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Re;Generate - Fashion - 18/03/2025
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Here are my sketches from the stand.
I also added some notes to these in my sketchbook here of how I feel about the individual pieces.
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Re;Generate - Fashion - 18/03/2025
Part 2 of 2
Here are my sketches from the stand.
I also added some notes to these in my sketchbook here of how I feel about the individual pieces.
Re;Generate - Fashion - Secondary research
Part 1 of 2
Jeremy Scott
Jeremy Scott is an American fashion designer. He is the owner of his own label, named after himself, and from 2013 to 2023, he was the creative director of the fashion house Moschino. Since launching his brand in Paris in 1997, Scott has built a reputation as "pop culture's most irreverent designer", and "fashion's last rebel".
He is well known for his designs of clothes, accessories and footwear for Adidas and Moschino. He blends high fashion with street style and often creates designs incorporating pop-culture icons.
Why I looked at this designer;
Along with being advised to take a look at his work, Scott's designs feel very Bowie to me, specifically the prints, bright and vivid colours, the shape and fits of most of the clothing and the overall aesthetic that he gives to each model while they model his designs. The shapes of the clothing both emphasise the body shape, in some designs, and completely change the shape of the body in others. I really love the retro vivid 90's colour feel in some of the above pieces, along with the styling, such as the backcombed to within an inch of its life mullet. I feel like bowie may well have worn some of these outfits.
Ellis Flyte and Brian Froud
Ellis Flyte is a Scottish costume designer, known for "Labyrinth "(1986). She was previously married to Brian Henson (an American puppeteer, filmmaker, and the chairman of The Jim Henson Company, he made the puppets for "Labyrinth", his father was the main producer of this movie also).
Ellis Flyte. Costume Designer: Labyrinth. Ellis Flyte was born in December 1958 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. She is a costume designer, known
Brian Froud is an English fantasy illustrator and conceptual designer. He was the conceptual designer of the Jim Henson films The Dark Crystal (1982) and Labyrinth (1986). According to Wired, Froud is "one of the most pre-emiminent visualizers of the world of faerie and folktale".
I was looking mainly at the costumes from the 'ballroom scene' in "Labyrinth" as I love those costumes the most. I have attached this scene below.
Why I looked at this designer;
As I have mentioned in one of my earlier posts from this project, I am absolutely obsessed with the 1986 movie "Labyrinth" for both the costume design, the movie in general, and because David Bowie himself is in it. The costumes are absolutely impeccable, they're so incredibly detailed for such a short scene, with intricate beading, so many layers and tons and tons of sparkle. Froud did the conceptual art for them, while Flyte created them.
Kansai Yamamoto
Kansai Yamamoto was a Japanese fashion designer, being most influential during the 1970's and 1980's.
Why I looked at this designer;
I admire Yamamoto's work as he managed to create something so incredibly Bowie, for Bowie himself. He designed so many of Bowie's iconic outfits, mainly during the 'Ziggy Stardust' phase. He created such a wide sweeping variety of outfits, all of which I love and admire. Many of these outfits were featured in my early moodboards. I looked at Yamamoto's work as inspiration for shapes and androgyny in outfits, both of which points I think he hit very well.
Pierre Cardin
Pierre Cardin was an Italian-born naturalised-French fashion designer. He is known best for his avant-garde style and Space Age designs. He preferred geometric shapes and motifs, often ignoring the female form. He advanced into unisex fashions, sometimes experimental, and not always practical.
During the 1960's and first half of the 70's he was better known as the top menswear designer of the time, the man who had reintroduced shaped, fitted suits to the public after a long period of looser fit in men's clothes. His menswear collection from the year 1960 was so influential that the Beatles' tailor Dougie Millings copied its collarless suits for the group in 1963.
Why I looked at this designer;
I looked at Cardin's work specifically because of the Space Age designs that he did in women's clothing. During Bowie's Ziggy Stardust era, his style was very much space-agey, to match with his very space-influenced/revolved music. I felt as though he would be a good designer to look at because of this.