These Dresses are Smoking!
The Marlboro Woman? Dress by Sasha Marie Bernard at the Power of Art. Photo by Deidre Davidson Sasha Marie Barnard lights up The Power of Art She’s a little bit Jane Fonda, a little bit Alexander McQueen. She’s an über-organized, no-holds-barred design visionary, improbably trained in geospatial regimes and climatology, but inherently gifted in the art of haute couture. She’s Sasha Marie Barnard, and her latest creations will hit the runway Friday night as part of the 6th Annual Power of Art Show at the AES Power Plant in Redondo Beach. Barnard’s CIGLINE© collection comprises eight looks – six womenswear and two menswear – all painstakingly handcrafted from cigarette packs, cartons and advertisements, accumulated by the artist over the past four years. It was a labor of love… and heartbreak. A longtime smoker, despite many attempts at quitting, Barnard’s work on the CIGLINE© pieces forced her to face her inner demons. “The feelings…and the struggles I had during the time I was making the dresses were unexpected because I was faced really with my own mortality,” she says. Barnard’s tobacco-fueled fashion creations feature packaging from Marlboro, Pall Mall, Camel, and American…
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