After spending the Easter break researching the 1920's, on going back to uni we were hit with the 30hr project (sleep and commutes not included). Choosing our own groups with skills to complement each others we were to clash our chosen decades and create an ambitious project conclusion based on a theme, event or occasion that represented our decades the 20's and 40's.
From our findings, the twenties saw votes for women, lavish embellishments, flapper girls; a new breed of social, smoking, drinking independent women. The forties was branded by the war time slogan "Mend and Make do", with men away at war, women were conquering all aspects of work, labour and homeliness. The bikini was also invented in this decade...and so to project this concept of female empowerment we chose to make a range of bikinis.
Miss Daisy Cook, queen of textiles and keeping' it cool.
Miss Ines Neto Dos Santos, wildly ambitious and multi talented.
Using image transfer we put collected images of powerful 20's women onto this set, embellishing it with feathers in a lavish manner.
Image transfers onto found fabrics, merging twenties family portraits with the concept 'Mend and make do'.
Image transfer of a woman's letters to her husband in the 40's whilst away at war. Cotton buds for borders to emphasise the use of found materials.
Postcards from the twenties transferred onto fabric and finished with braided string.
Paper handmade roses made from a book dating from the 20's, epitomising femininity.
A workers practical bikini with utility belt for tools.
40's inspired design with 20's embellishments. Final work presented on cloak rack.
The group prize winner :)
Couldn't have even conceived of creating something so technical, ambitious and out of my comfort zone without these two very talented girls.
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