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- Etsy Shop:
- http://bluebutterflyart.etsy.com
- About Me:
- I have been resurrecting used clothing since the 1980's when i realized i had nothing to wear after my first pregnancy, and no money. I took the clothes in my closet and "deconstructed" them way before it was popular and when i wore them out people began asking "where can i get that?" i am also an artist , i paint in acrylic on canvas,and do collages,i make small quilts, i write poetry, and songs, and I love my myspace blog, and my journal, i am currently working on an art journal possibly to publish.
In the fashion industry,my heros are---Betsy Johnson, Matthew Williamson, Koos van den Akker, Natalie Channin, who started, "Project Alabama", Mara Hoffman, Anna Sui, a local, enigmatic, woman named Elle, who gifted me my first box of vintage slips, 1940's bias cut nightgowns, which i wore as dresses,and victorian bloomers, cotton, silk satin, and cotton voile! and several beautiful bed jackets, she was my first real inspiration, she was deconstructing in the 1970's making the truly lush delicious hippie clothes in Miami like Janis use to wear, lots of purple velvet and blue satin!!!!! and her friend Phyliss who owned a shop called Chelsea Morning, in Coconut Grove when it was the hippie, artist mecca, of Miami, almost everything in her store was white cotton, or gauzy, victorian inspired, lacy, silky, satiney, wonderful wonderful stuff,(can you tell i liked it? ) my Grandmother and Grandfather,they always had their car trunk full of fabrics, and both of them made clothing. Gustav Klimt, Georgia Okeef, Freida Kahlo.
The movie "Pret-a-porter" inspired me in the 90's in that it gave me an idea of the rediculousness, of the fashion industry, and there was a statistic which stuck in my head, and i can't remember the numbers now, but the tonage of clothing, and waste material that goes into the landfill every year from the clothing manufacturing industry is outrageous, not to mention the things people throw away because they are no longer the trend......
You can find me on myspace at
http://www.myspace.com/resurrectionrags
vintage clothing and handmade one of a kind~~blog
and
http://www.myspace.com/insectsnangels
my poetry and art blog
and at deviantart
at http://bluebutterflyart.deviantart.com
Feel free to message me about anything and everything
thank you and enjoy
CHARLOTTE SELF
resurrectionrags/bluebutterflyart
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