senior thesis: look #5

This is the fourth look in my collection of 8 for my senior thesis in fashion design at the University of Cincinnati. To find out more about the concept development and inspiration I took for this project, check out my posts here and here. The first post explains a bit about my concept for this collection, which I've named Linguistic Relativity. The second post goes a bit deeper into the concept and shows the charts I made based on research.

For this project, I took a lot of inspiration from words in foreign languages, masculine and feminine perceptions of garments, the different ways cultures perceive color, and the number (plural vs. singular) of certain words.

View look #1

View look #2

View look #3

View look #4

Without further ado, here is look #5. This is the only look that I really haven't started in final fabric, despite the critique being in 6 days. It's just taken a backseat to some of my more favorite designs, and I guess since my model wasn't around much it didn't motivate me to work on it. I'll likely start it tomorrow.

This dress has a corset style bodice, representative of the word "corset" being masculine in most languages, although being an extremely feminine garment. It has a "collar" and button down placket in the front, mimicking a men's shirt, flowing into an ombre chiffon skirt. The color palette derives from a word in Latin that means "watercolored" rather than a specific color.