Cycle in Heels : In the navy

jeudi 6 décembre 2012

In the navy

Since my childhood, i'm spending all my summers on the sea side of Brittany (West coast of France), sailing and fishing. During this time sailor stripes jersey becomes my second choose, and it's the only moment of the year I swap my heels against comfortable wallies.

By Constance Doyle

Me trying to fix the model hair (quite scary!)

Sailor style has always inspired fashion, It's a timeless basic extremely elegant. I think it has something to do with the classiness of the uniform in general. Thus, the sailor costume is really present in the collective imaginary and fuels all kind of fantasy, it always had a connotation of journey and evasion.

Since the end of the XIXe century, the sailor uniform conquers private closet going from military to civilian one. In 1858 an ordinance fix the uniform in the navy.At first, it was adapted to children fashion. I have in mind, this image of kids in sailor costume playing at the Luxembourg garden with wood boats and hoops . stripes, navy blue

Jardin du Luxembourg by Constance Doyle

In 1846 Queen Victoria decide to dress children with military outfit in order to glorify England 's power.

Death in Venice, Visconti 1971

Then, the navy style was adopted by elegant women in French Belle Epoque and especially in theme parties. In the twenties emancipated women take this trend in there grasp.

Since then, influenced Haute Couture, and the sailor costume go from deck of ship to catwalk. Coco Chanel revisits the uniform with the "marinière" in 1917. In 1966, Yves Saint Laurent" adapts the sailor protection outfit "cabana" for women.

Chanel & YSL navy style

Castelbajac Navy style (him again!) with the anchor dress, definitely one of my spiritual guide!

Jean-Paul Gaultier make the stripes jersey the essential centre pieces of its collections. Indeed, I like the idea to divert a work clothes from it's former function into something elegant and purely aesthetic.

Jean Paul Gaultier navy style

my N2 golden fish necklace and my pearl lobster I made with toy tea set

my cat & golden fish N2 earrings
By Iris Laverdant

necklace made with all the "navy stuff" I found"

my little girl N2 brooch on a vintage navy dress

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I am a young designer in fashion costume and jewellery. I graduated last year in an MA in Performance Practice & Design at Central Saint Martins in London. I'm particularly interested in costume design, the performative aspect of costume and it social impact on people.

From my background in performance, the importance of clothing is how it allows you to stage yourself, to give information about who you are, or more precisely, about what you want people think you are.

I'm from Paris but I don't have at all the elegant minimalistic French style, I'm more attracted by bright colours, mismatch prints, shiny materials, over the top dresses. I try to build clothes with material which are not fabric, crossing boundaries of the costume experiment. I think that any object from everyday life can become a fashion accessory. Anything can be stitched on to clothes.

Basically, I like CYCLING and RECYCLING. I love going to charity shops or flee markets and seeing the creative potential of everyday objects. i have always created costume with nothing, sometimes with things I found in the street. I like to give second life to old objects and divert them from their original function. In my creations, i'm using a lots of toys, as a common reference from the collective imagery, a reminder of childhood that everybody shares in every country. I like the idea of transforming a piece of clothes into piece of art. With my creations I would like to foster peoples’ creativity and make them proud of themselves in feeling unique, original and different.

If you have some barbies you are not playing with anymore, Legos, little cars or toys, please give it to me, I will use them and give them an other live!

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jeudi 6 décembre 2012

In the navy

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