Lady CHAtterley's Lover 
My design objective for this project was setting it as a film in the original era post first world war and with historically accurate costuming. I took a film script of Lady Chatterley’s Lover and updated it to include Women’s Suffrage ideals. I wanted it to focus less on sex and more on the liberation of women. I took the suffragette movement and added it in to this story. As Connie’s character develops I want to her to support women’s suffrage. The year of publish and the date of women finally getting the vote is the same year of 1928.
I decided to make Lady Chatterely's final dress from my production where she wears a classic 1920s evening gown. I designed and printed the silk of her dress to reflect her story up to this point, the fluid watercolour print reflecting the fluidity of her liberation. The colours of the fabric revolve around purple and green to reflect the colours of Women’s Suffrage. I fully draped the dress on the mannequin and paired it with a green silk slip underneath, embellished beautifully with jewels. The beading was most important to me in this piece, I wanted to make her costume powerful and strong, covered in symbols of her strength and liberation. The hand beading I achieved is in the same purple, green and white. I topped it off by making a pearl skull cap and a clutch bag with the beads that mirrored the dress.
Photography- Sandy Butler
Model- Lora Marshall