INDIGO PLANET: Recycled Denim Installation

8 p.m. to midnight
Sat. October 4, 2008

Fresh off her visit to Fashion Week in New York City, Toronto-based fashion illustrator Danielle Meder will create her denim world vision at Over the Rainbow (OTR) for this year's Nuit Blanche event.

From 8 PM until midnight on Saturday, October 4th, Nuit Blanche crowds will shop and see Meder's installation first hand. The artist will also be on hand sketching shoppers and passersby at 101 Yorkville. The innovative art installation explores the tactile qualities of the Earth through various types of fabric manipulation, including smocking, bleaching, and distressing.

"Indigo Planet is inspired by the parallels and contrasts between the clothing we wear and the planet we live on," says Meder. "The working and overworking of the fabric explores the effects that humans create on their environments; as we wear them out with use. Mapping out this project, I am drawn to the profound need which leads us to destroy what we love, and the perverse beauty of damage."

www.daniellemeder.com

Over the Rainbow, 101 Yorkville Ave.