I've been working on this for a while, on and off. I seen the dress in the harpers bazaar magazine and I couldn't resist drawing it, (you can view the original image here. Though the image in the magazine that I drew from showed the dress to be more orange than red? photo-trickery at it's best again, me thinks!!)
I spent quite sometime working on the shading and the vividness of the colours, I love the reddy-oranges. The green bodice should have looked more acid-ey!! I assumed by laying down a yellow with lime green over the top it would give the right effect, not so though. I do however love the colours not to mention the dress, can you imagine making this, Oh-my-Gosh!! and to think it's vintage Dior, it looked like it was made yesterday Be-auti-ful, I Love It!!
I Swear if I owned this I would wear it every day, which actually made me question my own style and design ability's. I love bright colours and do frequently wear them yet when I design and sew for myself I almost always stick to a cautious colour palette. Time to bust out the colours I think and let my inner tropical bird free!!!
I love the layering on this dress, makes me think of Freida Kahlo, probably because of all the colours round the neck! Is it the Abergavenny fair you're going to?
ReplyDeletethe layring is lovely i bet it's very heavy though.
Deleteyes, I popped down this morning, did you go?
C'est beau.
ReplyDeleteFunny how life goes... I was born as a tropical bird but feel at home in these Northern and greyish latitudes.
Channel, Dior, you name it, you are right - dream big!
C'est beau.
ReplyDeleteFunny how life goes... I was born as a tropical bird but feel at home in these Northern and greyish latitudes.
Channel, Dior, you name it, you are right - dream big!
Sorry but I kept getting an error message when I clicked the publish button. It looks like the same message was published a few times. Please feel free to delete the repetitive entries.
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