Xanthe harris
Fashion Designer
the dancer
Eve
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street edition
Miss Eve Street Dance Edition is captured by Sara Faraj’s lens. Faraj
photographs dancer Sofia Mcintyre as she leaps, stretches and poses
in the street of Broadway, New Market. The dancer sports a wardrobe
of high fashion garment by Whitecliffe fashion design student Xanthe
Harris. Sofia’s short coif is made edgy by hair stylist Candice Youhanna
and beauty artist Youhanna gives her a dynamic faced and bold
makeup look. A Story Told in Ink collection is inspired by the concepts
surrounding the art of tattoo in particular those relating to the concealing
and revealing of ones identity. I was also influenced by 1970’s Rock n’
Roll bands Blondie and The Runways. The collection was designed for
specific kind of women. She is a head strong, courageous woman who
does not let anyone get her down. But she is also beautiful, sensitive
and sweet. She is a powerful woman who maintains her femininity.
Throughout the collection I have represented these contrasting ideas
by the use of light and heavy fabrics, leather and chiffon and solid
and floating fabrics. I have represented concepts of conceal and reveal
through the use of transparent chiffons and opaque leather as well as
pleating that moves between the two concepts.