PD6- Fashion Victim

"Everyone knows not to make these fashion mistakes...but everyday someone does. Your next challenge is to design an outfit that is based around a fashion faux pas that I will assign to you. These things rarely work on people, and it's your job to make them work."

I was assigned "a humongous weekend bag" (yes, with the underscore, haha) and I got Willemina as my model again.

I designed a huge striped canvas weekend bag with leather trimmings.. big enough to fold and stuff Willemina in.

The story is this: Willemina is going to spend the weekend with some friends at a beach resort. This is what she'll be wearing while travelling to the resort.

A drop sleeved , very loose, silk knit jersey top knotted at the back. The red bikini top worn underneath has hooked straps that can be attached to the back of the blue top to hold the loose top in place. There are places along the edges and inside that blue top that you can attach the bikini top's hooks to. Then she's wearing charcoal stretch drainpipes with cutout details. The cutouts are the same stretch demin fabric that the drainpipes are made of turned inside out.. that's why they're darker.

The look is finished with gold bangles and bracelets, long necklace with yellow stones, gold-strapped wedge sandals and two-toned sunglasses.

Her hair is blown out for volume in the style of the big wind-blown beach hair associated with glamorous Italian women walking down the streets of places like the French Riviera and St. Tropez.