Cycle in Heels : Les demoiselles de Londres

lundi 16 juin 2014

Les demoiselles de Londres

filmed and edited by Simona Zemaityte

I wanted to make this video with Simona Zemaityte to show a variation of the performance (me being still, because normally I am moving around the audience) and just having one person building the dress.

I like result of this video, I feel Simon is like dressing up a kind of dolls, but at the same time she seems quite powerful, as if he wanted to build it so beautifully to make a moving master piece. It is questioning the relationship between the two performers. I can still not determine what is it so any suggestion is welcome!

Find a whole article about this performance here

An amazing evolutive garment that follow your creativity, you can build yourself...

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With our collective LUXURIOUXSNACKS, worked on the development of our show "Ma petite folie" that we presented at the Bethnal Green Working men's club & Camdem Theatre people.

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We tried to come with the new concept of "French New Wave drag" (don't try to google it, it doesn't exit yet). Simon loved the Demoiselles de Rochefort Jacques Demy Movie, he even started to learn it in French (whereas even not a single French person of our age know it by heart).

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Making theses costume was a blast. I have to respect the colour code of the movie (pink & yellow) and the aesthetic (big hats) but with a drag queen twist, so I bought some glitter fabric from the Saint Pierre market in Paris.

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The idea was to dress both as one of the Demoiselle de Rochefort (Simon absolutely wanted to be Catherine Deneuve so I went for the sister)

So he was as a man dressed as a woman and I was a woman dressed as a man dressed as woman (but it didn't really worked because at the end I just looked like a woman with a lot of make up). But drag is about failure anyway...

We were sync'lipsing "La chanson des jumelles" (watch here on youtube)

At the end of the act we are taking off our clothes (not ALL of them) and we reveal our identity, Simon as a man, me as a woman creating a feeling of surprise in the audience, questing the performative representation of gender.

Show at Camdem theatre poeple,

By Anthony Lycett

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Welcome in my world

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!

For commission work, collaboration, press enquiries or just to say hi contact me: anne_so_cvl@hotmail.fr

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lundi 16 juin 2014

Les demoiselles de Londres

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