This is a fashion illustration for one of the garments I designed for Oscar Wilde’s 1894 play ‘Salome’.

This piece was designed for the moment Salome receives the baptists head, I conceived it as a symbolic  joining of the two characters; (much of the play concerns Salome trying to seduce the baptist, and threatening him that she will eventuality have him despite his rejection of her). So here the baptists head has actually become part of Salome’s garment, and ultimately part of her.

Although I never got to make the final garment, (I actually made another look for the play) I toiled it extensively and  it would have been a digital print on a lycra or power mesh then hand embellished.

Amusingly despite this being a illustration of a design for a garment, (it shows no nudity and the violence content is questionable) it got me temporary ban and a warning off facebook. I personally think somebody had a problem with the suggestion of menstrual blood.

 

 “An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all” Oscar Wilde

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