This project grew out of my personal journey of exploring and questioning what a wedding means to me. I wanted to investigate the origins of wedding traditions, consider which still feel relevant today and reflect on which I would choose to follow or reinterpret in my own wedding.
The result is a statement dress created to communicate these ideas. I focused on embroidery, a classical technique commonly used in wedding dresses, and reimagined four traditional elements: the dress, the veil, the garter and instead of a flower, a whip made out of the leftover material.
I played with layering fabric to reveal different stories. Throughout the dress, we discover many hidden messages. For example, the entire hood is embroidered with my own last name, reflecting the idea of branding yourself, as it is the last time one uses her maiden name.
All fabric is from a second-hand wedding dress, which I completely deconstructed and transformed into this new piece.
The final photoshoot was themed as a runaway bride, challenging traditional expectations, and was captured at Strip S by Edward Funger.