Fashion and Surface Design -

We have been given architecture to focus on for our fashion and surface design project. As soon as I found out what our project brief was, I immediately went onto Pintrest to search for garments and inspiration for this project. When I was on Pintrest I came across this page which purely shows white architectural objects and buildings. The pure colour scheme and the plain, yet intriguing look interested me. From there, I decided to look for pastel and white architecture, which is when I came across Russell house in Covent gardens in London.

While i was drawing up my sketches and ideas, i realised that i was going more towards fashion rather than surface design, which then lead me to do fashion illustrations of dresses and light flowing garments, which were all in pastel colours. However, i found that in most of my research the buildings and architectural objects had all had straight, flat edges, so I decided to try and incorporate this into the floaty garments.

I have also decided that I am going to be using a screen print technique in my final garment. In order to get the clean cut edges of the skyline and buildings that I wanted, screen printing would be the safest option. I can then paint over the screen print over the screen print by hand once it is dried to finish the final look of the garment.

Photomedia

I have now all finished my photomedia project! I did really enjoy this project and I feel as if my work has already improved from the first project that we did. I used photoshop to manipulate photographs that I had taken in the studio, cutting away the faces of the subjects in the photographs and replacing them with scenic images. I do feel as if this really portrayed my idea of rapprochement as it shows the harmonious relations between people and nature. Also by cutting away the faces of the subjects in the photograph, it gives them no identity, a clean slate, it makes them new.

Photomedia - Rapprochement

This week we were given new projects, for this particular one in photo media, we were given a dictionary  in which we had to pick a word at random to base our project around. My word was 'Rapprochement'! As I didn't know much about this word my first step was to find the definition, which happened to be 'an establishment or resumption of harmonious relations'. My initial thoughts when I first read this were identities and relationships. It was about people, countries, things coming together and being combined to one.

Within this project I would like to really portray rapprochement through people and their identities, making them into something new.