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Saturday, March 21, 2015
Day 5: A Dress is Born! (prematurely)
Friday, March 20, 2015
Day 4 of 5: A Bouquet of Insanity
Thursday, March 19, 2015
Day 3-5: More Beading, loosing my mind, and sneak peak of bottom half.
Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Day 2 of 5: Beaded Details and Mind Blocked
Monday, March 16, 2015
Day 1 of 5: The Making of a Spring Evening Gown
Sunday, March 15, 2015
5 Day Fashion Design Challenge?
Saturday, March 14, 2015
The Fashion of a Japanese Empress
During the Heian period, beauty, was of extreme importance. It was in fashion for aristocratic women to powder their faces and blacken their teeth. Lips were painted small and bright red, and their eyebrows were plucked or shaved and redrawn higher on their forehead.
The empress's formal dress included a complex "twelve-layered robe" called junihitoe. As seasons changed the costumes would also follow the seasonal changes. Robes always followed a system of color combinations representing flowers, plants, and animals specific to a season or month. Like poetry, every step and choice had a greater meaning and process.
The various layers are made of silk, and the innermost garment is made of white silk, followed by other layers which have various names. The final layer is the most intricate and luxurious. Weighing nearly 20 kilograms, it made it very difficulty for the empress to move.
All color choices set for the layers are very important. The colours have poetic names, such as "crimson plum of the spring". The arrangements of layers and colors represented their rank and taste.
Friday, March 6, 2015
Unisex is the Future of Fashion
Thursday, March 5, 2015
5 Tips On How I Found My Own Style
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