Costume Design and tailor
Waste Not.
A project created from found materials.
Costume: Ida-Marie Højris
Model and Drag performer: Eliza Fierce
Photographer: Karina Rønning
Waste Not was a project that appeared out of finding a pile of plastic wrapping on the corner of a street in Oslo.
It is created from a fleeting thought about the Norwegian word for queer; Skeiv which sounds a lot like the Danish word skæv, and that kind of makes sense when thinking Queer, but also not.
Skæv means crooked or bent, it’s the opposite of straight.
I found the material for this outfit in a kind of “skæv” way. Not the straight line to materials for an outfit.
So I began creating the shapes in a “skæv” way.
Specifically for the drag performer Eliza Fierce.
This is the outcome.
This was how it looked when I found it:
This project has been possible because of support from Ib Henriksens Fond