Cycle in Heels : Dia de los muertos

mercredi 12 novembre 2014

Dia de los muertos

Since I met Sue Kreitzman, I have been really inspired by Mexican style, dia de los muertos & Frida Khalo aesthetic. For her birthday I wanted to create a performance that epitomise her style & creative universe , between day of the dead, art and halloween, a ritualistic performance between spirituality and paganism. (have a look at my Frida Kahlo necklace on instagram)

by Tania Olive

Day of the dead mood board, how to link tradition and folklore with style & fashion

special mention for the Day of the costume of my designer friend Clara with her amazing barbie butterfly headpiece, follow her work here!

necklace available on my online shop

necklace & bracelet available on my online shop

by Tania Olive

How to make something cheap looking good? Just stitch some artificial flower on a 50p plastic skeleton!

by Tania Olive

Before Sue's birthday party, Sue's flamboyance in Diane Goldie + my normal day wear!

Skull bracelet that Sue got from me, and she customised it herself, a meeting point between two creativity.

Inside my spiderweb!

By Michele martinoli

Meeting with the delightful and colourful Twinks Burnett, feel really connected with her work!

By Michele martinoli

Sue talking about the day we met, such amazing things happened since then!

By Michele martinoli

My costume was a mexican style dress covered skeletons with flower crown on the head. I found them in Poundland (2 for one pound) it is crazy the amount of treasure you can find there!

Thanks to the help of the great Eve Zohar. I made a big spider cob web with green rope. and I connected the skeleton hands and costume to the rope to become part and parcel of the installation.

Then I hide hide in the gallery some little message with quotation about Art to create a kind of Halloween scavenger hunt.

By Michele martinoli

The audience had to find the messages, and come to me to say them out loud. each message had a number that corresponded to a little present attached in the spider web that the audience had to find in the tradition of the offering of the day of the Dead that the member of the audience can take with him.

Always nice to catch up with the amazing Mc Gaffy and Beast who performed a psychedelic & cosmic performance for Sue birthday. I loved her outfit, a traditional Mexican costume that she pimped up to make it her style!

Halloween is a great party time in London but you can just not make it all! So I lend my day of the dead dress to the amazingly stylish Vanessa (check her instagram gallery) to go to the Sink the Pink party, by spreading my costume in every halloween party I feel I am a bit there by spirit!

My little riding hood costume made with Petita Lechatrose, for the the Unicef UK Halloween Ball, House of Fairy Tales, The Brief by Buffy Cook was "I don't like halloween so i don't want something halloweennish" I don't want the mainstream red carpet dress, I want something crazy and over the top #perfectbrief So I made this dress based on the notion of the colour red, playing with different tone, material and textures.

My dress on Buffy Cook next to Gavin Turk!

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The Dainty Dolls House13 novembre 2014 à 05:07
This is amazing....the things you create always capture my imagination and attention. Sue is a marvellous person as well. I wish I lived closer, so I could see these performances, they look outstanding, always great to see so many artists expressing themselves :))) Love the dia de los muertos creation, it's perfect & you can found marvellous things in the pound land shops, haha :)) Xxx
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Welcome in my world

I am a young designer in fashion costume and jewellery. I graduated last year in an MA in Performance Practice & Design at Central Saint Martins in London. I'm particularly interested in costume design, the performative aspect of costume and it social impact on people.

From my background in performance, the importance of clothing is how it allows you to stage yourself, to give information about who you are, or more precisely, about what you want people think you are.

I'm from Paris but I don't have at all the elegant minimalistic French style, I'm more attracted by bright colours, mismatch prints, shiny materials, over the top dresses. I try to build clothes with material which are not fabric, crossing boundaries of the costume experiment. I think that any object from everyday life can become a fashion accessory. Anything can be stitched on to clothes.

Basically, I like CYCLING and RECYCLING. I love going to charity shops or flee markets and seeing the creative potential of everyday objects. i have always created costume with nothing, sometimes with things I found in the street. I like to give second life to old objects and divert them from their original function. In my creations, i'm using a lots of toys, as a common reference from the collective imagery, a reminder of childhood that everybody shares in every country. I like the idea of transforming a piece of clothes into piece of art. With my creations I would like to foster peoples’ creativity and make them proud of themselves in feeling unique, original and different.

If you have some barbies you are not playing with anymore, Legos, little cars or toys, please give it to me, I will use them and give them an other live!

For commission work, collaboration, press enquiries or just to say hi contact me: anne_so_cvl@hotmail.fr

I am the copyright owner of all creations. In any display or republication or redistribution of any of my ideas, the pictures of my creations displayed on my blog included, every user shall ensure that he/she has my consent, and that the copyright notice shall appear. The copyright notice shall be a hypertext link to my page. thanks!

mercredi 12 novembre 2014

Dia de los muertos

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