An Arist in Motion

so i started off my project with a word.... this word was artist, i brainstorm this word and found so many other words connected to it.

i then branched off with more words like... artistic



performer

and master

so i then came up with my main theme which was the geisha culture.

i started looking into geisha's and there traditions, then i came across an article which said 'geisha means artist in japanese' i found this very inspiring and i can see why it means artist. as geisha are like walking pieces of art, each move they do has a meaning or is expression of some sort.

i then came across a book called 'memoirs of a geisha' it is a story about a young geisha called sayuri, she discusses her life and the life a geisha in such detail that i was totally incased within her story.

it has been a film to, but i found from reading the book that the film doesnt follow the book too well, i have been so inspired by the book and the young girl sayuri that i want to based my collection on 5 different point of her story.

i want to start off with her childhood, how she grew up in a fishing village and was then sold to a geisha house.

then i want to create soemthing using handkerchiefs as the chair man give it her and she treasures this gift.

i then want to explore this idea of her obsession of the chairman and how she keeps his handkerchief by her heart

then i want to look at her becoming an apprentise geisha

then finally i want to look at her life as she took every step to become closer to the chairman and succeeded

i am also creating a print, i want to use cherry blossom and my base, but i also want to include fish scales and it is sayuri's family roots and her father was a fisherman.

this is my print, i just have the branches as i am going to hand paint on the flowers.







Mottainai... *what a waste*

    

So here i am doing a menswear brief that is totally out of my comfort zone; however i am trying my best to get into the project and find the point that i then go YES this is my target market range that i should design. Okay so i first started off with a questionnaire to gain information from my target market at my targeted brand.

     So i then got into researching a sustainable community, i could think of no one better than the aborigines? the word aboriginal means 'the first'; the aborigines live closely with the land (you could call it a relationship with the land) this relationship with the land is the basis' are their spiritual life.





"That Was Such A Blonde Moment"

What comes into your head when I say Blonde?

dumb unintellingent blonde female

This for most people is probably true when looking at the perception of blonde's; it is the same when you think of prostitutes and how they are seen as cheap, easy and dirty. but this is not always true. stereotypes is a very easy way to look at society and judge people.

we had a discussion about how to portray the perception of blonde's this in a film:

• we thought of using a photo-montage of lots of different blonde people
• interviews of different blonde's with photo-montage 
• putting interviews with added typography and audio
• hiding the identity of the interviewers by just showing there mouth or hair while they are answering questions 

we liked these ideas, but we wanted to show blonde's in a way that people didn't actually see the blonde hair. we decided to hide the hair identity of the people we film by filming just the months for the majority of the film; we had each actor saying a form of words that we could cut and add on effects and typography; for the ending of the film we wanted to reveal the identity of the actors as fake and natural blonde's.

we had a look at different videos to gain inspiration; i was highly impressed after looking at Echolab produced films. they do highly impressive sound effects linking to movement and images on the screen; i like they way the background noises make the video interesting.

http://echolab.tv/ (short film, nokta)

we also looked at some videos by Tim Richardson at http://www.timrichardson.tv/film.php (procession, physical frequencies, the Minor threat)

i like how the subject in the videos distorted and pixelated, this type of distorting of images and slowing and quickening of the moving images. this links into our music that we decided on being like tuning into a radio station and the sounds of crackling static.

we looked at different typography to put into our film:

i have refence these from my research, looking at different type to express out audio in a visual way. we looking at different forms of typography.

T-Shirt Fonts

let me know what you think.... im searching for more by the minute! so if you can tell me which style you like that would be great XD

Were off to see the....

I am so excited to finally again be visiting THE town called LONDON!!!!

I have my ruck sack ready.... XD!!

Graduate Fashion Week here I come =]

                                                                                                          

"Let them eat cake" / "Qu ils mangent de la brioche" (Quote from Marie Antoinette)

A quote to inspire the trip to the Enchanted Palace at Kensington Palace.

Piece by designer Echo Morgan

YUK!

EKKKK.... Jared Leto has just ruined himself!

WTF is going on... he was perfectly, absolutley gorgeous as he was!!!

holidays... =/!

 

who doesn't like going to a nice hot beach and relaxing....

well this scenery would be heaven for a couple of days until i burnt and got bored of sitting the very hot sun!

i love something more.....

Rome, here is Saint Peter's square.... Rome is a beautiful place, everyone should go at least once in there life time!

I am  also looking to go to Florence in Italy, courteous of my mother XD

i cant wait to go here with my mr lover lover XD!!

A French Picture Show

These are images from the french picture show I went to on a college trip with my fellow fashion students. It was an exhibition shown at the Wapping Project in London; the show itself consisted of lots of pictures in a slideshow, showing one after another with sensitive romantic music in the background. I loved the surroundings it was shown in too, it was on a screen with old velvet covered cinerma seats, rubbled chalked floor and a brisk cold air, giving it that aged rustic feeling. the show itself was so emotional and heart touching it could of had me in tears.

    I have just found out too that you can now purchase this online for £25 I WANTS IT SO BADLY!!!