Some problems with the technology.. Leaking! Used these essential oils mixed with water in the water reservoir.
Make up Inspiration!
I did the make up.. added petals and glitter too.
Photo and Video credits to my friends: Queenie, Crystal and Anna <3
For my technology, I collaborated with Simtech. The people who helped me were Duane Lye and Wei Liang. Above are pictures of the first draft. The piezo diffuser is a small device that vibrates water into a mist. The scent comes from majority water and a very small amount of the oil. The whole set up is powered by the powerbank.
Here are the individual parts to my technology. The first picture is the piezo diffuser connected to the water reservoir, second, is the ECG device in a form of a waist band, and the third is where all the rest of the technology is. Below it is a powerbank.
Testing out the set up.
This is the dress done, with zipper and snaps. There is a snap at the neck and also the skirt. The skirt is sewed with an elastic band and a snap on the side. Inside is another inner skirt for modesty and also a sewn felt pocket to install the technology.
To hide the seams on the skirt, I sewed a tie sash to tie around the model’s waist. And to hide the piezo diffuser, I sewed a rose.
When my NEW model came, she was slightly smaller, about an inch. So I had to remove the zipper and the other side, resew the side and the zipper again. This is her with the top sewn tightly on her body.
As you can see, we added more roses and the piezo diffuser was bigger.
Model with the outfit on.
Above is an example I followed for the colour of the petals. For the spraypainting of petals, I ended up using three colours: copper, rose and pink. I really tried to vary each petal to make it look more organic. I hope that these colours speak of a nostalgic feeling.
I ended up liking the colours. However, I realised the more I moved the petals the more the paint would chip off.
As for the top, I sewed the organza and the lining together following the prototype I had made. At the time, my model was slightly bigger and so I had to cut a bigger piece. I doubled the layer for the front and back. And the front had an extra layer of brown lining for modesty. Because the cloth was so fine, It was difficult to align the darts perfectly, what more aligning each layer on top of each other perfectly as well.
I first started by sewing together some muslin from this basic pattern Galina gave me. From there we tightened the darts, and cut the parts out to form a halter neck.
Then we added a thick piece of cloth to form the neck part. Then I was done with my top.
For my skirt, I was worried about how I was going to replicate the texture of the petal of a rose. Galina advised me that I could fuse plastic, to do that. I used simple clear plastic, tiled them together, and fused them in a way I could form a petal shape with. The process helped me create natural veins and curves. I then placed the petals together to form a skirt panel by panel.
After panelling them, I felt that due to the weight of the plastic, the form of the skirt was compromised. It couldn’t hold the shape of the skirt I wanted. So I had to let go of my original design of the skirt from a high low to an all same length skirt. Also, the new design doesn’t touch the floor.
I was also worried about the colour, because it didn’t speak about the death of a rose. I tried spraypainting it and decided it would be the way to go.