This dream dress which was created especially for the
Chromophilia exhibition at the Saint Pancras Gallery (Camdem) , inspired by my friend
Claudia Innocenta's painting is full of mesmerising creatures between earth and sea (mermaids and fairies with colourful hair).
The process of creation was more painting than sewing, working on the base fine art experiment dress (
see article on my blog). I created the skirt by adding every day for 10 days layers of paint glitters and rhinestones so the design developed itself organically from a white canvas to a colourful wearable painting. The bustier was made out of multicolour feathers .
The result is a synesthesia between a feeling and colour, the colours of dream impregnated on a garment. It reminded me the speech of Prospero in the Tempest by Shakespeare "
We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep." where the dream become tangible, in French Nous sommes de la même étoffe que les songes, et notre vie infime est cernée de brouillard…it sounds more like theatre character are dress in the fabric of dream and I love this metaphor.
For the shoot, with the amazing photographer
Anthony Lycett, (follow him on
instagram) we went to Whistable, a lovely seaside resort of Kent with colourful fisherman house and a lot of charming Antique shops.
The idea was to make this hybrid creature emerging from her Kingdom by the sea, like the Annabel Lee of Edgar Poe…but we've been nearly caught by the tide..and by rhinestones shoes are definitely ruined!
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| By Peter Hall |
This dress in relief as a lot stitched on, colourful flowers, beads, embroidered little dolls and barbie legs decorated with tulle dress and pink shoes. it is a potpourri between a Mexican day of the Dead an a kitsch pin up look.
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| "Close encounter with the third kind" ring available on my online shop |
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| By Peter Hall |
This dress have a very different dynamic then the dream dress and conveys more playful woman/child attitude, in comparison with the dream dress, more ethereal, do I wear my clothes or do the clothes wear me?
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| By Peter Hall |
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| By Peter Hall |
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To complete the outfit, I used the hat I made for our Demoiselle de Rochefort drag performance with Luxurioux snacks (picture on my instagram gallery) and I stitched more barbie dolls on it, nothing is lost but everything is transformed
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For the barbie legs, I am not using the real one, but the light plastic one that you find in pound shop. Usually I will be, this is a fake barbie but in this case they are better than the real one to create this "Can Can" effect
From my performance background, I like to create dresses with a narrative, incorporating humans part in a design make it more dramatic, where are theses legs coming from? To whom they belongs to?
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| By Peter Hall |
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| barbie head bracelet and ring available on my online shop |
I am wearing a vintage top that belonged to my Grandmother she was wearing in the 70s and a leggings with kitten gave by a friend from the 2010's I love this atomic mix
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| By Peter Hall |
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| By Peter Hall |
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| By Peter Hall |
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| multiple barbie face necklace available on my online shop |
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| By Peter Hall |
The talented stylist
Gianfranco Colla used some of my jewels for a tribal inspired shoot the dolls heads necklace fitted perfectly with the aesthetic (see my
tribal costume on instagram)
Last but not least, the brilliant painter Ella Guru recently wrote a detailed
article about the painting she made of Sue Kreitzman and me, revealing all the hidden message & her creative process, an occasion to look back at the
exhibition last year in Cult Mountain
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| Sue is passing the baton to Anne Sophie, her young protégé. She is saying, be bold, be free, and be true to yourself. Express who you are, and don’t hold back. And whatever you do, “Don’t wear beige. It might kill you,” as Sue says." Ella Guru |
Oooh...I spot some pieces you are wearing that I must have ;-) I really enjoy these outfits infused with your wonderful creations, I like how they transform the garment, someone might feel like the garment isn't very exciting on its own, but when you add one of your pieces, the garment seems to come to life in a way. I like that a lot :)) The painting is perfect :)) xxx
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