25/02/2020
When Bonnie was a little girl, she wanted to be an actor. I looked at neck ties popular in the 1930ās; I also looked at actors on movie sets as these styles were seen on higher class women in the limelight. I came across a Photograph of Audrey Hepburn as Princess Ann in the film Roman Holiday wearing a neck scarf of this style.
The white polka dot/ love heart material. Iāve used this to express how her decisions were lead by the amount of love she had for her relationship/partner. Her choice of men (both had previous convictions) made her no stranger to the criminal lifestyle.
The left and right side of the scarf are two chains weighing her down. The design of the scarf shows the reality of a young girl, the material symbolises her relationship, the heavy chains symbolise her reality being pulled down this one-way criminal route, the lock padlocks represents the inevitable results of her decisions.
The front and back of the scarf consists of one chain on each side, both longer than the other two on the right and left. Both chains symbolise her reality being pulled down. The chains are stretched out either side being pulled taut, anchored down by one large battery on each side. This symbolises the car accident that caused her to have 3rd degree burns from her hip down too her ankle. The battery pulling the chain taut symbolises the struggle she had moving after the car accident, she had to be carried by Barrow (gang member) or hop.
Iāve rust dyed the material and rusted the chains. The chains themselves represent the criminal aspect of her life; the rusted chains convey the length of time the couple were on the run (2Year). When I rust dyed the material some of the metal also transferred onto it. It gave the material a sparkly purplish/blackish metallic effect that resembles the oil/petrol in the get away car they used for the robberies.
(Fashion/Textile) For this project I had to research about Bonnie as she was only famously known for her criminal life style she shared with Clyde. The research assisted me to come up with a design and makes this neck scarf that characterises and reflects her life.
