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Tear of the Clouds
This project is a culmination of all my experiences designing and making clothes up to this point, as a love letter to my home region of the Hudson valley. Each aspect of the project from the fabric choices to the location of the final photoshoot are deeply rooted in my creative identity and truest self, wanting to create something that revealed my ideas of beauty without having to open my mouth. Along with being a sort of physical memoir, this project was an ode to those who's work and approach had inspired my own since I was child, the biggest being Frank Lloyd Wright, Andy Goldsworthy, and Georgia O'Keefe. Beyond the physical work of such creative luminaries, I sought to learn from their own creative processes through their unique relationships with organic bodies and natural phenomena.These relationships informed my own way of looking at the natural surroundings of my own home region, which lies around the central vein of the Hudson River (which begins at a small lake in the Adirondacks called Lake Tear of the Clouds). Each look of the mini collection is part of a much larger and still developing body of work, which will act as the seed to my own creative journey as a designer on my own. I aim to have those not only see beauty when gazing at the completed works, but actually feel it.
Looks include:
A Chestnut brown hammered silk satin set (aimed to replicate the textured surface of water interacting with air movement) of a robe and Bralette with organza cutouts and satin piping which trace the sensation of ones act of inhaling air, with details of hand woven silk basketry around rock crystal "tear" detailing. This is worn with a pair of Wool crepe trousers hand beaded with a degradé of black spinels, which explore the phenomena of surface tension of water droplets on skin.
A Graphite grey Hammered satin jumpsuit (also aimed to replicate the textured of water interacting with air movement) which trace the sensation of ones act of exhaling through contours of organza cutouts and satin piping.
A Sanguine red strapless gown of a layer of wool pebble crepe over Crepe back satin as an exploration of the act of tying a towel around ones body over wet skin (In Frank Lloyd Wrights Favorite red pigment, which he called "Cherokee Red" )
A Sanguine red floor length double faced cashmere coat which traces the contours of circulation in the body in relation to the movement of water over the surface of the body through seaming ( also in Frank Lloyd Wright's favorite Red)
Various jewelry pieces of rock crystal "tears" in silk baskets with baroque pearls, Spinel body cuffs, and body basketry leather cording and Tektite glass around hands and feet.
Inhale
Exhale
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