Georgie

[Bottom to top] number 1) jumper taken apart, burnt, then put back together. 2) stained samples which have been buried for a week. 3) some stained samples, red wine, tea and coffee. 4) paper sampla, top was left outside for a week, the yellow was stained with tumeric and gumleaves and the last one is whats left of paper afte its been buried for a week. 5) the dress so far. 

All through this project I have thought of nothing else but clothes. It occurred to me that creative destruction is basically what we do to our clothes over a long period of time. We buy them or make them, and then we wear them out. Over time clothes begin to accumulate a history, they take on our identities and in turn grow their own. This is the beginning and I have look at some different ways of destruction, firstly after some advice from cathryn (thanks cathryn), I began with ready-made (second hand) clothing. I pulled them apart, did a bit of destruction and attempted to sew them back together. The results were surprisingly impressive.

This destruction was all well and good, however I knew that I wanted to achieve something a little more meaningful then simple destruction. My plan is to create a dress and put it through four separate stages 1) staining: tea, coffee and red wine. 2) Run over by a car on a gravel driveway. 3) Buried with rust. 4) Finally after all this ill-treatment the dress will be bleached and washed. The outfit will do a full circle from new and pristine, to stained, bedraggled and buried and finally back to clean. Not only am I destroying the dress but I am then destroying all the work I’ve put into ruining it.

The dress is essentially the main character in a story about, possibly, the worst night out ever. The entre work is a narrative with a beginning, middle and an end.