CANDID EXPLORATIONs

For the past few weeks, I have been found myself looking towards nature for inspiration for my garments. One flower, the Camelia Japonica, really struck my eye, as it’s shape when seen upside down, mimicked a dress. Currently I am studying it’s form and structure intensively, to make a dress that is as close as possible to the original flower.

Many designers have looked to nature for inspiration in the past. One of the most notable being Alexander McQueen, who would look to nature to recreate its patterns, as well as sometimes using raw materials from nature for his dresses.

Before leaving the house, Sarah Burton continued McQueen’s legacy of using nature in his work by creating dresses that were inspired by the forms of nature, for example the rose dress.

It is very easy in fashion to become detached from the natural world. We forget that the fabric that we see in the haberdasheries are the end result of a number of stages that manipulate and appropriate the raw materials that it’s made from. Sometimes going to the source can be very beneficial as it can make us appreciate beauty in an unmediated form.