REPEAT EXPERIMENTS
PAGE 1 Once upon a moment there was a new girl. A woman of few words she confuses people with her attitude she is supposed to fit into a box, this is college but for her she broke out of the box a long time ago. She was a modern day mystery she stunned people with her silence as she mulled over her dreams. Highschool Hierarchy repulses her and she resents the “popular”. She is everything the “quiet girl” isn’t allowed to be she speaks up when most wouldnt and the few words she does say confuses the sheep even more. Quiet to her is her everything, she is content in her mind, life is happier there. Born into the average 2.0 family in the suburbs she craved a life deeper than this and dreamt most of her childhood, of a life she ruled ,not society. She craves to live a mans life in a womans body and break the stereotype. Dressing to her comes easy there is noone to impress she dresses for comfort and for herself. Inspired by the plain faced models of the 90s she sees strength in this era the message was seductive but clean nothing to fussy and she liked this. It is matter of fact without the need to “spruce up ”the female. She shops at ASOS, TOPSHOP, URBAN UTFITTERS but she dreams of the day she can walk out of chloe with a bag on her shoulder she bought herself with her own success. She loves the body skimming slips that she can pair with heels but she can change her look from day to day, one day shes oh soo sexy the next she is running around in her luxurious oh so comfy joggers this is the freedom of not being defined. Floral prints for the days she wants to feel like a amazon princess versus hard boxy silhouettes with geometric prints for the days she feels like showing the world whos boss. She is more than what you see on a piece of paper she is indefinable shes three dimensional. She is a romantic at heart. Loves to read curled up on her sofa or stood on the tube to escape the madness. To me she is the Modern woman, she isnt screaming from the rooftops, parading the papers with successful men. She stands alone and she is living the life we all want, no money or lots every woman has the right to live the dream and that is the story of the modern woman.
MY TATE MODERN VISIT
ISSEY MIYAKE
When Visiting the Tate I was paticularly drawn to pieces with interesting texture and patterns and an element of expressionist direction. Expressionist art inspires me as I enjoy the freedom it allows you to have and I like how personal it is too the artist it isnt just about copying whats infront of you its about putting everything you feel about the things around you down it makes art more 3 dimensional rather than 2D everyone is going to take their own thoughts from it. I wanted to carry this through into my drawings and print ideas I want when I’m designing to be expressing my own message through the art of fashion.
ISSEY MIYAKE uses colour and pattern to create illusions on the body I think this is a flattering way too dress the figure. I would like to play on the stand and find a way I can manipulate fabric to be its most flattering using cloth and pattern to inform print placement.
ACNE STUDIOS RESORT 17 was made up of different textures with watercolour washes and tie dye complimented with ombre space dye knits. It adds more of a fluid feel to the clothing which I think is a nice variation too add too more graphic pieces.
ACNE STUDIOS
P LAC E M E NT P R I NT I D E A
T H I S A R C H I T E C T U R E S K E TC H I T H O U G H T W A S R E A L LY N I C E TO D R AW A S I T S R E A L LY W O R K A B L E W I T H I N FA S H I O N I T H I N K IT WOULD MAKE A INTERSTING PLACEMENT PRINT BUT IT W O U L D B E I N T E R E S T I N G TO C U T T H I S U P A N D C O L L A G E I T A N D S E E H O W T H E P R I N T C A N B E D I S TO R T E D U S I N G FA B R I C M A N I P U L AT I O N ?
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I S S E Y M I YA K E FA L L R T W 2 0 1 6 I have taken inspir ation fr om this collection as I enjoy the vibr ancy of the colour s and the linear aspect to cr eate a kaleidoscope effect. T he mixtur e of textur e and colour pops combined with flattering silhouettes cr eate a perfect r ecipe. I r eally like the war m or ange and r ed tones throughout the collect i o n c o m p l e m e n t e d by t h e l u x u r i o u s b l u e t o n e s , I l i k e t h e i d e a o f c r e a t i n g r e s e a r c h t h a t c o m b i n e s a wor ld of opposites e.g Colour s, man-made ver sus natur al, for mal meets casual etc.
T H I S I S A S K E TC H I Q U I C K LY D I D O F T H E S T R U C T U R E O F A B U I L D I N G I N LO N D O N I L I K E D T H E W AY W H E N I LO O K E D AT E A C H L I N E A R P I E C E I T D I S TO R T E D M Y V I S I O N A L M O S T L I K E A N O P T I C A L I L LU S I O N I F E E L T H I S C O U L D B E I N T E R E S T I N G I N A P R I N T A S I T M A K E S A P R I N T L E S S F L AT ?
PLAYING WITH REPEAT AND SCALE
FA S T E N I N G / F I N I S H I N G R E S E A R C H
O N M Y V I SI T TO A V I N TAG E STO R E I N OT I C ED A JACKET WITH POCKETS BOTH VERTICAL AND H O R I ZO N TAL . I L I K ED T H E I D EA O F U SI N G V ER T I C AL P O C K ET S O N JAC K ET S SO I T S A EASY P L AC E F O R W EAR ER S P H O N E. I AL SO L I K ED T H E ZI P P U L L ER I ’ D N OT I C ED A T R EN D I N T H E S/ SC AT WAL K SH O W S AN D ST R EET ST Y L E T H AT C I R C U L AR FAS T EN I N G S W ER E P O P U L AR I L I K E T H E I D EA O F F U SI N G T H ESE F O R FAST EN I N G S AS W EL L AS D - R I N G S TO O AD D A C O N T R AST TO M Y I N SP I R AT I O N B EH I N D M Y P R I N T S?
I AL SO SP OT T ED T H ESE V I N TAG E V ER SAC E J EAN S AN D T H E S EAM W R AP S R O U N D TO T H E F R O N T R AT H ER T H AN T H E STAN DAR D SI D E ST EAM W I T H A B I N D I N G ASW EL L . T H I S F O R M E WO U L D LO O K I N T ER E ST I N G W I T H T H E SP O R T S LU XE F EEL I AM I N T ER EST ED I N R ES EAR C H I N G F U R T H ER AS SP O R T S W EAR O F T EN H AS DASHINGS ON BR IGHT BINDINGS WHICH I THINK COULD AD D A M O R E AT H L ET I C F EEL TO O A G AR M EN T.
C O N T R AS T S EAM S
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