Seeing You, Seeing Me, 2023
Seeing You, Seeing Me explores the relationship between clothing, identity and perception. Every day we get dressed and communicate something about who we are. But what happens when what we wear does not reflect our true self?
Wowzzzeee, 2018, 2019
Wowzzzeee explores the various ways we participate in the production and consumption of fashion.
Audience can choose to either MAKE or BUY a Wowzzzeee.
Kids in Fashion, 2018
Using the intellect, creativity and ingenuity of children’s imaginations, Kids in Fashion sees children become fashion designers.
Onesie World, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2024
Thousands of onesies made by the local community are released into the world! Festival attendees are invited to take a onesie and wear it until they go to bed that night. Onesies bring people together through the process of making and wearing.
Leighs House, 2019
100 costumes designed in response to Leigh Bowery. Part performance, part club, part fashion show Leigh’s House invited the audience to dance, party and dress up.
100 encounters in a onesie, 2024
100 encounters in a onesie delves into the unique experiences of Adele Varcoe, who has spent the past 15 years wearing nothing but a onesie.
Feelings of Undress, 2014
Collaboration with ArtEZ dance students. An open score that explores feelings of dress/undress.
Imagining Chanel, 2011, 2012, 2014
Imagining Chanel looks at how fashion can be experienced through language and imagination rather than through the visual presence of clothing.
Catwalk Fash Mob, 2013
Melbourne Fashionistas came together to transform the Bourke Street Mall into a catwalk fashion show where passersby found themselves in the spotlight.
Spotsville (later became Onesie World), 2013
By dressing visitors in the same garment, Spotsville brought people together while questioning how clothing shapes the way we relate to and engage with one another.
Newfangled Fashion, 2011
Newfangled Fashion is an exploration into how the people around us affect the way we feel in what we wear. Heavily inspired by the Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale The Emperors New Clothes this work plays with what the world could be like if no one wore clothes.
iFOLD: A New Fashion A New You, 2010
An installation performance event that invited participants to experience a fashion show through sound and movement.
Just Looking, 2014
Just Looking explores vulnerability, power and the feeling of nakedness that can arise simply through another person’s gaze.
iFOLD: Say ‘hello’ to the new you, 2011
Audience entered a white change room/science lab to have their face ‘folded’. Many saw themselves in a new light.
Hand to Mouth, 2008
Large scale participatory performance where audience made a seven course dinner where every dish was in the shape of a hand. Exploring the production and consumption of food.
Wardrobe Swap, 2014
A worldwide search to find one person to swap their entire wardrobe (socks, jocks, everything!) with Adele Varcoe for one year.
Beardy Weirdy Wowie Growly, 2013
Hundreds of beards created for the opening of Walter Van Beirendonck’s DREAM THE WORLD AWAKE exhibition.
Claymation, 2016 > now
Capturing real life encounters experienced by Adele while wearing a onesie
Me in Couture, 2018
Audience see themselves wearing a suite of futuristic garments made from placticene. Hording presented as part of Metro Redevelopment and Melbourne Fashion Week.
Feeling Fashion (PhD), 2016
Feeling Fashion proposes a new kind of fashion practice that moves beyond garments as objects, focusing instead on how fashion is felt.
Costume Work - various projects, 2018 > now