Personal Project

Now we have started on our personal projects while still making the final developments on our FMP. For my personal project I am looking into the area of hanging, looking into people's behaviour, how we hang things on certain items not designed for that use. I haven't decided on a definite outcome as of yet.

For my FMP I am working along the lines of dressing furniture, I have designed my own chair that would be the standard to be dressed, and now just working on the logistics and final details.

The Magnificance of the Tzars

Currently showing at the V&A, this exhibition illustrates Russia’s relationship with her past and with Europe through two centuries of men’s court dress.

It is curated and mounted by the Moscow Kremlin Museums. Together with the Armoury Chamber, they form Russia’s oldest national treasury, founded in 1806. Their collections include the dress and regalia worn by the emperors and the Russian court from the 1720s to 1917. This exhibition focuses on men’s dress, particularly the coronation dress of the emperor and other participants in ceremonies at court.

Until the reign of Peter the Great (Peter I, ruled 1682–1725) Russia was isolated from Europe. Peter then introduced many western institutions and practices. His dress reforms replaced traditional Russian clothing with European fashions, or ‘Saxon and French’ fashion as it was called in Russia.

Red wool suit worn by Peter II, 1727-1730