Past Works
Thanks for checking some of my work out! with over 4 years of experience in costume designing and making, this is the portfolio I have accumulated over the years. For any queries, don't hesitate to contact me
Maya Gown
"Maya Gown was a custom reception wedding dress I made in two weeks. The goal was to create a sexy, comfortable and romantic dress for the bride to eat, dance and have fun in. The designed involved a made to measure coutil and satin underbust corset which I pattern drafted myself, with handsewn beaded lace appliqués, cord bindind and lace trim, a bias cut 3/4 circle satin skirt with a hand stitched beaded lace hem, and a beaded lace capulet- esque sleeve which I also patterndrafted and sewed myself.
"Pretty Girl" is a reimagination of the modern popstar. The project was conceptualised, designed and made by myself. The process involved patterndrafting the bodysuit for stretch fabric and manipulating the cutouts, creating a stretch bodice mold for hand stitching and embellishing, laser cutting mirrored acrylic and vacuum forming acrylic plastic with spray paint to create a liquid metal embelishment, attaching hundreds of disco tiles individually to the garment, 3D printing a platform for the disco ball mechatronic, creating the disco ball attachment for the mechatronic, wiring the mechatronic, creatign a half disco ball belt, magnet attachemnts for the shoulder disoballs, hand stitching discoballs to the back cutouts and handstitch finishing chords to all the seams and cutouts.
Pretty Girl
All Eyes on Me
"All Eyes on Me" is for a reinterpretation of "To Wung Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar", for a scene where Chi Chi is trying to hitchike a ride with her looks. The project was conceptualised, designed and made by myself. It involved creating shapewear hip pads, a drag faux leather and coutil corset, creating foam and ceramic moulds to steam mould real leather for the lips, vaccuum forming the globes for the eyes, setting up and wiring mechatronics for the lid, lazer cuting and heat moulding the eyelashes, painting the eyes, patterning and sewing the faux leather sleeve, creating the earrings with hole hoops, ribbon and chiffon and sewing the faux leather tongue.
The Dolly Rocket gown was a commission made with one other designer, Kaiqi Zhang and two interpreters, Laura Dought Voaden and Yang Hong for Dolly Rocket, the MC at Proud Cabaret brighton. the gown involved a made to measure bedazzled underbust corset, a decorated and bedazzled bra, a satin patterncut undergone, a creatively draped chiffon overgrown, 70 hours worth of handmade chiffon feathers, a spot welded headpiece which was then decorated with feathers, chains and crystals, and a sleeveless velvet taffeta tailored jacket. I partook in both the designing and making process
"Prospero" was a cyberpunk reimagination of the character of the same name from Shakespeare's "The Tempest". The costume involved a creatively patterncut linen and coutil bodice, a faux leather and foam jacket with detachable sectioned sleeves attached by magnets, a spotwelded geometrical two piece cage that would be moved on wheels, a handmade steel hoop skirt, a cotton skirt with a toule base, rouged with horizontal and vertical cord and texturized with crackle paste. the hair and makeup was done by me, and the film was also shot, lit, directed and edited by me
"Witch Of the Waste" is a drag reimagination of the character of the same name from the film "Hal's Moving Castle. The costume involved a made to measure satin backed coutil corset, a reworked bridesmaid gown into a skirt, handmade crochet shawl, handmade. crinoline, gloves made out of a stretch velvet dress and handmade lycra shorts. the makeup and styling was also done by me, and the photoshoot lit, directed and shot by myself.
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"Sustainable Hate - Antisemitism" was a project around sustainability. We were tasked with creating a zero waste shirt surrounding a topic of sustainability. I focused on the most self sustained form of hate in history, antisemitism. the shirt involved sewing the zero waste patterened shirt out of callico, dying it with tea and coffe, using teabags to create the uneven dyed look to asymilate the coloring of the Torah, the jewish holy scrolls. I silk screen printed a passage from the torah as the jews cry enough from slavery by the egyptians, I created the burned star of david and "Chi" by using bubble wrap and liquid silivone mixed with acrylic paint, handpainted the striped on the back and used tweezers and sandpaper to create the rugged hem on the bottom of the shirt.
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"Anxiety" was a project where we were tasked with creating a headpiece that depicted an assigned emotion. I created this Alien inspired headpiece using aluminum wired, stuffing, calico, a faux leather used handbag, acrylic paint and thread to create a textured, macabre look.
"La Traviata" was a reimagined techno rave interactive perforamnce of the opera " La Traviata". I was tasked with creating a miniature version of one of my designs for the project. The costume involved creating my " trippy plaid" using 4 different silk screens to create a disorted plaid, which was then rouged with toule and cord, a satin organza corset, a lycra catsuit, a leather waist enhancer and hip crinoline to help hold the shape of the garment.
"Descent - Alice Wondering For a Land", was a stills film I styled, helped photograph, was one of the hair and makeup specialists, creative directed and edited for. The photoshoot was inspired by alice in wonderland characters including Alice, the cheshire cat, the caterpillar, the queen of hearts and the bunny. For the styling I procured used items from charity shops to stay within the budget and to achieve a worn in look, and was inspired by the underground rave scene from when I arrived in London, and all the different characters I was introduced to.
Dolly Rocket
Night Circus
Witch of the Waste
Anxiety
La Traviata
Descent: Alice Wondering for a Land
"Night Circus" was a german expressionistic reimagination of a scene from the book "The Night Circus" made 90% out of calico and 10% organza. The scene depicts the universe the characters live in chnaging from black and white to a coloured reality though magic. This was a group project involving myself, Emily Brusson, Ekaterina Yurova and Savannah Endean.