I, Coriander
Part of graduate collection.
Photography by Laurence Winram and Lucy Hutchcraft. Make up: Rachel Gallagher. Hair: Jason Hall Hairdressing. Model: Tess Rezard.
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Written by Sally Gardner and winner of Children’s Book of the Year 2005, ‘I, Coriander’ tells the story of a young girl who travels between 1600s London and a parallel fairy kingdom. For my costume, I designed and created young fairy Princess Unwin’s wedding gown. She does not want to be wed, but by doing so will become fairy Queen.
I created my own drawings, paintings and monoprinting to create illustrations resembling the Thames riverbanks and the 1600s London landscape. I took a great deal of inspiration from St Paul's Cathedral which resides on the Thames, as well as the old boats passing through. Once the prints had been created, I scanned and developed them in Adobe Photoshop, and eventually sublimation printed them onto dull duchess satin. Afterwards , I embellished with beads and foil. This became the skirt of the costume.
I developed eleven characters for this theatre adaptation, some of their costume technical drawings follow...
