peek in the shadow, i come into the light, you tell me i am wrong, you better prove you're right

"scream" by michael and janet jackson

i have a feeling that i have already used this mighty song by MJ and janet, but not too sure, but who cares, it fits well with what i am going to write about.

at the beginning of the year, i was assigned to design and make costumes for six dance students for a production called "fortress". the dance was based on visiting a "room" inside your mind, a place that isn't very pleasant, and wanting to break free, but being restricted from escaping. i had some ideas of tie-dying the fabric to create some dark, muddy and bruised like colours, lots of browns, yellows, greens and soft purples all bleeding in together. i finished the production on the 28th march (which i'm now writing about nearly a month later, but y'know), and all i can say is, HALLE-FUCKING-LUJAH! it's a real shame, because i was really excited on trying something new and something outside of the fashion world and creating something for the stage, but within this unit, i found it extremley stressful, due to other commitments outside of college, such as my part-time job, my final major project, fashion marketing and my home life too, and i found some people to be really insensitive and not as understanding as i thought they would be, and it also seemed that the whole thing was unorganized.

BUUUUUT, apart from that, i stuck with it, put my blood, sweat and tears into this unit, and managed to design and make all six of the costumes (even though i only really had to make one, so i better get noticed and some credit for this!), and at the end of the day, there is nothing more satisfying than seeing something you have worked so hard on, being worn by someone else and thinking, "yeah, i made that".

i have some process of the making pictures that i can upload, and i will eventually scan in the sketches that i did,  once i recieve my folder back and i'll find out what grade i achieved. i do also have some pictures of the dancers in rehearsals wearing the costumes, but due to the dancers' privacy, i won't, but here is one of the final photographs of one of the costumes on a mannequin:

i know it's a simple design, but it took ages to stitch onto the leotard! and i wanted the dancers to do the talking, happy to say, that i'm proud of it!