Backwards in High Heels

 

Backwards in High Heels is a humorously incisive take on the ironies of wearing a dress. I am fascinated by different perceptions of reality and the consequences that evolve…A dress can represents aspects of one’s character, hopes, desires and history in the current social climate.

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The concept was inspired by the beauty and gravitas of the past, fashion and dress wearing across genders in history as today in many cultures.

The dress is created from a sewing machine, supermarket shopping basket, children’s cheap plastic toys, guns, farm animals, soldiers, cowboys and Indians.

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I have taken the iconic Singer sewing machine to use as a base but first stripping out all the beautiful internal workings to incorporate in the dress.

Materials include Cast iron, Steel, stainless steel, concrete, gold leaf, plastics, brass and  fibreglass.