“People look at Succession as the return of stealth wealth dressing, but I don’t see that,” Galambos says. At her Sydney boutique Parlour X, Galambos sells creative pieces from Jacquemus, Courrèges and Mugler to wealthy clients who baulk at the idea of a plain oatmeal turtleneck jumper. These unexpected fashion fans with fortunes are closer to the style zeitgeist than the Roys, according to luxury retailer Eva Galambos. Rupert Murdoch’s granddaughter Charlotte Freud is fond of wearing punk-inspired bomber jackets and goth girl dresses from Selkie to promote her music, released under the name Tiarlie. For extra volume and flow, layers of pre-loved and discarded chiffon and voile leftover fabrics were sewn in, with each individual piece of fabric being heat-manipulated to create unexpected and organic-like textures.Even members of the Murdoch family enjoy playing with fashion. Restoring their components into a new ensemble as a one-piece continued the journey of transformation with dying and texture embellishments from the shibori techniques and the stitching of beads to the surface. Each circle piece is individually hand stitched to the base for surface texture details evocative of the barnacle-encrusted rocks.ĮCO-COUTURE DRESS: The construction process in imagining the halter neck dress started with the assembly of two separate pieces of pre-loved clothing, the tulle petticoat and shapewear bodysuit. The design process used a desaturated colour palette when dyeing HDPE plastic, and the tie dye technique to achieve intricate shades of blue, grey and brown.
The various processes used when dealing with the plastic included rust dyeing, melting, and cutting to transform them into creative repetitive embellishment elements.
HOODED BOLERO WITH LONG SLEEVES: The tailored base is constructed from discarded jersey fabric, embellished with HDPE plastic waste. The third Selkie costume was created during the pandemic in 2020 and was featured in a filmed performance piece premiered on YouTube for Orkney International Science Festival. Manipulating the surfaces with 3D Shibori technique is a labour of love, a fascination with the idea that cloth holds the memory of action performed on it, a vehicle for imagination and creativity. For fixing the pattern and to create pieces that appear organic, dyeing techniques were used to animate fabric into intricate and delicate shades of grey. Items are wrapped in plastic, secured with thread and then set with heat, and the process thereby leaves a “memory on cloth” – a permanent record, whether of patterning or texture, of the particular forms of resistance to the change. Within these magical skins lay the transformative power to return to seal form, and thus to the sea.Īnd there is a similar transformative power in the process of creating selkie costumes by animating pre-loved and discarded textiles from a two-dimensional flat surface into a three-dimensional object.ģD Shibori is a technique for adding texture and shaping textiles by exploiting the thermoplastic qualities of some synthetic fabrics in order to manipulate surfaces.
In order to shapeshift they had to cast off their sealskins.
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The story of shapeshifting, of the skin which enables the transition between the human and natural worlds, crossing the uncertain boundary zone of the shore, is one of transformation. The third Selkie costume was created during the pandemic in 2020 and was featured in a filmed performance piece premiered on YouTube for Orkney Science Festival. In September 2018 the Selkie’s New Clothes costumes were on display as a public window installation during Orkney Science Festival, comprising male and female selkies. These were two separate projects with the same theme.
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