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Grace Johnston
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Profile Biography
Grace specializes in the artistic field
of Wearable Art, a genre in which art and clothing are fused into
spectacular, one-of-a-kind garments. Her goal as an artist is to
stretch the boundaries of clothing, morphing it into wearable sculpture
and art. She combines fabric with more exotic materials, such as rubber
gloves, wood, pantyhose or feathers, to create spectacular garments
that wow an audience. Most people see clothing as simply a method for
covering and concealing their bodies, but Grace sees them as so much
more; she sees the incredible artistic potential that a garment can
hold.
Since her first “Best in Show” at
the 2007 Richmond Wearable Art fashion show, Grace has immersed herself
into this fused world of art and clothing. She opened the SEAMLESS:
Computational Couture fashion show at the Museum of Science in Boston, MA to a sold-out house of 1,200 people, won “Best in Show” at
FORCE in Baton Rouge, LA and produced Richmond's 2008 Wearable Art
fashion show. Grace has also exhibited two garments at the world's most
prestigious Wearable Art Fashion show, World of Wearable Art
in New Zealand.
Most recently Grace has collaborated with textiles designer Anne Douglas Shaw to create a line of furniture-inspired clothing under their new label Douglas and DuVal.
Grace has been sewing clothing since
the age of ten. She began with deconstructing and reconstructing pants
into skirts, t-shirts into dresses and turning muumuus into sassy
cocktail dresses. From there she began making dresses from patterns,
and then made clothing entirely from scratch. For ten years she has
worked in costume shops, theater companies and her own living room
making costumes and clothing for herself and others. Grace loves
adapting vintage style to modern aesthetics and relies on her love
affair with thrift shops and antique malls to provide her inspiration.
In addition to Wearable Art, Grace is also a seamstress and designer of ordinary clothing, a photographer, graphic designer, dancer, stargazer, bicycler, camper, thrift shopper and daydreamer. No matter what, Grace never wants to stop sewing, dancing, laughing or loving every moment of her extraordinary life.
