Issue 1 | 2020 | Pearl Academy
FASHION
UG Fashion Styling & Image Design Rishu Gupta
SCHOOL OF FASHION
What is fashion in a world of fluid boundaries and rapid technology? Inspiration. Creativity. Sustainability. Art. Emotion. Tradition. Modernity. Uncertainty. Vision. Innovation. Challenge. Past, present and future. Or, more? A collection of student work, ‘Fashion Matters’ explores these familiar concepts with an innovative twist, through the futuristic lens of the creative learners. This medley of creative expressions reflects the social milieu, changing lifestyles and perceptions, binary identities, diverse personalities, individual and gendered expressions in a transformative ecosystem. This evocative tapestry of youthful expression gives a glimpse into a tomorrow, they seek to craft. For us at Pearl, fashion is empathy, form, creativity, liberation, self and community. It’s-all-embracing. Therefore, ‘Fashion Matters,’ is not just a metaphysical journey of changing human aspirations and expressions. Rather, it’s a journey within. It will be published two times a year. The idea behind this publication is to showcase the best student work from the School of Fashion, Pearl Academy. Antonio Maurizio Grioli Dean, School of Fashion
Courses
Cover Image | Chitrakshi Tomar | UG Fashion Styling & Image Design
Cover Layout : Radhika Jain Magazine Layout : Ishi Srivastava
Under Graduate Fashion Design Fashion Styling & Image Design Textile Design Post Graduate Costume Design: Film, TV & Theatre Fashion Design Fashion Styling & Image Design Textile Design MA Pathway Design (Fashion & Textiles) Professional Certificate Fashion Design Fashion Media Makeup Styling for Interiors Celebrity & Bridal Hair and Make-up Personal Styling & Image Consultancy Fashion Design Indian Wear Surface Design
UG Fashion Styling & Image Design Kanika Choudhary
Everyone is talking about Climate Change. It seems like right now, climate change is trending. And if there’s one industry out there that knows something about trends, it’s the fashion industry. We know the clock is ticking towards a climate catastrophe. I will try to answer a burning question ‘What is the relationship between fashion and climate change?’
UG Fashion Styling & Image Design Chitrakshi Tomar
Fashion MEDIA MAKEUP Ananya Prasad
REcollected Gathering what was forgotten, unwanted or unnoticed and giving it a new home in our modern world. UG Fashion Design Franziska Knitsch
FUTURE, a small world
but holds a big question!
Which decisions today will lead to a favorable future? Or taking decisions that benefit the ‘today’, will it lead to a highly questionable future? What is more expectable and accepted? Is it really in our hands or in the hands of tech developers, companies, healthcare facilities, medical professionals, regulators and policymakers? How to spread a word about this concern without using the medium itself? How annoying is it to use the internet to write about the concerns we have regarding it’s growth! That’s where the irony lies. That’s how much we are addicted to it, without realizing the power of it all! POWER, has it become that intrusive that it has gotten out of our hands? Will we ever be able to fight it? or one’s dependence on it is making it more and more gruesome and dangerous everyday? Should we blame our vulnerability? What is the future? How do we decide is it good or bad? What it holds for us? I’ve developed four different scenarios with different hypothesis. Scenario 1: Numerous attempts of humans to become machines, will partially come true in black mirror. Top made out of CD waste. Jacket corset made out of plastic waste.USB ports on neck to show how obsessed we are to kill the essence of human life. The buildings might be pulled down and digital version of the library will be created.
Scenario 2: After the government took strict measures to control internet, it kind of took a troll on the population and especially people who have been addicted to it. Bent spines, bad postures and E waste, will be very common. They might take out their confusion by expressing themselves on the streets.
Scenario 1
Scenario 3: Living like astronauts on your own planet. When everything is getting destroyed you try to seek comfort in an old hand me down saree from your great grandmother and try to imagine how time would have been different then. Scenario 4: Learnt from our own mistakes and left no opportunity to correct them. After going back in the past and correcting the mistake we adopted the Zen life, key to a content and happy life.
PG Fashion STYLING & IMAGE DESIGN Shubhangi Ladiwala
Scenario 2
Scenario 3
Scenario 4
UG Fashion DESIGN John Chacko
UG Fashion DESIGN Priyanshi Mistry
UG Fashion STYLING & IMAGE DESIGN Esha Nara
This is a Journal
UG Fashion Design Priyanshi Mistry
UG Fashion Design John Chacko
PG Fashion STYLING & IMAGE DESIGN Preethi S
A process of self evaluation to better my understanding of my own behaviour and perception of thoughts and to create a reflection of my mood and showcase the balance of my mind. To put forth the visuals from my brain onto a digital platform and showcase the ebullition and manifestation of my thoughts in terms of abstract expression, elements and structure. Using this approach, I want people to understand through visual communication my rapid change of mental processes and the state of a confident and creative mind. Having a very vivid imagination and a strong sense of aesthetics, putting forward my thoughts would be a great exploration and a different approach to understanding who I am on a more confined and deeper level. The audience would be exposed to understanding what I feel passionate about and develop a further connection to understand my sense of style and forte. A vision through my eyes and how I perceive the world to look and feel like. To create a cinematic harmony and show my personality as a perfectionist and a detail oriented person, and to create a structure from scratch and show my quality as a creator and a leader. Done via creation of a visual, similitude in accordance to my visual expression. Use of colour, sound and dynamic visuals in balance with situation to create an inter reflection of my self. Leaving an impression about who I am as a person on a psychological level and making it interesting, eye capturing and informative all at the same time. Capturing the audience by applying my understanding of cognitive psychology to my final outcome.
Introspection is both, an informal reflection process and a formal experimental approach to my curiosity. The informal reflection process can be described as examining my own internal thoughts and feelings and reflecting on what they mean. This process can be focused on my currently ongoing mental experience or very recent past mental experiences. This research technique is a more objective, not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts by others, and standardized version of this, in which I carefully analyse the content of my own thoughts, in as unbiased a manner as possible. The idea of introspection originally was developed by Wilhelm Wundt in the late 1800s. The three areas of mental functioning Wundt focused on were: thoughts, images, and feelings. Wundt’s work led to the current work on the perceptual processes and the establishment in the field of cognitive psychology. Cognitive psychology is known as the detailed study of the mental processes of the brain such as attention, language use, creative, memory, perception, problem solving, and thinking. A large number of work derived from cognitive psychology, is integrated into a lot of other modern disciplines like Cognitive Science and of psychological study, including educational psychology, social psychology, personality psychology, abnormal psychology, developmental psychology, and economics. Having thoughts about my own thoughts and having questioned my mental processes, I want to take a moment to clarify my values when in a moment of doubt or uncertainty. Introspection and self-reflection are important exercises which can help people grow and develop when they start looking inward instead of outward. We learn by experiences and mistakes, but, unless we question ourselves about what our experiences mean and think actively about them, we won’t make any changes. Self-reflection helps you move from just experiencing, into actually understanding.
UG Fashion STYLING & IMAGE DESIGN Virken Raina
Be perfect they say Be clean But, who says clean is perfect? Does the lotus not rise? From the depths of the marshy lands? Perfection in the harsh, dirty world. - Rushali
UG Fashion Styling & Image Design Esha Nara
Androgyny is not trying to manage the relationship between opposites; it is simply flowing between them. Androgyny refers to a specific way of joining the ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’ aspects of a single human being.
UG Fashion STYLING & IMAGE DESIGN Esha Nara
SAREE NOT SORRY What happens when the rich nine yard fabric clashes with the in your face style of grunge.
UG Fashion Styling & Image Design Nikita Gupta
City Lights, City Rides.
UG Fashion Design Mehak Sandhu
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John Chacko
UG Fashion Design
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