JAN

FEB 2010

VOLUME 36 NUMBER 4

SECURITY MEASURES

by Joanne O’Sullivan

Lisa Klakulak’s handelted and natural-dyedaccessories explore elt’s age-old associationwith protection.

POST-COLONIAL PARTY TIME

by Dan Bischoff

Yinka Shonibare MBE’s compelling re-creationso gentility and decadence are elegantly tailoredto be both humorous and haunting.

COMING HOME TO SUCCESS

by Sally Hansell

Natalie Chanin brings new lie to a ormertextile town with her clothing company basedon sustainable style.

FIBER ART AT THE VENICE BIENNALE

by Sandra Sider

A stupendous discovery at the 2009 VeniceBiennale: Room ater room was dominatedby large-scale fber installations rom aroundthe world.

IN(TENSION)AL ENCHANTMENT

By Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse

Lisa Telord’s contemporary cedar-bark clothingweaves together traditional materials andtechniques with intentional tensions.

ON THE COVER:

Garment rom the Alabama Chanin Spring/Summer 2010 collection and made with cotton abric, cotton thread; handsewn, appliquéd,reverse appliquéd, sizes variable. Courtesy o Alabama Chanin. Model: Camille Mervin-Leroy. Photo: Peter Stanglmayr.PAGE 38:

Yinka Shonibare MBE

, TheAge o Enlightenment—Gabrielle Emile Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise deChatelet,

2008; lie-size berglass mannequin, Dutch wax printed cotton, mixed media; gure: 46½" x 25½" x 33½". Image courtesy o James Cohan Gallery,New York.PAGE 46:

Ahmad Askalany,

Those Who Pray

(detail), 2009; iron,palm leaves; dimensions variable. Image courtesy o Fondazione La Biennale di Venezia. Photo: Sandra Sider.PAGE 36:Lisa Klakulak,

Framed

, 2009; do- mestic merino and nn/rambouillet wool feece, cotton sewing thread, waxed linen, plastic tubing, magnetic closure; wet-elted, naturally dyed with blood wood dye (not lightast), handstitched, ree-motion machine embroidered, shel- lac-stiened, mothprooed (nontoxic); 10" x 12" x 4½". Photo: Steve Mann.

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