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11/4/2022

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You can see more in depth and detailed behind the scenes in their individual blog posts
Neck Corset + Belt | Skirt and Underskirt | Bodice


This whole work began with a proposal and the general premise of the show "Let Them Eat Fake" (more details?). After the first idea was sprung the progress began with a simple sketch and overview of how I wanted to create this garment and overall how i wanted to execute this project. Below you can see the pages form my sketchbook (apologies for the wordage in the notes, I am dyslexic)
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After the sketch and plan was finished and some measuring was done I moved to cutting out my fabric and patter pieces. I did this all in one step as to make sure I had enough fabric to complete the project ahead of time. After each patter peace was cut out I labeled them to keep myself form getting confused and go to work on each of the parts separately.

Additionally there was a lot of material experimentation with this garment. I tried different embroidery patterns out, different types of application for fake blood, paint, ect.

Around the first of November I took some progress shots to be shown to the gallery organizer. this was about the progress I had made between the start of the project (October 24th) and that day (November 1st). Keeping in mind that I was spending an average of 8 hours per day working on this.

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I had added some stings of fake pearls to the shirt after attaching the ruffle. This is where my progress was a few days latter (November 3rd) as things really began to come together. This was also the point at which I ran out of beads and had to stall some parts until they arrived.
In the meantime I added some lace and additional embellishments to the bodice and go to work on finishing the skirt portion of the garment.
I had to paint the panels as well as make the underskirt. sometime in the middle of sewing the skirt together my machine began to make sounds and jam more than normal. I decided to give it a deep clean and oil which was sorely needed, it could sew though my fingers if I wasn't careful after i gave it some tlc.
The skirt came together rather fast. Sometime in the middle of finishing that part my beads arrived and I was actually able to finish the shoulders of the garment. The beading took more time than actually constructing the garment.
At some point i also added extra pearls to the belt to add some dimension in the back of garment despite knowing it would not be seen very much.
After all of that I was ready to document the garment. in total the creation of this peace took me about one full month. If you include the documentation it took just over 30 days! I took both Polaroid photos that lived in the psychical world as well as some digital images which were purely for social media. After all that was said and done it was time to take the finished work to the gallery to install.
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    The Guillotine Dress

    “The Guillotine Dress” Mixed Media (Cotton muslin, acrylic paint, glass and plastic beads, fake blood, synthetic bone, embroidery thread, synthetic lace, synthetic twill, and silk), 2022, Z. Fondanarosa

    Off with their heads and let this lavish beauty belong to those who create it, you may never have immortality no matter how vast your pockets may be.
    The idea behind this work was the want of lavishes and how it leads to instability and importance. The bourgeoisie want what they cannot keep and no matter what time will corrode all that they could want. They done deceiver to to much this even within its sweet irony, depicting the tools that the artists wishes to kill them with. This garment was constructed with impermanence in mind. the very nature of muslin as a drafting fabric and not a final fashion fabric was considered in this work. it is defined to deteriorate over time, the weight of itself and its embellishments (mostly that of glass bead work) will inherently destroy itself over time. Elements of folk costume were mixed with the highly contained and stuttered elects of couture fashion with the intention of mixing the peasant with the high end, showing the beauty of both lavish styles. the garment itself was made to invoke the images of the ware being decapitated, there blood falling over there shoulders, invoke with lavish and glittering bead work.

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