Design Project
I design a dress for Belle in Beauty and the Beast. I inspiration by her yellow beauty dress, and Ariana Grande dress at Grammy. I chose brown for this dress, because Belle has a bright skin tone, and I think brown will look good with her skin, will make her skin tone outstanding. I drew rose at the bottom of the dress, because I think Belle love roses a lot. Also, I think roses will be the main point in this dress.
I design clothes for Essie and her husband Ed in the comedy "You can't take it with you". I decide to design clothes for them in act 1, because in this act Essie was in the kitchen making candy, and Ed came down stairs after he wrote a new song for Essie. For Ed, I design a light-grey vest, with black tie, white shirt, light-brown layer between shirt and outer vest, and black Oxford shoes. I want it makes from silk. Because he stay at home, so I didn't design hat for him. For Essie, I design a pastel pink long dress over her knee, with a belt make from a long fabric that stick to the dress, and loafer in color cream. The detail on the shoulder of the dress are floating to show the girly of the dress and of Essie. I want to put more detail on it like flower, and I want the flower to be red. Since she is a ballet dancer, I think she is very girly, so I want to put on flower details to show as much girly to her. And I want Essie to wear a white gold or gold bracelet with this dress. I want it want from silk like Ed's vest.
Reflection on Historical Context Choice for Romeo and Juliet
I chose Enlightenment themes for my Romeo and Juliet design concept. Clothes in the 17th to 19th century were very unique, and royalty. From 17th to 19th century had different pattern and different art style, and it witnessed the transform of Rococo to Neoclassical. In the 19th century, it was the age of the Neoclassical, but I believed there still some artwork on Rococo and Baroque art style. So I think it will be the best for my project. The conflict I set up for two families were absolutism and anti-absolutism, which was popular in Europe in this period. I will let Romeo family are absolutism and Juliet family are anti-absolutism. And show the different in their outfit. For the outfits, I will research and get more ideas about the pattern and how they come up with clothes, and their fashion. I will need to research more on shoes that they wear, and how they choose shoes while their some of their dresses will cover up their shoes. I also need to research what types of shoes they wear in this period, since the Neoclassical grow, I think their shoes somehow show the Neoclassical style in the pattern.There are always have the different in a family between wife and husband or a family to a family, so I think Enlightenment will be a good choice, since in Enlightenment there were less people believed in religion than previous period. In the late 19thcentury, the Romanticism increase, so I believed there will be some clothes influence by it.