In the summer drought of TV viewing I'm always happy to see
Lifetime's Project Runway start a new season. If you're not familiar with the show, about ten young designers gather in New York to design and sew--in a few cases some outlandish--fashions that hopefully will be featured in major fashion magazines and worn by people who get noticed. Each one hoping to hear Heidi Klum, the show's hostess, say
"You're in." to that challenge
"In fashion, one day you're in, one day you're out." A couple of weeks ago their challenge was to make something wearable out of candy from a candy shop. So you had models strutting the runway dressed in twizzle sticks, hard candy and jelly beans! It got me thinking about this fabulous
ceramics exhibition that I saw at Sofiero Palace and Gardens in southern Sweden last year. Called "Cocktail Couture", the exhibit by artist Agneta Spangberg featured beautiful dresses made of ceramic pieces. Here's some other examples:
In addition to the cocktail dresses, the
exhibit displayed a wonderful collection of more traditional ceramic pieces such as plates, plaques, and vases:
To get to the ceramics exhibit you walked though the Palace Gardens. Here's the
semi-wild Mediterranean garden:
The
sunken garden and steps leading down to the garden. Note the living monogram:
A green
mossy passageway to the exhibit:
And finally
Sofiero Palace, the summer home of Sweden's royal family earlier in the century and a
wall plaque of young Princess Margarette who was instrumental in designing the garden with her husband while managing a large young family.
(Photos: Sofiero Palace and Gardens at Helsingborg, Sweden--August 2011)
3 comments:
the 'dresses' are pretty cool, although i like the gardens better. :)
Those dresses are so unique. I will have to check out project runway! Sweden is a gorgeous country, thanks for sharing your photos!
nice. I had no idéa somebody made these. They really look gorgeous. It´s a shame but I can´t remember ever visiting Sofiero. Maybe it´s time to do that.
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