Cool Hunting

An artist who happens to design clothing, Elisa Jimenez made a name for herself in the mid-90s with her innovative clothing design and open sewing circles. Her show “Ten Years of Change: A Retrospective Celebration of an Accidental Collaborative Career" takes place this Sunday, 10 September 2006, at Mixed Greens in NYC. This exhibition highlights the importance of collaboration and community that help make her work so rich and, like Elisa says "is about continuing to be an artist while working in the fashion world.”

Elisa started out making giant puppets and wended her way into making super-sexy fitted to the body clothing. One summer I saw her take a horseshoe crab shell that she found on the beach and crochet it into a bikini. For her Hungerworld couture clothing, she literally sews dresses onto the customer. You can't get any more personal, or one-of-a-kind than that.

Support from her talented and eclectic clientele inspired Elisa to curate a selection of the most extensive collaborative couture relationships. From pop singer Sylvia Tosun to actor Mizuo Peck. Clients will wear their own older Hungerworld dresses, style themselves, and walk the runway, before donning couture designs made of Ingeo paper-cloth that are made to be worn once and then used as you like—hung on a wall as art, buried, recycled, or worn until transformed completely.

Photos by Moe Nadel

Ten Years of Change
10 September 2006, 3pm
Mixed Greens Gallery
531 West 26 Street
New York, NY 10011 map
tel. 01 212 331 8888
RSVP: hungerworld [at] aol [dot] com