Fabric Quest...

This post really is not really complete, and shan't be until I find the booty that is the perfect fabric for my Candour Gown. Now I'm all for fabric shopping, and the time it takes before you find that perfect specimen to use for a garment you are creating. the rush is quite intoxicating and part of the creative fun. But honestly the quest for this project is not at all the experience I wanted. I'm a picky person, so when sketching up my design I had the ideal thought for my fabric, a stiffer Silk Taffeta with possible embroidered Flowers that were gargantuan, in a bright yellow as backdrop and darker red for the flowers. Seems simple right? Well clearly fabric weavers, don't think so, because every fabric I found was either too gold, or too beige, or had the effect I dreaded, the inverse, where red was the FLASH colour, while he flowers were embroidered in an almost tarnished gold. To be honest, its coming down the wire hear, the semester is almost over, and we need these fabrics in order to complete our projects, and I'm afraid that I'll have nothing to show for my hard work, or worse scrap my colour palette in order to find the right fabric. That is a concern that I have, but seriously can easily remedied, since in my mind the dress can work in a pink tone, possibly purple, but we'll have to see what I find. As of right now I don't have any idea what to find, what too look for or what to expect but Wish me luck as I try to make Candour the REAL deal.

A Midsummer Night's Dream in the mind of Frida...

* Frida *

* A Midsummer Night's Dream *




Okidokes ladies, and gents..a couple of weeks ago we did a wonderful little interpretation of one of my favorite shakespeare pieces, A Midsummer Night's Dream. Ever since High School, I have enjoyed the magic, sugar sweet nature of this play, with it's underlying mischievous and sometimes deceitful undertones. Our task was to take three of the plays characters and come up with costumes they would wear in the piece based off of an artist or artisan of the past. What an incredible undertaking right? Well I decided with the teacher's help, to interpret the characters of Titania, Oberon and Puck, the three main fairies of the play, through Frida Kahlo's eyes. Frida being of course the Surrealist painter of the middle of the 20th century. What I wanted to bring was the sense of animalistic interpretations she uses in her paintings to represent herself, to represent the fairies. They of course living in the forest, helped me come up with the idea that being as such, each would be representative of a certain animal group that any forest, rainforest or water mass, as I conceptualized this, Titania became a mother nature type figure, oberon, became a Poseidon type, and Puck well he just became an owl, the reason for that being, that he is ever watchful of the characters in the play, so being as such, I just assumed that he would be the soul real Animal in the group of fairies, like a spirit fairy that took form of an owl to live in the forest keeping a mischievous watch over the love and deceit that characters encounter. Oberon and Titania would be represented as a fairy like Frida Kahlo and Diego rivera from Frida's 1931 portrait she did of her relationship. Puck would literally be on his on, in a tree standing watch.


~Titania and Oberon's Inspiration~

~Titania & Oberon~


~Puck~