Tuesday 24th... Printing.

Pigment printing (puff) using four layers.

Hand painting directly onto screen.

( silk, cotton, paper)

 

Colour ...

Colour Referencing, inspiration; Vogue May 2012, Photographs by Mario Testino. 'Layering Cultural Richness'.

Drawing... Inspiration...Developemt

We are beginning to produce a collection of drawings to compliment our visual research, by collecting them together in our studio space we can all continue to evaluate our progress and make links within cultures, aiding us to consider ideas for our final design. We have agreed to each have a set of ten drawings/developments by Friday 27h when we meet as a group.....

Walter Van Beirendonck - ' Dream the World Awake'

After a recent tutorial with Julie, we discovered the work of fashion maverick Walter Van Beirendonck.  We were particualry drawn to his recent retrospective at the Antwerp Fashion Muesuem, exhibiting his finest pieces of photography and film.  The following video provided great inspriration for our developing ideas. It immediatly entises its audience and bears a simple yet quirky and effective structure.  We all agree we hope to try and emulate the idea of models approaching on some sort of moving treadmill with a stark white background, however we would have the outfits appearing as a projections rather than actual garments.  The bold use of colour is also significant, should we consider this for our film? ......

http://showstudio.com/project/dream_the_world_awake#fashion_film

Early print ideas....painting....drawing....

Colour references

Developing Pride inspiration and ideas, colours that reference my theme.....

Highlighting Culture in Manchester; Canal Street Area

In response to our group discussion, I was given the area surrounding Canal St to visit and collect imagery that represented 'culture'. This however proved difficult as at 11.00am, the street lacked vibrancy.  In reflection I chose to focus more on the areas connections with Gay Pride (A extremely colourful and significant aspect of Manchesters metroplolitan culture) rather than the buildings and grounds themselves.
The collection of visuals below, highlight the bold declarations of unity, strong use of colour and passion for overwhelming apparel providing inspriation for our 'patchwork culture projection'.