Life & Work with Logan Baldauf of Downtown Columbus

Today we’d like to introduce you to Logan Baldauf

Hi Logan, thanks for sharing your story with us. To start, maybe you can tell our readers some of your backstory.
I’m originally from Weirton, West Virginia! In my senior year of high school I had no idea of what to look for regarding college other than I knew I wanted to pursue art; ultimately I leaned towards fashion design.

I began attending ccad in the fall of 2020 and from then on I’ve bounced between various approaches on how to create my work. I felt the need to satisfy my love of fine arts, pop culture and fashion history in a way that properly connected all the dots.

I’m sure it wasn’t obstacle-free, but would you say the journey has been fairly smooth so far?
The experience of going from plain artwork to fashion design, (really just completely altering my artistic landscape) was indeed difficult especially since fashion design requires a whole other set of disciplines in its approach. Being mindful of how a garment is made, the timing and entire step by step process (sketch to pattern to final result) requires a level of investment that I can not honestly say I had before studying it in college.

Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
As I had stated I come from a fine arts mindset, and mostly in the last few years up to now I have experimented in a lot of ways, both disciplined to painting and discplined to fashion, to bridge my mediums in a way that flatters all of my interests.
Through Celeste Malvar-Stewart I was shown how to pattern and construct corsets (with the addition of organic dyeing) and I’ve never been the same since. I devoted my thesis collection to corsetry moreso the manipulation of the torso on a range of bodies and I am fortunate enough to have been invited to show an expanded version of this collection for the Decorative Arts Center of Ohio Gala. The main additions made include new corset styles and surface details both traditional embellished as well as painted.

Can you tell us more about what you were like growing up?
When I was younger I’d say I was just as flamboyant as I am now.nI had a fixation with certain films and objects that I can definitely say had an everlasting impact on my taste and art. Movies like The Wizard of Oz and The Nightmare before Christmas, paired with an obession of dolls, kind of led me to liking variety in things from the plain to fantastical.
Middle school into high school I took up even more interest in films especially when trying to delve into old cinema and ‘queer’ favorites. I particularly took a love towards the costume iconography associated with film like Maria’s robot costume in Metropolis or Rita Hayworth’s entire wardrobe by Jean Louis Gilda.

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