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Frances Rivera, Fashion Communication at Kingston University

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Just comic from möbius french comic series

#Comic

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Curating a narrative - Bill Gibbs

Curating a narrative – Bill Gibb

Fashion and Fantasy – fashion edition written by Bill Gibbs, featuring designers like John Galliano “Fairytale tellers, story tellers, dream

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Colour psychology

more about colour in branding

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'Colour is the mother tongue of the subconscious' – Carl Jung - BASMA

Colour in fashion tell a story. Fashion is about self expression and colour plays a prominent role within it.

Article about colour within fashion and branding

In terms of my punk screenprinting, this is making me start to think about what colours I want to print that can also convey any chose emotion.

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Access Google Drive with a Google account (for personal use) or Google Workspace account (for business use).

Professional practice presentation

Professional skills

Current Skills

Placement and internships

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Access Google Slides with a personal Google account or Google Workspace account (for business use).

Part A presentation

I focused on a luxury brand and chose Chanel, this is my work in progress presentation

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MOODBOARD powerpoint.pdf

MOODBOARD Presentation

Frances Rivera

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Fashion And Modernity

https://www.dietprada.com/stories/vetements-collection-hongkong-protest

Link the Vetements FW21 collection inspired from Hong Kong protests

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Element 2 Brief

For this part of the course, we will be promoting a concept collaborated piece between 2 brands. The first brand is a fashion brand of our choice, where we will include evidence to support such as consumer profiles, market position, values, DNA etc.

I think I will be deciding to work with Vivienne Westwood for my research fashion brand, to continue with my investigation towards British punk movement.

Second brand I am still note sure what type of brand to be promoting, but I am thinking about jewellery. I was thinking about something to do with hair, hair accessories or products, or makeup. They played a massive role in defining the punk fashion, and I think punk beauty can be a somewhere to begin for my brand promotion.

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TELFAR: BRAND

01/10

Fashion Communication

In this discussion today we explored what builds a brand, and how it pioneers its own uniqueness. we explored how brands represent themselves.

I was given the fashion brand TELFAR for this task. We will be presenting what we researched to the rest of the class next week.

This was my final presentation for my research on Telfar

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"Fashion as a marketplace: understanding the audience"

Professional Practice with Nikki, 06/10

Complete a visual book review (and later a fashion zine) for a fashion magazine/book/ autobiogrpahy about a fashion figure. Include visuals, photography, illustrations, animations, brainstorm with themes/ genres which they explore and connect back to the fashion figure. Analyse: Why did i choose this book/ figure? How is it connecting back to my designs, sketchbook, journaling?

2) Keep up sketchbook and journaling and building towards a digital portfolio and personal pl

3) Reading in fashion (book list above) and extended reading

Some recommened reading:

ISABELLA BLOW, a fashion editor who discovered and launched, such as Alexander McQueen at CSM , Philip Treacy, Hussein Chalayan and Julien Macdonalda

alexander mcqueen

Bill cunningham: street photogrpaher who first was based in designing hats, collaborating with brands such as Nike

Leander Mendrine, fashion blogger

If You Have to Cry, Go Outside Kelly Cultrone, personal and discussions surrounding experience within fashion and how to navigate the world of fashion based from her experiences as a PR.

Tales from the Back Row, Amy Odell looking at the influences and online bloggers within fashion

Senior vice President, Aliza Licht, exploring the business part of the fashion industry

Andre Leon Talley, creative editor and editor-in -large for American Vogue, insider perspective of fashion industry, worked closely with british journalist Anna Wintour

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FIRST LESSON IN FASHION COM, 27.09

Today we had our first briefing for Fashion Communication and Promotion, which included the 3 main briefs the course will be focusing and working towards for the remainder of the term.

We started with a short exercise where we explored our self perception and self identity, asking the question HOW DO WE VIEW YOURSELF?

It started as a short exercise to describe ourselves using 5 words, and my words were:

~ Innovation ~ Curious ~ Sustainable ~ Attention to detail ~ Responsible

It broadened to what are my core values, and issues I care about: ~ Eco sustainable, community work, exploring and Equal opportunity, towards others from circumstances.

We also noted what we like to do, and I included Making music (focusing on indie pop) jewellery making, and practicing self care like yoga.

This expanded to what type of skills we would like to develop further, and how they can also be utilised in my role within fashion, these are some skills I had listed:

~ Enrichment and work: Working independent + collaborating with other designers, working under pressure ~ Interpersonal skills - Communication, authenticity, connection relating back to society - social/ political/ cultural ~ IT: Photoshop, other apps for illustration, musical producing ~ Creative and documenting : Research, moodboard, pitching and planning

This was like a warm up for preparing us for the main briefing we would be working towards until December.