Despite completing a massive project for a big international company, I manage to escape few days for my traditional holiday in North Brittany.. but it wasn't a quiet holiday. I was recruited to help organise the challenge, a kind yearly nautical event, (can't really explain… you have to experiment it to understand it) the theme this year was "sports" I was coming back from Wilderness, and preparing a meeting with the project manager and the friend in charge of the event told me they have ordered costume for everyone, except for me as she thought I would prefer to make my own. So I rushed to the Poundland to fill my basket of kids outside games, foam balls, golf, clubs tennis rackets, orange cones. I took it to France on the the Ferry (the advantage of travelling by car).
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| performing in my costume specially made fir the day during the nautical rally! |
Then in my holiday house, rather than going to the beach, I stitched the balls and equipments all on a silver bomber jacket just before the event. Because like Churchill, I don't do sport, I decided to wear it on my with the symbol of the different sport sewed on the jacket and the headpiece. Also the theme colours was orange, a colour I don't really wear normally, but I like the contrast between the very sophisticated orange sheath dress which has nothing of sportswear and the difference sport equipments. I also liked the graphic and dynamic lines created but the cones & golf club.
Every year, I also organise a party in the old Germans' bunker in the garden of my parents house. This year, the theme was "space invaders", but this summer I didn't really had time to make a costume especially for the occasion because of my big commissioned project, so I took a dress I had in my last fashion show that I feel was the closest to the theme. The weird plastic wire makes it quite futuristic looking for me like spaceship pipework, and my boyfriend offered me an holographic headpiece from Jane Bowler that completed my space princess outfit.
Going to holidays is also an opportunity to change your skyline and discover new magical places. With Anthony Lycett, we works on the Into the Wild project in the UK but why not taking advantage of going abroad to shoot in exceptional location?
We wanted to find a landscape with a dramatic rugged landscape so some locals advice use "Pointe saint Mathieu" in North Finistère , and we didn't hesitate to drive there. We were not disappointed in front of the hostile rocks endlessly assaulted by the violence of foaming waves.
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by Anthony Lycett
Forecast in Brittany is always capricious and you never know what to except with the changing weather. Unfortunately one the day we came we didn't get the best light for the picture as it was quite covered but the moody weather kind of add to the dramatic atmosphere. |
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Who hasn't dream of being an archeologist or palaeontologist as a child watching indiana jones or Jurrasick park? When I was 7 or 8, I remembered some holidays in the mountains where I found a small fossil ammonite among the rock and I felt so proud as if I made a major discovery!
The outfit was shout on a magical location at Saint Samson Chapel on Kersaint touristy road. Brittany is a land of legend and spirituality, and the presence of Gallic headstone is a sign of very ancient sacrality.
We found interesting to draw a parallel in the picture by bringing together the dress and the chapel, two timeless archeological vestiges that both crossed the ages.
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I also remember during my childhood going to the Natural History museum in Paris and be completely fascinated by theses imposing dinosaurs skeleton and wondering how something so old could have been found and preserved. I find the geometrical disposition of the bones make it very interesting to incorporate into a design and make the headpiece. |
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Like most of my designs, it is a found that give me the impulse the create the piece, so in this case, finding a lot of sand mould in dinosaur skeleton shape gave me the idea of turning them into a dress.
I stitched theses mould on a base after drilling some holes. The difficulty was to reconstitute the jigsaw with the different limb and make sure they wouldn't clatter.
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The light was surprisingly harsh one that day and we had to wait at least an hour in the car for the light to soften, watching a old man sitting on the chapel's stone wall, contemplating the landscape. Too grey or two sunny, Brittany is definitely a land of the extreme.
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