Skirt project: your colour is pink!

Outcome: a skirt representing our allocated colour and the items that were placed in the envelopes we were each given.

For this project, Gayle allocated me 'pink', mainly because I rarely used pink in any of my work. So during my project, I started to look at how pink is seen amongst different age groups and the ways in which stereotypes have been used to influence and develop the potential for its meaning. For example: pink is predominantly a very feminine colour, which for young girls resembles a playful innocence. For women, pink still holds that 'girlishness', but it can also been seen as quite sexual, and within the sex industry it can be used to promote and enhance that playful innocence in a regressive kind of act. Weird.






Initially, we used the envelopes to influence a moodboard we were required to make before we started the rest of our research. With all these ideas bobbing around, by coincidence I watched Terry Gilliam's 'Tideland'. Jodelle Ferland's character, 'Jeliza-Rose' and the psychology behind her escapism influenced me to design a skirt which also incorporated 'the psychology of lines' within a design, known as 'gestalt psychology'. For the shoot, I wanted to play out 'Jeliza' and Brendan Fletcher's character, 'Dickens'. As well as being her friend, Dickens also played a pivotal role to Jeliza as a father figure (the wig reinforcing this switch of roles). The photo shoot was influenced mainly by the psychotic nature of their adventures, with particular emphasis on role reversals and the naive, yet admirable nature of playful young minds, free of prejudice and conditioning that many of us are constantly challenged with today.