artist-designer

Paris —2017

This project was a design assignment which combined collaging images sourced from magazines and from photographs of experimental drapery to design a white and black evening wear collection.

A tiered asymmetric evening gown created, within a week, from seven vintage blazers that had been disassembled and then reassembled and stitched together to resemble yardage. After a muslin toile was draped, a pattern was created to cut out the pieces for the gown. The bustier is velvet and the ruffled tiers are a mélange of different fabrics from the jacket and its linings; a jacket zipper added in the back for ease of donning and removal.

Our focus was texture and three concepts were conceived: fluid perception, dancing shadows, and mutability.

Three separate collages were extracted from the main one: ruffled romanticism, fluid perception, and dancing shadows.

The croquis were laid on the collages to be scanned, printed, and re-scanned and re-printed to be drawn on. This unconventional process results in unconventional and unfamiliar silhouettes and shapes.