Briefly what I'm doing then; this is my last term in uni, fashion and textiles, we're doing our final collections. Now I'm the kind of person who's conventional sketchbook will look really boring, empty,thin and very childlike. Those massive A3 white pages scares the shit out of me (and the black ones was apparently worst), So I tried an A4 plastic sleeve variation, it worked all the better, but still, I'm not quite happy. So here we go a sketchbook in the format of a blog! I mean most of my information comes from the internet anyways so then I can save my pennies on printing (and some trees too) in the process!
So, for the last collection we may choose whatever theme we like, which seems great. If you didn't choose a theme which covers more than 70% of our earth; the ocean.. To let you know, Apart from fashion and all things pretty (also pink(!) ), I have a great passion for the sea and everything consumed by it. I'm also very concerned of the fact that if we're carrying on fishing like we are, there won't be much of a living ocean for us to enjoy.
This is the theme board I made to show my theme, the feel and somewhat the colours I'll use. I'm absolutely convinced that all of this will change during the course of time, but hey! It's a start!
2 comments:
Nice blogg it`s going to be fun to follow you :-)
Time for a commment from the virtual fashion lecturer I think - marvellous this as I don't have to think on my feet!
I think you should right now reference Alexander McQueen's Atlantis collection, just to show what's been done already and to start to establish your own take on the theme.
I think your comments on the way we treat the Ocean are interesting- maybe some more images of gasping fish etc. You could try feeding 'toxic waste and beaches' or 'toxic waste and the sea' into online news site such as timesonline to find some more leads - and maybe inform critical studies.
I would recommend you take a look at Caroline Baker's 'Fashion at the Edge' chapter 10 on dereliction gives some great examples of how fashion designers have used decay, distressing and patina to create effects on fabric and clothing. Check out Martin Margiela's experiments with mould, or Chalayan's burying of fabrics. I though you would find Jessica Ogden interesting as well as you have often used the theme of recycling in previous work.
A bit of research turned up this art movement: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actual_Art there's an artist Dan Dempster who has used salt water to etch drawings. From the colours in your themeboard you look as if you want to find beauty in destruction so thought this would be perfect.
Hope that's enough to start with....
By the way you should really update this every week!!
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