Adelle Lutz

Adelle Lutz born November 13 1948 is an American artist designer and actress most known for work using unconventional materials and strategies to explore clothing as a communicative medium She first gained attention for the surreal Urban Camouflage costumes featured in David Byrnes film True Stories 1986 She has designed costumes for film director Susan Seidelman theater directors Robert Wilson and JoAnne Akalaitis and musicians including Byrne Bono and Michael Stipe In the 1990s she began to shift from costume to sculpture installation art and eventually performance Lutzs art and design have been exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Fashion Institute of Technology FIT New York the Victoria and Albert Museum and Barbican Art Centre London the Montreal Museum of Decorative Arts and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Cleveland among many venues In 2002 the Judith Clark Costume Gallery in London presented a career survey Her work has also been featured in The New York Times Harpers Magazine Newsweek Village Voice Vanity Fair and Paper and in books on fashion costume and public art including Fashion and Surrealism 1987 Designed for Delight 1997 Twenty Years of Style The World According to Paper 2004 and Because Dreaming is Best Done in Public Creative Time in Public Spaces 2012 Her work Ponytail Boot 2002 is part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection Description above from the Wikipedia article Adelle Lutz licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia