Curves: Flowers & Ruffles

I’ve always been interested in and concerned with proportion of printed fabric. I blame it on years of making real life doll clothing. I always am concerned my prints are too big to fit my paper dolls properly. Of course, the size of the dolls and the thinness of my pens limit how detailed I can really be (thank goodness), so I am always somewhat limited.

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Recently, I was pawing through fashion shows on style.com (a wonderful source for contemporary designer fashion) and thinking about what I wanted to draw when I cam across Christian Dior’s spring 2009 collection. They were designed by John Galliano, with 17th century Dutch painters serving as the major inspiration. Some of his formal dresses were some of my favorites.

I fell in love with the huge prints on the dresses. The distorted proportions were fascinating and while I don’t think I want to wear a dress covered in tulips the size of my head, I loved that one existed. So, I decided to draw some dresses with giant floral patterns for Curves. After all, why should the skinny models on the runways get to have all the fun?

Among the other things I did for this paper doll was redesign her underwear. While Curves has an illustrious history of wearing her strapless bra and panties (selected mostly because they can easily layered over), I do love undergarments of all eras and I wanted to draw something which might look like it really could support this absurdity of these skirts. Enjoy.

3 thoughts on “Curves: Flowers & Ruffles”

  1. I love these dresses! They are sooooo absurd! Of course, those Dior dresses are even more absurd. And I love them too. If I was uber rich or the queen of the universe I would wear crazy stuff like that all the time. That’s what being rich is for.

  2. I’ve always liked gowns from the past, but I don’t think I could wear them. Too much cloth, makes it hard to move.

  3. Oh man, I wouldn’t want to wear these, but isn’t that what paper dolls are for? To wear the sorts of things we wouldn’t want to wear, but think are cool.

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