Fragility.

Pursuing a more clear direction after my first mini-crit and taking a clear and direct inspiration from Blossom trees that only grow their pale pink leaves during the spring. 

fragile and soft bunches branch out giving a much more softer edge to my research of quite hard edged research.

I linked to Giambattista Valli's Spring 2009 collection which was inspired by Metamorphosis as he claimed to Sarah Mower of Style.com "It's about a metamorphosis. There's a big change going on in these times." 

He also looked at the classic cuts of Cristobal Balenciaga and his high-waisted, voluminous collections.

My sketch links to the fragility and giving a tiny hint to the outline and texture on the floor length gown with a sweeping side swinging cape constructed of fragile chiffon/silk flowers that have been crushed and aged.

giving a soft but voluminous texture in a heavy quantity and still gaining a very oriental-esq feel to the final idea almost as if the blossom tree lost all its petals at once is the feel my final idea gives off.