Photo: Hermanna Prinsen.

FOR the Amsterdam Centre for Architecture’s Fashion & Architecture exhibit, fashion designer Mattijs van Bergen and landscape architect Anouk Vogel were asked to collaborate on a crossover piece, leaving both artist confounded by the divergence of their disciplines.

But what it came down to was their common regard for the cycles of life and death—Van Burgen’s involvement with the ever-shortening fashion cycle, and Vogel’s acceptance of his design’s natural life span.

Together, the two talents designed a “living” dress, brought to life each season with changing floral arrangements.

Photo: Hermanna Prinsen.

The garment is comprised of recycled bicycle inner-tubing, fashioned into “vases” that would allow cut flowers to grow and bloom within each vessel during the season. The smocked-like surface, made up of a lattice of these individual vases, therefore forms an empty canvas for a lifetime of shifting looks.

The frock is on display at ARCAM in the Netherlands through to September 11, 2010.

Beautiful, no?

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