Cop 3 proposal

Nathan Laville - COP 3 Proposal.

To what extent does Aesthetic ‘Style’ reflect the context, audience and/or function of contemporary Graphic Design?

Potential questions: What impact do fashion trends have on society?

In Fashion, to what extent do trends denote a certain aesthetic?

Nathan Laville - COP 3 Proposal.

In Fashion, to what extent do trends denote a certain aesthetic?

During my time on the course, specifically so over this past year I am predominantly becoming more and more interested in fashion - and learning about the history of fashion. Specifically so I would like to understand the thought process that coincides how particular trends rise during a certain seasonal period, or year.

And how this can inlfluence other designers to do create and follow a practice similar to the trend of that period.

I want to specifically carry out reserch on the history of trends with fashion, and then to contrast and compare it to trends that are present today. In the hopes of gaining some understanding of how fashion and society constantly change, and how image is something that through graphic design and fashion, is constantly changing and adapting.

For the practical element I want to create a small magazine of popular trends - or, some form of publication explaining trends or explaining work of fashion designers. Or perhaps a few examples of clothing I would produce if I had my own clothing brand. At this point however I’m still unsure as to which direction to take.

Relevant/Related Subjects:

Fashion in Graphic Design Gender Studies in Fashion Trends Fashion Psychology Trends in design Expressionism Individualism

Nathan Laville - COP 3 Proposal.

Relevant quotes:

Nathan Laville - COP 3 Proposal.

Style is an expression of individualism mixed with charisma. Fashion is something that comes after style. - John Farchild.

Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are. Quentin Crisp.

Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting - Edmund Clarence Stedman.

Relevant quotes:

Nathan Laville - COP 3 Proposal.

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not, rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common this is my symphony. William Henry Channing’s Symphony: some background, and its appearance in an Arthur Brisbane editorial from the 1906 collection, “Editorials From The Hearst Newspapers” - William Ellery Channing.

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit. - George Santayana.

Relevant books:

Nathan Laville - COP 3 Proposal.

Graphic Design for Fashion by Jay Hess, Simone Pasztorek.

Fashion Victims: The dangers of Dress past and present by Allison Matthews-David.

Editorial Design: Digital and Print by Cath Caldwell, Yolanda Zappaterra.

Graphic Design for Fashion By Jay Hess and Simone Pasztorek Culture to Catwalk by Kristin Knox Fashion. A History from the 18th to the 20th Century by TASCHEN

Relevant websites:

Nathan Laville - COP 3 Proposal.

http://www.fashionprojects.org http://ofanotherfashion.tumblr.com/about http://www.fashion-era.com http://tijdelijkmodemuseum.hetnieuweinstituut.nl/en/fashion-data http://www.vogue.co.uk http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/h/history-of-fashion-1900-1970/

Relevant images: Moodboards

Nathan Laville - COP 3 Proposal.

Relevant images: Fashion

Nathan Laville - COP 3 Proposal.

Relevant images: Trends

Nathan Laville - COP 3 Proposal.