”The Rainbow Dress’ photographed by Vlad Gilcescu, modeled by Davina Sinjorz.
The idea and inspiration for this colorful collection came from my painting background – I studied painting all through grade and high school and then I went to the Art University, so you can imagine just how much I enjoy working with color (even if I mostly dress myself in black – the world that I envision in my work is very bright and colorful). Everybody knows the basic colors and color combinations, so I wanted to make a collection of dresses using only primary, secondary and tertiary colors meaning: red, yellow, blue – orange, purple, green (as they are combinations of primary colors) and the tertiary colors are actually combinations of primary and secondary colors.
Fabrics that we (me and my sister, as she helped me a lot with the concept and sewing of the whole collection) used for the collection were mostly chiffon, silk chiffon, light cotton, Georgette, silk organza – meaning light and transparent fabrics for a very ‘summery’ effect.
We did not plan ‘the Rainbow dress’ from the beginning. It was late one night when me and Flo saw ourselves surrounded by all these bright, colorful fabrics, so we thought of a dress to feature them all.
The initial sketching of the collection.
These are the colorful dresses on hangers before we went to Valiug for the runway presentation.
I made this collage for you to better understand the idea of the collection. Taken separately, all of the dresses have elements in common, being either draped details, cotton colorful ribbons or colorful silk handmade flower attachments.
Look book photographs by Andi Popescu, model: Oana, make-up: Anca Mihalache, jewelry: Josephine.
You can see all the looks detailed on dianabobar.com in the category ‘Collections’ by clicking on the Spring/Summer 2012 link.
We had the opportunity to show the dresses in a summer presentation at Ponton Casa Baraj in Valiug. These pictures make me miss summer so much! Photographs by Vlad Gilcescu.
The end of the presentation – me posing with the lovely girls who walked for me.