Class Projects: wig/hat hybrids!
My millinery students presented projects today!
This past unit has been focused on the execution of historical hairstyle shapes and silhouettes, often using millinery infrastructures and nontraditional media (i.e., not actual wigs, frequently also not actual hair).
Second-year Kaitlin Fara created this piece from thin sheets of ethafoam,
inspired by the paper sculpture "Ice Cream Cone" by Amy Flurry and Nikki Salk
Beehive style using feather pads by second-year Samantha Coles Greaves
Ethafoam tube ("backer rod") hairstyle by continuing-ed student Jennifer Mohrman
First-year Nora Rogers was inspired by the straw "hairstyle" turbans
of 1960s Viennese milliner Adele List, and created this piece from
twisted metal-shot silk.
First-year Adrienne Corral utilized this research image and several spools of crossweave wired ribbon to create...
...this cascade ringlet style.
All great examples of how you could create specific period style silhouettes without any access to elaborate traditional wigs at all. In terms of cost, none of these used more than $30 of materials to create. Labor hours seem to come in somewhere between 8 and 18 hours, depending on the complexity and how much handstitching might be required. Cool!
This past unit has been focused on the execution of historical hairstyle shapes and silhouettes, often using millinery infrastructures and nontraditional media (i.e., not actual wigs, frequently also not actual hair).
Second-year Kaitlin Fara created this piece from thin sheets of ethafoam,
inspired by the paper sculpture "Ice Cream Cone" by Amy Flurry and Nikki Salk
Beehive style using feather pads by second-year Samantha Coles Greaves
Ethafoam tube ("backer rod") hairstyle by continuing-ed student Jennifer Mohrman
First-year Nora Rogers was inspired by the straw "hairstyle" turbans
of 1960s Viennese milliner Adele List, and created this piece from
twisted metal-shot silk.
First-year Adrienne Corral utilized this research image and several spools of crossweave wired ribbon to create...
...this cascade ringlet style.
All great examples of how you could create specific period style silhouettes without any access to elaborate traditional wigs at all. In terms of cost, none of these used more than $30 of materials to create. Labor hours seem to come in somewhere between 8 and 18 hours, depending on the complexity and how much handstitching might be required. Cool!