Boy and Girl Twins - Fiction

Twins in Fiction - Fred and George Weasley

Some of the scenes with Fred and George, showing how mischievous, identical and silly they are together:

Celebrity Twins

Second Outcome Intentions

For my second outcome piece, I was thinking of extending my theme of portraying personality through garments by focusing on the individuality of twins.

Identical twins are similar in appearance but individually have their own unique personality. Many twins are close and usually have similar likes and dislikes, but others wish to be separated from their twin because they want to be their own person. 

By referring to twins, I can create an art based piece by portraying their similarities and differences through a garment or garments e.g. Identical outfits on the outside, but on the inside it shows the individual personalities of the twins. I can also express the personalities of the twins by using punk techniques; punk is a very personal and unique style creating one of a kind clothing fitting the wearer. 

Scaramouche's Costumes Complete

I have completed both of the costumes now for the school production. The Gothic costume was very easy and quick to complete as I was using ready made garments and just slashing and cutting into the fabric. The second costume however was more time consuming, as it required me to create garments, hand paint designs and draw tattoos.

These are some images of my costume in the performance

Update on Scaramouche's Second Costume

From my designs for my top, I've started to draw in Biro on the sleeve. It's difficult to do, but it's working well. As the back of the top is going to be covered up by the corset, I'm probably going to drawing the dragons on the sleeve instead. This will definitely take me awhile to complete. Something for me to do over the holidays.

Update on Scaramouche's Second Costume

I've painted my boots for Scaramouche's Bohemian outfit, personalising it to fit the character. I've included skulls and roses, like the tattoo design I've created to relate to love and rebellion. I've also painted a stormy sky to refer to lyrics from the Bohemian Rhapsody, as the song is seen to be a prophecy for the Bohemians.

I've included the Japanese writing for 'Somebody to Love' again; punk clothing usually has some form of Japanese writing on it, and it's Scaramouche's song.

I've also included Ga Ga crossed out as a sign of rebellion.

Update on Scaramouche's Second Costume

My actress tried on my corset and skirt today so I can adjust it to make it fit comfortably. For this the corset is inside out, but I am still able to see my costume together. I had to cut my corset at the bottom, to shape it nicely around the hips, which meant I had to remove the か at the bottom of the Japanese writing I painted. 

Jean Paul Gaultier

Update on Scaramouche's First Costume

For my first costume, I've managed to get a large, man's jumper for me to destroy. I choose it for its bagginess and the zip on the collar. I'm thinking on laddering the bottom of the jumper and slitting the selves.

I've slitted the leggings and added some safety pins, but you are unable to see it in this image because the actress is wearing black tights underneath.

Kilt

For Scaramouche's Bohemian costume, I've decided to make a tartan female kilt. This is because in punk fashion, tartan was a popular material to use.

The female kilt is short in length with a similar style to the classic male kilt. 

It has a flat panel on the front.

And is pleated on the back. 

And is wrapped around the waist instead of pulled up. 

Somebody to Love - Japanese

After doing some more research on punk and rock fashion, I came across a lot of Japanese writing that is included in the design of the clothing.

Seeing this as a typical punk style, I decided to try and find the Japanese translation for Scaramouche's song title 'Somebody to Love'. This took awhile to find but I've managed to come up with a good enough translation which means 'Somebody to love' or 'loving someone'

愛する誰か (aisuru dare ka)

I'm hoping on including this on my corset for Scaramouche's Bohemian outfit.

Juliana Sissons

Analysing 'Somebody to Love'

Update - Scaramouche

For my first outcome in my coursework, I will be making a costume for Scaramouche, the lead female in We Will Rock You for the school's production.

'We Will Rock You' is a futuristic tale which tells of a massive corporation, Globalsoft, which sends computer generated music to all of the people on the planet. Singing, musical instruments, and any expression of creativity, are banned. But Lost Texts are known to exist which talk of music from years gone by. A group of rebels (the Bohemians) strive to discover the lost music, and bring down the corporation. The two heroes, Galileo and Scaramouche, discover musical instruments buried in rock, which they use to vaporise the head of the corporation (The Killer Queen), and send the Power Of Rock around the world to free the masses, enabling them to be musically creative once again. Source

Scaramouche is a very sarcastic and rebellious character who wants to be different to the Ga Ga girls -showing it through her first outfit of black clothing and (typically) her messy hair. The black represents how  she is depressed because she doesn't feel like she belongs.




The character wants to be in love, but not with the typical ga ga boy; she wants to be excepted as herself.

She meets Galileo when they are both taken away for being possible future Bohemians. Before they meet, the audience knows that they'll end up being lovers as they both sing 'Want to Break Free', showing their common interest of not wanting to be with the others. The song they sing together when they meet is 'Under Pressure', again linking to having to be with the ga ga's and to be like them.


The relationship with the characters is that they like to bicker and take the mick out of each other.

When Scaramouche meets the Bohemians, she is redesigned so that her personality and role of a Bohemian is shown though her clothing. The clothing style is based on punk, as it typically includes leather, corsets, mini skirts and lace.












The usual colour scheme of this costume is red and black: reflecting on love, passion and wanting to fight. There is usually more red then black, showing that she is a lot more happier than what she was.

I was thinking about a colour scheme similar to the feminist colours: purple, white and green, as Scaramouche has feminist views. However, if I use these colours I would have to make them suit the punk style: make them more vibrant or dark.

Bridesmaid Dresses

I brought into school two different bridesmaid dresses with at least 20 years age difference, to draw from. I decided to look at bridesmaid dresses, as they portray a role in weddings and can be personal to the people who's wedding it is.

This green dress was my mother's bridesmaid dress which she wore at the age of four. It's a full size, pale green dress, decorated with simple Chinese characters and flowers.

I decided to draw with a Chinese brush  for some of the studies, using watercolours and Indian Ink. I found it more suited for the style of design for the dress, as they are very basic shapes.

The design on the dress also portray's roles, as the people are dressed for a special occasion (maybe a wedding).

I developed my drawings into hand painted samples, influenced by Nina Vivian Huryn. For the flower sample, I managed to find some floral material that looks similar to the original design.

I then looked at a more modern bridesmaid dress. It uses more silky materials and embroidery.

I focused on the floral design on the torso of the dress, as I found it the most interesting; it's a symmetrical design of a flower vine and reminds me of a spine of a skeleton.

Safety Pin Fashion Sketches

Today in textiles, I decided to a few fashion sketches of what I could create out safety pins.

I photocopied the sample and created different types of garments. I made a few punk based studies such as the jacket and trousers, as it is what you might expect more for a punk outfit. However I also tried making dresses: different lengths and styles, which became more catwalk fashion based. I even tried to recreate Queen Elizabeth I's dress, which is an odd mix, as the original dress is traditionally royal - decorated in pearls and embroidery - but is then turned into something punk and rebellious. This go's against how the queen is trying to portray herself in a role of being a leader, but could suggest an individual who want's to show who they're really like.

Tudor Day Out

Methods on How Goth's Dress

My friend used to dress in Gothic clothes when she was a teenager. The style for her was influenced by her taste in music and friends. Even though she is still into the same music, her dress sense has changed now that she is an adult, and has become more casual - which suggests that age can effect the way someone dresses.

She wore mostly black, which is the stereotypical colour for a Goth to wear. However, she wore block colours with her outfits, and was usually colour coordinated.

She also wore accessories such as stud belts, crucifix necklaces and big black boots.

This full dress is completely black. It's not very casual, so she would of worn it on special occasions or going out. It is made of lace and velvet which are girly materials, however the colour black makes it anti-girly and more dark. This shows that being a female Goth, you still want to be feminine but not happy-girly by wearing  a rainbow colours all mixed together - even though there is an exception of wearing one colour with the black.

                           

              

 There is also usually a 'death' relation to the design of Goth clothing. For instance, this dress my friend is wearing includes skulls, with a black and white colour scheme. The skull looks broken and full of spider webs, suggesting more Gothic stereotypes of creepiness.

I tried out some hand painting of the skull with acrylic paint.

I then decided to paint it on an old dress, which I had found in a charity shop and adjusted slightly about a year ago (the adjusting failed so I didn't mind painting on it).

I decided to try and make it a bit personal by having the swirls make out the movement of water and also create a swan swimming. This is personal to me as I have recently visited many lakes for my art project.

I really like the Goth style, and I'll probably look more into the subject, as the method of dressing as a Goth is amazing; a range of materials, block colours and busy designs incorporating skulls and flowers.

Feminism

Safety-pin Jacket

The Safety-pin jacket (1978) created by american artist Mark Mahall (1949-1978).

" Mahall's glistening meditation on pattern and texture, created by sticking a commercial vinyl bomber jacket with thousands of brass safety pins, could also be read as golden armour for a modern day hero, or a gentler, wearable-art version of Punk fashion."

I got this from the same book as the hand painted coat. This jacket links well with the punk movement, as like said in the description it's a "wearable-art version of Punk fashion", as the safety pins are an unusual object to use in normal clothing but isn't unheard of in some punk clothing. Also, the fact that it is a bomber jacket links to punk, as it suggests the wearer is rebellious.

This jacket reminds me of Leigh Bowery's Levi Strauss & Co jacket, which she customised with gold hair pins. Therefore, I can imagine the weight of the safety pin jacket to be very heavy too.

I find the direction of the safety pins very interesting as it creates a wave of textures, which can not be copied.

The method used in this jacket to show the wearers personality, individuality or role, is how the safety pins are used to create rough textures, reflecting on how the punk wearer wishes to be unique and against being normal.

I decided to try and imitate the textures that could be created on fabric using safety pins, and it worked out OK. However, I had to use seven boxes  of safety pins and the process took awhile, so now I have any idea of how long and expensive making that jacket would of been.

I managed to create quite a lot of texture though using the safety pins.

I also placed it on my shoulder to see how it lays on the body. I noticed from doing this, that the safety pins on the top of the shoulder sticks out.