About Me
Hi, I'm Lucy a womenswear designer from Nottingham Trent University.
I’m a forward-thinking fashion design student, I am a self-motivated individual with a methodical attitude to learning. As a designer I’m drawn to feminine silhouettes and enjoy working with colour, this is part of my visual identity.
Throughout my degree I have looked at a range of interesting concepts, however, for my final collection I wanted to choose something that I have always been passionate about, Female empowerment has always been so important to my work as a designer. I want women to feel accepted in the fashion industry and feel confident to wear whatever they want regardless of age or size.
INSPIRATION
Honey, I’m home! My initial idea started with my passion for female empowerment.
The concept for my final major project looks at the traditional housewife around the 1950s. The initial idea for my concept came from Penny Sparke’s book; Think Pink the Sexual Politics of Taste, which discusses the nature of the housewife, society’s judgment on being a woman then and how women were objects of beauty, and ‘beautifiers’. Housewives were expected to embody femininity which at the end of the 1950s women used their femininity to empower women
The book speaks about how within the home certain rooms were for the wife and the husband. The bedroom was the wife’s room, somewhere to be comfortable within herself. Which led me to focus my research bedroom interiors, underwear, and nightwear. I want the collection to embody hyper-femininity. This collection is envisioned to be worn by women of all ages, to embody confidence, femininity, and self-empowerment.
MY WORK
PORTFOLIOS
DETAIL
Trapping pearls and beads into my garments.
Fabric processes have been key throughout my sketchbook and research. The initial idea for beading and pearls came from the stereotype of a housewife owning/wearing pearl necklace, the pearl necklace symbolised status and wealth as a woman of the 50s. To put a twist on this traditional necklace I wanted to incorporate crystal beads along with my pearls to make it look more modern for the women of today. I wanted to layer the strings up, so they look full and mis-matched, it is important they were not perfect as housewives were expected to be perfect which is an unrealistic expectation. After creating my first samples, my initial development was to drape these across my nightwear and over underwear. I also collaged them on to toiles and stand work, so I could experiment with placement.
I hope women engage with femininity in a modern way so it becomes empowering. (Simone Rocha, 2019).
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