COSTUME MAKING NIGHT
—Bacchanal —
Ahead of Bacchanal, Fox&Badge invites our community to our seasonal intimate, creative costume-making night, where we’ll be exploring Dionysian adornment: creating pieces that blur the boundaries between costume, jewellery, rope work and the living body.
Guided by Anna Kii of Figure of A, we’ll combine the deliberate geometry of Japanese Shibari with the unruly abundance of the natural world. Rope will twist into vines. Metal hardware will become jewellery. Ivy, leaves and flowers will climb across bodies.
Rather than making something for the body and putting it on afterwards, many of our pieces will be constructed directly on the person wearing them - responding to their individual shape and becoming entirely unique in the process.
Structured and wild. Bound and overflowing. Human and vegetal.
Very Dionysian.
We’ll be gathering on the top floor of the beautiful and historic Star of Hackney Downs pub which has a delicious selection of food and drink.
WHAT WE’LL BE MAKING
Choose your own creation and take it as far as you like:
Ivy-twined crowns and headpieces
Rope necklaces, collars and body jewellery
Decorative Shibari-inspired harnesses
Organic rope and wire structures sculpted directly onto the body
Wearable pieces incorporating leaves, flowers, ivy and found natural materials
Everything we create will be unisex and individual to its wearer, with techniques you can continue experimenting with for your Bacchanal costume.
No rope experience or craft experience is needed. All are always welcome!
WE PROVIDE
High-quality rope
Metal rings, clips and signature Figure of A hardware
Wire and construction materials
Ivy, foliage, flowers and natural elements
Tools
Guidance on tying, construction and composition
Inspiration from Dionysian imagery and Ancient Greek adornment
Support for complete beginners as well as experienced makers
WHAT TO BRING
If you have them, bring natural materials, charms, jewellery, ribbons, rope, old costume pieces or false flowers you’d like to transform.
You may also want to bring some of the clothing you plan to wear to Bacchanal so that your piece can be designed directly around it. Most importantly: bring your imagination and a willingness to experiment.
YOUR GUIDE: Anna Kii
Rope artist, rigger, and costume maker Anna Kii is the mind behind Figure of A, a brand that weaves the art of Shibari into sculptural performance wear and custom accessories. Born from years of practice on stage and in the studio, Figure of A translates traditional body-binding patterns into functional, architectural art pieces. Hand-tied from premium ropes with bespoke metal fittings, Anna’s creations celebrate the body, precision craftsmanship, and the sensual power of rope - whether at events or styled for everyday life.
ABOUT BACCHANAL
This workshop is part of the journey towards BACCHANAL: Feast of Dionysus.
For one night, we descend into the world of the Ancient Greek god of ecstasy, wine, theatre, transformation and divine madness.
Expect an immersive collision of dance, performance, ritual, sensuality, costume and human connection as we explore the tension at the heart of Dionysus: between discipline and abandon, civilisation and wilderness, the individual and the ecstatic crowd.