Art + Design by Marie-Christine Larivière

// Portfolio Demonstration No. 85


The Workshop

▿ Thompson Family Award, Design Field School - Make in Japan,
Concordia University, 2019
▿ École des Entrepreneurs du Québec, Montreal, 2018▿ Masquerade Award, Master Categorie, Accomplishment in the use of unsual materials, Montréal Comiccon, 2014▿ Finalist at the World of WearableArt - WetaWorkshop Categorie,
New Zealand, 2013
▿ Featured in GLASSbook Fashion Editorial magazine, issue 4 and 5,
New-York, 2012

Studio de photographie

Studio - Services

My workshop can produce a wide variety of interactive medias, tangible and digital. I'm looking to collaborate with creatives in the domain of wearable technologies and networked medias.

MinhLy model

Past Projects

Contact me and we can start developing your tailored art commission.Bio and CV


Past Projects

Process & Modularity

I am not an engineer but sometimes improvise that I am.

I create artifacts in the domain of wearable art, including fashion, costumes and visual art; bringing a broad range of expertise to the industry by focusing on materials and emerging technologies.

3D Mapping Project

SAT x VYV x Concordia

▿ Blender, Photon Designer
▿ A/V projections using real-time data
Visit https://mistakenrealities.crd.co/ for more details


Design & Computation Art

▿ Digital composition: Adobe Ai, Ps, Ae, Pr, XD

Found in Time
Composition: MC Larivière, After Effect, Photoshop
Music: rBert - Sinere (Elfenberg Remix)




▿ 3D Modeling: Blender, SubstancePainter



▿ Design: Fusion 360, Cura for 3D Printing

Additive Manufacturing & Textile ArtAudrey Coulombe, Anne Boutet, MC Larivière
Research-Creation





Lights and Awards

▿ Thompson Family Award, Design Field School - Make in Japan,
Concordia University, 2019
▿ École des Entrepreneurs du Québec, Montreal, 2018▿ Masquerade Award, Master Categorie, Accomplishment in the use of unsual materials, Montréal Comiccon, 2014▿ Finalist at the World of WearableArt - WetaWorkshop Categorie,
New Zealand, 2013
▿ Featured in GLASSbook Fashion Editorial magazine, issue 4 and 5,
New-York, 2012



Main Narratives

Collaboration and participation of multiple talents


My model is MinhLy

Fashion editorial publications and collaboration.Bookings - https://minh-ly.com/
Model, Creative, Collaborator
@minhly.model




My model is Marie Doroftei

Boa commissioned for stage performance.The boreal enchantress of burlesque
Bookings - @mariedoroftei





My model is Phylactère

Headdress commissioned by private collector.How to create poetry in your photos using the human body as a language. Model and photography workshops -
@phylactere_ontheroad




My model is LouvePB

Le Duo Bzz, Madame de la Courge et les Papillums animent les foules de Montréal et du Jardin Botanique.Bookings - @Le Cirque Nature




I did Costumes and Props

for Cirque du Soleil
Training with creatives from different departments, my 7 years of passage at the international institution defined the quality of my craft, but also allowed me to dream beyond this world.



Thank you

I'm looking to collaborate with creatives in the domain of wearable technologies and interactive medias.

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Art + Design

MC Larivière

For 15 years, I have created artifacts in the domain of wearable art, including fashion, costume, and visual art. I am a passionate maker that unifies Fine Arts and electronics through innovative processes, such as the natural evolution of my work and the industry.
My curiosity brought me to continuously expand my range of skills and techniques, including traditional pattern making, electronics, 3D modeling and interactive medias.

More about me


hold your colors

Marie-Christine Larivière lives and works in Montreal. For 15 years, she has created artifacts in the domain of wearable art, including fashion, costume, and visual art, bringing a broad range of expertise to the industry by focusing on materials and emerging technologies.She is a passionate maker and unifies Fine Arts through innovative processes as the natural evolution of her work and the industry. Her curiosity brought her to constantly expand her range of skills and techniques, including traditional pattern making, electronics, 3D modeling and communication. She is a multidisciplinary artist and designer translating the interactivity between the mind and the body by exposing this mysterious relation with spectacular means and symbolism. Her use of digital arts enhances the materialization of ideas in original types of performance and immersive arts, on and off the screen.Larivière worked for Cirque du Soleil as a content creator in the hat department for several years. She trained with various staff in creative departments before launching her home studio for customized tailoring. Her artworks Dark Beauty and Poseïdonia were featured in the GLASSbook Fashion Editorial Magazine (2012 and 2013, New-York). In 2014, the Montreal Comiccon and the Costumer Guild awarded her the Master title accomplishment for best use of unusual materials at the Masquerade, and her Samouraï armor was a finalist at the World of WearableArt award show (Weta Workshop, New-Zealand). She received the Thompson Family Award for a Design Field School, Make in Japan (Concordia, 2019).Larivière’s formal academic experience includes a Fashion Design diploma from Lasalle College, an Electrician diploma from CIMME, and a BFA in Computation Arts at Concordia University (in progress). She contributes to research-creation as a research assistant on the “Computational Design of Skintight Clothing” project and as a student member of the Milieux Institute for Art, Culture and Technology, including work on a COVID-response mask making initiative.


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Customizing Everything

I believe that my artist statement should go there. (meta)It's my maker's manifesto beyond diy and self-actualization. (meta) Making is my way of communication; it's my trade.

I'm very good AT

  • Creating interesting designs with emerging technologies

  • Producing Interactive Medias, tangible or digital

  • Operating a sewing machine, a soldering iron and a computer

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