Cinderella - inspiration

flicking through some photos through the internet under 'newspaper corset' flickered some ideas for my next project at COFA.


'based on a fairytale, design and create a wearable costume for this character that reflects their personality, history and character. it must have a 1-10minute presentation to accompany it.'


I chose classic Cinderella. slightly too girly for my liking, but i think i can come up with something decent.
(just came to jot down some ideas in a place where i wont lose it haha)


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my original idea: Cinderella to reflect inner beauty by the extravagance of the inner dress, with an outerwear made of teabags with kitchen tools attached (representing her chores) that tie her down as a slave to her sisters.

presentation: to burn the tea bag outerwear (from an experiment i did in science in high school. where the tea bag burns and turns into ashes and flies into thin air... not really. you get left with some ashes haha). as the teabags burn, the tools will come off with it, setting Cinderella free from her chores, and left with only her 'inner beauty dress'

I took a look at some inspirations today and did a few experiments with the teabag. not sure how i'm going to burn the whole garment so i might just attach it to her wrists or something so i don't cause a huge fire in the classroom.

I also read the full original version of Cinderella. (its rather long) and apparently it wasn't a glass shoe she left behind, but a silver corset. i might incorporate this into my work and draw a few sketches soon.

headpiece: princess crown, made of aluminium and all sorts of silver pieces with a veil made of teabags that is burnt off

 Love this corset, minus the visible back crevice in the middle haha. possible paper mache corset with corn starch as glue

crude picture i found when i searched 'corset'.... corset piercings? check this page out for whacked body modifications

 the 'silver corset'

Rather loving her hair here. 

entrapping her beauty of her face with her hair

LOVE THESE TWO. above and below newspaper skirt.

accentuates the S-line and i'm SO doing this! :D

might even dye our boring black and white newspapers with the leftover tea insides to create that ragged brown slave look.  

 aluminium foiled corset? with pink tissue paper instead of newspaper? hmmm...very Cinderella looking

aluminium foil weaved corset?

also someone with a flicker that made metal corsets. amazing!


new idea: accentuate the figure. definite S-line figure (like the original story) for the inner dress. make the inner dress of newspaper and the corset i'll spray with silver spray or something. not too sure yet and not sure how i'll stiffen the newspaper..
also thinking of incorporating the glass shoe. who's Cinderella without the well known glass shoe!
old flats, broken mirror pieces and a glue gun to put it altogether for the shoes.
-broken mirror pieces: reflect her past. this is her fragile self holding onto that one dream like memory, that reminds her that it was true. yet these are the very shoes that brings her to her prince, but it was her shattered history and hurts that brings her to her prince.


FINIS.