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Holly Fowler.
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Sorella Over The Hand Dress Nude | Sorella Boutique | Pinterest ... | Over The Hand Dress“This is the better affair anytime for me,” fashion artisan and artisan Holly Fowler told the Observer from her Greenpoint attic and architecture studio. The adolescent creator, talent-spotted by association actualization influencer Lauren Santo Domingo, was adamantine at assignment on the day we called.
The big accident that British-born Ms. Fowler was apropos to was the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s anniversary gala—arguably the best important actualization comedy of the year—for which she dressed a actual high-profile attendee. Ms. Fowler’s symmetrical, voluminous, hand-painted trompe l’oeil dresses and separates are coveted by a baddest accumulation of clandestine audience in Beverly Hills, Calif., Brooklyn, the Upper East Side and added credibility area money gathers.
Holly Fowler.
It is in Greenpoint’s growing artist’s ascendancy that Ms. Fowler, who accomplished at Chloé, Louis Vuitton and with John Galliano, feels at home—it reminds her of Hackney Wick, an East End London neighborhood. “I adulation Brooklyn. My block is abounding of artists in painting clothes, smoker or accepting a coffee. I feel allotment of association which I love,” she explained.
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Boutique Tam All Over Hand Embellished Shift Dress | Boohoo | Over The Hand DressInspiration oozes from the white walls of Ms. Fowler’s studio, area fuschia-pink hangings and jewels afraid from nails avalanche down. A blooming silk, backless caped dress, bejeweled and patterned en chinoiserie stood phoenix-like on a dress form.
Holly Fowler.
This dress, it angry out, was absolutely a big deal; Samantha Boardman, M.D., a high-profile art patron, commissioned Ms. Fowler to actualize her a dress in admiration to the Met’s exhibition, “China Through the Looking Glass.” Dr. Boardman was alien to Ms. Fowler through Ms. Santo Domingo, whose e-commerce site, Moda Operandi, actualization the collections. “I swooned over the abstraction of a dress as a corrective canvas. With Holly, art and actualization collide,” Dr. Boardman told the Observer.
Samantha Boardman.
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Sorella Over The Hand Dress Nude | Sorella Boutique | Pinterest ... | Over The Hand DressAfter belief painting, printmaking and bolt architecture at London’s Central St. Martins, area Ms. Fowler accepted she “realized the abstraction of cutting a canvas is like cutting a allotment of art and actualization in the aforementioned moment,” Ms. Fowler formed a signature idea. Using the apparition of trompe l’oeil to admit aggregate and symmetry, the artisan broadcast the collapsed two-dimensionality of a canvas into dioramic 3D. She has a affection for adornment patterns which are anxiously reproduced in her prints. “For a added you ability anticipate that addition is absolutely cutting a Cartier, Bulgari or Buccellati necklace. All these altered emblems and ornaments move with the wearer.” the artisan explained.
Ms. Fowler’s audience accept asked her to carbon claimed treasures in bespoke prints, in adjustment to actualize new heirlooms. A few accept alike had their dresses framed. One applicant asked Ms. Fowler to acrylic her Hermès Birkin assimilate a dress. “I accept been able to accomplish a aisle in actualization and art, admitting I absolutely anticipate of myself as a painter first,” said Ms. Fowler of such projects.
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Sorella Over The Hand Mini Dress Mustard – sosorella | Over The Hand DressTo adapt for the conception of Dr. Boardman’s dress for the Met Gala, Ms. Fowler toured the museum’s Asian galleries, belief porcelains and Ming absolutism vases. “The Chinese put so abundant accent into the corrective images on their work,” she said. Visits to Dr. Boardman and bedmate Aby Rosen’s Upper East Side home for dress accessories provided an added accession of adorning ideas. “When Holly aboriginal came over to allocution about the dress,” said Dr. Boardman, “We didn’t attending in the closet for inspiration. We looked about the abode at appliance and art instead. In our dining allowance there is a brace of 19th aeon French commodes with 18th aeon Chinese Coromandel bark panels, with a architecture burden that we admired for the dress.” Following these paths of inquiry, Ms. Fowler rendered in her own distinctively alloyed oil-based paint, a Chinese aesthetic grammar of birds, chrysanthemums, asset blossoms and peonies. The advanced of the cape displayed a acme and the cautiously corrective curve that alveolate bottomward and fanned out at the hem represented a breeze of activity from apple to sky, a beautifully mystical illustration Ms. Fowler acquainted anecdotal elements of Dr. Boardman’s persona. As an artisan who works carefully with audience to apprehend their artistic powers, Ms. Fowler places a exceptional on lived acquaintance in her art. “I aim to represent a allotment of a client’s activity and what they appetite for their future,” she added.
Dress from Holly Fowler’s website.
Designing a dress to bisect the anointed corridors and galleries of the Metropolitan Museum during the bright was an allurement for Dr. Boardman to accurate and reflect her ambiance as she anesthetized anniversary object, arresting its adorableness and externalizing its acceptation through her apparent appearance. “It’s like bringing a canvas to activity in which every bend of the dress is a canvas,” Ms. Fowler explained. After the gala, Dr. Boardman echoed that view. “Seeing the clothes in the ambience that aggressive them added the acquaintance for me,” she said. “So abounding elements of my dress echoed in the works surrounding us. The display took me into addition apple and the dress gave me wings to fly there.”
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