Luxury brands
evoke a certain emotion
From the feel of superior materials, to the attention to detail placed into each product,
luxury houses like Chanel, Hermès, Valentino, Dior, and Gucci have been creating
beautiful products for generations. Every product purchased from these luxury brands
comes wonderfully packaged in a beautiful box. Usually, there is much hesitancy to throw
one of these boxes away. They are a status symbol in and of themselves so, inevitably, the
boxes usually go into storage somewhere, but are eventually discarded.
Because Stephen Wilson creates many pieces using luxury fabrics like Hermès scarves, the
studio becomes littered with boxes. While working on sketches one day, inspiration struck
and Stephen decided to use these boxes as a canvas for his new pieces. Each box is carefully
selected and turned into a work of art using embroidery, assemblage, and collage. Each box
has its own characteristics and is often vintage in age. Each work is either wholly original
three-dimensionally mounted in a contemporary acrylic frame.