Bio

Curious Orange aka Claire Fleury is a director, designer, poet and performer with 25 years of experience in the performing arts. They are a NYC resident since 2011, originally from Amsterdam. As a designer, they have created costumes for companies like The Trisha Brown Dance Company/Judith Sanchéz-Ruiz, Antonio Ramos and Kathy Westwater. They create fashion performances that include dance, live music, and spoken word. They have collaborated on such performances in NYC with The Illustrious Blacks, Penny Arcade and Yoshiko Chuma, and in Brussels at Tic Tac Art Centre with David Zambrano, Clelia Patrono/Jenn Hutt and dance students from all over the world.

In these collaborative performances, which are CO's alternative to fashion shows, they aim to show clothing and dressing as part of life, as a means to express oneself.

Their vibrant costumes are designed to evoke joy and fun, while also highlighting CURIOUS’s deep respect for the power of the body in motion.

Their designs are often created from surprising materials; often found, existing shapes like socks, tote bags or ice-cube trays.

They are constantly looking for new and playful, sustainable ways to approach clothing design, ultimately creating a lifelong homage to the sheer act of dressing up.