Vanity Thread

At the end of the year I have to create a dress for the fashion show that the college has. The theme I was given was the Seven Deadly Sins and this is also what my current brief is about. I have to create a thread for each sin. I chose to do my first thread on vanity.

 I started my thread with some observational drawings I produced. I associated make up with vanity and that is what drew. I then found this image which I thought represented vanity. The thing that was most prominent in the picture was these thick black lines so I continued them on to the page. Next to this image I did some shape development by drawing a lipstick next to a fugue and drawing the lines across the fugue.  

The line in the image reminded me of the lines that surgeons draw on to mark where they are going to cut during plastic surgery. Plastic surgery also links to Vanity. This gave me an ideas to produce some Sashiko. I then did some more shape development using the Sashiko I made. The shapes created in the shape development made me think of butterflies but also after plastic surgery you are supposedly emerge more beautiful. This is what a Caterpillar does after it goes in a cocoon; It emerges as a beautiful butterfly.

 I looked at the striped pattern on one of the butterfly images I had and created some hand embroidery. The stripes remind me of the stripes of a tiger but also I think that tigers link to vanity because the way they saunter around is very vain.

 

After a class show and tell of our threads at college, I discovered that I should have done some work on the mannequin and maybe looked at the shapes the tiger makes with it

s legs when it walks. I could have looked at the butterfly life cycle. This feedback will help me with my next thread.