Ella Atkins
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Ella
Atkins
Emerging Designer Competition
2025
Australia, VIC
This look embodies the duality between dominance and opulence through dramatic volume and digitally engineered print. Constructed as an enveloping gown with an expansive train, it merges couture excess with sculptural restraint. The cobalt leopard print, intersected by bold gold chain motifs, reinterprets symbols of luxury and captivity through a modern lens. Designed with zero-waste patterning and precision digital printing, the piece transforms movement into spectacle — its cascading silhouette commanding both presence and reverence. It celebrates the tension between freedom and control, redefining modern femininity as powerful, unapologetic, and gloriously untamed.
Outfit
A blue dramatic dress that is gathered around the collar bone with chain straps a train with weights in it in order to create a dramatic drag when in motion and a corseted understructure.
Shoes
Gold platform heels
Millinery
N/A
Accessories
Blue full length gloves with the gold chain wrapping around the arm
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