I Want To Save You, I Know You Can’t Be Saved
SS25 Graduation Collection
Concept Development
I. Ingénue
The first look is made from found cotton lace and duchesse satin. This look represents a young girl in the early years of her adolescence. She is not aware yet of the external influences that will form how she perceives herself or her body yet, but they exist, taking the shape of hands embedded in her bloomers. 
Details and process
II. Novitiate
The second look is made from Giselle lace and silk. She is now at the end of her adolescence. Under the outer layer of her gown, tumors and growths form; toxicity thinly veiled by fine silk. She cannot understand her relationship to herself or her body yet.III. Governess
In a stark contrast to her delicate adolescence, this look is a complete wool gabardine set, signaling the height of her maturity in her lifetime. The corseting and seriousness of the suiting represents the limits of conformity in the world she lives in.
In this look, white organza represents her innermost desire to express herself free of societal influence; it threatens to burst free from the hem of the bodice.
IV. Mademoiselle
In this look, she almost breaks away from the pressures of who she should be, and how she should move throughout the world. With exaggerated growths developing in the wool, and excessive silk spilling from the blouse and sleeves over her hands, she is transcending from the confines of physical body in her desire to be free.V. Evangeline
In my last look, she is has transformed into an amalgamation of exaggerated growths in silks, lace, and cotton. At this stage of her life, she is beyond conformity, or 'saving', and she is now free.
This look was heavily inspired by the tea gowns of the Edwardian period, which were an unstructured alternative to restrictive Victorian day attire. These gowns could be put on without assistance, and did not require corseting.
Technical Flats & BOM
