artinsomnia /ärt/ /inˈsämnēə/ (n) : Habitual sleeplessness brought on by not being able to stop thinking about the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power.
Lisa Wood is plagued by artinsomnia. It is the name of her label and she says that it is a real problem she faces nightly. Laying down to close her eyes and visions of of textiles, colors, fabric run through her head until she has to jot the ideas and visions down before finally falling into a peaceful sleep. Thank god for her artinsomnia as well because it is what keeps the ideas and designs coming, and they are amazing. And look frighteningly familiar to all the boys out there favorite video game vixens. She has a thing for video vixens.
Her line for the Dance4Liberation La Vie show is called Second Soul. The name comes from the fact that she reuses worn and discarded clothing. Thrift, donated and old textiles... she gives them a "Second Soul". Her designs are inspired by what she likes to wear. She designs for herself and her friends. What looks good on her body and what is priced right is lost in the aisles of department stores, so she makes what she wants to see there. Makes sense. And you won't see her using polyester. We are both sick of seeing that in the stores. Yuck.
She has been an artist since forever. She started with sculpture and has touched on everything in between since but glass blowing. (You should try it out, it is SO much fun!) She is even a baker and a cook. Too bad she is wife-yed up, boys. She has only been making clothes for two years. Which is unreal when you look at her product and how amazing it is. But she says she looks at designing clothes how she had always looked at sculpture, manipulating a shape in a different way.
She also used to have a thing for Wonder Woman. Well, not exactly but she really wanted to rock a cute bathing suit for Halloween when she was a little kid and show up all the annoying girls dressed in the matching Tinker Bell costumes from Walmart. She had a vision of big boots, a cape and a bikini with the stars on it and wearing it proudly. Her mom thought it was too chilly in Buffalo, NY and got her a fantastic light blue jump suit, glued homemade felt boots onto her sweats, painted a bikini on the suit and black nylons on her head. I would go into designing my own clothes after that as well, rough. At least her mom tried?
Random fact: She once saved a pod of whales in Key West and apparently Marine Biologist swear that whales communicate in holograms and therefor can read humans minds. Hmm.
COME TO LA VIE: A FASHION SHOW brought to you by D4L!!!
check out the promo video just released posted on the blog
Much Love,
Mackenzie, D4L
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