For my Research Project (dissertation) I decided to look into 3 women whom I admire from the latter 18th century. I looked into the lives of Marie Antoinette, Lady Seymour Worsley and Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire and how they used their clothing to express themselves and challenge the patriarchal societal rules of the time. I analysed portraits of the women, painted during their lives and biopic costumes interpreting their lives after their deaths, looking at them within the contexts of critical theories on gender and the performing body. I found it fascinating reading up on them and all they went through in their lives. How they coped with a system that basically meant they didn't exist as an individual, but merely as the property of their husbands. They used their clothes to say all they couldn't out-loud, and in light of the recent #Time's Up campaign this awards season it shows the technique of using clothing to make a statement is still very much at the heart of costume and fashion.
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AuthorMy name is Rachel and this blog holds the work I have done throughout college and university for a digital portfolio. Archives
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