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
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/
11 Comments
Viveka Gren
February 18, 2019 at 5:35 amCheck out my work – you will find me on Facebook and Instagram by @halobyvivekagren
I am a new wearable art designer from Sweden
Paige Gardner
February 20, 2019 at 1:00 pmYou might like my work at
@bhampaige (CostumeArt). Wearable art from salvage and trash. Great article! Really enjoyed your features!
Aya Roppongi-Vecile
March 2, 2019 at 9:34 pmHave a look at my work “Wearable drawing” (headpiece, jewellery);
my website http://ayanoe.wixsite.com/ayanoe
my instagram account @ayanoe_crea
Enjoy your visit!
Jasmin Elisabeth Wanner
March 12, 2019 at 2:19 amwow, stunning things and a lot of new inspirations <3
very nice to see Fairytas, My Witchery and Katz Little Factory there :)
kind of sad to see divampcouture and etereshop missing from this list though :(
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Amanda Steutel
February 28, 2021 at 10:54 amHi Jen!
Already followed alot of these amazing artist but thank you so much for introducing me to soooo many more!
If you guys ever do a less ‘well known’ or ‘established’ list of artists consider my work ☺️ Instagram : http://www.instagram.com/disco.tango.crowns
Any promotion from a publication like yourself would do WONDERS for small scope creatives like myself who are really struggeling with the new insta algorithms!
Annie Temmink
May 15, 2021 at 7:39 amThanks for sharing this. It’s great to see the vastness and vibrancy of our community! I would love to connect, and I am a wearable art headwear artist @annietemmink on Instagram and http://www.annietemmink.com online.
Best wishes!
Annie
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