Saturday, December 31, 2011

Auto couture: Fashion designer creates new dress using parts from Ford Focus

By Daily Mail Reporter

Last updated at 1:44 AM on 30th December 2011

This racy little number is guaranteed to drive the chaps crazy, having been made out of parts from a Ford Focus.

Scottish Fashion designer Judy Clark was commissioned by Ford to create the one-off gown to help launch the new 2012 model of the best-selling car.

Ford sent her two boxes stuffed full of components including keys, radio and dashboard components, seat covers and two red tail lights to weave into a head-turning creation.

Head-turner: This amazing dress was made almost entirely from parts of a Ford Focus

Head-turner: This amazing dress from fashion designer Judy Clark was made from parts of a Ford Focus

Although she was only asked to create a dress, Judy was enjoying the assignment so much she ended up making and entire outfit.

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The main frock, described as Edwardian, is made from tweed, silk chiffon, leather and lace and features the car's tail lights swinging from the hips.?

Fast fashion: The zany creation is made from car seat covers, tweed, silk chiffon, leather as well as assorted cogs and sprockets

Fast fashion: The zany creation contains car seat covers, tweed, silk chiffon, leather as well as assorted cogs and sprockets

Judy also created a matching biker-jacket using seat covers with the car's speedometer featuring as a detail on the back.

To complete the ensemble she recruited Jewellery designer Katherine Hawkins to make a necklace using various dials, cogs, springs and buttons.

Bumper: The rear of the dress is festooned with an array of mechanical and electrical components

Bumper: The rear of the dress is festooned with an array of mechanical and electrical components

Judy and Katherine worked completely separately so neither had any idea what the other was creating.

Judy said: 'The back of the dress - the ?engine' - comprises of all the small components stitched into a small crinoline type bustle.

Accessory: Jewellery designer Katherine Hawkins created this matching necklace

Accessory: Jewellery designer Katherine Hawkins created this matching necklace

'The massive red rear lights were a bit of a challenge; I sawed of the back section with a hack saw to shed some bulk and weight, then drilled holes in top section attaching wire and kilt straps. so they could be clipped on and off.

'I attached the lights and the entire bustle to an industrial sized leather belt to carry the weight.

'Using the cover of a car seat, HTH tweed and a bit of spray-paint leather and lace I constructed the biker jacket.

'My younger sister and I had a pair of pliers and a screwdriver in hand pulling bits apart to access the circuit boards and wires finding pieces that were a suitable sizes and weight to attach to the jacket. It?s a great shape with a sexy edge.

'The needle of the speedometer on the back moves round so yo can choose what speed to go at! Underneath the jacket a tweed, gauze and chiffon corset appliqued with copper wire nips in the waist.

'I dyed layers of silk chiffon inspired by the colour of diesel, the fabric mimicking the flow of fuel. The contrast of feminine soft layers with that of industrial car mechanics was something I wanted to encapsulate.'

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Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2080007/Auto-couture-Fashion-designer-creates-new-dress-using-parts-Ford-Focus.html?ITO=1490

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