MIA designer updates

As we approach MNfashion's Third Thursday presentation (November 18 at the MIA), the participating designers have been sharing their design process via social media. The latest updates come from Raul Osorio and Emma Berg.

Here are some of Raul's finished garments:

Click here to view Raul's inspiration images.

Emma Berg also has the beginnings of some finished work:

Collar for the Nkisi piece, made of cotton coil and hand sewn at intersections.

Dyeing the cotton coil neck piece. (Nkisi piece)

A dyed and partially painted cotton coil neck piece with some adornments attached. (Nkisi piece)

Click here to view Emma's inspiration images.

Click here for past posts on the event on Le Petit.

MIA's Third Thursday presented by MNfashion: Emma Berg, pt. 2

Designer Emma Berg has released sketches and more previews from the upcoming Third Thursday event produced by MNfashion at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts on November 18.




Click HERE for more designer previews from the upcoming show.

MIA's Third Thursday presented by MNfashion: Raul Osorio

On November 18, four designers will show three pieces each based off of works in the MIA's permanent collection. In partnership with MNfashion, this event challenges some innovative local fashion designers to reimagine art as fashion. Here are Raul Osorio's inspiration images and sketches.




I love that you can definitely see a strong connection between Raul's aesthetic and the history of the pieces he's inspired by.

Click here for more info on the event.

MIA's Third Thursday presented by MNfashion: Samantha Rei

On November 18, four designers will show three pieces each based off of works in the MIA's permanent collection. In partnership with MNfashion, this event challenges some innovative local fashion designers to reimagine art as fashion. Here are inspiration images and sketches by Samantha Rei of Blasphemina's Closet.






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MIA's Third Thursday presented by MNfashion: Laura Fulk

On November 18, four designers will show three pieces each based off of works in the MIA's permanent collection. In partnership with MNfashion, this event challenges some innovative local fashion designers to reimagine art as fashion. Here are Laura Fulk's inspiration images and sketches.


Laura says, "Inspired by Harold Edgerton's photograph of a bullet shooting through an apple. This spread shows the colors I plan on using along with 3 sketched silhouettes."


"Along with the photograph's visual inspiration is also the era in which it was created. Harold Edgerton also photographed still shots of atom bomb tests with his stroboscope camera that he invented."

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MIA's Third Thusday presented by MNfashion: Emma Berg

On November 18, four designers will show three pieces each based off of works in the MIA's permanent collection. In partnership with MNfashion, this event challenges some innovative local fashion designers to reimagine art as fashion. Laura Fulk, Samantha Rei, Raul Osorio and Emma Berg will each create mini-collections inspired by the MIA's permanent collection - which will then be donned by models using the museum's great halls as a decadent runway. (I spotlighted it for Vita.mn's Fall Preview issue.)

Each designer is asked to share the creative process; here's Emma Berg's inspiration images:

Pablo Picasso, Woman in an Armchair, 1927

Salvador Dali, Portrait of Juan de Pareja, the Assistant to Velazquez, 1960

Nkisi African Sculpture from the 20th Century

Click here for more info on the event.