"Bear Fur Skirt"

"Burlap Trousers"

"Portal Skirt with Sun Flare"

"Whispers Skirts"

"Reversible Wool Skirts"

"Reversible Wool Skirts"

"Daily Quest For Food And COmpassion Skirt"

"Daily Quest For Food Dress Detail"

"Conductive Switch Musical SKirt in action"

"Musical Boxer Shorts"

"Detail of Musical Boxer Shorts"

"Foam Pad Tactics detail"

"Panoramic Illustration"

"Push Off The Pink Switch Pad"

"Conductive Knitted Tactics Pad"

" With A Lasting Will Pop up Book"

" With A Lasting Will Pop up Book"

"Gretchen Elsner with With A Lasting Will"

Gretchen Elsner

Gretchen Elsner is a designer living and working in Vancouver. She hails from Athens, Georgia, and has travelled across the United States and Canada in performance of her works of book arts and offering her clothing designs. Consequently her work can be found across the continent in stores and in the private wardrobes of avid dressers. Elsner also specializes in the engineering of electronically active components made from conductive textiles to create soft hard ware, or soft-ware that she incorprates in to her garments. Her work incorprates illustrations and embroidery, secret pockets, unique personal drafting, multi-directional reversible clothing, innovative closures and unconventional materials, combined with whimsy and superb craftsmanship. In the spirit of her dexterity and skill in the execution of her designs each piece is distinguished with a hand knit tag. When wearing a piece of her clothing, please be attentive to your body inside, and enjoy!