Work! of art: Wearable Art Runway Show at Mobius

^{Photo: JUSTIN MOORE}

If we've learned anything from Project Runway - besides the fact that Michael Kors thinks orange is the new black, at least when it comes to self-tanner - it's that fashion designers can create works of art from the unlikeliest of mediums. But at 7 p.m. on Friday, May 6, the artists participating in the Wearable Art Runway Show at Mobius (725 Harrison Avenue, Boston, 617.638.0020) will fill the South End gallery with fashions so fierce they'd even leave Heidi Klum speechless. (Not that we can figure out what she's saying half the time, anyway.) We won't spoil all the styles, but expect to see a gown that local violist Rachel Jayson created by hand-sewing more than 150 pages of sheet music together. We're astonished by how she burned individual sections of paper to add color variation and texture - and equally astonished by the terrifying paper-cut possibilities. And artist Bethany Haeseler of Portland, Maine, will try to outdo Gaga at gastronomical glam with her own piece made from food. But the most surprising material might be that of "Glow," a dress by Elly Jessop. Jessop is a doctoral student in the same research group at the MIT Media Lab responsible for developing March's groundbreaking ART show, Death and the Powers: The Robots' Opera, and her piece is high sci-fi style: it senses its wearer's movement, responding with rippling patterns of light. And while we're not sure what sort of vantage point will be provided by another wearable piece, a so-called "web-cam bra," we do know right where we want to be: in a front-row seat at this radical runway.