Wearable art is using the body as an art form to adapt any skill and any idea. You do not have to have an art degree, you need to have the compulsion to make something from your dreams or your nightmares! The forms that are made for wearable art shows, do not have to be practical, they do not have to fit into the 'commercial sector', they have but one requirement... to be wearable!

Artists can resist the demand of "couture culture" and concentrate on the abstract form. The sculptural issues become a primary concern: which part of the body needs to be emphasize, to have it wrapped closely or to build a frame that sits outside the body. Artists working in wearable art, face choices about how they will work, do they take up a challenge or stay within the traditional. It is an art form of the moment, only to come to life in the seconds that it is moving on the stage.

In a gallery the skill and the technical achievements of the artist can be admired, but the piece does not have the life force that is seen when it is on the moving body. A wearable art show gives an artist the encouragement to go further than they would usually dare. They can indulge in their fantasies and give form to their dreams. To be able to express personal statements that could never be made in public or to a close friend. They are prepared to take a walk on the dark side and not be punished for their statement, more often, to be rewarded.