Mia Palabrica

This dress was inspired by the ethnic influences in the 1960’s. The choice of muted, earth deep tone colors that were mostly seen from other culture’s fashion piece. The use of embroidery as an embellishment represents the “ownership” of the dress. Embroidery was used in the counter-culture movement as a means to express oneself through fashion and craft. The dress was designed in a very simple manner, by taking a piece of fabric, dyed then sewn into something wearable was one of the basic approach during this era.

This is a mock-up dress I created for a fabric I designed that is inspired by the psychedelic art movement.

This is a fabric I designed that is inspired from the psychedelic art. The process of this design is to let the dye move on its own in the water without any manipulation. In order to create such kaleidoscopic effect, one must strategically position the placement of the dyes and let it run on its own. The design on my fabric is strongly cohesive as a whole that I wanted to leave it as it is and show different potential looks for it. 

Artist Mia Palibrica