Galaxies and stars..

I started off my research by looking into space. I took a picture of a planet from my trend research and looked into starts and galaxies. I started to look at pictures and colours and I really liked the textures and patterns.

I would really like to find some galactic material to put into my collection and the colours and midnight blues and purples are very edgy and bold.

Shape development

In my sketchbook I have done some shape development to help me with my research. Ever since we learnt about shape development in first year I have always liked doing it as it helps me to move forward in my research and designs.

 Here, I have done some shape development using crystals. This is my favourite shape development and I have decided to design my collection based on the shapes of the crystals. I really like the straight angled lines of the crystal shapes and I want to create straight lines and harsh angles in my collection, doing the shape development really helped me to come to this final design plan.

This shape development is with the beetles I researched. I originally researched the beetles for the colours and textures, but I decided to still do some shape development to still see if I could find any interesting shapes and gain some inspiration. I've decided that I don't like the shapes of the beetles but I do really like the colours and textures which I will want to portray in my fabrics and material.

Holly Jeffry Galactic Collection

i have found a collection that I absolutely love, Its by Holly Jeffry who is an aspiring fashion designer just starting out in the business, and I can really see her getting far as she is very talented and original.

Here is her collection;

I think the material she has used is beautiful and I would really love to find some iridescent fabric like this. The use of colours is amazing and the whole collection looks very unique and futuristic. I particularly like the iridescent green and brown trousers and I have tried to find a contact email for Holly to enquire about the materials she used although I cant seem to find one.

I love every single garment and the collection has really inspired me to create a beautiful angled collection with as much impact at this one.

Sheffield Art Museum

Over the February break, I heard of a collection that was showing at the sheffield art museum that could be of great help to my research, so I went to have a look. The collection was the called the Ruskin Collection, and was the work of John Ruskin, a Victorian writer who searched for natural beauty in the world around him, documented his finds and that was what was previewing in the museum.

There were lots of natural creations and that included crystals and minerals. The work was marvelous and the colours and textures of the crystals were perfect for my research. I also came across some beetles which were amazing and the colours were beautiful. Here are some pictures of what I saw of the collection.

Cystals

As I have gone forward into my research, I have really taken a liking to crystals. The colours of the natural minerals and crystals really relate back to my research, greens purples and blues, and crystals are also very iridescent and I really like the texture and surfaces of them.

I also very much like the angled strong shapes crystals have and I would really like to echo that in some of the silhouettes of my garments.

Subteranean

I have decided to base my new collection on the trend Subteranean. I found this trend in a View magazine and it is a predicted trend of 14/15. I really enjoyed looking through the View predicted trend magazines as they had some brilliant imagery in them and it was a really interesting insight into some trends that may occur in the future.

This trend caught my eye almost instantly, as the colours and images were very powerful and interesting. I really like the midnight blue's and deep purples, and I'm really interested in the green and iridescent colours.

One image really caught my eye on the trend as well, and that was one of a star. I think the blend of colours is amazing and I would really like to find some galactic material to create one of my garments in.

New brief

We have just started our new brief, which i leading us to our final collection which is really exciting. We have started off by researching into any ideas we have, any future trends or things that in general interest us. I looked a couple of Vue magazines and saw a lot of inspirations I think that I would like to take further into my research.

For a future trend predicted in 14/15, I found some really interesting photos of planets and stars. I instantly liked the colours, and also the texture of the stars and flecks of light. I also admire the way that the colours blend together, and I would really like to find some material like this and I would like to take these images on with me when I start my thread of research.