Lady MacDeath

My latest fashion design is high fashion abstraction of Freddy Krueger from The Nightmare on Elm Street series. Freddy Kruger is known for his red and green sweater, a color combination which often cause people to feel uncomfortable. I also see Freddy as asymmetrical considering he wears his infamous glove with the razor blades on only one hand. So taking these Freddy Krueger design concepts, I created this dress. It's green, like the green in his sweater, asymmetrical, and has volumetric strips resembling "shreds", which Freddy would often do with his glove. I am proud of this dress. I honestly think it embodies the Freddy Krueger design concepts without looking like a female version of Freddy Kruger, or something you would pick up at Party City.



In playing with my horror film concepts, I decided that the shoot should have both a Suspiria meets Rosemary's Baby vibe. Suspiria because of the red and green lighting (also reflective of the Freddy Krueger color concepts) as well as the elegant but eerie set (similar to the dance school in Dario Argento's "Suspiria") The shoot has two parts. The classy part (which is on the stone stair case) and the not so classy part (on the narrow dingy stair case). I picked that specific narrow stair case because I thought the cut out clover shapes in the rails matched the clover shapes on the grandiose stone stair case. The less elegant steps reminded me a lot of the apartment building from "Rosemary's Baby", so I wanted to be able to capture a similar atmosphere. My model also resembled Mia Farrow in the film due to her skinny body and short hair.