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Futurismo Costume Design

The Futurists were aware that clothing could be physically expressive and that the human form could be visually and actively altered by an optically dynamic approach to material design and colour, combined with irregular and geometrical form in the styling of everyday clothing. Clothing, acting as an interface between the body and the outside world, could transform the otherwise still human form into a dynamic and active object. (image source: futurism.co.uk)

Balla - study for a man's suit, 1913

Page from Manifesto of Men's Clothing, 1913

Man's Suit, 1914

Balla - study for a man's suit, 1914

Balla - Man's suit, 1918

Depero - waiscoat, 1924

Depero - waiscoat, 1924

Balla - Woman's dress, 1929

Balla - waistcoat

Balla - sketch for jacket, 1930

Balla - sketch for jacket, 1930

Balla - sketch for jacket, 1930

Balla - sketch for jacket, 1930

Balla - design for waistcoat, 1930

Balla - design for waistcoat, 1930

Balla - design for tennis tunic, 1930

Balla - design for bathing costume, 1930



Antenna Theater
is the real pioneer in all this headphone theatre stuff.  They're based near San Francisco.  Their website is huge and deep and bitchin.


Headp(f)hone Follies
is a kind of musical theatre via headphones created by Joshua Fried.  Some of his work has unrehearsed performers trying to instantaneously recreate the noises they hear in their headsets, thereby to make "an experimental gibberish operatic suite."


The voice-in-head experiment is all about following inscrutable orders from a disembodied male voice.  In a bizarre twist of fate, this is ALSO exactly what Charlie's Angels® is all about.

This is a picture of me in my Master Of Ceremonies outfit, standing next to my wife, who is in the Big Pink Coat.

Some of the costumes impart a feeling of ennui.  Others are decidedly cha-cha-esque.