Candy Wrapper Fashions - Lokokina

Today I have some eye candy to show you - and I do mean candy in the near-literal sense of the word!

  

Mariam Saakashvili of Tbilisi, Georgia was a winner of a recent giveaway here at All Things Paper. While emailing to let her know the good news, I clicked on her blog link [no longer available] and was delighted to see something quite different and lovely.

  

Mariam is an avid sketcher of detailed, historical costumes, which she colors with watercolor paint, ink, and crayon.

 

 

After being introduced to decoupage, Mariam began translating her fashion ideas into paper pieced collages, using richly colored candy wrappers. 

  

She comes from a family of artists and fashion designers, and studied art in Tbilisi. Like many of us, Mariam was attracted as a child to shiny candy wrappers.

  

She was compelled to save them, and has built up quite a collection over the years. Mariam even keeps it categorized, which I'm sure has been helpful when arranging the eye-catching wrappers into color coordinated costumes.

  

She has been making her candy wrapper fashions for at least the past several years, and of course I had to look through all of the pictures to pick which ones to post... not a hardship, as they're all regal!

  

What a great excuse to buy candy, eh?! "Oh, I must have it for my art..." See more of Mariam's designs in her Etsy shop, Lokokina. [edit 2022: The shop now features hand drawn printable images, but contact Mariam if you're interested in having her make a customized candy wrapper costume.... she just might be willing to do it.]

Ann Martin
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Comments

  1. Stunning - I'd love to try this!

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  2. How brilliant and how rich the costumes look!

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  3. what is that wonderful job!
    Greetings Baukje

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  4. Seeing these is all the more reason to go out and stock up on some candy :) Those are gorgeous

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  5. Wow, these are unique pieces of art! I cannot imagine her stash of these papers. I do believe the gold one with the African looking hat has to be my favorite. Just gorgeous. Thanks for sharing, Ann!

    hugs xo

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  6. These are beautiful examples of stunning paper art! Now I can point to them as reasons for my little baggies and envelopes of shiny foil wrappers...;-)

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  7. Wow Ann.. this is totally amazing.. what gorgeous work.. love that they are done with candy wrappers.. thank you...have a loverly day
    xx

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  8. Fabulous! I'm one junkie crafter too, but never thought of this. Thanks for sharing.

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  9. These are really fabulous! Thanks for sharing!

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  10. Oh, wow. Those are GORGEOUS! I especially love the blue in that last one.

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  11. Oh wow those are just stunning. Thank you for sharing.

    I also wanted to let you know that I'm sending you a blog award!

    Find out more here http://itsamistrydesignstudio.blogspot.com/

    Anita

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