FASHION
These are the photos of the paper dress i designed and made during freshers week. I got inspiration from John Galliano’s 2010 Dior Fall Flower collection. He used very strong silhouettes and based his colour pallet and material story on the physical characteristics of a number of exotic flowers. I also took inspiration from my home town, Teignmouth, in the south west of England. The fishtail skirt is a portrayal of the river mouth, fishing ports, and large dock that my town is known for, and the hundreds of handmade paper flowers emphasise the raw nature I grew up with. I decided to create a strong, feminine silhouette, showcased through the sweetheart neckline, clinched in waist, and larger flowers used to build up volume around the hips. The overall look was to create a strong alpha female look.
I made the dress first for the end of freshers week fashion show, pulled together by the music, production, marketing, and many other students. It was created out of Plattform newspapers, and as you can see i carefully selected specific pages to create a colour gradient of pinks, blues, and purples, separated with black and white flowers to create a unique quality to the design. fore they tore quite easily!
Myself and two other girls were then chosen by John Lewis to re-create our dresses using John Lewis catalogues, and i asked two of my class mates Geraint Lewis and Rebecca Wilson-Flower to help me make it again from scratch as i only had one day to complete the 2nd dress. It then was displayed in store for a few weeks, then was put onto ‘the bridge’ for Cardiff fashion week. It was harder to make the flowers out of catalogue as the material was stiffer there