Research Anayasis

Research Analysis:

Before moving onto research for my final piece and creating a final outcome for a target audience I wanted to analyse what has been the main inspiration to carry into my final outcome. I chose the band jacket as my chosen garment to focus on which give me the initial ideas of royalty and wealth. The younger age catorgory would infer that the word royalty links with Disney and the fairytale royalty life contrasting to the more mature perspective of the word, The British Royal Family. This made me realiase that the fanatsy theme of royal life is drilled into a childs head from a young age and therefore the lifestyle of a Disney Princesses is linked to the life of the British Royal Family. Therefore, I thought it was intresting to compare the image of being a princess within Disney and a princess within The British Royal Family and what real life princesses say about the reality of being a princess through TV interviews.

As part of the theme of ‘What Makes a Princess’ I looked at the film ‘A Cinerella Story’ to look at the way the reference to a Disney Princess, Cinerella, is potrayed in modern day (A Cinderella Story- IMDb, 2004). This gave me the idea to look at what a modern-day Disney Princess would look like. Therefore I started to look a Fashion designers that design princess style ballgown dresses. Tommy Hilfiger designed a dress for Zendaya to wear at the Met Gala that was a replicate of the Cinerella dress (Kosin, 2019). Zac Posen was another designer that I looked at that designs ballgown style dresses for famous celebrities to wear on the red carpet (Nast, 2021). Looking at these designers raised the idea of, does being a princess come with a beautiful ballgown? Without a princess dress are you distiguised as being a princess? The idea of the design of the dresses also gave me the idea of creating a fashion show based in a Royal Setting.

I then looked at photographers that have created fantasy themed fashion photography. I firstly looked at Tim Walker as he is known for his fantasty themed fashion photography, his photographers led to be become intrested within this area for my final piece as a possibility for the theme of ‘What makes a Princess’ (Walker, 2021). I then looked at David Sims’s editoial within Vogue, named Cinerella Story, where he took a modern take on the traditional fairytale and almost took a dark twist on the fairytale through his photography (Sims, 2013). This style of output give me the inspiration to potentially create a editorial.

Finally, I looked at Daria Artemieva who is a illustator who illustates Disney Princesses in a way that puts them in a modern light. He uses the theme of their Princess dresses to create a modern and real-life approach to the traditional Disney Princesses (Artemieva, 2021). This solidified my ideas of how I would portray ‘What makes a Princess’ with reference to my initial ideas of The British Royal Family and Disney Princesses. Figure 13: David Sims Cinderella Story Editorial

Vivienne Westwood British Vogue 2009 Tim Walker

Princess Jasmine- Daria Artemieva

Figure 10: Cinderella Story Film 2004