Katrina Simon

February 11, 2016

Black Dress Response

            When approaching the little black dress project, I wanted to create a dress that can be sporty or fancy, depending on how you morph it and what you pair with it. My design uses zippers as an essential tool in how the dress can be so flexible. When zipped, the dress is a straight dress with a turtleneck. By unzipping it a little bit, it becomes a straight dress with a big collar. You can unzip it more and put a shirt underneath it to create a new look too. Unzipping it all the way turns the dress into a long vest. There will also be zippers on the side so you can unzip one, or both, to create a dress with slits. With these three zippers, the design and style of the dress can change drastically by mixing zipped zippers with unzipped ones. I will add accessories, shoes, tights, shirts, and hats as well to create different looks.

I can push myself to create a simple dress that can turn into something extraordinary and something that doesn’t look like the original basic silhouette. Usually, my designs use bold, fun patterns with more simple, oversized, comfy, fashionable silhouettes/clothes. Stick to my love of fun and comfortable fashion, I want to use the solid, black fabric with zippers to make it turn into a fun, comfortable, fashionable look. Using the plain black fabric is a good way to push myself to focus on the style, function and flexibility of the garment, something that I do not focus on enough but I am excited to do in this project and hopefully continue to do in my design work in the future.

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