Costume Design and Making Showcases

"This costume is designed for the concept of the restricted female character, Helena, from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, fighting for freedom under patriarchal control through vital and straightforward information through costume. It represents the female character as they attempt to go against and break the power and control of the male character. Are they successful, or do the males make them successful and provide their 'happy ending'? 

"The costume portrays a female character as the slave of love with shackles. She is aware of self-deception with magical flower properties but continues to pursue her lover, unable to stop. I want to use the elements of wind to express the feeling of freedom but the red string of fate for the restriction of this kind of abnormal love, the sense of invisible restriction and limitation. 

"Alexandra as the performer intersects with the red thread and frame. She can only smile as a ‘perfect’ and ‘idyllic’ female when her face is in the frame. The character can be herself only when she is out of the golden frame, having her own emotions."