Chanel

I know that what I see as inspirations probably doesn't make you think Im a delicate flower, but Chanel's Spring 2010 Ready to Wear catwalk just puts butterflies in my tummy. The designs are so characteristic in their own personal way, with delicate details within the material really emphasise that even though these designs look 'pretty', Chanel is not to be messed with. The mixture or textures and materials really brings together the scene of a barn yard which seems quite messy, but does the job it is set out to achieve.

Suggested Reading

Happy new year every one!!!! Sorry I haven't been on lately, had a lot of stuff going on: So I got this book for Christmas, its fab for those people who either do fashion or textiles but want to specialise in both! It gives you the ins and outs of the industry, info on how to implement it into your work and so much more. I really recommend reading it! Textiles and Fashion by Jenny Udale

Suggested Reading

I really suggest reading this book, even if you wanted to just look at the images. Lately my own style has really been influenced by the use of technology and this book just shows you how many inspirational ways you can take your own work into.

Peter Pilotto

Peter Pilotto's collection, even though for me, more mixed media than I personally like really combines the use of colour and texture so well in this collection. Especially on the tops with the lines of alternative material, yet they fit so well together when viewed from far away.

I really hate to write

I will admit that imnot the biggest fan of writing. I find it hard sometimes and also quite boring if Im honest haha. I think that my inspiration talks for itself and shows you what I like and how I apply these sources to my own work.

The Armani code

Structure + individuality = good design

ladder up

Lines, structure = dynamic

Ski ski ski

Im a big fan of skiing, I love every thing about it, even the extreme cold weather. However the view you get from the top of the mountain down into the valley is something you cant just simply describe. The contrast of the white snow against the ground impacts the contours in the mountain.

No words please

I really want this blog to be about the images which influence and project my own identity. The words don't mean as much as the picture itself, they describe themselves.

research

My own research always focuses around structured scenes and objects. Linear compositions always hold that dynamic effect.

Martin Margiela

I have recently come across designs of Maison Martin Margiela, and I have to admit, even though this collection doesn't involve any printed pattern, the simplicity of the garments works so well. The tunic dresses with high shoulders and figure hugging waist bands. The simple colour of the fabric adds to the impact of the designs making them more bold and defined. To me its the stiffness of the collection that draws you in, as though the fabric is wrapped around the models. Oh imagine how warm they would be in this weather! I also really like how definate the folds are to create irregular contours within the fabric, there must be a lot of starch in that fabric!

To say that I hadn't heard of Margiela before, I can say it now proudly that he creates dynamic designs and an overwhelming impact through his collections. I am certainly a follower.

Let it snow

Yes I know I've gone a bit crazy with the videos in these last few post, but this one is firstly quite funny and secondly its just amazing ! So its a train plowing through the snow, but just concentrate when the train gets near the camera, and the impact of the train on the snow.

Extreme Sports?

No, Im not into extreme sports, I wish I was, but to be honest with you I really don't have the courage to. But just take alook at the view this guy gets! All of the grids of the buildings on the ground. Imagine drawing them and keeping track of which section you have just drawn! See this is what I think relates to my work well. Take a look at the plan on the ground. There are thicker, denser areas of lines but then thinner roads that lead off to no where that are in some way non existence: but in the whole picture make it look very dynamic.

Plato's Atlantic

Ok, so ive found the cat walk to Alexander McQueen's: Plato's Atlantic. The video it self just sets the whole mood and approach to his collection. Very mysterious and dangerous, but i also like how he combined the camera to show the models showing the garments at close up when on the run way. Such a genius! Take a look, is a work of art alone, without the collection.

What I want

Think Fast: What am I about?

I really want you to understand what I'm trying to get at with this.

Please understand I want my blog to allow people to see what influences me, but at the same time, I identify myself with direction in what I'm wanting to achieve, and keeps me focused.

I want to succeed, I will succeed.

Confidence is vital, arrogance is not needed.

Graduate Fashion Week!

Visit Graduate Fashion Week!!!!

It is an experience you should have every year!

Get to see the competition and styles that are emerging from our generation, it's phenomenal.

http://www.gfw.org.uk/home.aspx

Autumn Beauty

Looking through Vogue the other day. As you do! I came across this beautiful dress by Etro. Studying textiles I'm always interested in the fabric but this is just gorgeous: All the patterned college-prints are different in so many ways of varying colour and form yet they all go together so well. Such a simple, yet so elegant, design as the maxi dress extends and flows all the way down to the ground. My favorite element is that all the designs within the stripes are block colours of simple shapes; these designs really influence and emphasise my style; as well as being made from chiffon, with such a simple design I really feel that they are affective. The colour really expresses the bohemian beauty of the dress in all the autumnal colours. I can't take my eyes off it.

New Inspiration

When visiting home the other day, as you do, I went to a gardening centre with my mum. I honestly would have been bored out of my head if it wasn't for the vast range exotic fish. You don't realise how amazing and technical their scales and colours are until close. Its interesting how definite their marks are and how you could take these interpretations onto material. Imagine the colours on the dress! Just wow! I really want to concentrate on the undiscovered world of the sea in a project! Imagine how technology could be used to enhance those vibrant colours and even define the lines. I guess you could say this is on the lines of Alexander McQueen's~; Plato's Atlantic, which I've already commented on, but still he deserves to be mentioned again on his idealistic designs. He is one of the best.

Architecture

Ok so I did some work, and it really works well with my drawing style. I really hate describing but if I had to comment I feel that the different thicknesses of lines works really well to create a dynamic, busy, but formal image. Even though it looks simplistic, at the same time it is very compact and over worked in areas.

My wonderful world

So I got out of the house and wanted to get some new sources of inspiration for my work. Now I know you should look at different subjects for your work to get a variety of work, but I just love the interconnecting links that can be shown in architecture - especially the production of it with scaffolding! Ill put up some of my work as soon as I've got some good ones to show. Cant wait!

Alexander McQueen

I don't even want to give this post any other name but the magnificent designers name that is Alexander McQueen. He has yet again 'wow'd' the world in his Ready to wear 2010 Spring/Summer collection of Plato's Atlantis with not just his amazing creation for fashion, but the film of the naked model: Raquel Zimmermann. She conveyed this sexual yet daring image of her lying in the sand with snakes all over her. By setting this very modern and alternative mood with the large run way with digital camera on either side, this was in it self a work of art. Being a textile student my self who is very interested in digitally printed pattern, I absolutely adore this collection. Reflecting this intense and modern film the designs feature a snake like digital print of yellows and browns as well well as moving through to greens and bright blues. The silhouette of the dresses really define the top of the body with a nipped waist line to allow a range of skirts from bell shaped, layers of material and some which just went straight down to really show off the models lean figure. Dominant in the word that comes into my mind, even the hair reflected this image of a deadly snake. I even like how his inspiration came from the diminishing ecological climate: his thinking that we all might be living under the water water at the rate that the polar ice caps are melting. Very original! Take a look at his Runway Archive on his website, there is a the video of the collection on there. Is it one to see, trust me! http://www.alexandermcqueen.com/int/en/corporate/archive2010_ss_womensp.aspx