My two archival photographs:
Those are my two archival photographs, the first one is “Tang Fu”. This kind of clothing are coming from the Tan dynasty. At this time, the clothing started a big change at this time. Since the Tan dynasty is the most flourishing and open to the outside. The clothing at this time become gorgeous and full of different cultures. From this archival photo Tang Fu, I really like the way of the style and the fabric of it. In this clothing, designer using a lot of gauze to show the beautiful of body. And the time period also attack me by inspiring me color and the gauze and how it fitting the body. My second archival photograph is from 18th c. European. At this time period, people started to attack by those dedicated clothing. Those two archival picture both coming from most flourishing and open time period. I choose these two and connect them together and try to transform them into a new design. From the Tang, we could see at that time most of women are regard obesity as beauty. In this way, most of women’s body embodies the grace, elegance and enormity of the elephant, and people looks healthier. However, in European country people are chasing to be excessive thin.They using the tunic to tie their body.However, most of women are feeling not happy and they started to get bad health after. Because of these, I have made my seminar research paper to talks about how standard of beauty has change, and excessive thin are bas for our health. The beautiful should be regard on the health position.
In this project, I totally design three piece ensembles. There are two dress and one top. The first ensemble is the top. There is about two buttons whole on the inside of front, and the buttons are on the shoulder girdle. In this way, people could base on their idea to change the way shoulder girdle looks like and be creative one how does shoulder girdle should be around the neck or make cross on the front. And my second piece which is a long linen skirt. The long skirt could hide some place you feel not satisfaction with your body fabric are light and not easy to drape. In the middle of the dress there are two Snap fasteners, when you attach each other together, the skirt started to become a pants.The last ensembles is transparent dress. In this dress,I have made a lot of buttons on the front. When I tie all the buttons on, it could become a skirt and when I only tie up three buttons, the skirt change to a cloak. There are two different material I have used. The first one is linen which made by plants and second one is sheer fabric which made by PVC. Besides the material, my original idea was coming from achieve images, however, I started to combine two of them together and then I change the sleeves and make the dress started to be up side down and rearrange the clothes and combine the rest material together. Finally, I separated entire outfit into three ensembles.
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