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Wednesday, 19 November 2014
Contemporary Elizabethan Design - 2
My second design idea features the hair entirely piled on top of the hair, in keeping with elizabethan styles which are mostly arranged on top of the head around structures or padding. Ive also incorporated frizzing, achieved through crimping the hair. Ive modernised these elizabethan features by making the design non-symmetrical, something Ive never come across in my research. I have also included the adornment of the hair with roses as seen in the sketch. The rose is traditionally a symbol of the tudor monarchy and is heavily featured in the Pelican portrait of Elizabeth I painted by Nicholas Hilliard in 1575.
In the Pelican portrait you can see rose has been featured in the background as well as Elizabeth's costume. This was most likely engineered purposefully to reinforce the idea that Elizabeth had a right to the thrown of England as daughter of King Henry VII, which would have been important at the time as her reign was under threat by anti-protestant britons who supported Mary Stuart's bid for the throne.
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