Ariel

I designed costumes inspired by this collection of poetry which is concerned with issues such as feminism, death, motherhood, mythology, and domesticity. Taking inspiration from these themes along with imagery found in the poems, designs were based on late 1950s/early 1960s fashions, as the poems were written within this period.

The costumes are designed to enhance the ideology and concepts behind each peice, and to attempt to help a contemporary audience to understand the content more fully. I hoped to do this without losing the complex ambiguity which is so vital to Plath's poetry.