Denim as an art form?

[weirdnjfan1]

Alright I've been reading here for a little over a year now, looking at the evolution of jeans photos, the different brand oriented topics, the Sammy contest, and the WAYWT thread. So after some major thinking over for a while and with a little help from taking a photography class last semester and also looking the the gallery at school, I was wondering what you guys would think of the idea of doing some kind of gallery with denim. I know that Selfedge has a couple of pairs on display, but I'm talking about doing something along the lines of a gallery type thing with pictures of the jeans evolving and the final product of how they turned out. I really think that it would be an awesome thing to see pairs of jeans hanging from the ceiling, floating a few inches from the ground, with pictures of the jeans and a back story on the person who wore them and what they did.

The only problem that I might have with this besides getting the gallery space, cause I know that it would be the most expensive part of the project, is finding people who would be willing to do this. This would be the hardest part due to the fact that a lot of people don't really know about raw denim. My best guess is that if I told someone they would have to wear the same pair of jeans for six months to a year, world really gross them out.

The second would be the concept of the gallery. I know that a lot of people have no clue why I would be willing to show off a bunch of smelly (I'd probably have the people involved in this project wash them before they gave them back), worn jeans in an art gallery.

Those are really my only two biggest worries, besides finding floor space. So I have a couple of questions.

1) How should I go about this if I were to do this? Have the "models(I use this term loosely)" wear the jeans for six months or for a year?

2) What brand would be the best for this? I was thinking one of the Japanese brands like Sugarcane or Samurai or maybe even Nudie.

3) How would the gallery be set up? Would the jeans be hanging from the ceiling or displayed in frames. Also, pictures leading up to the final product or none at all.

4) How many pairs would I want to be roughly involved in this project? I was thinking around 5-10 pairs of jeans, might that be too much?

If I ever get the time and the money, I'd like for this to happen one day, but hey a man can dream for the time being.

[Serge]

Shouldn't this being going in the denim section? Its like one forum down.

[PaperSt.]

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[weirdnjfan1]

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+rep. But also I will cross post this over in Superdenim, it seems that it will get a few more responses over there.