This project explores the features of a dress through two-dimensional imagery. It uses trompe l’oeil techniques to investigate and highlight the qualities of the garment. This proposes new ways to use trompe l’oeil designs and new ways to draw inspiration from an existing garment. The dress has been studied visually; through looking at it, tracing its shape and through drawing and painting it. The shape of the dress has been studied and developed through pattern construction. The design elements found in the dress have been expressed and enhanced into new designs. Embellishments and prints are used, to create a refined expression. The project has resulted in a seven outfit collection, where each outfit expresses one or two design element(s) from the inspirational dress. The collection shows a way to use decorative techniques to express findings in an artistic garment investigation. It also shows a way to draw inspiration from an existing garment to create an independent new design.

Cette étude a pour objet un motif de la peinture murale romaine, le pinax à volets. Il s’agit de montrer qu’au-delà de son caractère de motif secondaire, il a sa place dans l’introduction du volume et de la figuration dans le décor mural. Représentation d’un accessoire en trompe-l’œil dans les architectures illusionnistes du deuxième style pompéien, le pinax à volets reste un objet mobile et indépendant ; support d’une représentation figurée, il s’intègre à un ensemble décoratif du point de vue formel comme thématique. La première partie rassemble des sources littéraires, archéologiques et iconographiques au sujet de l’apparition du pinax réel depuis la Grèce archaïque jusqu’aux collections romaines. La deuxième partie définit le motif du pinax à volets en trompe-l’œil dans le décor mural de deuxième style pompéien. La troisième partie est une étude de cas qui replace les collections de pinakes à volets dans le contexte de l’habitat domestique et du décor de la pièce, en Campanie et à Rome, jusqu’à leur abandon au profit du tableau central. / This essay focuses on a motif of the roman wall painting, the shuttered pinax. It aims at showing that, beyond its nature as a motif of secondary importance, it has a part in the introduction of volume and figurative art in wall painting decoration. As the depiction of an accessory in trompe-l’oeil in the illusionistic architectures of the second Pompeian style, the shuttered pinax remains a mobile and independent item; as the medium of figurative representation, it fits into the decorative scheme, formally as well as thematically. The first part collects literary, archeological and iconographical sources on the emergence of real pinax from archaic Greece to Roman collections. The second part defines the shuttered pinax motif in trompe-l’oeil in the second Pompeian style wall-painting. The third part is a case study within context of domestic habitat and room decoration, in Campania and in Rome, until their disuse in favour of the central panel.