# Project Description The Yellow Wallpaper Anna Jarvis Summary Final work My practice surrounds womenswear and fashion history, combining technical skills in construction, pattern cutting, corsetry and millinery with a deep appreciation for historical dress. After graduating, I would love to apply my knowledge of dress history through working on period productions, before beginning an MA in Dress History to transition my skillset into museum and curation work. My practice surrounds womenswear and fashion history, combining technical skills in construction,... College London College of Fashion Course BA (Hons) Costume for Performance Graduation year 2025 For this project, I designed and created two costumes inspired by characters from the 1892 Short Story “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. These characters were "The Woman", the narrative’s central character, and "The Wallpaper Woman", whom The Woman begins to see in the walls as she descends into madness. My goal for this concept was to explore the role of women’s bodies in a historically inspired, horrific narrative. I aimed to incorporate themes relating to the treatment of women suffering mental illness throughout history, and to consider how the legacies of these practices continue to affect contemporary audiences. Through these characters, I hoped to incorporate visual components and elements which are suggestive of gothic and body horror, creating an overall outcome which is visually unsettling or uncomfortable to the audience, whilst still possessing a strange beauty. I proposed to achieve this through using tactile materials like latex and velvet to create a creepy, unsettling aesthetic. I decided to use these materials as I felt that they evoked the grotesque and uncomfortable, considering ideas of abjection (Kristeva, 1982) and the monstrous feminine (Creed, 1993), and how we can display the inside, outside. I felt there was a connection between these academic theories of the horror genre with the subject matter I wanted to explore, specifically through ideas of physical and societal transgression. Final work Anna Jarvis - Graduate Project Here it is - my final degree project! This has been such an epic journey of research, design, development and finalisation that I can’t believe it’s over! My take on this amazing story explores how we view women’s bodies as fundamental in a horrific narrative, tying in to historical beliefs and practices surrounding women’s physical and mental health - practices whose legacies still affect women today. This was a real passion project for me, getting to explore my loves of dress history and feminist horror all in one project! I hope you enjoy seeing this project as much as I enjoyed creating it, and of course enormous thanks to my performers Hannah Redman and Bijou Abas and the wonderful cinematographer and editor Zoe Montini, without whom this film would not have been possible. View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery Research and process Share this project For this project, I designed and created two costumes inspired by characters from the 1892 Short Story “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. These characters were "The Woman", the narrative’s central character, and "The Wallpaper Woman", whom The Woman begins to ... A link to this page has been added to your clipboard Browse related work Gender Health & Wellbeing Mental Health Histories Body Story & Myth History Vintage Dye Floral Millinery Corsetry Alternative Horror Femininity Feminism Women Body