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As I'm an art student, I naturally get assigned projects of the art kind!
And I've recently been given my FMP (final major project! The theme for the project is....
As I'm an art student, I naturally get assigned projects of the art kind!
And I've recently been given my FMP (final major project! The theme for the project is....
'Inside Out - Outside In'
I know a few of you maybe thinking, 'like when you put your clothes on and then you have the label out and you have to make the choice between; keeping it inside out, going through the effort of getting changed or turning it right side out and risk getting a nasty case of bad luck!' because I know thats what I initially
I know a few of you maybe thinking, 'like when you put your clothes on and then you have the label out and you have to make the choice between; keeping it inside out, going through the effort of getting changed or turning it right side out and risk getting a nasty case of bad luck!' because I know thats what I initially
thought of...
But then after some further thought and thinking in a more arts-y, textile-y, fashion-y way my train of thought lead me to eureka land! i thought of seams on clothes and how they construct garments and act as a skeleton. This then lead me to begin deconstructing some of my old clothes.
But then after some further thought and thinking in a more arts-y, textile-y, fashion-y way my train of thought lead me to eureka land! i thought of seams on clothes and how they construct garments and act as a skeleton. This then lead me to begin deconstructing some of my old clothes.
I began to take large chunks out of garment, and just leaving the seams and stitching to hold it together.
This reminded me of the cage skirt, which has been developed since victorian times and is now constantly on and off the couture catwalks! and is ever more popular with the steam punkers and cyber gothics.
-Cage Skirt by Chaos Latex-
-Those crazy steampunk gothics with their walking sticks and blue fringes-
-Cage Skirt by Alexander McQueen-
My next step was to dress my cut up clobber on a model!
My plan for the shoot was to make him look like he was dressed normal, but then have a piece of clothing that was missing about 85% of its substance.
(Because I might need my model model for me in the future I thought it would be best to pixelate his face, however I'm terrible when it come to technology so my finest Microsoft paint skills will have to do!)
My plan for the shoot was to make him look like he was dressed normal, but then have a piece of clothing that was missing about 85% of its substance.
(Because I might need my model model for me in the future I thought it would be best to pixelate his face, however I'm terrible when it come to technology so my finest Microsoft paint skills will have to do!)
These are my favourite 5 photos out of the entire shoot!
My next move was to create a seam myself. Luckily around the time this idea came around an open day was on where I was needed to act as an example of 'what the students are doing now', if I'm being honest I was staying for the free coffee! but whilst waiting for people to come up to me and ask about the course etc, I discovered a machine... the overlocker! I'm still in awe at its amazing-ness! I soon got the hang of it and even sooner whipped up a long patchwork scarf of different colour, size and texture patches of fabric which I experimented with by pinning it to a backpack and also creating a 'snood' or 'infinity scarf'!
-Scarf on my model-
-Scarf on a mannequin-
-Backpack on a mannequin-
-Snood / infinity scarf on a mannequin
-Close up of snood / infinity scarf-
-Close up of snood / infinity scarf-
I'm so inspired with this project and I'm really looking forward to see where it develops and leads too, I've already got some awesome ideas and if they work it will be AH-MAY-ZING but they could change depending on what happens with development etc.
But I'll keep you posted!
TTFN
Beards and Brogues!
But I'll keep you posted!
TTFN
Beards and Brogues!
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