Today I wanted to show you some art. And a dress. Our last shoot took place in the Pulchri Studio, a large galery here in the Hague. I love shooting pictures in such an environment, because the clothes start to look different to me. It seems that the environment has a huge influence on my perception of my own clothes, and all of a sudden I see new options or variations for future projects. This dress is cut from the same pattern as the very first one I showed here, but now the fabric is a wool blend in stead of a linnen. It makes the dress wrinkle less and it’s a lot warmer too.
The pattern is fairly straight-forward, only the bust darts add some form. The side seams are completely straight, the belt and the collar with the leather strip are the details that make the dress special I think. I could have used simple loops to define the placement of the belt, but what I did is sew a rectangular piece of fabric unto the dress to make a tunnel for the belt. This way the belt becomes a very graphical element.
As for the art, in the first picture I’m looking at a piece by Dindi van der Hoek, in the second I’m standing next to ‘ridders’ (knights) by Sam Drukker and in the last picture I’m standing between Marie Civikov’s work.
