Kathrine Kirk
Exploring ideas of femininity and form, the student draws inspiration from Balenciaga’s famous sack-dress design. Much like Balenciaga’s boundary challenging silhouette, the student's design calls both the restrictions that society’s expectations have on women’s fashion as well as the physical restrictions of the garments themselves into question. The piece eliminates and contains the female figure, not delineating nor constricting the body.
The student explores the space between the body and the clothes, creating distance between the two and allowing the design to become a narrative of its own. As the student affirms, the design underlies “how carrying and containing is a part of the female experience.” With the idea of containing in mind, the resulting design took further inspiration from perfume bottles–another container–in its geometry and simplicity, leaving behind an elegant design physically and formally distanced from the female form.
