Embodiment

Finally at the end of the semester, my completed figures in accordance with the rosicrucian/freemason cryptogram collection I did at the beginning of the year and have carried throughout my digital course.

Synchro Queen

I came across these great shots of Annette Kellerman, first notable synchro gal, Aussie, and progenitor of the one-piece bathing suit! HOLEY MOLEY whatta suit, too. She is known for performing the first water ballet in a glass tank at the now gone NY hippodrome--similar to Coney Island's now gone Luna Park before makin it big in Hollywood. ALSO she overcame "a weakness in her legs...necessitated the wearing of painful steel braces to strengthen them" through swim lessons--It's amazing how off medicine was in the 1900s, hell even now. Still, how touching.

At any rate, I'm mad about the pearl swim cap and beading details in the suit with the cali bears(!!!!) and I used them as reference while beading my own mermaid barbie tights over thanksgiving break (snapshot above)--they still aren't complete, but in three weeks I assure you the full mermaid look in watery glory will be complete, photographed, and fully uploadable

just a spoonful of sugar helps the government spy on you

I recently went to the abandoned Domino Sugar Refinery on Kent ave. in Williamsburg with my good friend Taylor and was really captivated by the faded color schemes found in this huge overgrown factory. Our intention was initially to find a way to break in, being that this place is huge, and abandoned, but WAY too many security cameras, barbed wire, and a few too many lights on inside a building marked as being abandoned made this impossible and really sketchy. I really think there is something going on in there that I'm sure has nothing to do with sugar. Anyway, we had a lot of fun snoopin and shootin and I'm happy with how the photos turned out.

Pratt Pool

In process of my final project of the semester on synchronized swimmers. Part of the requirement for the project was to go to a space relating to our theme and take photos, and eventually return for a photoshoot once the 3-piece look is complete. I decided to go to the abandoned pool underneath Pratt Institute, being that it's in my neighborhood, it was a totally sketchy adventure, and I was bursting with curiosity as to what it actually looked like. It was really run down and trashed and I was basically shooting in pitch black with a little disposable so I had no idea what I was even looking at. Conceptually, and color wise, I think the photos have given me a lot to work with as far as print ideas as well as the idea of extravagance and allure turned to dust.

♒♒♒♒SWIM FAN♒♒♒♒

I'm getting really into the idea of doing a collection on synchronized swimming--still in the preliminary stages of seeing which images I've hoarded on my desktop apply to my research OBV. I KNOW, I KNOW the aquatic theme has been super trendy especially in the s/s shows, but being an original synchro gal myself and having instead decided to go the fashion route, spending my summer days trying to do laps at the pool in my rose petal swim cap and hot pink goggles, thinking I would fit in with all of the other lap-swimmers and ending up being the only one in the lane section,  gasping for air and calling it quits after 10 laps---the old lung capacity aint what it used to be, and then going home and watching esther williams videos on youtube( TONS of screenshots to come.) At any rate, I deserve to live out this dream through the vessel of hypothetical clothing, and hopefully come away with a poor attempt at diver buttons comme schiaparelli (see below ☟ yowza, that woman.)



So it's like 50 outside...If I was in Texas with a sunny 75 I'd be sporting sum halter thang but it AINT and I thought this outfit looked mermaid-like. Note: I was trying to do something creepy with my face for a pre-halloween post and then I got the flu. ALSO new-ish booties from james rowland shop that I have barely taken off which is partly because it takes so darn long to lace em up super tight like I like.  Note#2 I hope people stop lacing their boots halfway, I hate that trend wherever it came from, whenever it started, it's stuck out for too long, it ruins outfits, it makes you trip, it makes no sense.

MO-MO- MŒBIUS

My HI/LO, Gap competition, whatever it is, recent concept for integrated studio is coming to a close. I had the best time designing a collection inspired by the illustrator Jean Giraud, although I fear my designs will never be on his level. This is why I have GOALZ
I'm getting really excited whilst putting the finishing touched on the project--most of which I did digitally and was majorly challenging. After my last 5-week project I didn't see how I would ever be able to push myself as hard again, and look what I dun did. And what's more for some reason they are confiscating all of the projects upon submission this year so I cannot even share the last one with all of you thousands of readers of mine AND I won't be able to share this one until I get the news back that I in fact probably did not get the gap internship because I am terrible at toning ANYTHING down to a level that one can swallow. The pages below are from my sketchbook culminating research that I did on Moebius via the internet and in reading the incal, the only piece of his I have been able to get my hands on being that once comix go outta print, they are out of this world expenxive like 200 for a paperback expenxive. I also experimented with making mashups of moebius illustrations with collaged runway images to get the juices flowing as far as styling/print ideas/color/and generally attemting to find a middle ground between the surreal and... well... the gap.

SKOOL WERK

Drawing Homework:accessories



The Jacket: In Process

I Don't Love You Since You Ate My Dog

Melanie Griffith as lulu/Audrey in Something Wild (1986)

NEED this tape player purse













Buffalo hand knitted sweater from my grandma marcie, wrangler chambray button down, cheap monday eiffel tower jeans, reconstructed plush coat from the flea, vintage leather embossed bag, armani sunnies, denim booties decorated by me back in high school.













I can't get over the interiors in this movie, especially Lulu's room above which is pretty much exactly what I wish my apartment was like, and probably would be like if I could paint my walls. Instead, I try to cure my allergy to white walls with an overwhelming amount of posters, paintings, postcards, plants...
My friend Aly and I have been harvesting cheap motel/road trip/roadside attraction/mom n pop shop motifs and screenshots from different movies for her most recent concept for a collection and probably because we are both pining to get out of the city a/k/a THIS DUMP clearly depicted in the picture of what I wore on Monday...I know, it's Wednesday. I assure you, I have to pull out a lot of hair, cry and scream, and peel off my exoskeleton of stress before getting anything done these days. I haven't even had time to figure out what I'm going to be/do for Halloween, which is seriously terrifying because I think this is the first time it has ever been put on the back burner. At any rate, this movie really took me back to the look I was going for in high school(exemplified by the denim shoes)--WAY too much jewelery, little bangs, black leggings-no, black unitard, anything leopard...I would have FLIPPED for this girl. I know my look hasn't changed much but it used to be a who-lotta mo crazier...now it's all internalized YA KNOW

ALSO the soundrack for this movie is amazing, john cale + laurie anderson