Description

A creative, innovative three piece contemporary costume inspired by the character of Alice in Wonderland in Tim Burton’s play, The Mad Hatter. The costume includes a show Voss and depicts use of carefully considered natural dyes and colours of earthly purples, browns and greens. The beading and embroidery features on the costume have been inspired by the work of Peruvian embroidery artist, Ana Teresa Barboza. The hand felted, fully lined and embellished, oversized top hat composed of camel and sheep fibres; combines with an intricately, embellished beaded corset bodice, and a knee length fully lined silk skirt with precision cut-outs embellished using a machine embroidered leaf and moss inspired shapes. The costume has been influenced by Alexander McQueen’s 1995 runway show, Highland Rape.

Images of Work

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The pages selected for each project reflect the individual students' interpretations of the syllabus guidelines for the MTP. Each student should develop their folio according to the guidelines, relating to their own individual project. This may result in a variety of presentation styles, numbers of sketches and/or experiments.