Hydrangea Dreams

 

hydrangea dress and necklace

Here's another painted dress/kozo jewelry combo from my most recent shoot!

Photographer- Anastasia Cheatham
Designer- Bridget Sullivan
Model- Emilia Schmier
MUA & Hair- Cory Peltier

 I've been loving experimenting with painting on dresses. It's so meditative...a major stress reliever!

Does This Dress Impress-ionst You?

This is another color theory dress I made showing "optical mixture:"

Photo by Megan Marcoux
Hair and Makeup by Natalie Briles
Model - Kara Thomas

I was inspired by the "Impression Sunrise" painting by Claude Monet to create the batik fabric for this dress.

TransParent Trap

Ready for some color theory?  Here's my "Transparency Dress!"

Barnacle Princess

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

Life's a Garden...Dig it!

I changed my mind, I'm too excited about these pictures not to post them until the show!  Here is the final dress, photographed in the beautiful gardens at the Edsel and Eleanor Ford house in Grosse Pointe.

Photographer: Lindee Robinson
Hair: Natalie Briles
Make-up: Jessica Latimer-Doggett
Model: Madison Wayne

Almost Famous

I recently had the most exciting opportunity of my life: designing a dress for Esperanza Spalding as an option to wear the Grammy Awards this year.  Unfortunately the dress wasn't worn, but she may wear it on her tour this summer! Yay!

Inn Style

Here's a little preview of my latest dress!  More pictures to come, I just couldn't wait to share this picture taken at the Ferry Street Inn in Detroit by the lovely Lindee Robinson.  The awesome hair was done by Stein McGee and beautiful makeup by Camille LaMontagne.   Thanks to everyone!

Now I'm working on the fourth dress for my show. I'm going to be experimenting with dying fabric with rusty metal this weekend, so cool!

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:

Love Letters and Diamonds and Kittens, Oh My!

Here are a few pictures from a photoshoot my friend Megan Marcoux did this fall with some of my designs!

jean dress from altered vintage pattern

Felt Up

My beautiful friend Monica modeled one of my dresses for me this weekend!  

The top is made of hand-made felt.

So fierce!

Claude Monet's water lily paintings were the inspiration for this dress.

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.