Hair Net

Through this artwork, Marloes Blaas and Jean-Pierre Baquère give us a modern interpretation of the hair-net. In its common usage, a hairnet has the practical function of merely holding long hair in place. But through its reinterpretation, the designer and the craftsman extracted the essence of it to build a unique and fashionable item.

How could glass, a fragile, fixed and brittle material, resemble the elasticity of original hair-nets? Through an ingenious technique of assemblage, the piece is made mobile and loose. The creation is indeed composed of…. pieces of glass, each of them put together by using strings, keeping then the spirit of a net. Using a flame working technique, Jean-Pierre Baquère shows us a painstaking, fine and subtle work while Marloes Blaas proves her sensibility, asserts her aesthetics and shows her talent not only for imagining clothes, but also jewelry.