Drawing Room Prints
Shaun Castle 01 June 2006
The drawing room was historically “the ladies’ room”, a place of talk and display, invariably with a book of prints open on the table, or with a discreet background of prints hung in symmetrical patterns in conjunction with the furniture.
Of the avant gardes, the fashion house BOUDICCA are acknowledged for their erotic, non-conformist and conceptual wears for the intelligent woman, with an architectonic reference to late Victoriana. “We are inspired by all the echoes of the past that are rubbed away and rewritten over again”. Startlingly elegant and razor-sharp in tailoring, the Autumn/Winter 05 collection was romantically bucolic, with textured black on black play on ostentation and concealment. Acruing cult following and the patina of celebrity admirers including Claudia Schiffer and Sharon Stone, BOUDICCA measure success in a small but fiercely loyal clientele no doubt attracted to the inordinate amount of attention that goes into every garment in order to achieve the enigmatic BOUDICCA look.
Using the medium of etching, the artist Graham Dolphin in collaboration with the fashion house has created a series of fine graphic prints exploring the aesthetics of the A/W:05 collection. Edition 1 brings together every item from the collection and re-configures into an intensely layered composition. Edition 2 takes one item from the collection, The Pleated Shoulder Jacket (‘Vent Jacket’), and gathers then explodes all the different fabrications that have gone into the garment, creating a deeply transformative representation. Signed and numbered by the artist and BOUDICCA, the series includes two editions of the etchings with additional artwork by the fashion house, and a sound art edition. The editions are offered framed or unframed, with the option of finishing in beautifully extravagant hand-made fabrications in high Gothic style designed specifically for each edition by the artist.
The 19th century drawing room aesthetic, revisited for the 21st.
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