Starting by designing costumes at 14 years old Gareth Pugh is a young British designer who makes statements about the sculptural nature of fashion. He works to distort the the established and accepted silhouette which creates striking and sometimes frightening sculptural pieces which challenge the human figure. I love Pugh's work. The imagination shown in the creation of his work is inspiring. His beautiful pieces are such a change from the normal fashion designs. He questions the ever-changing role of fashion in today's society, on one hand a purely practical need for clothing and on the other hand a form of creative expression in a sculptural form.
Pugh has taken an industry which is traditionally very commercial and changed it into a form of pure creative expression. My stitching creations are similar in a way, taking something which is traditionally crafty and turning it into something more, both decorative pieces and experimentations in space.
References
Pugh, Gareth "Gareth Pugh Official Website" Accessed August 26, 2011. http://www.garethpugh.net/.
O'Byrne, Robert. 2009. Style City: How London Became a Fashion Capital. London: Frances Lincoln Ltd.
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