Art in shoe-design, vary significantly across cultures, be it the Chinese who would bind a woman’s feet to curb her freedom, or Lady Gaga who routinely strikes a statement in her nine inch pairs. In times where controversy seems like an essential ingredient for art to ‘sell’, “the wearable art project” by Karan Vohra combats these constructs exposing the public to art that also serves a function in their lives.
Having grown up around different forms of art — the sensual form of renaissance, impressionism, constructivism, and the like — my “wearable art” draws inspiration from two distinct schools, sensualism and abstractism, says Karan Vohra. Hence, the use of objects/characters/personalities that a wearer consciously interacts with — from revolutionists like Che Guvera, to music sensations — Madonna, Britney Spears, Pink Floyd and cartoon characters like ‘The Simpsons’’, where the personalities of the subjects are fused with symbols/lyrics/words that interact with the wearer, even on a subconscious level.
