Culture Project

As part of preparing for our FMP, we were given a three week culture project whereby we had to combine two contrasting cultures and come out with a collection that exhibited the joining of those two cultures. My choice was Tibet meets The Roaring Twenties. WHY? Not only because they are two visibly contrasting cultures in terms of dress but on a more social level, I thought it would be really interesting to combine a culture of solitude and old fashioned, more traditional values with a culture that at its time was socially and sexually liberated and outspoken. 

I dived straight into design by individually focusing on the silhouettes of traditional Tibetan clothing before moving onto the silhouettes of clothes worn by flappers (they were my main interest). 

After freeing my mind and hand of ideas, I began to merge the two silhouettes together which proved quite difficult. I think this was because clothing worn by flappers were often straight lined unfitted garments with dropped waists; lacking in versatility whereas Tibetan dress were often pieces of fabric draped and tied around the body according to ones personal taste, never one way and very very 

versatile.