Fashion Design

Jennifer Byrne

SCATTERED STARS LIKE DUST

My longstanding fascination with all things vintage lead me to collect postcards depicting Paris’ extravagant and alluring Folies Bergére. These frivolous and enticing female performers, along with the Ziegfeld Follies of New York, became

the initial inspiration for my graduate collection. Numerous lunar references within these images
led me to draw from pagan and occultist sources,
in which the moon is seen as a powerful and alluring female deity. I drew inspiration from both the extravagant Folie costumes and traditional ritualistic attire. In order to portray the exuberance and mysticism of my inspiration, I created unique and personalised fabrics and trims by use of hand dying, applying glitter, pleating, gathering, stitching and appliqué techniques. My collection embodies a celebration of vintage frivolity and female adornment, coupled with spiritual symbolism referencing the moon and stars.

“We come spinning out of nothingness, scattered stars like dust”

Work Placement

Sharon Wauchob, Paris.

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