Asylum: Costume Design by Perry Uwanawich

Asylum: Costume Design by Perry Uwanawich

The eerie thing about this collection is that I was designing most of it right before covid– hospital gowns and masks, doctors’ lab coats…one of those synchronistic tappings into the zeitgeist and collective unconscious as I call it. Dr. Calico starts of the show with a cascading labcoat and matching pants in satin; followed by Patient Xera with a hospital-inspired shift-dress with ties in the back- in a rather sterile hospital print designed by me; Psycho-sis is a lamb-skin-leather straight-jacket and moto-pants combo, which I think is rather punk rock and might be stage-appropriate; Nurse Kurta wears a modern set of scrubs inspired by the kurta of India; Dr. Smock represents the retrospective look into medicine’s past with a take on the traditional smock doctors wore in a time gone by; and Nurse Una gives a ghostly strut in a traditional nurse’s uniform. I experimented with lighting within CLO3D this time, rather than importing footage into After Effects like I have in the past.

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