Christo

Professional name of Christo Javacheff Grabovo (1935), a Bulgarian artist. Famous key figure of Nouveau Réalisme, he conceives clothes as objects. In 1967 he created the Wedding Dress, an unusual bridal dress, ironic and paradoxical, made of ropes which completely covered the woman’s body and pulled a bundle behind. The symbolism was quite explicit: Marriage as a constraint, like a house and a heavy weight to be dragged by the woman.