Deadly is the Female
 

My graduate collection Deadly is the Female* was inspired by the film noir movement of 20th-century cinema. My focus was specifically on the use of the common film archetype of a femme fatale and how the character develops in these films from a demure image of beauty and elegance into a dimensional and complex woman.

*The title Deadly is the Female derives from the original title of the 1950 film noir Gun Crazy,