GLITTERING SCRIVENER

- Anouck Wipprecht, SmokeDress. 

This dress, by brilliant Dutch designer Wipprecht, makes the wearer invisible. Or rather, it creates a smokescreen. Old school magic meets art. When the dress detects movement, or someone approaches the wearer, it releases smoke, enough, apparently, to create a cloud. 

Rather like this wildly sexy and quite strange 1530 painting by Corregio, Jupiter and Io, but in reverse. The wearer is embraced by her own cloud in the contemporary case, and by a god in the classical. Still, though, the idea of being fucked by smoke, and accompanied by smoke throughout one’s evening, is a fascinating one. A partner made of pollution. A lover made of the lost - for is not smoke, at least, the sort of smoke that comes from fire, a visual representation of things that got away?