Fashion master minds

New scarf and gloves

1930s Noir

Clementine and I are
1930's all the way

dyeing

While I cut out my print block



hand printed my fabric



dotted the purple berries



I wore this outfit





today I over-dyed the print
with a lime yellow
it faded into this

PROJECTS!!!!!!!!!

I have been scarce


I have been a slave to the machine

here is one of the outfits I wore while slaving







THE SHELL BUSTIER

sewing process



Many Many
patterns



sewing some more



ironing



more ironing (hey the ironing board matches my outfit..hmm)



view of all 3 layers of the bustier:
foundation layer (with boning),
fashion layer (outside),
lining layer(hides all the guts)





Clementine needs
more attention



viola!


Front





details



back



Class critique time!



my other project
"Conceptual design"

includes
sewn up sketches
(no final garments)

Here is a quote (from a book I love with all my heart)
that I transformed
into the cycle of a birds life:

“The Bird is fighting its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever wishes to be born must destroy the world. The bird is flying to God. ” from the novella Damian, by Hermann Hesse

full explanation of the project
here



Birth (just breaking primary boundaries)





teenager (known boundaries)





Adulthood
(Almost successful in escaping all boundaries toward freedom)





death (reaching freedom)