Work / Stuck at Prom
Stuck at Prom
- Role
- Costume Design & Making
- Year
- 2024
Full-length outdoor portrait of model wearing the white duct tape prom dress embellished with pink and red flowers.2024
About
Duct-tape gown for the Stuck at Prom design contest.
A full-length gown made entirely from duct tape for the Stuck at Prom design contest. Double-layered strips of tape become a workable “fabric”, cut and moulded into a corseted bodice; lengths of coloured tape are pleated into roses and cascaded down the skirt.
The gallery runs from the original rose-dress sketch through the tape “fabric”, the bodice fitting and the rose-making, to the finished dress on the model.
Costumes
Full-length outdoor portrait of model wearing the white duct tape prom dress embellished with pink and red flowers. Seated portrait of model wearing white duct tape prom dress with floral accents. Full-length view of duct tape prom dress showing the cascade of pleated duct tape roses.
Sketches
Original design sketch for prom dress with corset bodice and skirt cascading with pink and red roses.
Process
Double-layered translucent duct tape strips creating the foundational dress fabric.
White duct tape dress assembled on mannequin with initial test rose placement at hem. Detailed view of handmade pleated duct tape roses in pink and red being taped to lower dress form. Initial fitting of custom-molded white duct tape bodice on model.
