Designed and Sewn by Stephanie Cullingford

My submission to the festival was inspired by Tudor and Rococo fashions as well "Steampunk" and Monet's Waterlilies.

 

The design featured a 1880's/Schiaparelli double-bow bustle. This and the sleeve puffs were created from shot-silk cut on the bias to create a nebulous, shifting colour patchworked together with copper thread to simulate handstiching.

 

The acessories featured a distress copper french-hood and matching open ruff inspired by the milliner Manuel Albarran, as well as Vivien Westwood and Scherer Gonzalez with structural elements from ballet.

 

The sleeves and shoes were  guipure lace  overlayed with copper leaf. The shoes also posessed  'fans' or ruffles made from the same copper that I distressed by burning and the cooling rapidly. The fans and buckles that held the shoes in place were inspired by Georgian court wear as well as ballet slippers

 

Set into the straight fronted corset was a window alowing the viewer to see the cleevage as well as provide a texture change from the velvet corset.

 

Epoisen: Stephanie Cullingford