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.