Impressionist-Inspired Embroideries Turn Ordinary Clothes into Wearable Works of Art

It’s been over two years since Moscow-based Lisa Smirno­va’s cus­tom embroi­dered cloth­ing has made an appear­ance on Brown Paper Bag. In 2016, she col­lab­o­rat­ed with fash­ion brand GO (by Olya Glagol­e­va) on the project Artist At Home. The col­lec­tion fea­tured cozy fab­rics adorned with Lisa’s Impres­sion­ist-like stitch­es in abstract pat­terns. Since then, she’s con­tin­ued to stitch on cloth­ing and trans­form oth­er­wise ordi­nary gar­ments into col­or­ful works of art. Her recent works are a more fig­u­ra­tive approach and fea­ture the likes of ani­mals, flow­ers, and oth­er nat­ur­al ele­ments spread across the bust and backs of jack­ets and shirts.

Lisa shares her work in progress through Insta­gram, but she does­n’t reveal how you can buy one of her wear­able works of art. (She does share her email address via Insta­gram, so that’s prob­a­bly the first step!)