If in doubt, overdress - Vivienne Westwood

In Uni last year, we were given a brief called 'Quote, Unquote' where we picked a quote by somebody famous.  What started off as a Typeface research project shifted into (for me anyway) a Textiles project.

Here are some images of my sketch book

I was playing with font and letters and incorporating Westwood's iconic style.

The next set of images are my work sheets, that helped me arrive at the final piece.

I brought in the union jack, tartan, safety pins, layering and targets - just like Westwood has used on her garments. 

The peacock emerged out of thinking about overdressers.

The pecock feather detail above was made out of recycled fabric and a bundle of zips that I had lying around.  It was this piece that inspired the garment.

The bundle of zips I had, happened to be a big bag full of them and so I used them to make a bodice.  The bodice is size adjustable thanks to the placing of the zips and the directions in which they close.  It can go from a size 14 to a 12.  The skirt is made using stiff netting and a whole heap of safety pins.

So without further ado, I introduce 'Quote:Unquote' by Coral and modelled by my very, very special friend Lowri Mai Fairy (http://www.twinkleandgloom.com/)

The above series of photographs were taken by Amy Knight Photograpy,

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Sorry, can't get the image to rotate, you'll have to rotate your head instead x

Thank you for looking xx