Beatrice Oettinger I

Working in a world of fantastical fashion Beatrice Oettinger has often used fairy tales for the starting point of her costume and fashion creations. Now she says that she simple needs to take a walk and see a weed growing from a crack in the pavement or a flower to be inspired.
This first of three posts, exploring the work of this German artist/designer, features her 'pea collection'. A transparent dress and underwear with peas sewn inside, inspired by the fairy tale "The princess and the Pea".

Kelsey Johnston

 

ECA degree show is on NOW until the 11th of June and is open throughout the Jubilee holidays. Go and see the work of textiles, fashion and performance costume graduates, it is inspiring and will also give you lots of ideas about presenting your work.
 These are the drawings of Performance Costume graduate Kelsey Johnston she has used photo transfer in combination with her designs and presented them with fabric samples.

Emi Wada

'My Life In The Making' by Emi Wada. Emi Wada is a renowned Japanese costume designer, you will have seen her stunning work in films such as Peter Greenaway's film Prospero's Books, and Zhang Yimou's film House of Flying Daggers.
This beautiful book of her life's work is already quite rare you can only get it if you have a spare £350, but I wanted to share it for its beauty and inspiration for your sketch books and source boards.

Bojana Nikodijevic II

With body morphing on a similar scale to Comme des Garcons at their most extreme, this is Bojana Nikodijevic's fairies series.

Bojana Nikodijevic I

Bojana Nikodijevic makes incredible clothes challenging our expectations of texture and silhouette

Sonia Biacchi

Some of the incredible works of Italian designer Sonia Biacchi. I think it is important for you to be aware of costume designers, for their performance specific extremes can be very inspiring in terms of contour's, silhouette and form enhancing pattern etc.

Dominique Lemieux II

Dominique Lemieux costumes made for the film Bogus

Lesley Dill

Lesley Dill is an artist/sculptor who's work has as its foundation dress, known for her sculptures of texted classical dresses. However inspired by her admiration of the poetry of Emily Dickenson, she was driven to create an opera. 'Divide Light' is Lesley Dill's opera based on Emily Dickinson's work and for it she created amazing costumes, costumes of poetry that scroll out from the body emanating the passion of the language.

"I wanted the costumes to be vivid word-pictures that were themselves events of reading. There was a costume for each of the three operatic voices that were tailored for the rhythms and harmonics of their voices. The other seven costumes are performative costumes that scroll out, pivot, release, pull out, revolve and are "actions" of reading using a number of actors for each performative costume." Lesley Dill

Iris Van Herpen

Dutch designer Iris Van Herpen creates structural sculptural garments using digital technology and materials usually confined to industry and architecture. Images are from Iris Van Herpen's Spring Summer 2009 collection inspired by industrial smoke.

Jeanette Sendler

Jeanette Sendler's portfolio has millinery, felting, tailoring, printing, weaving and many other facets of textile and fashion design. These images are from a residency that Jeanette had in Newburgh Fife in 2007. I particularly like the top image a tailored jacket constructed from pattern paper. Jeanette Sendler now works from her studio in Perth and teaches at Edinburgh College of Art.