Friday, September 30, 2011

Elephant Pants

I was watching Project Runway's latest episode online, and the challenge was to create a70s inspired look, since the 70s has once again returned to fashion favor. I suppose Marc Jacobs' recent shows encouraged that, but the silhouette that immediately came to my mind was wide pants legs, or what we used to call elephant pants back in the actual 1970s. Perhaps this sketch is a mite too retro, but I wasn't designing, merely reacting to what was on screen. Still, compared to what they showed down the runway, I like my look a bit better...

I was channeling the illustration style of my mom's former illustrator Sony, whose looser style wasn't something I responded to growing up, but whose lines I can now appreciate over 35 years later.

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