Construction Dress

Lately I have had this obsession for the bright orange plastic fencing often seen at construction sites. I enjoy the negative spaces and the vibrant color! The dress is made from not only construction fence netting, but with orange fabric as well. Just recently I have been experimenting slightly with fabric manipulation, as seen in my Black Mass Dress (dying of the habit and front panel). For this dress, I actually placed the fence material onto the fabric and spray painted it black, leaving the imprinted outline of the material onto the fabric. By the end of this I feel that this dress is a visual representation of a construction material deconstructed.



Again, I have used volume and asymmetry, two of my favorite design concepts along with negative space, bold color, and interesting textures (plastic and fabric). This is the first dress I have made using found materials in years. The last dress I made out of unconventional materials was constructed out of newspapers and an old lamp shade. This was a very experimental dress for me, and I am pleasantly surprised by the outcome. It is one of my most well made pieces.





I wanted to do a photo shoot for this dress that was out doors in a very open and geometric environment. That being said, I was off to another trip to an area with high tension towers (one of my main sources of inspiration outside of horror/sci fi films). I thought the geometric angles within the bars were fitting for the negative spaces in between the construction netting on the dress. I picked a lot of shots with a big open sky because I though the blue stormy sky would be an excellent color to contrast the orange dress with.