nearing the end..!

Oh wow.. its been a while since I've shown you guys some of my work.. reason being the amount of work iv been doing!! When I signed up to this course.. noone told me how hard it was gonna be to do the final major project :( but i must admit.. I have enjoyyyyeddd it :D

So this is where I'm at... I have completed all 5 garments :):) I know 5.. originally I was only going to do 3 corsets.. but i got a bit tired of making them and plus they would have become a bit samey! so I made 2 corsets.. 1 body bag.. and 1 double garment, a skirt!

I'll start with the body bag idea. Literally I have no idea where this idea came from.. but it was the perfect opportunity to use some screen printing!.. Which Gayle said I should probably use for this project.. Basically, I had the idea to create a dress.. which was shaped like a body bag, with a zip up the back and the screen print of the drawing I did of victim 3 Catherine eddowes blown up on the front. Obviously, body bags have a zip up the front.. So I wanted to incorporate this detail in somewhere, so I came up with the idea of having an open zip at the front as an extra layer over the screen print.. like this..

 the front!.. with my design and as you can see.. the open zip.

And the back.. with the full zip from the top to the bottom.



As well as designing another garment.. I have finished and photoshot my 2nd garment.. I have also photoshot my first garment.. but my sister did my photoshoot, and the photos are not great :( but ill show you one anyway :)

victim NUMBER 1.

finished and shot.. or should i say stabbed?..

 oh wow.. how stretched is that!?.. but you get the idea.. so it goes from this lil design... to the finished garment.. I showed you the process last post.. but this is the photoshoot, which I'm so pleased with! Modelled by the lil beauty that is Victoria Wayman.

I can hear you all now.. "why the hell is she eating grapes!?" WELLLL.... Jack the Ripper, used to give his 'ladies..' grapes in order to gain trust in them before he SLIT THEIR THROATS FROM LEFT TO RIGHT... haa, no baut seriously, grapes were really expensive in those times, and as these poor women were starving hungry.. and worked as prostitutes to earn their money.. you can probably guess that grapes to them were like gold dust!
 Oh and viki was modelling Mary Anne Nichol's- victim number 1.



Here.. we have the sister. Zara-Louise Cowan. Although the photo's werent great.. she tried her best, I'd like to think.. and the corset did look good on her :)

 She was wearing Mary Jane Kelly- victim number 5.

 The corset in the light. My favourite one :) made from latex.