my honours project “some sort of a girl” created this year was a (red-bull fuelled) exploration of memory, nostalgia, and the way we share our identities through the way we dress. combining vintage inspirations with hand-drawn prints and vibrant colour, the final collection is a celebration of becoming a woman and finding joy in the process of evolution 🍀 (going to post some development and process work from through the year before unloading the lookbook images) 🎀💖🌸
💗The final hero, number 5 💗 My favourite of the pieces, hand-cut flowers in a reflective textured pleather form the base, layered with burnt plastic flowers and attached with looped seed beads 💗💗💗
🎀Hero piece 4 🎀 Glitter mesh base fabric adorned with hand-cut flowers with burnt edges individually attached with seed bead loops and embroidery thread 🎀🎀
🌈Hero piece 2🌈 This piece plays with the chainmail idea in a more fun and unexpected way. The iridescent plastic encloses a pink glitter mesh in organic shapes, and uses negative space to emphasise the irregularity of their placement 🌈🌈🌈
✨Hero piece 1 of Disco Baby✨ Exploring my version of chainmail, this piece is created with irregular circles made of an iridescent plastic that are burnt around the edges to enclose a metallic stretch fabric before being joined together with jump rings.
Disco Baby - a project for my Textiles Lab class inspired by the chainmail work of Paco Rabanne, organic shapes and rose tinted views of nights out dancing.
