Kripa Angbuhang

Hello, my name is Kripa Angbuhang and I am an aspiring student in Fashion Design. In my work I like to explore a lot of different themes. One approach I take in my work is contradictions. I love playing around and combining two differences together. Such as modern vs traditional as well as modest vs revealing. These are the two contradictions I focused on, in this project. I am motivated by other designers that are not only household names but also smaller designers and brands. I get inspired by designers that produce carefully crafted and innovative designs. For instance, Alexandra McQueen and the brand Fanci Club. They both look at the future of fashion and standing out than fitting in. I aspire to be a designer like them. I took inspiration from them in my project. The inspiration for my Final Major project is the Royal family with a twist. The project is called Royal Lady as I wanted to look at a female member. I mainly focused on Queen Elizabeth 1st and her era of fashion, but I decided to modernise my designs. I achieved this by adding Meghan Markle as my twist, who is treated like an outcast in the royal family. I used Queen Elizabeth 1st because she exceeded extravagance in her fashion and personality. Whereas I used Meghan Markle past to add controversy and break Royal rules. I did this in my design by aesthetically making it more risqué. My aim for the project was to achieve my set question. How to incorporate the olden royal fashion of Queen Elizabeth 1st into a modernised version that pushes royal boundaries exploring this with research? I think I have produced a garment and work that answers this question well as you can see elements of this era and how it had been modernised. I used a lot of Elizabethan techniques like beading, cartridge pleating and embroidery. I used royal colourway of red white and gold with royal swirl patterns seen on garments and objects. I used other techniques like foiling to add the gold colour. I made a corset which is traditionally worn but did not use underlayers seen traditionally to make it more revealing and a tighter fitted high cut skirt. I also used ruching in parts of my work like around the straps to add a bit of volume typically seen on Elizabethan clothing. I also kept the ruff and collar. The arm sleeves are all ruched and beaded, as gloves were popular back then for married women. As well as how crowns are not supposed to be worn by unmarried women. Therefore, I used a younger model to represent the rebellion of this. It is also my target market being young women and was made for a celebrity to wear at the Met Gala. I thought the garment would fit on a red carpet to show the bold character Queen Elizabeth was. Thank you for reading you can find me @_k_hang_ on Instagram and kripangbuhang@gmail.com.