Fashion is Always Human // Be Sustainable

UCA Fashion Promotion/Foundation Course

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Felipe Pantone Paints Illusory Graphic Street Art in Parisian Tunnels

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Repost

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experiment- Zine

(small file/basic colour pallet not final)

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Danny Blake by Alasdair McLellan for Arena Homme Plus Magazine No. 45, Summer/Autumn 2016

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Best of both Consumerism and Raf Simons

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113 Maison- 

COLLECTION – CAMPAIGN 02 2015/2016

https://www.notjustalabel.com/designer/113-maison?collection=251035

This inspired my own image experimentation using paint on photographs. 

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Katy Jones

Radical Sustainable Designer- 200 word review

Katy Jones has defied the odds with her bold, colourful and fun sustainable knitwear. Tackling the issue of sustainability can be difficult from sourcing materials to the production of the garments. It is normal for young designers to take the ‘easy’ option of sourcing materials that are non-eco friendly and that have unethical backgrounds. Not necessarily because they support this but more because they are cheap and readily available. This is one way in which Jones shows the radical nature of her designs by using materials like British made products or factory seconds to make her clothing. In order for this to work she has adopted a forward way of thinking: tailoring her designs around the materials available rather than the other way round. Although knitwear has been done before in many ways by many designers and is one of the oldest clothing techniques in our history, Katy Jones has brought it back in a radical but fashionable way. She uses traditional methods of hand-dying, crochet, embroidery and deconstructionism to create her pieces. She hasn't let this hold her back as her clothing is now being sold in Selfridges as part of their bright new things platform giving her designs an entry into mainstream fashion.

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Polaroids- Styling 

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Finals Shoot 2- Raf Simons Youth Culture Inspired

This shoot looks at sustainable fashion through vintage clothing, using the fundamental idea in sustainability of not wasting anything and using it until it falls apart. I have been inspired by Raf Simons ‘moth eaten aesthetic’ shown in his recent collection AW 16-17 of oversized jumpers and jackets. Some of the jumpers look as if some one has just cut the neck in a haphazard way and others have holes in. Also his use of classic stripped mens shirts paired with ill fitting sweaters either oversized or too small, I have used this as a point of inspiration to go on to style womenswear still using similar menswear classics but adding lace delicate footwear. This styling fits into my other overall theme of youth culture because it is inspired by the idea of hand me downs and the clothes that you are forced to wear when your younger that get passed through the family to get the most time possible out of it. The clothing isn’t always a great fit, but you make do.

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5 039. Raf Simons - Fall 2016 Menswear

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Dazed and Confused- Images 1 & 2

No Substance- Image 3

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I was able to experiment in the dark room, developing the film, creating contact sheets and final prints. The images above are three of my final prints all showing a different aspect of my project. Although I have worked in the dark room before I hadn’t ever developed print from my own contact sheets so this was an exciting but tedious process through which you have to do everything slowly and carefully because it is very easy to make a mistake.

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Three images working together to create a sense of movement and process. 

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I am experimenting with image placement and using them images from my previous shoot. I am preparing image ideas for my finals zine- my favourite experiment so far is the first image as I feel the red theme running through both the images work really well. Also the centre image has been taken with flash which brighten the image and drawing in your attention.

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These are a few of my images from my final denim shoot using potentially rubbish to styling tops to go with denim. Plastic bags that would otherwise be thrown away reused into wearable, fashionable pieces. Denim over denim as a way of patching up holes on knees etc. I felt this was a successful shoot as all my research was pulled together and every bit was useful. I particularly like the colour theme that has come through of blue, red and yellow (primary colours).

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Dazed and Confused styling editorial- Taking note of the use of DIY originating materials- plastics, bulldog clips, black tape and masking tape to create clothing. Inspiring- I want to experiment with similar things in my own final shoot along with combing it with oversized denim pieces.

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After my first Test shots on the styling influenced by Ground Zero and Off white I looked at other designers inspired by youth culture such as Gosha Rubchinskiy, Vetements and Maison Margelia. From this I have created further test shots bringing what I research into practice, I also looked at the DIY aesthetic of these designers and others and decided to bring in colour tape and bungee to use as a belt. I like these small details as they add to the idea of sustainability in the way that you use what you find lying around to create your style- that way your reusing and not buy new things all the time. From here I would like to further experiment with alternative ways of tying, clipping and fastening clothes instead of conventional way.

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After my shoot of the collaged Mcdonalds packaging and drinks cans, I wanted to put these into a page layout as preparation for my final Zine. Although I am not expecting to use these layout they will give me an idea of how I might want to present these images in an editorial. I felt the layouts were successful and I tied image and text well, although perhaps I could have made more space available for the main piece of text as this was based more on the aesthetic than practicality. I may need to think about this when I come to making my zine that I need to allow ‘enough’ space for the writing content in my layouts.