Help needed

[rozk]

One of the reasons why I am so very very stuck on Dawn In New York is that Christina needs to make an outfit for Buffy and I sort of have the idea in my head but need to find a picture reference. I don't think I invented this and I think it may well be from a comic rather than a fashion shoot or a movie - burntcopper suggested Bolland or Alan Davis, but I can't find it there and I thought of Matt Wagner in his Devil in the Deed period, but the cut of Christine Spar's jackets is very Japanese/Edwardian and kind of draped which is not what I want at all.

rkaveney2 (22:43:14): It is an outfit that someone ought to have made at some point
rkaveney2 (22:43:25): Where everything is slightly skewed
rkaveney2 (22:43:32): Yet it looks fabulous
rkaveney2 (22:43:53): The skirt is slashed at the front and hangs asymettrically
rkaveney2 (22:44:20): The jacket is all lapel and high waist
rkaveney2 (22:44:52): Have I seen this somewhere or is it an outfit I saw in a dream?

It is sort of as if a cubist or futurist took the classic little black suit and spun it through a spatial axis or two.

This is not just frockporn - I need this to work as a piece of imagery for the story unfortunately - the tailoring process is important for other reasons than itself. As Heather rightly points out, I need to have some real sense of how it works as a piece of tailoring which means I need a stronger visual image for reference than the one in my head. Because then I can work my way mentally through how it would get designed, cut and the rest of it...

Any thoughts?

Comments

[spacetart.livejournal.com]

Have you tried looking at Commes Des Garcons circa mid-90's? Or Junya Watanabe's own line, same time period? Helmut Lang, maybe...I'll look for specific outfits, but they'd be good places to start.

[spacetart.livejournal.com]

http://www.designerexposure.com/images/products/17704_1_large.jpg
http://images.google.com/imgres?mgurl=http://makeupbeat.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/Newtonfashion1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://makeupbeat.com/blog/2006/08/26/comme-des-garcons/&h=600&w=423&sz=56&hl=en&start=70&um=1&tbnid=V0XXcW68t7RaPM:&tbnh=135&tbnw=95&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dcommes%2Bdes%2Bgarcons%26start%3D54%26ndsp%3D18%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN
http://www.corniche.org.uk/cornweb1/wcdgshop.html
http://photos.imageevent.com/bluboi/vintagefashions/icons/Lot%2025%20-%20Lilli%20Ann%20navy%20wool%20crepe%20suite.jpg


#11 on this page: http://imageevent.com/bluboi/vintagefashions

http://firstview.com/collection.php?id=6828&p=0&of=26
(Actually, the whole collection here might work)

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I have no fashion sense at all, but for some reason this made me think of the outfit that Drusilla was wearing in the 1950s black and white flashback in The Girl in Question. Can't find a picture on-line so it may be my imagination.

[electricland.livejournal.com]

This makes me think of Rosalind Russell's outfit in His Girl Friday, despite the fact that I don't think they have any points of similarity at all.

Sorry.

Joyce Carol Oates

[mswamy.livejournal.com]

I am a graduate student in New York and I am hoping for a direct response from Roz Kaveney. I am writing about Black Girl/White Girl and am having no luck accessing "The Mendacious Roomie" from the Times Literary Supplement from October 6, 2006. I have exhausted all resources through my school (NYU) library. Can you help?
Thanks-
Amy

[sfmarty.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't it depend on which season of the show?

Help offered

[(Anonymous)]

Actually this sounds more like early Byrne to me, maybe Arcade's assistant Ms Locke circa X-MEN #120ish, early 1980s. I'll have to look. Of course you could always come over and have me sketch it for you there and then so that you know it exactly fits your requirements.

- Rob Hansen.