Margarita Mileva, a New York architect, has been making jewelry out of rubber bands for a while. She sells it on Etsy.
She’s been getting a lot of attention, even having a piece on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. About this piece she says, “Creating this necklace I have the feeling of painting. I loved the fact that I could “draw” and “paint” with rubber bands”:
So now she’s moved on to dresses. Good idea!
She’ll be taking this one, made up of 14,235 rubber bands, to the Wear Is Art competition in Berlin on April 12, 2011. It’s called the RB Dress, and it weighs nine pounds:
Mileva was inspired by the shapes, volumes, colors and arrangements in Paul Klee‘s work, especially these two paintings:
See it?
She said, “I was intrigued by the pastel colors used together with the black, darker ones; the black outlines and texture-like “fabric” of his works, For me also of utmost importance is [Klee’s] color theory, which he developed and taught to Bauhaus students.”
As she is an architect, Mileva’s dresses were also inspired by the utilitarian Bauhaus movement. The movement is based on the principle that all artistic disciplines would be brought together into one total work of art.
She says, “There is a very strong structure, pattern, and math behind the colorful palette of the dress.”
She’s mixing all kinds of elements that don’t seem immediately mixable. Cool!
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