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kisari-v · 1 year

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Using Fashion To Make Fiction Closer To Reality

Just straight up throwing my Fashion MFA thesis plans to the void so I can edit them or look back at them later for when I work on it

I have always had a lot a love of art and storytelling growing up. And something I love about animation, which I focused my BA on, is how it brings all sorts of stories to life with the different mediums it involves. Visual art, music, and storytelling are so important that without them the emotion and tone that are integral to a project’s voice is gone. In my projects, I particularly like to focus on character design. What helps to express a character? Being able to show off their personality and demeanor with their design to let viewers know who they’re dealing with in a story, or at least how they are supposed to understand them at first glance.

And for all the fiction that they are, people love emulating their favorite characters in media as we’ve recently seen with the rise of cartoon-inspired fashion and cosplay. From the accessories that characters wear, to their outfits. Demon Slayer’s earrings. Sailor Moon’s celestial-based Jewelry and pastel 90s fashion that is famous for its soft, cute, and cozy aesthetic. The return in popularity of Winx Club for its turn of the century “Y2K” fashion that features bright colorful modern outfits in a world that is a mix of both fantasy and sci-fi. Disney fans who are particularly known for their love of “Disney-bounding” due to the restrictions the Disney parks have on costume wearing. The practice of media-inspired wear has become a phenomenon. These outfits bring comfort to these previous viewers that come back around to turn television into a source for their inspiration and style. I certainly have found such while I was growing up cosplaying with friends and trying my best to make my clothes look like those of my favorite characters.

And although it may come off that only Fashion inspires what brings back the popularity of certain media, I also believe that the way these shows have brought attention to certain fashion trends of their time allow them to become immortalized in a way that sets them apart. And the fondness for that allows them to come back to life due to the nostalgia they bring their audience that has grown with their favorite series or movies.

So what I would like to focus on in the fashion design master’s program with this knowledge is; how do you achieve a set of outfits that become cohesive enough to help reflect the tone of the story they take place in while also reflecting each character separately to show their personality and journey through their clothing? And finally, with that research done, I would like to expand on my own work in animation and comics by focusing on designs and fabric that help to leave the wearer and the viewer understanding these characters through their outfits. I would love for my thesis to include a mix of these two mediums with my own animated fashion on these characters transitioning into real clothing to tell their stories together in a way that makes fantasy and fiction feel closer to reality.

#kisari's lost their marbles everyone!#please support me!#fashion mfa #fashion #animation #cartoons #it's a stretch to put these two majors together but I promise that if you knew me in person it all starts to make a LOT more sense #especially as who I am as a person

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kisari-vibes · 1 year

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Apparently a bitch is getting is getting a Fashion Design Masters after their college graduation.

#I don't know how a animation BA turns into a fashion MFA but apparently the college admissions liked me enough #and said that my planned thesis is great so if I get in I'd be great as long as my created work is good #so yeah #fashion MFA #fashion graduate studies #can you believe that???

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fashionsfromhistory · 1 year

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Dress

1960s

Afghanistan or Uzbekistan

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

#dress #fashion history #vintage fashion #1960s #non western fashion #20th century #1960 #1965 #1969 #purple #orange #silk #afghanistan #uzbekistan #embroidery #floral #museum of fine arts boston #mfa boston #popular

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edwardian-girl-next-door · 5 days

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Evening dress by the House of Worth, c.1880. From the "Fashioned by Sargent" exhibit at the MFA Boston, October 2023

photo by me (@edwardian-girl-next-door)

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marzipanandminutiae · 8 months

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okay the Sargent exhibit was fun but

what is this

like

what sort of monkey's paw bullshit

I said I wanted the MFA to be normal about corsets, not rebrand Corsets Bad into Corsets Good Because Women Suffering For Beauty (which is totally what corsets do guys!!!) Means We're Strong

the sitters in the paintings don't look elegant and comfortable because they're. I don't know. badass enough to handle horrible evil corsets. they look comfortable because they either are, or they're putting up with discomfort temporarily to be high-fashion in their Sargent portraits and they get to change into everyday clothes relatively soon

also "corsets aren't supposed to be uncomfortable" to "corsets are so 'formidable' that women had to be incredibly strong to wear them" is a weird contradiction

I just. I never thought I'd encounter a hot new take that corsets were Evil and that's Good, Actually

#dress history #corsets #on the other hand glorifying women's suffering IS very Victorian #fashion history #mfa boston #also also what is everyone's allergy to saying Breast Support?

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7pleiades7 · 1 month

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The Morning Walk by John Singer Sargent, (1888), oil on canvas, 67.31 x 50.16 cm, Private Collection

#my photo #john singer sargent #the morning walk #museum of fine arts #boston #mfa #mfa boston #art exhibition #original #painting #oil on canvas #art #fine art #private collection #museum exhibit #fashioned by sargent

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jewellery-box · 6 months

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Woman's evening dress

Designed by: Jean-Philippe Worth (French, 1856–1926)

Circa 1907

Silk; satin, net, taffeta lining; applied roses

MFA Boston

#yeah I know the quality is... lacking #but this is all they've got on MFA Boston's website #edwardian #edwardian era #edwardian fashion #historical fashion #fashion history

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holdoncallfailed · 29 days

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idk how i never noticed that the earrings john is wearing in that picture are the exact same as the ones edie wore on the cover of life magazine...the edie photo is from 1965 and the cale photo is dated 1966 so he must have borrowed them from her or they were otherwise part of a communal factory jewelry pool

#cale wore the same necklace during the psychiatry gala performance which edie was also at / there's a picture of them together on that night #so i assume she gave them to him sometime before or after the performance #anyway i saw these earrings at a fashion exhibit at the MFA yesterday and obviously nerded out about it #the designer is #kenneth jay lane #also i love both those photos so much john looks so elegant and edie's smile is just the loveliest brightest thing...#edie sedgwick #john cale

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taf-art · 2 months

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Dr. Pozzi at Home (1881). John Singer Sargent.

#john singer sargent #art #portrait #painting #19th century #seen in person #american art #fashioned by sargent #mfa

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magicalcraftgirl · 1 month

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Two Lovely boy’s birthday’s is a day away from each other, so I quickly pulled this together for them🙏

#twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland fanart #twst fanart #ensemble stars #ensemble stars fanart #enstars fanart #epel felmier #leo tsukinaga #enstars leo #epel twst #I miss my old background artstyle so I tried to bring it back #it actually looks good so im very happy how it turned out #ALSO I MISS DRAWING CHARACTERS BIRTHDAYS TOGETHER I NEED TO BRING THAT BACK TOO AAA #modern fashion au #crossover art #idk if this is MFA but they’re kinda interacting with each other’s here soOOOOOOOOO???#enstars #twst

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silkdamask-blog · 5 months

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Something cozy & comfy for a snowy New England day via @mfaboston #Quilted petticoat w/ wool tambour embroidery, printed cotton lining, cotton & linen tapes, #French #18thcentury

#18th century fashion #quilted petticoat #tambour embroidery #mfa boston

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historical-closet-raider · 7 months

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Taffeta Tuesday

Taffeta evening dress ca.1855 from the Museum of Fine Art Boston collection.

Description from MFA Boston:

"Yellow taffeta dress with wide, flaring neckline, tightly fitted bodice, short sleeves; skirt full all around with three flounces of yellow and white brocade border taffeta; triangular panels front and back of bodice and edges of sleeves trimmed with part of brocade taffeta."

#fashion history #19th century fashion #1850s fashion #yellow #taffeta #extant garments #mfa boston #dress history

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poisonedsequin · 2 years

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