Challenge Six - Contestant 5
For this last challenge on gothic couture I wanted to work on something very dark but very romantic at the same time. My first focus was to work with very different almost animal like textures (snake, fish, bird). I made a long black straight gown out of a silk crepe wich is a bit stretch and allowed me to skip the breast seams. I wanted the whole top of the gown to be almost completely straight and let the curves of the body appear through the transparency of the fabric. It has long sleeves and a turtleneck to accentuate the gothic style. The fabric is decorated with dark jet grey mat sequences that are underlayed with black glass beading. On some places I took of most of the sequences to let appear the beading and create an irregular rythm between shimmering and mat. I decided to not linen my gown because I wanted to keep the transparency and the quiet natural draping of the heavily loaded bottom part. All the seams are therefore piped with a very thin organza trim except the shoulder and arm seam are finished with an very tiny english seam to give my gown the propper couture finishing. On top of the gown my gothic diva wears a huge black jacket that is made out of a black fabric decorated with raw edge chiffon trims and give a feather like texture.The jacket is lined with a thin black satin and can be worn in a lot of different ways. The silhouette is accessorized with very high black platform shoes, a black latex clutch, very long black earings sculpted with tiny pearls and very short painted finger gloves.
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