disabledpeoplearesexy:

Sandie Yi’s Crip Couture and Wearable Art

secretsofthedisabled:

SRS: White/Pink

pocwithdisabilities:

Chun Sun “Sandie” Yi is creating a stir with a new type of disability art -an art that violates society’s impulse to ignore or avoid looking at disability and “deformity”. She forces society to confront the disabled person by elevating disability inspired clothing to the level of art. Centered on histories and narratives generated within and performed by the body through everyday social interaction, Crip Couture aims to encourage dialogue between the wearers and the viewers of these objects. She alters the purpose of conventional prosthetics and orthotics, which aim to create more-or-less standardized body form and function, and blends prosthetics and jewelry to make a range of garments, accessories and footwear.

This looks really cool. I’ll post some of my favourite photos from it later, a bit busy to go through it and pick right now.