Meg Hunt
Challenge One
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Challenge Two
I chose a pair of beige high-heeled slides, decorated with a few gold beads, as the basis for creating a look for a young professional. Her dress is made of silk chiffon shot through with gold and silver metallic threads over a background that is reminiscent of an animal print in color (beige and a range of browns) if not in pattern. The design is intended to be conservative, yet flirty: fitted bodice, yoked waist accentuated with horizontal folds of silk chiffon, which is repeated in the high neck band, and a single layer short circle skirt with a hand rolled hem. Underneath is a fitted short skirt for decorum. My professional tops of her flirty dress with cropped, collarless jacket with three quarter sleeves and a diagonal cut as the central design feature of the jacket. Antoinette was my muse.
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Challenge Three
Ashleigh goes for feminine elegance in this choice of an evening gown. As the designer, I love beading fabric, so I picked a midnight blue, floral print crinkle silk chiffon from my fabric collection to embellish. To brighten the fabric choice and imbue it with elegance, I beaded each flower blossom with tiny, crystal-lined rose colored seed beads. The gown has an 8-gore skirt, inspired by a 1930s silhouette, but I chose a front and back neckline for the bodice that is reminiscent of the 1950s, and a décolletage and bare-armed style that would have a more contemporary sensibility. The brighter blue lining was also specifically chosen to enhance the colors in the fashion fabric and the beads.
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Challenge Four
The Fashion Edgy theme proved a real challenge with many discarded ideas and fabric choices and with no clear source of inspiration. In the end, my model borrows a little bit of this and that from several different eras of fashion.
The starting point was the bias cut bodice -- without shoulder seams -- and which wraps around the back and fits to the side seam to form an arm hole, hinting onlyslightly of a drop off the top of the shoulder. The look was inspired from images from the 1930s, the 20s, and the 60s. To that was added a bubble-ish gathered skirt with a layer of ruffled tulle netting that peaks from under the skirt, mindful of the 50s and some contemporary fashion. The free-form tulle bustle is detachable and intended to be playful, reaching back more than a century. The look is pulled together by a bobbed hairstyle in brilliant red, a tulle-tied, “it girl” head band, white stockings and boots to match the outfit. The fabric is silk charmeuse, backed with silk organza and under-layed with navy blue tulle.
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