Voleak Phorn

“Lockdown was a dark place for me, I didn’t have any motivation to do anything. It felt like my life had lost all its colour. The only time I felt peaceful was when I went outside to sit in the sun and look at the colour of the sky and clouds. I loved the different shades of blue as the time of the day changed.

I watched movies and my favourite one was ‘the wind rises’ which is a Japanese anime movie about a boy called Jiro who had a dream to design planes and flying. It was set in WWII. The colour of the sky in the movie was like the sky outside in lockdown.

The Resene colour Azure reminded me of ‘the wind rises’. I want to use this project to ‘think outside the box’ and design something special like Jiro did.

The design is a top and skirt. The top has shoulder pads and a zip in on the front. It looks like a pilot jacket. The sleeves open along the top of the arm with a cuff and is shiny, light and soft. The skirt has a high corset waist, with covered buttons at the back. It has a ruffle around the top of the skirt and a long flowing skirt that is gently gathered, so the material falls naturally.”

Resene Whitecliffe Colour of Fashion clothing - 2020

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