{"id":899997,"date":"2026-09-21T11:12:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T11:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/899997\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T11:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T11:12:15","slug":"avant-garments-the-wild-world-of-wearable-art-in-pictures-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/899997\/","title":{"rendered":"Avant-garments: the wild world of wearable art \u2013 in pictures | Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each year international designers gather in New Zealand for World of WearableArt \u2013 a festival in Wellington where art, design, fashion and theatre collide. It culminates in a competition where designers show off their creations, from gowns resembling birds, fish and telephones to surreal garments inspired by cultural heritage and the natural world.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand artist Kayla Christensen took out 2026 top prize \u2013 the Supreme Wow award \u2013 for Sacred Nightfall, an intricately stitched tapestry that summons a night goddess from the native forests of Aotearoa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Each year international designers gather in New Zealand for World of WearableArt \u2013 a festival in Wellington where&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":899998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,134],"class_list":["post-899997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=899997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/899998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}