Bringing back and taking
away
The essence of sorrow and
joy
Rising from the fresh scent
of decay
With vengeance and wrath to
destroy…
We were given an assignment in college before
our couture gown module to make a miniature size gown for a Barbie doll... the
excitement that engulfed us girls is beyond words. I remember growing up
stitching, pasting, gluing clothes on my Barbie dolls which me and my younger
sister had a combined of say over a 100 of them. It transported all of us back
to that. Well the guys didn’t have much to say. I remember one of my
classmates, a guy of course holding the doll by her hair and making her fly
with her gown: O. INHUMAN… we were given a designer and we had to make our work
look like theirs. I was ecstatic to get Elsa Schiaparelli as my designer.
Keeping in mind her style of work I came up
with this theme. I worked around a few key words.
•Larger than life animal print
•Drastic change in silhouette
•Bare
•Break
•Transform
•Surreal
•Stark
Although an assignment but I realized how difficult it is to make
clothes in miniature size. They did this exercise in the Victorian era. The
designers at that time made a miniature version of the gowns that the
aristocrats wanted to get made in the same fabrics and colours.
I made two gowns in red, black, white and grey. They are slim body
hugging sensual gowns with hand painted motifs on them with thigh high slits.
Elsa loved bustles so I gave them detachable bustles to add drama.
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