One of my primary inspirations throughout this design process has been dance. Ballerinas exude effortless elegance. If that was something I could translate into a collection I think it would be very successful. This past week I was a part of a dance photo shoot at my school and was able to capture these images with one dancer in front of a window in the ballet studio.
On a different note my head is completely jumbled with so many different ideas and directions. I've started keeping a notebook next to my bed and that cliche about "the best ideas come when your falling asleep" is actually quite true (in my opinion). Unfortunately these ideas don't always make sense in the morning but when they do, you feel like you had just found $20 on the sidewalk, pleasantly surpised.
One of these ideas was about the photo shoot ( I know I'm getting a little ahead of myself, considering I haven't even decided what I'm making or out of what it will be made from...but it's fun to dream about the possibilities). I'm thinking about doing it in a ballet studio, but in the dressing room with all the point shoes and leotards thrown about, the studio that I trained at a few years ago is what I'm imagining. It's very dark and messy downstairs but then right above beautiful music is playing and light is streaming in from all directions, I think it would be exciting to capture that contrast in my photographs.
Something I'd like to accomplish this week is to find a few ballerinas to interview and ask them things about what they wear during class and also to and from the studio.
-Emma Clementina
