We love this fashion and art collaboration at The Cartel in Alserkal Avenue. ‘Fashion: A Second Skin’ is a show of the work of Patricia Millns and Una Burke both interpreting the idea of fashion and clothing as an independent shelter enclosing the female body and thoughts.
Millns has carefully hand stitched empty tea bags to make large and ghostly dresses that hang from the ceiling. The absence of the tea within the bags represents the absence of women and as well as the cells of the skin and reminding us of the women who once occupied them.
Burke’s work consists of leather armoury‐like braces, which examine deformity in the female body and challenge the conventional second skin of clothing by making them seem like shells.
Although the work is very different, it complements each other and allows people the chance to look at fashion and art from a different perspective.
May Barber, the founder of The Cartel says: “We are elated with the level of artists and their works we are able to bring to the cARTel’s audience. Keeping in line with our objective, with every new exhibition and launch, we guarantee something inimitable, awe-inspiring and highly desirable.”