This project's proposal was to choose a historical era and develop a fashion concept on top of it, including aspects from the chosen culture. For this, I have picked the Medieval Era to serve as my main inspiration and started working with two main topics, roughly described as that time's point of view and its wealth aspects.
In European history, the Middle Ages, or Medieval period, lasted from the 5th to the 15th century. It began with the collapse of the Western Roman Empire and merged into the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery. The Middle Ages is the middle period of the three traditional divisions of Western history: Antiquity, Medieval period, and Modern period. The Medieval period is itself subdivided into the Early, the High, and the Late Middle Ages.
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The chosen fabrics refer to very distinct parts of my research throughout this project. For the red velvet,I have picked the idea up from getting into the Royalitie's reality in the Middle Ages. The colour, like the fabric, represents wealth and a high social standard, giving the garment a majestic look. The black lace however goes back to a deep research into Medieval torture methods. My first idea at the beginning of the project was to create a garment that reflected social differences of the time. However, as I got into more and more information, I started leaning into a difference point. Among everything I read for Medieval torture and poverty, the female exposure caught my attention. It was common to expose people to ridiculous situations as a punishment method for something trivial as robbing. Black lace follows the idea of exposure of the female body and helped me develop a classic yet modern look for it.
My focus on this dress' structure was the medieval architecture, taking their basic shapes and placing them in strategic point in the dress. With the pointy shape of the doorway and most of the glass windows back then, I placed it on the waistband where the velvet meets the lace. As for the tower tops, it became the hem line at the bottom of the skirt's layers.
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