Kikimora Studio

Kikimora Studio was founded by dancer Olga Saretsky from Kazakhstan who emigrated to America in 2006. Kikimora studio makes bespoke performance costumes. The costume featured is 'Multihead' a printed lycra costume.

Erik Bergin

Erik Bergin is a costume designer, who moves into the realm of sculpture and folk art with his woven textiles.

"I sew for Broadway, create outfits for shows and concerts and show my sculptural costumes in art galleries. I create them myself because the costume is too personal a story to be entrusted to someone else. Usually, I focus on what I want to change in myself: this is how an understanding of my work arises. Different costumes have different meanings, but my philosophy is to study different perspectives on life. I believe that a work of art can be an expression of desire, and costumes are no exception." Erik Bergin

Laura Lee Birch

Laura Lee Birch is an artist from Indiana who needlefelts puppets, costumes, wigs and objects. Lately she has been creating surreal garments, recreating the skin on undergarments such as bras and corsets.

Elaine Jae Jarrell

 Above and Below: 'Urban Wall Suit' 1969 cotton and silk painted.

Jae Jarrell inspired by her Grandfather's work as a tailor and her uncles haberdashery shop. An early exposure to fabrics and stitch techniques set the foundations for a career as an artist, fashion designer and advocate. Jae produced garments to inspire pride, power, energy, and self respect in African American communities. She was one of the founding members of AFRICOBRA

"One of the tenets of AFRICOBRA was to reinvent yourself, reinvent how you were, reinvent your whole manner so that you had a fresh voice. I was inventing my fabric. I had made a line of silk shirts at my Jae of Hyde Park shop, so I decided to use the scraps. I put them together in large and small patches of rectangular shapes and squares. I started to pay attention to the walls in our Chicago
area, all of the markings on them. AFRICOBRA had made us missionaries to the community; we were doing art for the community. And I saw the walls as community message boards. I was struck by folks who tagged questions or propositions on the wall that someone else might answer. I thought, “Wow, this is hip.” As I was putting together this fabric I thought, “Let me see if I can make bricks in it.” I used velvet ribbon for my mortar, and began to paint and write graffiti as well as incorporating the posters with announcements that you would find. That’s how I got to Urban Wall Suit." Jae Jarrell

Sylvia Palacios Whitman I

Sylvia Palacios Whitman was born in Chili in 1941 she studied painting and drawing  in Santiago school of Art.  Sylvia moved to New York in the early 1960's where gradually she moved away from drawing and painting into the domain of performance art using sculptural and visual stage props to make a visual theater.

“I did study a little ballet, like all little girls. But I always entertained my family in the attic. At the time I just didn’t know it was something you could do. So eventually I’ve gotten to where I always was!” Sylvia Palacios Whitman

Sabine Calkins

Sabine Calkins is an artist who works in many genres of art and design but was inspired to make this costume after a visit to her favorite place Sauvie's Island, near Portland, Oregon.
The picture has been damaged by the elements and this has added to its magic and beauty.

Ron Isaacs

 These dress forms by Ron Isaacs are incredibly not fabric, but wood painted to resemble cloth and clothing.
Ron combines trompe l'oeil painting with master wood carving, to create real magic and alchemy.