mercredi 11 janvier 2017

Creative experiments

This year I decided I didn't wanted to wear a christmas dress but to be the christmas tree.

To make the dress, I carved two fir side in foam and I covered them with hand stitched green-sequin fabric.

For our christmas card, the idea was to be the human christmas tree, having a lot of presents at my fits.

Unfortunately it is all "fake presents". To make the set, I basically wrapped up all the boxes I had at home from moving box to the Nespresso coffee machine packaging!

By Anthony Lycett

I tried to gather in an outfit all festive elements, miniature disco baubles from Paperchase, glittery reindeers table decoration and cut out mixed colours tinsels that give an amazing texture to the dress.

It is also a performative costume with metallic hooks where the audience can hang christmas decorations.

At Pop Brixton, amazed kids were decorating the living christmas tree. For the parents, it is more alternative and original than just an Elf in the Santa Claus grotto!

By Anthony Lycett

Another bespoke headpiece, created for a proposal about the history of Caribbean Carnival with model character & toys palm tree modelled by the very talented TheLionRaw

By Anthony Lycett

Theatrical third eye headpiece with flowers and golden Barbie torsos made for the brilliant performer Lara Buffard. The eyes is made of fabric and all hand-stiched on, adorned with artificial flowers and pompons.

sequins fabric tube neckpiece with a colourful light garland so you can be fashinonable and see in the dark!

By Anthony Lycett

Always happy to lend my piece to talented stylist, here, Jessica Joy Style cleverly mixed some of my ethnic pieces with Mayamiko fashion ethical designer with for a sustainable fashion photoshoot.

Photographer: Ben Lawrence Miller

MUA: Joanne Cushing

Models: CASSANDRA BARATTO / NATALIA AFANASIUC

find all the piece on my online shop!

elephant earrings

ethnic feather headpiece

with indian vs.cow boy neckpiece

with golden barbie dolls necklace

with purple hair barbie dolls neckpiece

with "four ages of the woman neckpiece"

By Anthony Lycett

I know it is a bit late (or a bit early)for Halloween picture but I didn't get the chance to publish them in a previous article. This year, for Day of the Dead Halloween costume, I recycled plastic bones, polystyrene skulls & skeleton from the previous year show at the Barbican with @unattendeditems. I didn't wanted to dress as a skeleton or a zombie but more as an allegory of Death with a Sicilan widow aesthetic with my hand stitched "catacomb bustier"

By Anthony Lycett
With Anthony Lycett, we wanted to create an atmospheric shoot by using as a location the Abney cemetery park just behind our place. This romantic outgrown cemetery with unmaintained graves another dimension to the Grim Reaper costume.

By Anthony Lycett

In 2016, I took part of another dream project, a book about diverted & creative way of using Lego! Exactly what I am trying to do in my work! Very proud to have collaborated with the publisher Editions Hoëbeke for their book "Réinventer Légo" you can find my lego dress and my lego accessories and order it on amazon

But the book I am definitely the most proud of is Self.Styled, the outcome of 8 years of photographing project by Anthony Lycett documenting the eccentrics and individuals style! Get your copy on Amazon if it is not already done!

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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 11 janvier 2017

Creative experiments

Theatrical third eye headpiece with flowers and golden Barbie torsos made for the brilliant performer Lara Buffard. The eyes is made of fabric and all hand-stiched on, adorned with artificial flowers and pompons.

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