Sarah Hayden

LSAD YR 1 Exploring story through the song ‘Between the Bars’ by Elliott Smith

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Project Statement - Story

- For my project on story my idea was to look at the story told through my favourite song ‘Between the Bars’ by Elliott Smith.

-In this song Smith personifies alcohol as it talks to him, telling him how it will allow him to forget about lifes pressures all he needs to do is listen to his addiction and keep drinking. The “bars” he continues to reference throughout the song are a metaphor for the bars of a prison cell alcohol holds him in as he is never free of his addiction.

-Due to the subject matter of this song being about alcohol addiction I have decided to explore this idea by telling the story of the song through the action of drinking. I have done this by basing each look in my six look lineup off of different objects involved in the process of drinking: corkscrew, wine cork, glass, wine, wine bottle, whiskey bottle.

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https://youtu.be/ZW8JxcRFsYY

Ideas Development Sketchbook

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https://youtube.com/shorts/jxeeOxWw_X0?feature=share

Research Book

Research Book

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Finished six look line up together

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Looks four, five and six from my six look line up. For look four I took inspiration from a glass used for alcohol, for look five I used spilled wine as inspiration and for look six I took inspo from a wine bottle.

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Looks one, two and three from my six look lineup. I’ve decided to tell the story of the song I am basing my project off of by using objects used while drinking as inspiration for each one of my looks.

For look one I used a corkscrew as inspiratipn, then for look two I continued the journey using a wine cork by covering the cork in marker and rolling it over the look to create a pattern and for look three I used a bottle of wiskey as inspiration by using the bubbles caused by the liquid to create a pattern.

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Work from the Garments Reposition Workshop continued.

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Garments resposition workshop with Giordana where we had to come up with six looks by repositioning our own clothes upside down, inside out, sideways etc.

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Absolut Vodka ad campaign collaborations with Fashion Designers:

Absolut Vodka x Jean Paul Gaultier

Absolut Vodka x Versace

Absolut Vodka x Gucci

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As I have based my project off of alcoholism due to the subject matter of the song I am following the story of, I did some research on fashion designers and their collaborations with alcohol brands.

https://www.crfashionbook.com/fashion/a35471711/fashion-alcohol-collaborations-90s/

Remember High Fashion and Alcohol Collaborations of the '90s?

How luxury fashion houses transformed monotonous liquor bottles into collectable designer pieces

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Planning possible concepts for each look from my line up and the general colour palette.

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Collages of the each of the colours I plan on including in the colour palette of my six look line up.

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Final sketches before deciding on my final six looks. For two of my looks I was practicing making designs by mimicking the shapes in the shadows of wine bottles, for a third I used spilt wine as inspiration and for anothor look I used wine corks as inspiration and coated one in marker and pressed it onto the fashion sketch see what it would look like as a print for one of my looks.

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Sketching designs around my idea to inspire my six look line up.

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Placing photos I took of wine bottles, glasses, beer cans, corkscrews onto fashion models to get inspiration for my six look line up.

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Practicing typography of the title of the song my project is based on.

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Visualisation board around my idea of the story told through the song ‘Between the Bars’ by Elliott Smith which includes colour palettes, textures, text and visuals.