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Lesson 2: Fashion meets artFashion meets art: Simone Rocha inspired by Louise Bourgeois
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Fashion designer Simone Rocha shares her admiration for the work of artist Louise Bourgeois, whose sculptures–like Maman (1999), a gigantic spider made of steel–inspire Rocha to use new forms and materials in her garments. Watch how Rocha and Bourgeois use their art to think about ideas of texture, materiality, and how works of art can relate to the human body. Created by Tate.
Fashion designer Simone Rocha shares her admiration for the work of artist Louise Bourgeois, whose sculptures–like Maman (1999), a gigantic spider made of steel–inspire Rocha to use new forms and materials in her garments. Watch how Rocha and Bourgeois use their art to think about ideas of texture, materiality, and how works of art can relate to the human body. Created by Tate.
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Can you please make more videos for fashion design because I seem very interested in it and hope to be a fashion designer in future.(6 votes)
at1:26do you know what museum that statue of the spider is in(1 vote)
That's inside the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern: http://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-modern/turbine-hall It's a sculpture made by Louise Bourgeois called Maman (1999), and you can learn more about it here: http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/bourgeois-maman-t12625(2 votes)
interesting, how are you able to so much work in a day?(1 vote)
1:26Video transcript
things should have a body and shop so you know even if it's just a teacher's my mother is a muse of mine we actually work together GHGs meets the work Louise Bourgeois and I kind of ran with it I can't seem to step away from maybe because it's a mother figure as well and her work is so influenced by her family which my work is 223 purse or knife and stab the father the mother and the child right either join your the challenge chart so there's our size to be separated so this was one of my very first pieces around six years ago and and it was really influenced by the spiders the sculpture my mom that was a huge influence on me because gov spiders and weaving so I did a lot of hand crochet and work that into dresses what I really love about her work is the textile element in the tactile element and how it's so obviously related to her as a subject art is a guarantee of sanity right art is a guarantee of sanity if you are an artist you are not going to be cuckoo cuckoo you are an artist you are people already let's forget for them to see ours which was so influenced by fabrication is what really made me interested you know so whether it's on the body or whether you know the way she used her personal hanging garments inside the metal cages like her cell series and I really thought that was really exciting because I think it gave clothes and fashion real content this drawing blue dress from 998 the skeleton is exposed inside and that kind of exposing goes through all my work instead of exposing the bones I've exposed the interiors of the garments so things like tailoring or the canvas traditionally inside pieces can all be seen and liked truckin delays within the plastic plastic decide all feel unit and bound and karen family body you know order i transformed i transformed nasty work into good work i transformed i transform hate into love that's mine that's what makes me that works maybe makes me cake for me personally art has always been relevant in fashion I am a designer you know like rather than an artist because what I do is I make those inevitable people to wear but my theory is I would like it to look as beautiful on hang on a wall as it would em on a body you