Fashion Press Week Day 1

I took the chance of starting my SS12 sampling at Fashion Press Week. SS12 is inspired by my surroundings. I live and create in the countryside. This particular piece reflects the way that creeping vines have destroyed the fabric of brick walls and have even suffocated a number of mature trees this year. This dress symbolises the day when the vine eventually reaches up to strangle the sky and the battle that leaves the vine defeated bar a single solitary stem.
The leaves are actual leaves cut from a creeping vine and sprayed with the colour of decay. They are fragile and are intended to break and crumble the way the would do in reality.