Meg Cowell's abandoned dress photography is a surreal, beautiful series that showcases aristocratic styles without their refined wearers. Shown against a bleak, black backdrop, these brightly colored dressed float through space, the folds of their silky fabric billowing around them.
This photo series almost evokes a fairy tale-like quality, especially since several of the dresses are similar to the iconic gowns worn by Disney princesses. For example, the gold 18th-century gown looks quite similar to that worn by Belle from Beauty and the Beast, while an equally extravagant rose-colored dress is almost an exact copy of the one worn by Princess Aurora in Sleeping Beauty. This gives the dresses a sense of magic and nostalgia, creating a photography series that is at once beautiful and melancholy.
Key Themes Behind This Trend
- Abandoned Photography
- Opportunity for disruptive innovation in developing technology or techniques to preserve and capture the beauty of abandoned objects.
- Fairy Tale
- Opportunity for disruptive innovation in creating new experiences that transport people to magical and nostalgic worlds.
- Surreal Photography
- Opportunity for disruptive innovation in using photography to create otherworldly images that challenge our perceptions of reality.
Where This Applies
- Fashion
- Opportunity for disruptive innovation in creating new ways to showcase fashion designs, even after they have been abandoned or forgotten.
- Technology
- Opportunity for disruptive innovation in developing new tools and techniques to capture and preserve abandoned objects in a more realistic and immersive way.
- Entertainment
- Opportunity for disruptive innovation in creating new forms of entertainment that combine nostalgia, magic, and the aesthetics of abandoned objects.
