Creative person might utilise purchased finished fabrics, making the two into unique garments, or even can dye and/or paint virgin fabric. Two or three creative persin make their have fabrics, for instance on looms.

Wearable art occurs as branch of the wider field of Fiber art, which describes both wearable & non-wearable forms of art utilizing fabric & more pulp products.

When by having any more art form, a talent & skills of creative person in that field varies widely. Since a nature and severity of the medium takes craft skills when well as artistic skills, an advanced creative person may be potential to learn color theory, chemistry, sewing, clothing design, and such computer skills when Photoshop and Illustrator. Classes around wear project & marketing can be learned from either such colleges when a Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City.

A New Zealand city of Nelson has gained a worldwide reputation in the field of wearable art, by having its Globe of Wearable Art Awards, held annually since 1987.