Half Term Project

My chosen Musician:Lauryn Hill

I have Chosen Lauryn Hill because I find her style interesting and unique. Lauryn Hill’s modern style is known to stand out by being very oversized and different. Her overall style is a combination of 90’s fashion and modern soul, statement clothing.

Her performance costumes are very bold and eye catching, this includes the clothing accessories of overly puffy sleeves and skirts, bold and layered jewellery, and even big hats and sunglasses.

As Lauryn Hill is a solo female musician, I think her style reflects from her powerful and statement making personality. She is a dedicated activist for unprivileged urban youth. She uses her huge platform to spread and address themes such as community, family and self. She symbolises this not only through her lyrics, but also her clothes.

For my costume design for Lauryn Hill, I have been inspired by this look published by vogue which Lauryn Hill wore to a performance. This was a retro inspired spring look from Mark Jacobs and consisted of a technicolour dress with a matching coat and turban.

Taking inspiration from this technicolour dress, I have chosen to re create this in a large puffy skirt form with a matching turban. I have chosen white blue and yellow because I really like they look against black skin. Following from her modern style, I have chosen a plain, large, puffy white top to match with some tall, white platform shoes.

For accessories I am inspired by her large bold jewellery, I have added large silver hoop earrings and chunky silver rings.