I grow up with classic fairy tale, where the prince charming marry the princess and they live happy forever, seeing Shrek, where the monster marry the monster-princess at the end when I was around 10 years old was already a revolution breaking up into piece all my illusion abut fairy tales. But what about the next generation?  Did they grew up with theses twisted a fairy tales symptomatic of our disenchanting society?  Maybe, turning upside down theses fairy tales, turning little riding hood into a drug dealer or Sleeping Beauty in a prostitute is becoming too easy, cliché and overdone. It always works as a pop culture twist and provoke a striking image and dark humour.  
Dina Goldstein

Dina Goldstein

Dina Goldstein

For example, artist Saint Hoax is changing the fairy tale ending we are all used to in Disney movies, by raising awareness with a domestic violence campaign featuring abused Disney princesses.

The campaign is called “Happily Never After” which, according to Hoax, features four Disney princesses - Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Jasmine and Ariel – like we’ve never seen them before.  The abused princesses are shown with black eyes and blood coming from their faces.


In "DisasterLand, Rodolfo Loaiza show what happens when Disney characters meet pop culture.  
Where else can see you see Cinderella rock Lady Gaga‘s famous meat dress? Or get so fed up with her life that she channels Britney Spears in her meltdown days by shaving her head?
Rodolfo Loaiza
Here’s how the exhibit is described: “Rodolfo explores what would happen to our fables if they were flesh and blood and confronted with the frenetic and excessive world of fame. Who among them would prove susceptible to the excesses of drugs, alcohol, harassment or vanity?”
In addition to the Cinderella exploits described above, Loaiza imagines Snow White as an alcoholic, puts Peter Pan in Michael Jackson’s ‘Beat It’ outfit, and shows Freddie Krueger terrorizing the dreams of Sleeping Beauty — and it only gets more twisted from there.
Rodolfo Loaiza

Rodolfo Loaiza

 Maybe the new avant grade will be to return to the old traditional version of fairy tales as a faraway taste of an outdated happiness….
Maybe it will be to artist  with their colourful and original visions to re-enchant the world.   
TO BE CONTINUED....
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