244 embroidery around a "red dress" and a lot of love<

Une magnifique robe rouge brodée fait actuellement le tour des réseaux sociaux et celui des musées les plus prestigieux. Cette robe, réalisée en plusieurs points de la planète, semble avoir pour destin de déplacer à travers le monde. Ainsi en a voulu sa conceptrice, la britannique Kirstie MacLeod, qui en a fait une plate-forme artistique pour permettre aux femmes du monde entier, surtout celles marginalisées et appauvries, de raconter leurs histoires personnelles à travers les broderies rehaussant cette magnifique robe rouge baptisée The Red Dress Project. Ainsi, cette pièce en soie doupion rouge bordeaux a fait, au cours du processus de fabrication, le tour de la planète avec des arrêts dans 28 pays où elle a été ornée de 244 motifs, comme autant d’histoires, ajoutés les uns après les autres.

The red dress born of a silent collaboration between embroidered women who have never seen each other.Photo taken from the official site The Red Dress Projecting twelve years, from 2009 to 2021, this work of art notably passed between the skillful fingers of Palestinian refugees, victims of the war in Kosovo, Rwanda and Congo, disadvantaged womenIn South Africa, Mexico, Egypt, Kenya, Japan, Paris, Sweden, Peru, the Czech Republic, Dubai, Afghanistan, Australia, Argentina, Switzerland, Canada, Tobago,United States, Russia, Pakistan, Wales, Colombia and still in the United Kingdom.The dress also stopped in high -end embroidery studios of India and Saudi Arabia.In total therefore, 244 embroiderers, including 239 women and 5 men, 139 of whom were paid, allowed the realization of this piece in a perfect dialogue.

The motif of the spider embroidered by the designer of the project Kristie McLeod.Photo taken from the official site The Red Dress Project

Millions of points at the needle and 12 years of development

Many women who have participated in this collective work are established embroiderers, but many sides of the garment also wear the touch of novice embroiderers.They have all been encouraged to tell, through their crafts, a personal story that they would like to share and which reflects their own identity and their cultural and traditional context.Some have therefore chosen compositions using a specific embroidery style practiced for centuries in their family, village or city.

Detail of embroidery.Photo taken from the official site The Red Dress Project

Regarding the author of this initiative, Kirsty Macleod, she specializes in the art of textiles, visual language and theatrical disciplines.To his credit, diversified works ranging from embroidery to installations, including painting, drawing and photography.With the project of this unifying dress, she sought to generate an identity dialogue through embroidery, merging various border crops.During these twelve years of development, and through the stories of the women concerned, the dress has become a personal expression platform.And, above all, an opportunity for all to be heard.

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A large number of these women now reconstruct their existence thanks to their skills in embroidery or by following training in this area, to be able to earn a living in a worthy way.Spread over twelve years, the trip to draw up this "multigriffée" dress has ended, with its assembly and its final configuration, at the beginning of this year.Covered with millions of points at the needle, meters and meters of threads and hundreds of pearls, it weighs 6.2 kilos and is loaded as much, and perhaps more, what its ornamentation murmurs.

Detail of embroidery.Photo taken from the official site The Red Dress Project

A strong symbol

The dress was exhibited in various galleries and museums around the world, notably at the Maeght gallery in Paris, Art Dubai, at the Museo des Arte Popular in Mexico City, the National Library of Kosovo, as part of an event at theRoyal Academy in London and at the Premio Valcellina Award textile competition in Maniago, Italy.As for the primary idea of the red dress, her author exposed it to the site Le Tempsdebroder.com: "I had been charged by the British Council to create a work for Art Dubai 2009.A project that excited me.I have a fascination for various cultures (having grown up in various countries around the world) and I had the desire to create a work that would unite and gather as many different identities as possible without borders or prejudices.So, I thought of the concept of a platform that would allow women to express themselves, feel empowered and be heard.With this in mind, a dress seemed to me the appropriate vehicle because it is such a powerful symbol of femininity.For equipment and color, I did research on the heritage of the exhibiting country, the United Arab Emirates.I learned that red silk was particularly appreciated.

For my part, I like the strength of red, and the feeling of love, strength, anger, and blood that this color exalts.All this is part of our human experience and nothing better to carry the female voice.»»

She himself went there with her embroidery talent by making a huge spider spreading her sons on the back of the red dress. Comment conserver cette pièce unique au mieux ? Pour Kirstie MacLeod, c’est assez simple : il faut des « serviettes humides et beaucoup d’amour»».