The Barnacle Dress in Tokyo!

What in the world?  One of my dresses made it to Asia!

Esperanza Spalding performed in the Barnacle Dress in Tokyo, Japan this week!

This Titanic-inspired dress is made from kozo fiber and hand-dyed raw silk.  

You can find more information about in earlier posts...here and also here, and below you can see the process of making the dress from start to finish!

Barnacle Princess

Photo by Lindee Robinson,  Make-Up: Jessica Latimer-Doggett,  Hair: Natalie Briles,  Model: Kelly Kirstein

Peacock Room Photoshoot

Lindee Robinson took these pictures of three of my dresses at the Peacock Room, a new boutique in the Park Shelton building in Detroit.  This was such a fun shoot!

Behind-the-scenes:

Shape up or Ship Out!

I've know I've been neglecting my blog, I am going to dedicate this week to catching up on what's been happening with my senior year, because the Bridget Show must go on!

Kozo is a natural fiber from mulberry plants and commonly used for papermaking.  I made this piece last year out of kozo:

Photo by Megan Marcoux

I've been working with kozo in my major studio class to make two dresses, so I will now present a sneak peak of my progress!

These are my inspiration pictures:

My first dress is inspired by a photo of bow of Titanic decaying underwater:

Making millions of kozo barnacles!

I just started the second dress, but here is what I have so far!  I was inspired by the Winged Nike statue, which is also standing on the bow of a ship.

There's still so much to do and only 6 weeks to do it!!!

Dressing Table Dressy

This is another outfit I made last semester! 

The pink dress is shibori dyed silk and the robe is silk organza with embroidery details:

I made it for my "Art and Artifact" class, where we went to the Edsel and Eleanor Ford house and got to choose anything we wanted as inspiration for our piece.  I picked this 17th century French dressing table:

This table is so beautiful!  The top opens up where there's a mirror and compartments hold powder for wigs.  

This table comes from the time of Marie Antoinette, who was was an inspiration for many of my pieces last semester.

Mermaid Dress

This is the first dress I ever made!  Photos by Crystal Vinson.