Flamenco and Jazz

Here there are some pictures of my latest work for Esther Weekes, an english Jazz singer with Caribean roots, who is dancing Flamenco and performs on Thursday 28th of June in the Flamenco Museum in Seville.

For her three showoutfits we tried to mix up typical Flamenco elements like for example ruffles and Flecos and picked up fashion details from the 1920-ies and 1850ies - getting inspired in Vaudeville theatre which  has its origin in the 1850ies and became most popular in the beginning of 1900.

The material we used for the black dress is an elastic velvet and black Flecos and some old glass bottons in black and gold.

The red dress strapless on one shoulder is made out of red satin and different types of red and petrol coloured silks for the flower decoration.

The green dress is made out of a double-ply green polyester combined with a green and golden silk lace as adornment on top of a purpel silk gauze plisse.
This outfit goes with a headdress of the same materials keeping in mind the delicate glass bottons polishing up the whole image.
And of course there are those typical peacock´s feathers they used that much in the 1920-ies.
The air wheel my grandmother brought it from India and I borrow it to Esther for the show because it fits that good.

For everybody who cannot come to see Esther dancing and singing tomorrow: enjoy the pictures and hopefully I´ll get some more photos from the performence because on black skin all this looks really GREAT!!!


 BLACK  (you can click on the photo to amplify!)

RED:
 

GREEN
 

Headdress 

Wedding Bells

As every year also this year the months from march to august stand beyond the star of people getting married!

A young german women came around my studio 2 months ago and we started processing to design her wedding dress.

First of all, Amrie wanted the dress to remind of a lightly romantic summer dress. Also important to her was the idea of maybe dyeing the dress after the ceremony.And at least she brought to me a quite simple but handmade middle-age dress to be inspired.

So what we did was shaping the upper part of the dress reminding a corset with a pointed top in the middle.

The lenght of the dress reaches just above the knee and it has a very wide boltrope ( nearly 3,50m!!!) - assisted by two lines of frills ( see on the photo).

A decent decoration on the decolletage made out of a fine band of the same fabric and some cristal bottons, and the breech in the back made with upholstered small bottons polishes the dress.

I used a very extraordinary wildsilk with a really special coloration that was very cushy to work with.

So Amrie finally can dye the dress in the colour she wants after her field day!

I am very happy with the result and hopefully Amrie sends me some photos wearing it!

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