Pioneer Spirit Project.

A project I have done last year, about Pioneer Spirit. The research was based about Native Americans, prairie girls, Cowboys,Fashion inspired about it. In ApriI, I went with my class at the British Museum in the American Indian Gallery, we had to take pictures, draw sketches, getting a lot of information about their lifestyle, and clothing. Somehow,Native americans were wearing quite a lot of skin animals in their clothing to protect them from the coldest winters or wars... I really enjoyed doing creativity into that theme. 

These are random fashion images inspired about cowboys and indians.

Fashion images enterely inspired about cowboys and western. I discovered a shoe campany, when I went to Kings Road in London called R.Soles.It's based on cowboys boots in leather made with lovely designs and embroidery. Check the website http://www.rsoles.com/, it's really amazing... I really love the idea about doing embroidery with soft colours on leather fabric. So here I just made a little design on leather, with a huge painting of a violent cowboy , and different kind of denims all around the painting.

I found a collection by Dan and Dean Catin, which they are the creators of the famous label named Dsquared2.The collection is from Spring/Summer 2010 referring on western,america and cowboys inspirations.I think their collection is beautifully done, the garments have got nice details like the fringing who matches pretty well with the denim,the leather on denim gives a really nice effect, the belts on the body emphasizes the body, they associated denim,leather,fringing,cowboys accessories...Some of their garments are flowery which they used the prairies girls as inspiration aswell.

Beautiful details, like the leather designs on denim or the underbust corset made in leather with cool designs...

Some of the research I showed you were my main inspirations for my collection of 16 designs. I haven't put all of it , I just put the 6 designs I liked the most.

That design is the final one I've chosen, I decided to take a pink floral print, and adjusting it with denim and leather designs.The underbust corset I nearly finished it, but I finally haven't done fringing, because I thought it would be too much.I'm  quite happy with the result... Now I am currently doing the jumpsuit, the time will take shorter than the underbust corset (because it was really hard to realise it!).

Here's the others designs...

I generally really enjoyed the project, I liked discovering about the lifestyle of Indians,researching informations...Then getting inspired of, and illustrated what went out of my head.