Fashion Design - Unrefined - Red Beast

Not for sale

Similar style dresses can be commissioned for $300.00. (Exact dress will not be replicated)

Dress Break Down

Dress designed and made by Melissa Diaz.

Underskirt purchased at Forever 21.

Hair piece (frizzy) purchased from J. F. Spillane.

Jewelry purchased on ebay.

Boots purchased at Wet Seal.

In the Beginning

After exhausting myself in the rigid and strict rules of Lolita design, I exploded. In order to free my mind from the structure of my EGL designs, I tore apart a yard of red velvet and collaged it onto my dress form. I wanted to be free of patterns and embrace raw edges; I needed to be as far from Lolita as possible. I wish it had been easy. After fussing with my ‘dress collage’ for weeks, I was so frustrated I put it aside. A month went by, two months, three, six. It loomed over me, taunting me on my dress form. I refused to make anything new until I had conquered this ‘Red Beast’. (I had named it so, and it still retains the title.)

I had had it. The Red Beast had kept me at bay for too long. The next few weeks were spent battling with the voice in fashion that I was so driven to discover, and it was embodied in a red velvet dress. I never felt completely victorious over my Red Beast; I blame that on my perfectionist nature. It didn’t turn out exactly as I had envisioned, but we now have a working, even friendly relationship. I no longer try to control the Red Beast’s ‘look’; instead I let myself be influenced by it’s ‘Unrefined’ nature.

Portrait Excelllence by Beverly

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