So we've just started our main brief for college;
'The visual recording and contextual influences in art and design'..
And I'm researching the 30's-40's of the 19th century! Gotta say so far i hadn't actually realised just how much had happened between this decade, the great depression, art deco, the war etc..
alsooooo its when Norman Hartnell (amazing) and Elsa Shiaparelli (amazing) created there collections of incredibly origional garments and were looking at how all the different movements between the 30's-40's influenced fashion at the time..
Excited to get stuck into this! Done loads of research so far and starting tomorrow on our sketchbooks.. cant wait!
Sunday, 18 September 2011
Monday, 12 September 2011
jeepers CREEPERS..
Thursday, 8 September 2011
Different designer of the day!
Okay sooooo todays different designer isss...
Lou Dalton
I found her whilst scanning the last day of the London fashion week schedule, I chose him off the last day list as it's menswear and although I'm far from a tomboy a lot of the time I prefer mens clothing to some womans. I think it's great that a woman is designing mens clothing and I definitely want to look into that area myself so I found out some information.
She's not overly established yet and appearing in London fashion week is her career highlight so far, but looking through some of her designs she's a very talented young woman who has a lot of interesting ideas and designs. She seems to specialise in sportswear but she has a flare of making it look trendy and new. She studied at the royal college of art and has worked for Hamish Morrow, Stone Island, Crucciani Knitwear and Charlie Allen.
I think she has a good eye for colour and I love the dull purples and navy's she uses, very interesting style of design and I think she'll be great on LFW!
Lou Dalton
I found her whilst scanning the last day of the London fashion week schedule, I chose him off the last day list as it's menswear and although I'm far from a tomboy a lot of the time I prefer mens clothing to some womans. I think it's great that a woman is designing mens clothing and I definitely want to look into that area myself so I found out some information.
She's not overly established yet and appearing in London fashion week is her career highlight so far, but looking through some of her designs she's a very talented young woman who has a lot of interesting ideas and designs. She seems to specialise in sportswear but she has a flare of making it look trendy and new. She studied at the royal college of art and has worked for Hamish Morrow, Stone Island, Crucciani Knitwear and Charlie Allen.
I think she has a good eye for colour and I love the dull purples and navy's she uses, very interesting style of design and I think she'll be great on LFW!
So jealous!
So I've just been watching Britain and Ireland's next top model and one of the prizes for 2 of the task winners were tickets to London fashion week! I really really wish it was open to the public, that would be A-MA-ZINGGG but just think of how many people would actually be there?! Anyway's just thought I'd share my jealousy with you all and I'll definitely be tuning into the live streams! Bring on friday the 16th!
Wednesday, 7 September 2011
Friday 16th september.. LFW
A very very important date for designers, bloggers and fashion fans out there.. Its the start of london fashion week! With over 70 different designers showing off there collections theres going to be so many people interested in seeing the different garments and the week is going to be massive!
Ive just been looking through the sceduale and there are so many amazing designers making an appearence, a lot of them ive never even heard of but more reason to investigate! Ive noticed vivience westwood is going to be there on the saturday the 17th. Her models are strutting down the catwalk at 6 pm and i'd definitely like to take a look at that. Ive always been a fan of her as I love the way she's so edgy and isnt afraid to be different!
Looking through all the other designers, I've got to say a lot of them I haven't ever heard of, I scrolled down to the last day, Wednesday 21st (as they say leave the best till last!) and noticed that Topman are doing a half an hour show at 12:30 pm so I'm definitely going to look into that as im a big fan of Topman and Topshop myself and im interested in mens clothing. I've also decided to chose a random designer on that day as it will be interesting to see a new label, so i've chosen to look at 'A Child Of The Jago', mostly because of the name, sounds interesting!
Quickly searching the brand on the internet it definitely looks young, fresh, new and a label i'll enjoy learning about!
http://www.londonfashionweek.co.uk/
Ive just been looking through the sceduale and there are so many amazing designers making an appearence, a lot of them ive never even heard of but more reason to investigate! Ive noticed vivience westwood is going to be there on the saturday the 17th. Her models are strutting down the catwalk at 6 pm and i'd definitely like to take a look at that. Ive always been a fan of her as I love the way she's so edgy and isnt afraid to be different!
Quickly searching the brand on the internet it definitely looks young, fresh, new and a label i'll enjoy learning about!
Different designer of the day!
Okay so I've been researching a lot of different designers I've never even heard of because i thought it would be good to get a bit more inspiration and knowledge from other areas of fashion design and i came across a few different ones i really liked,
John Galliano;
A british designer born in 1960, he worked as head designer at French haute couture houses Givenchy
Really unusual designs, i think his garments give out a really playfull energetic image, i like the colours he uses and the way it seems he just has fun in designing different new unique outfits, but check out the shoes! There amazing!
The gold pair are beautiful! The way he's created a sculpted wooden heel is so complex and clever, and the fringing of gold beeds and sequins adds loads of texture and personality!
MORE DIFFERENT DESIGNERS TO COME!
John Galliano;
A british designer born in 1960, he worked as head designer at French haute couture houses Givenchy
Really unusual designs, i think his garments give out a really playfull energetic image, i like the colours he uses and the way it seems he just has fun in designing different new unique outfits, but check out the shoes! There amazing!
MORE DIFFERENT DESIGNERS TO COME!
And todays look is..
Sunset sweet! I've put an outfit together today and slightly colour co-ordinated my top half (which is a rarety for me as i usually dislike colour co-ordination very much) with a logo tee and orange knitted thin cardy (which i cut the bottom off to shorten slightly) and then on my bottom half im wearing a pair of black jean high wasted shorts with bronze studs on, a pair of black tights and my little brown brouges (which i love!)
Not forgetting my bow in my hair! I love accessories and the majority of the time i have some sort of bow or headband or clip in my hair, just to add a little more personality to my outfit! Im also wearing 3 necklasses which could pass as one big busy chain, my brown dogtags, a gold chain with lots of different lengths (which i made myself) and a little heart pendant. Let me no what you all think!
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Not forgetting my bow in my hair! I love accessories and the majority of the time i have some sort of bow or headband or clip in my hair, just to add a little more personality to my outfit! Im also wearing 3 necklasses which could pass as one big busy chain, my brown dogtags, a gold chain with lots of different lengths (which i made myself) and a little heart pendant. Let me no what you all think!
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Tuesday, 6 September 2011
Gareth Pugh
''fashion is about the struggle between lightness and darkenss''
Gareth Pugh was the second designer I researched, I really like his complex and daring designs and the way he rebelled against the current fashion trends. He also used various materials and media to create his garments and showed a really original style.
As you can see here he seems to have used what looks like black and white arm bands, they are used in the areas in which he wanted to create volume within the garment so he's used this type of media instead of using metal frames or material. He also created a pyramid type garment as well which was really sharp and angled and looked really effective on the catwalk.
Gareth Pugh was the second designer I researched, I really like his complex and daring designs and the way he rebelled against the current fashion trends. He also used various materials and media to create his garments and showed a really original style.
Martin Margeila
''margeila for the year 2015..''
Martin Margeila is my favourite designer out of all the 8 designers vie been given to research. I love the fact his designs are so versatile and he incorporates a lot of different patterns and materials in one garment. A lot of his designs aren't symmetrical either and I think that makes his designs personal and different. His work is definitely visionary however some of his garments are similar to those seen being worn today; his clothes appeal to a wide audience and relate to todays fashion scene.
He uses a range of old wigs, canvasses and silk to create couture like garments, he uses random house hold objects to create accessories which shows his talent and flare for uniqueness, like here he's used shuttle cocks to make a sort of waistcoat like accessory;
I love the way he shows lots of different moods within his designs, the colours say a lot about the designs and he seems to use a variety from dull ays and cremes to bright yellows and pinks. Some are more like everyday fashion wear and others are big and dramatic with over sized sleeves and collars, his extravagant designs caught the eye of jean paul gaultier and he ended up working along side him for a while and afterwards brought out his own collection and has been doing catwalk ever since, love his garments and would definitely wear a lot of them myself!
Martin Margeila is my favourite designer out of all the 8 designers vie been given to research. I love the fact his designs are so versatile and he incorporates a lot of different patterns and materials in one garment. A lot of his designs aren't symmetrical either and I think that makes his designs personal and different. His work is definitely visionary however some of his garments are similar to those seen being worn today; his clothes appeal to a wide audience and relate to todays fashion scene.
He uses a range of old wigs, canvasses and silk to create couture like garments, he uses random house hold objects to create accessories which shows his talent and flare for uniqueness, like here he's used shuttle cocks to make a sort of waistcoat like accessory;
I love the way he shows lots of different moods within his designs, the colours say a lot about the designs and he seems to use a variety from dull ays and cremes to bright yellows and pinks. Some are more like everyday fashion wear and others are big and dramatic with over sized sleeves and collars, his extravagant designs caught the eye of jean paul gaultier and he ended up working along side him for a while and afterwards brought out his own collection and has been doing catwalk ever since, love his garments and would definitely wear a lot of them myself!
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