A VISUAL PROJECT BY LAURA WERBIN

WHEN ART
GETS
DRESSED

The artwork entered the room.

Digital artworks created before AI become the visual source for an imagined fashion world.

With AI as a collaborator, the archive begins to appear on dresses, boots, bags, walls, furniture, mannequins and interiors.

The art is not generated by AI. The world around it is staged with AI.

ABOUT

Before AI, there was the archive.

Hundreds of digital artworks by Laura Werbin waited quietly as images.

With AI as a collaborator, they begin to dress bodies, occupy rooms, cover objects, and enter fictional worlds.

Mannequin with hair wearing an artwork dress

CATALOGUE

Catalogue of appearances.

A collection of imagined garments and figures. These are not products. They are visual possibilities.

Imagined mannequin wearing digital artwork as fashion
Appearance 01
Imagined mannequin wearing digital artwork as fashion
Appearance 02
Imagined mannequin wearing digital artwork as fashion
Appearance 03
Imagined mannequin wearing digital artwork as fashion
Appearance 04
Imagined mannequin wearing digital artwork as fashion
Appearance 05
Imagined mannequin wearing digital artwork as fashion
Appearance 06
Imagined mannequin wearing digital artwork as fashion
Appearance 07
Imagined mannequin wearing digital artwork as fashion
Appearance 08

THE ROOMS

The art is no longer only an image.

It spreads across dresses, boots, bags, walls, furniture and interiors. The mannequin is not only wearing the artwork. She is living inside it.

Mannequins seated in a room where artwork covers clothing, furniture and wall art

The room becomes part of the artwork.

Red-haired mannequins in an art studio with large graphic paintings
Mannequins painting a pink and purple graphic wall

The wall becomes a garment. The garment becomes a room.

Mannequins painting a large pastel artwork wall
Mannequin curating framed artworks in a room
Mannequin in an art and fashion interior

EDITORIAL

From archive to magazine page.

The project also becomes an editorial language: a way to imagine campaigns, spreads, covers and visual stories around the same art-fashion world.

Editorial spread for When Art Gets Dressed
Editorial study 01
Editorial spread for When Art Gets Dressed
Editorial study 02
Editorial spread for When Art Gets Dressed
Editorial study 03
Editorial spread for When Art Gets Dressed
Editorial study 04
Editorial spread for When Art Gets Dressed
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Editorial spread for When Art Gets Dressed
Editorial study 06

STORY

She carries the visual world.

She is not a model in a catalogue. She is a mannequin, a quiet character, a figure made to display clothing who slowly begins to inhabit the world around her.

The artwork surrounds her. It dresses her. It follows her into rooms, walls, furniture and objects. She does not sell the clothes. She carries the visual world.

Mannequin in a colorful art and fashion room

ARCHIVE

The source images.

Before the mannequins, before the rooms, before the dresses, there was the archive: a larger wall of original digital artworks created by Laura Werbin over years of visual exploration.

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