The Shock of the new

Got our new brief a few weeks ago and Ive almost finished my garment now! Title was "The Shock of the new in the Salon des Refuses", so baaaaaasically looking at new ways of thinking, creating exhibiting and owning art.

If youve heard of the Salon, instigated by Napoleon, you know what its about ;)

Rejects, always a nice topic, so I decided to look at Society's Rejects. Basically disabled and deformed people you dont want to look at cause theyre so disfigured.

Its all about getting away from the beauty and trying something which isnt as pretty as nice (since I tend to make things which are rather girly I think). 

I based a lot of my work on Joel Peter Witkins photographs (absolutely amazing, but definately a little bit "specific", ha) and came up with the 2 basic directions of "hiding" and "exposing". A lot of people in the pictures were naked and showing rather intimate parts but were hiding their faces by wearing masks.

I definately didnt want to make this a fetish outfit with some weird gimp masks but play with the antipode.

Some Examples of the Designwork.. Went with the Bodysuit witht the exposed boob in the end :)
I started my fabric samples using silk organza but i needed shitloads of fabric and since student finance england wont give me any money and neither do banks (this shitty "have to have lived in the UK 3 years prior to the course" stuff is pissing me off so much now!!! 2 1/2 year before I started it, does it REALLY matter about 6 months!?) i had to go with something cheaper in the end that fit in my budget. Chiffron and Cotton all the way then, ha!
Dyed it with diluted ink sprayed from an old kitchen cleaner bottle (its fantastic, wouldnt have thought that after not throwing it away for over 3 months it would have been so useful!) which took a while but was definately worth it.
Currently, Im getting slightly suicidal cause this goddamn surface decoration is so heavy and bulky so it will hardly go under the machine :( Ive already broken 5 needles and I had to start borrowing my housemates ones, bad times!!

Lots of work to do still.. This is only the base btw, the top is mostly covered with the dyed chiffron and the cotton is only showing through in random places.

Alright.. back to the machine..!