Welcome to the Dollhouse, Anson St., Charleston, S.C.
I commented earlier this year that the one festival in Charleston that I am not involved in at all is Charleston Fashion Week and wondered if it might be the fact that I cut my own hair, wear my favorite clothes until they are tattered shreds and love dansko and MBT shoes. Ya think?
Fast forward to Friday night and I found myself front row at the "Welcome to the Dollhouse" fund raising fashion show put on by students from the Art Institute of Charleston. The best part was the finale where the students were challenged to design dresses made entirely of paper products. Pictured below, my friend the talented Monique who designed the paper dress pictured on her model.
Fun! We weren't assigned projects like this when I was in school.
4 comments:
fun indeed. Is the model underneath the always present bride?
The prim and proper nuns of our school (SMHS,Shillong)wouldnt' even have dreamt of it in even in their nightmares of such projects.That we were allowed to wear something(s) other than school uniforms during the annual fete is an issue worth thinking (when one has nothing to think of and when one considers how some of our girls wore not only the latest in western style apparels but also wore low-waist saree,etc.,.It was beleived then that the young guys crowded our school not to play bingo or go to the hall (why would they to listen only to music without dance?)but to look who wore the latest,the boldest,etc..And when the bell rang at 5pm (curfew hour as the frustrated said),the groans were mainly from the male crowd.
Now I am told,the SMHS fete have lost their charm.The girls are not as fashion conscious or rather not as imaginative as before.Most wear the usual jeans and trousers,that too of mostly the same cuts and colours.The overall impact is that of being "cloney" and very few standing out as distinct.The mushrooming of stores selling readymade stuff unlike the apparels those days which were designed by the wearers and stitched near to perfection by the local tailors is remarkable.The vibrancy of imagination of the times when we were young can never beat the so called creativity of these days which is more in line with uniformity. NAMRATA
Ineke - I think it was more of a Cruella de Vil inspired dress.
Namrata - Fun memories. I remember my sister sewing a "maxi skirt" for the fete day when maxi's were in fashion.
Wonderful fashions. Its amazing that they were done by students. And they say school uniforms hinder creativity.
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