For more than 5 years now, Beautiful Bizarre Magazine is keeping an attentive eye out on the rising contemporary art movement that is wearable art.
We have had the pleasure of working with many incredible designers – for the magazine itself, our web blog, and we, of course, shared their work across our 900,000+ strong social media network. Wearable art is a fascinating medium, connecting many different techniques and styles, and opening new ways to traditional art, couture, jewelry, design, and installation art.
So we are thrilled to share with you a list of artists whose work is truly unique, elegant, avant-gardist, luxurious, fun and, always incredibly creative. They work with a wide variety of mediums from textiles, latex, feathers, metal, gold, silver, beads, paper, bones, plastic, pearls, precious stones, lace, resin, leather, fiberglass, wood, and more. Their creations range from small jewels, masks, headpieces, corsets to bigger than life costumes! These wearable artworks can be for fashion, but also to stand out as a community, to become a living artwork or to embrace your beautiful bizarre power.
This is not an exhaustive list by any means, and it is definitely not in any particular order!
It includes internationally acclaimed artists, whose work has been shown in prestigious catwalks and shops and worn by celebrities, as well as fascinating and brilliant emerging artists who deserve more attention. You may note that there are some designers who are conspicuously missing. This is because we have not included artists without an Instagram presence, because as you will see, all the artists mentioned below are linked to their Instagram accounts so you can quickly and easily follow them too. With there being options where users can now send instagram messages on computer, linking the artists’ Instagram accounts next to their name will allow people to check out their work, as well as potentially interacting with them online. We respect that some designers don’t want to have an Instagram presence, but we encourage those who are considering it to create themselves an account and to read up about nitreo and how that could help once their account is live. Of course, there are many more talented wearable art designers out there we haven’t found yet. You can even consider this Top 100 as a Part 1! So, if you are a wearable art designer, or know one that you feel should be included in our next list, please comment below. We are always in search of exciting new creatives!
Feature image by Rebecca Millen featuring claws by Ivy Design and headpiece by Hysteria Machine.
1. House of Malakai
2. Hysteria Machine
3. Agnieszka Osipa
4. Nika Danielska
5. Ashley Rose
6. Iris Van Herpen
7. Rinaldy Yunardi
8. Mel Plum (Aucontraire Photography)
9. Elysian Fantasy
10. Yana Markova
11. Eero Hintsanen
12. Katarzyna Konieczka
13. Hatohiro Mikami
14. Fairytas
15. Squirrel Vs. Coyote
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bp9qrlwFSTE/
16. Magnhild Kennedy (Damselfrau)
17. Jay Briggs
18. FraiseauLoup
19. Lory Sun
20. Miodrag Guberinic
21. WXYZ Jewelry
22. Bjorn van den Berg
23. Yeha Leung (Creepyyeha)
24. Mirjam Lehtonen
25. Muriel Nisse
26. Bakeneko Designs
https://www.instagram.com/p/BqSo2GKBtZI/
27. Xue Liang
28. Leeroy New
29. Aoi Kotsuhiroi
30. Object & Dawn
31. James T. Merry
32. Pioro Blue
33. Erica Gray
34. Ada Zanditon
35. Giulia Danese
36. MyWitchery
37. Liam Brandon Murray
38. Ganor Dominic
39. Royal Black Couture
40. Maiko Takeda
41. Asya Kozina
42. Pisssy Pusssy
43. Joji Kojima
44. Manitou Grove
45. Matthew Griffin
46. Nigel Crow
47. Gelareh Designs
48. Carrie Courtney
49. Claudia Savage
50. Paola Idrontino
https://www.instagram.com/p/BstxxFbDOAZ/
51. Dan Schaub
52. The Vampire’s Wife
https://www.instagram.com/p/BoNFkgwgfUK/
53. Rosie Red
54. Rose Noir
55. Vincent Cantillon
https://www.instagram.com/p/Br-WwfOgEYP/
56. Anu Tera
57. Pheren Couture
58. Ossuaria Jewelry
59. Miss G Designs
60. Pinkabsinthe
61. Katz Little Factory
62. Chiracc Couture
63. Gagarina Design Studio
64. Lara Jensen
65. Marianna Harutunian
66. Michelle Hébert
67. Souhui
68. Manuel Diaz
69. Shamanic Visions
70. Philip Treacy
71. Lorelei Enchantress
72. Virginia the Wolf
73. Rasa Vilcinskaite
74. Fleischauer Creations
75. Bloodmilk
76. Macabre Gadgets
77. Breath & Stone
78. Hexorn
79. Alicia Hannah Naomi
80. Rogue + Wolf
81. Dominic Jones
82. Wildhorn Jewelry
83. Gisele Ganne
84. Ivy Design
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bsr53GJAQ1v/
85. Julia deVille
86. Parts of Four
87. Thrjar Jewellery
88. Sofia Fitzpatrick
89. Heart of Bone
90. Stone Sparrow
91. Véronique Jeantet
https://www.instagram.com/p/BtG7ReEgYNL/
