Space Girl

Mia is modelling my latest creation - a tribute to a design by André Courrèges from the 1960s. Courrèges worked for 10 years under Cristobal Balenciaga before setting up on his own and, like Balenciaga, he approached design with the eye of a sculptor. He was highly innovative and always focused on the future which led in 1964 to his ground breaking Space Age collection. One of his key concepts was that women should be comfortable in their clothes so the clothing should float free from the body and the body should be able to move inside it. I have tried to replicate that here with the cone shape of the dress and especially the cutaway armholes (best seen from the back). In some of these photos I have added my own futuristic space age ‘helmet’ - an Ariel detergent dosing ball 😅. Like Courrèges, I like to be inventive in my creations 😉 I imagine these to be a sort of helmet/hat/face visor worn by fashionable ladies of the future which they can tilt down whenever they find themselves exposed to high levels of pollution or maybe airborne viruses. When tilted down the helmet will stream pure filtered air for them to breathe…

 

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