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model, photography: Absentia
Today's amazing dress comes to you courtesy of La Bricoleuse, a blog by a costume craft artisan who teaches at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill MFA program in Costume Technology. This umbrella dress is the thesis draping project of one of her graduate students, Shanna I. Parks. Here's what La Bricoleuse says of the project: For Shanna's creative draping project, she chose a dress from a chewing gum advertisement, the original of which was definitely a Photoshop creation--the model wore a dress with a parasol canopy for a skirt. Shanna's challenge was to make the artist's vision a reality. Because she had assisted me multiple times with altered parasol canopy forms and done her own explorations in that area, she was prepared to rise to the occasion! Here's a picture of the understructure of the skirt: Amazing, isn't it? The whole effect reminds me a bit of Alice falling down the rabit hole, her skirt opening up like an umbrella.
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Today, my darling Gentle Reader, I want to talk to you about my great love and passion, the humble parasol! Alexia carries several Parasols through the course of the Parasol Protectorate and passes on various others to her daughter, and her daughter’s best friend, Primrose. When conceiving the original parasol I went off of this […]
