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The magazine focused onwearable art—the creation of unique clothing, jewelry, accessories, and textile pieces that function as artistic expressions as well as things to wear. It occupied a space between contemporary craft, fiber art, jewelry making, surface design, and fashion.
- Artistic clothing and accessories:jackets, coats, dresses, hats, purses, scarves, belts, and other wearable pieces.
- Jewelry and adornment:beadwork, polymer clay, metal clay, buttons, found objects, assemblage, pendants, bracelets, and unusual jewelry techniques.
- Surface decoration and textile manipulation:fabric painting, stamping, dyeing, printing, foiling, image transfers, embroidery, quilting, collage, and embellishment.
- Fiber techniques:knitting, crochet, felting, crazy quilting, weaving, and textile construction.
- Mixed-media and unconventional materials:polymer clay, recycled materials, vintage objects, paper, leather, plastic, and found materials.
- Artist/designer profiles and “Designer Collections,”presenting the work and creative approaches of established wearable-art artists.
- Practical projects and instruction, generally intended to enable readers to make their own versions of the featured work. The magazine also included technique primers, book reviews, exhibition/event information, reader projects, and submission opportunities.
The originalArt to Weartitle particularly emphasized the intersection offabric arts, embellishment, rubber stamping, and one-of-a-kind handmade fashion. Contemporary advertising described it as showcasing “one-of-a-kind, handmade fashions and wearable-art projects” and as providing inspiration for creating individually expressive fashions.
In short:Belle Armoirewas not primarily a conventional fashion magazine. Its subject wasthe artistic creation and embellishment of clothing and accessories, with equal emphasis onfinished wearable art, the artists who created it, and the techniques and materials that readers could use to make their own.
35 issues, 8 1/2 by 11 inches, 96 pages per issue:
Volume 1 Issue 1 Jane Dunnewold
Volume 1 Issue 2 Stephanie Olin
Volume 1 Issue 3 Gwen Gibson
Volume 2 Issue 1 Michelle Newman
Volume 2 Issue 2 Theo Woulers
Volume 2 Issue 3 Lynne Merchant
Volume 2 Issue 4 Thomas Mann
Volume 3 Issue 1 Jeannette Gentersloh
Volume 3 Issue 2 Donne Kato
Volume 3 Issue 3 John Marshall
Volume 3 Issue 4 Rebekah Hodous
Volume 4 Issue 1 Rami Kim
Volume 4 Issue 2 Maria Teresa Stoa
Volume 4 Issue 3 Joyce Kliman
Volume 4 Issue 4 Larkin Jean Van Horn
Volume 5 Issue 2 Anne Sheikh
Volume 5 Issue 3 Celie Fago
Volume 5 Issue 4 Kayla Kennington
Volume 6 Issue 1 Sarah Shriver
Volume 6 Issue 2 Marie Plakos
Volume 6 Issue 3 Louise Duhamel
Volume 6 Issue 4 Michael deMeng
Volume 6 Issue 6 Nancy Anderson
Volume 7 Issue 3 Maureen Cox
Volume 7 Issue 4 Eric Silva
Volume 7 Issue 6 Zandra Rhodes
Volume 8 Issue 2 Lori Marsha Sandstedt
Volume 8 Issue 3 Joan McGowan-Michael
Volume 8 Issue 5 Susan Obrant
Volume 9 Issue 1 Claudia Graü
Volume 9 Issue 2 Jen Swearington
Volume 9 Issue 6 Suzi Click
Volume 10 Issue 1 Kristi Smart
Volume 10 Issue 2 Peggy Russell
Volume 10 Issue 2 Debbie Bone-Harris
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