selena

    SELENA....My ultimate favorite dress that I have ever drawn. I love everything about this dress, and put every little detail into consideration. I did give Selena some color but I choose to keep the image before she was colored because I felt like there was some beauty to the dress. I wanted to keep her pure and untouched.

   Ok! lets start talking about Selenas inspiration. I think its all fairly obvious who shes inspired by...Selena Quintanilla-Perez. For those of you reading who don't know who she is, she is the queen of tejano music. She not only was she a singer she was a songwriter, actress, spokes person, and of corse fashion designer. Since I was little Selena was my idol! She died before I was born but I was obsessed with the movie starring Jenifer Lopez. I wanted to be just like Selena I wanted to sing and dance, and make dresses. In all honesty she is the reason why this whole thing started. I not only love Selena but I feel like she and I have a ton of similarites in common, she was dreamer, just like I, a lover of fashion, and a hopeless romantic. So this one is for Selena.

  I got the idea of the dress from the fashion show Selena has, in the movie. I also did a little research on her clothing and all the things and outfits she designed for herself. Selena was bold she wasn't scared of taking risks and I certainly took no risks with this one here. I gave Selena a beaded top with intricate details at the top because I felt like Selena would of done the same with her own fashion line. I didn't want to just keep it simple on the top I wanted to continue the drama till the very end so I gave her some massive flowers from top to bottom surrounded by rinestones. I added flowers again keeping it towards my own personal style as well cause it is my own masterpiece too. I do tend to wear flowers no matter what season it is. The roses were also a hint of Selena's and mines Hispanic heritage. I associate red roses with Mexico for some reason because it reminds me of the passion and romance that Mexico contains. There are flowers on the bottom again with beaded embelishments because I didn't want Selena to be simple. The colors I originally colored Selena were green and red Mexico's flag colors again keeping it with that Hispanic romantic idea. Selena to me was like drawing a dream come true, when I look at this dress I am reminded of who I am and who I want to be and to always keep the passion alive. From the words of Selena Quintanilla "If you have a dream, don't anyone take it away, and always believe that the impossiable is always possiable." So to my readers out there keep your dreams, fight for it, and believe in yourself. You can make the impossiable happen if you just take risks just like I did with this dress. Go out andd find yourself and make yourself happy.