Growing up in south Devon I’ve been surrounded by nature, and somehow that always seems to sneak into my work. I’ve always watched television and films and loved the fantasy side, a world that doesn’t exist but when you’re sat watching something for 2hours you can get so caught up that you can sometimes forget about the outside world. I have the problem of always noticing dresses. It’s what I love. Ballroom gowns, the detail that has to be applied to just one item of clothing to end up with something truly spectacular. And then you can look at period dramas, the reality of what our ancestors were wearing 200 years ago, how simple some of it seems in comparison.
I really am taken with costume, when it comes to understanding a character having to figure out their own view and what would seem realistic to them, but then I do like to add my own details, that link to the personality of said person but in reality makes their outfits seem a bit to special for everyday wear.
Currently in my textiles work I’m looking into the tale of Alice in Wonderland. After seeing the Tim Burton film of the story I think that I was truly inspired by the different outfits, dresses, gowns that the character of Alice is wearing. Traditionally Alice is wearing her simple blue dress with an apron, but in this interpretation she’s now a young women no longer a child and so this gave the designer more room to play around with her clothing, to give a more womanly aspect to her dressing.
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