Anna Kompaniets artist / designer wearable art

Commission Anna to create an intricately handcrafted item of recycled wearable art for you or your event, simply get in touch!

- a full costume

A full costume intricately handcrafted from recycled materials, here's some examples:

A decadent cocktail dress created for Alternative Miss World topped with a headpiece made from plastic bags, tights, seashells, pebbles, corks, marbles, Swarovski and semi-precious stones.

The costume worn by Anna at Andrew Logan's Alternative Miss World at The Globe Theatre.

Close-up of the costume - corks and seashells trapped in fishnets intricately hand beaded.

Close-up of the seashells picked by Anna on English beaches, marbles and oyster shells salvaged from a restaurant in London.

Another close-up of the bottom of the bodice where seashells melt into strands of pearls, semi precious stones and crochet tights.

Hem of the dress dissolves into a sprinkling of Swarovski crystals hand stitched on tights.

This magical outfit was meticulously hand made using plastic bags, tights, bottletops, Swarovski and can be also worn separately as a skirt or top, with lights!

Meticulously hand embroidered this outfit took several months to make.

Photo by Alla Sanders of the complete outfit with lights on.

Close up of the bodice embroidery - bottletops trapped in fishnets meticulously hand beaded

Close up of the skirt embroidery - crochet plastic bags, ring pulls, bottletops, fishnets and crystal beads.

Close up of one of the star props - made from bottletops, plastic bottles and fishnets with a light inside, beaded with Swarovski crystals.

Having worked with tights as a material for over 15 years, as well as receiving Arts Council England funding for research Anna loves creating costumes out of them. Tights are cut into yarn and then meticulously crocheted into costumes. They are a fantastic material to use as the costumes fit a variety of sizes due to stretch and are easy to wash and very durable. A simple dress made from tights is made from around a 100+ pairs, here are some of the tights dresses Anna created in the past.