Nelly Bichet – France

ORIGAMI

Description

This hat is my vision of equilibrium for different reasons:

• the strong contrast of material colors creates an equilibrium between the matte fluorescent yellow and the shinny silver crin.
• the work I had to realize in the composition between full and empty spaces.
• the contrast of the thin design of the wire and the roudness of folded flowers.
• the way this shape can be put on a head. The flowers seems to be lands on the wire and the hat put on the head by a sort of magic.

Each element is fixed on the other and everything forms a delicate but strong whole, creating a equilibrium between all this contrast.

Materials

• millinery wire
• fluo ribbon
• fabric silver crin folded in origami flowers

Techniques

• I work exclusively on my millinery head to realize this hat.
• I first made a sort of cage in millinery wire. This technique is inspired by a very ancient catalogues of hats bases from 1904 I founded in a flea market.
• Then I covered the base with a fluo ribbon sewing by hand.
• I made different size of origami flowers in a very rigid silver crin, and I worked on the equilibrium of the composition.