Lisa Lichtenfels's is a fabric artist with a bit of a difference. Rather than draping models in her fabrics creations she makes her models from fabric and the effect is eerily lifelike.
Starting her career studying Illustration and Film, Lisa worked at Disney Studios as an apprentice animator. She developed three-dimensional figurines with posable skeletons for stop-motion animation. Twenty-five years after leaving her work in film Lisa is still working with the nylon fabric and says she feels she "has only barely begun to realize what is possible in the medium".
Stretching moldable nylon over her skeletons she creates fabric art that has the illusion of living flesh. Her lifelike characters have real personality and colour. A look through the gallery on her website is an adventure in the possibilities of fabric art from her fin-footed wistful mermaid to her to more controversial pieces such as her Nursing Madonna.
With that much inspiration in fabric you may never throw out a pair of laddered tights again.
