High Fashion
And other uncharacteristic behavior, like drawing bigger than the palm of my hand.
I've been more or less roped into helping a dear friend with a charity benefit fashion show, for which we'll be making a dress and I'll be modeling it (eek). The fabric we're working with is canvas and fairly heavy denim, so it's a bit of a design challenge to begin with—several sketches later, this is both of our favorite design.
Shaded portions are denim, liberally painted with bright colors and sparkles, and the plainer portions are light canvas with a variety of abstract designs, slogans and doodles. The bodice has a cheongsam-like closure, flowing into a tacked-back drape with some sort of textural detail on the reverse. The canvas, meanwhile, sweeps down from the back right shoulder into a trained skirt with fanned pleats at the front. We're thinking of piecing in a panel of denim in the skirt, too, to help integrate the two fabrics.
Update: the coordinator for this project shared some information with us that made us less and less interested in being involved, so we ended up passing the project to other artists. I still like this dress design, though. Maybe it'll get made someday.
I've been more or less roped into helping a dear friend with a charity benefit fashion show, for which we'll be making a dress and I'll be modeling it (eek). The fabric we're working with is canvas and fairly heavy denim, so it's a bit of a design challenge to begin with—several sketches later, this is both of our favorite design.
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| Obviously an extremely rough idea, but it gets the important shapes down. |
Update: the coordinator for this project shared some information with us that made us less and less interested in being involved, so we ended up passing the project to other artists. I still like this dress design, though. Maybe it'll get made someday.
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