Dress Up

Sorry about the mess :[

OK so i had a university project about displaying work blah bla life story ect,

and i love fashion photography so i combined the two and made a dress made out of photographs, very sexy :].

First off let me say that fashion artists have been raping photography for as long as its been out, pictures of black and white grand ma and grand dad or Monroe on a loosely fitted t-shirt aint nothing new. But for a photographer to design and create rather than a fashion designer is newer. Kinda.

Images were taken on a mix of fp4 and hp5 film to level out contrast

Its cool in fashion to not have much respect for other arts your throwing onto your design in an aid to boost the impact of the piece, but with this dress it was always 50% image 50% dress one could not over power the other, the images couldn't be altered to make the dress look better and the dress couldn't be comprehended to make the photos look better.

Concealed zip on the sides lets you get in and out, i have no idea why you'd ever want to get out though :]

Right so i only just got this dress back, so i haven't been able to do a real shoot with it yet but a lot of people were asking how it looked and what not so instead of the dress being on a lady with good legs, they will take place on my messy dorm floor.

sooooo, its about a size 10, was going to be a 12 but after hand washing it 20 times to get all the ink out it shrunk a bit, works for me.

The contact sheet was printed onto ilford pearl rc paper in the lab then scanned in

About the design, if your a real photographer then you've seen a 120 contact sheet, and you'll know there amazing. None of this fiddling around like a 35m sheet you can see your images at a good size and it looks almost like a comic strip.

The Contact sheet was repeated 4 times then digitally printed onto just over a meter of fabric before hitting the sweat shops :]

The images embedded where images i had lying around from a local Christmas market while practicing with the 40m hasselblad lens. W won't bore you will all the details but expect this to be the first of many, the second one is already a twinkle in my eye.

The dress is was designed to show every picture in full at least once on the dress. Never happened though :p

If your nuts enough to want to buy a dress like this get in touch and we'll talk business talk. Like men in suits who have no sex life.