Elke Lehmann / Works /

Re-Bagged: First Collection 2005/2006 Ready-made tops, shopping bags Sizes: Small, Medium, Large Re-Bagged: First Collection consists of a series of wearables that integrate ready-made tops with the signature shopping bags they were purchased in. Various strategies are employed to insert each shopping bag (sometimes even including the receipt and change) into the garment it contained, creating pouches, sleeves, skirts, hoods and adjustable design elements. Dissolving the boundaries between container and contained, Re-Bagged: First Collection collapses the increments of seductive marketing that draw out the public display of the commodity. This collection amplifies our consumer culture’s emphasis on packaging, brand names and logos and ultimately issues of waste and recycling. 2005 Re-Bagged: First Collection, Voorkamer, Lier, Belgium 2006 Re-Bagged: First Collection, Silo, New York 2007 Dress Code, College Art Gallery, The College of New Jersey, Ewing 2008 Dress Code, LMAK projects, New York

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