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The Spaghetti-Filled Designs of Alice Pegna

Using the unexpected material of spaghetti, designer-artist Alice Pegna creates elegance and striking pieces adorning mannequins. Her series, "Ex Nihilo," features ongoing experimentation that encompasses headdresses, dresses, and objects. The strands’ rigid, uncooked form allows the artist to craft geometric designs, culminating in the bold final result seen below.


Photography by Jacques Peg, Created and designed by Alice Pegna

Using the unexpected material of spaghetti, designer-artist Alice Pegna creates elegance and striking pieces adorning mannequins. Her series, “Ex Nihilo,” features ongoing experimentation that encompasses headdresses, dresses, and objects. The strands’ rigid, uncooked form allows the artist to craft geometric designs, culminating in the bold final result seen below.


“Photography by Jacques Peg, Created and designed by Alice Pegna


“Photography by Jacques Peg, Created and designed by Alice Pegna


“Photography by Jacques Peg, Created and designed by Alice Pegna

“In my experiments I wanted it solid, structured, a bit unlike what it gets when cooked, so I decided to mount it in a structure, fixing them to each other, creating polygons of which the peculiarities make the spaghetti resistant,” the artist says. “And then I started to think about Ex Nihilo’s concept by looking not just at the structure, but at the emptiness she was showing behind her. The structure reworked the space around and in it. The idea then came to rework the human body, to divert it, to change the way we look at it by hiding it as little as possible.”

Read more about this project on her site.


“Photography by Jacques Peg, Created and designed by Alice Pegna


“Photography by Jacques Peg, Created and designed by Alice Pegna


“Photography by Jacques Peg, Created and designed by Alice Pegna


“Photography by Jacques Peg, Created and designed by Alice Pegna

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