Ms. Yamamoto is a hime gyaru, or princess girl, a growing new tribe of Japanese women who aim to look like sugarcoated, 21st-century versions of old-style European royalty. They idolize Marie Antoinette and Paris Hilton, for her baby-doll looks and princess lifestyle. They speak in soft, chirpy voices and flock to specialized boutiques with names like Jesus Diamante, which looks like a bedroom in a European chateau. There, some hime girls spend more than $1,000 for an outfit including a satin dress, parasol and rhinestone-studded handbag.

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There are various definations for Princess, it can be possitive or negative, traditional or modern, real-life or fairytale. It all depends on how one sees it.

The theme itself is feminine, thus targeting mainly on female audiences. By using elements that females can relate, to create interest in the topic. An approach of adapting paper dolls into the concept of how people have different (changing) perspective of Princess.

Fabric will be used in replaced of paper, since costumes are made of fabric and why not “archived” the type of textile material used for Princess costumes. Also targets on the emotional aspect, inwhich people uses their sense of touch.

In the spirit of a time capsule, textile is one of the material that can lasts. Since hundreds years ago, fabric was invented and how the exchange of luxury textiles was predominant on the Silk Road, a series of ancient trade and cultural transmission routes that were central to cultural interaction through regions of the Asian continent connecting East and West by linking traders, merchants, pilgrims, monks, soldiers, nomads and urban dwellers from China to the Mediterranean Sea during various periods of time. This shows the “sustainability” of textile material, thus probably thousands years later, people might still be interested in fabrics and the texture.

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Swatches can be texture-based: e.g. fabric

It should be a communication piece, which requires to include text and descriptions.
Probably I should focus abit more on the content.

Roles of princess seems to be very vague...
Princess Diana mentioned she had to find out what she needs to do herself.
I guess every individual princess will have to portray a certain (good) image thus their roles will not differ too much.
But generally, Princess has to balance her public and private life.
(Do they really have a private life? Is their life all about maintain the 'perfect' image of the royal princess and produce a heir for the family?)
They'll have to face alot of pressure from the royal family as well as the media and public.

Diana's Wedding Dress Set a Trend for Meringue Styles

The Princess supported many British designers beginning with Elizabeth and David Emanuel who designed her much criticized puff ball meringue wedding dress in 1981. The beautiful dress was based on a romantic look of huge puffed sleeves with a full skirt of ivory silk pure taffeta, old lace and hand embroidery incorporating 10,000 pearls and sequins.

The dress had a twenty five foot train and when the princess emerged from the carriage at the cathedral the world saw how creased the dress appeared. The creases soon dropped out, but the fabric and construction method used was criticized worldwide.

David Emanuel complained in a TV interview that the carriage was far too small for both Diana and her robustly built father along with her full skirted dress, hence the inevitable creases.

I think he was probably right - no fabric deserves to be treated that way.

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