Inspired by monks who would wear Bibles around their necks, Elizabeth Mackie has long been interested in the idea of wearable art, particularly books. \u201cBooks are precious,\u201d she says. \u201cSomething you keep close.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mackie made her own first attempt at a wearable book more than a decade ago when she printed words and definitions on fabric and stitched it together to form a neckpiece (left). \u201cIt was a dictionary of all the negative terminology that refers to women,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
When she started teaching a Book Arts class to art and art education majors, Mackie assigned the project as a way for students to relate to a book in a different way. \u201cWe do a lot of folding at first, and looking at structures,\u201d she says. \u201cBut the wearable books lead students to be creative with their process and get used to handling paper and what paper can do.\u201d<\/p>\n
Here, her students turn heads (and pages) as they get a Vogue moment to share their fashionable fiction.<\/p>\n\n\t\t