+++ raised on gem and the holograms, john hughes' pretty in pink, and sassy magazine, joy adams has had a keen interest in fashion since she was a kid. At age 8, she began sketching fashion illustrations from a visual timeline of historic costume in the "C" volume of the 1954 World Book Encyclopedia. At 14, she taught herself to sew with the help of a vintage kenmore sewing machine and a dusty copy of the reader's digest complete guide to sewing. since graduating from the massachusetts college of art and design, she's worked primarily as a costume designer for stage, designing and building costumes for performers of all types in and around the boston area, from theater to performance art, modern dance to burlesque.
but her real interest in fashion is as an art in its own right. in her personal work, she uses fashion to explore the boundaries between the private and the public, always looking for ways to juxtapose the introvert and the extrovert in her by illustrating an inner landscape of her own imagining using fashion as a form of wearable art. as an artist and designer, she is ultra-sensitive to the subtleties of color, having lived most of her life unaware of her own synesthesia, or how it influences her work (for her, triangles are green and the number nine is an inky blue).
she has near color-perfect memory, and can often match complex colors without needing a swatch.
it's her superpower.
she has a particular love for the circus, a general devotion to 1890s victoriana, and a mild obsession with all things japanese.
there are rumors that she also paints, hoards vintage clothing, and occasionally makes masks, puppets and soft sculpture using found materials, but those are mostly unconfirmed reports from unreliable sources. +++
but her real interest in fashion is as an art in its own right. in her personal work, she uses fashion to explore the boundaries between the private and the public, always looking for ways to juxtapose the introvert and the extrovert in her by illustrating an inner landscape of her own imagining using fashion as a form of wearable art. as an artist and designer, she is ultra-sensitive to the subtleties of color, having lived most of her life unaware of her own synesthesia, or how it influences her work (for her, triangles are green and the number nine is an inky blue).
she has near color-perfect memory, and can often match complex colors without needing a swatch.
it's her superpower.
she has a particular love for the circus, a general devotion to 1890s victoriana, and a mild obsession with all things japanese.
there are rumors that she also paints, hoards vintage clothing, and occasionally makes masks, puppets and soft sculpture using found materials, but those are mostly unconfirmed reports from unreliable sources. +++
