Totem

technical description

Jacquard wool mini dress featuring printed and embroidered multicoloured maxi circles, rigid sculpted shoulder pads and a straight neckline surmounted by a jacquard wool plastron trimmed with fur stitching and decorated with front embroidery. Worn over a long-sleeved wool sweater with a soft maxi neckline worked in a wide stitch with large perforated sections and multicoloured horizontal stripes crossed with embroidery on the finished garment with contrasting thread.

Size 850x600x250mm, 3000 gr., 2008

concept

A girl. Half English and half Native American, a secret kept from her. Told her father had died when she was a baby but she found an old picture of herself in the arms of a handsome Native American. Her mother could not deny. They had hidden everything blinded by racism. Presents and letters he had sent through the years, everything. She ran in anger to Vancouver to find him. The spirit of the land consumed her body, her spirit became one with the land and she transformed into a magnificent tree. Years after her mother finds her, and in a final act of love she decides to paint the tree like a powerful totem in beautiful colours, patterns and stripes. A great crack appeared and as the sun rose the next morning a powerful young woman emerged. Her clothes solid, confident, filled with new life and energy.

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