How to Make Art from Ice Camouflage Vests

Posted on January 8, 2009 
Filed Under Art + Books + Design, Feature: DIY, Vintage SI + CP, Stone Island

Been thinking of something to make with the ice camo vest I got from TK Maxx and got an idea after I saw the Taskahi Murakami Exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum. Finally got around to finishing the project. Click below to read more.

Above: Takashi Murakami at the Brooklyn Museum with Louis Vuitton Monogramouflage canvas.

Unfortunately can’t claim credit for coming up with this. The original idea came from seeing the Murakami LV camouflage canvases at the Brooklyn Museum. Always wanted to get one of these,  but with the going price for one at 9,000 - 15,000 USD, thought I’d just make my own. The Brooklyn museum Murakami site is down but  you can still see the exhibit online at the MOCA site.


Above: A vintage Stone Island Ice Jacket Gillet(Vest). You can only get one 12″ x 12″ canvas per gillet.

First you will need to source out some of Ice Camo gillets(vests). While the vintage ice jackets are priceless, and still can be quite costly, the gillets can be still found on ebay.co.uk and ebay.it for a relatively cheap price.

Once you find all your gillets, it’s actually pretty simple. You just need a wooden canvas stretcher, a staple gun, glue, and a frame.  For mine, I chose a more natural looking spruce wood for the frame. The style of frame I am using is called a “float mount, which gives it a museum feel. If you live in the states can be ordered online from Franken Frames.

One thing to note before you cut up your TK Max ice jackets, they will not give you enough fabric for a canvas. Only an ice gillet will give you a big enough area with no seams to stretch on the canvas.

Check out some pics of the colour change in action.

Above: All in a row, normal colour.

Above: Changing colour with a hairdryer.

Above: Changing colour with a hairdryer.

Above: Colour changed once heated.

If you liked this post, check out some of my other vintage Ice Jackets. Click below to go.

Ice Jacket, Goose Down
Ice Jacket, Winter Double Layer
Ice Jacket, Winter Ice Camo Parka, N3-B
Ice Jacket, Summer Ice Camo Field Jacket



Comments

9 Responses to “How to Make Art from Ice Camouflage Vests”

  1. Balooka Heights on January 8th, 2009 7:23 pm

    Now that’s truely inspired Gene and some top notch work.

  2. Heartslad on January 9th, 2009 2:45 am

    Ice Cool …

    Super Well Done ..

    Top Maan Gene ;-)

  3. isola_di_pietra on January 9th, 2009 3:00 am

    Very Smart!!! know what to do with my 8 gillets!!!!! Or at least a couple of them

    Jamie

  4. thfcian on January 9th, 2009 4:55 am

    Murakami is agenius by the way. I would love to own some of his pieces. I bought my wife a book about him last year with loads of examples of his work. WOW!

    Nice idea Gene, they turned out very well indeed.

    ian

  5. cockneyhammer on January 9th, 2009 6:42 am

    very nice gene,
    looks very empressive
    well done.

  6. scud783 on January 9th, 2009 6:57 am

    Well done G, would look good in my hall

  7. nekro on January 9th, 2009 6:52 pm

    crazy stuff, great idea

  8. Pooliegan on January 10th, 2009 5:47 am

    Completely mental, but hats off. Looks class

  9. greencarman on January 11th, 2009 8:15 am

    Good Job,would also look good with the small Badge from the front on the corner.

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