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My current project - Inside Out-  called for a photo shoot! and where a better place than Spode, it's impossible to get a bad shot, meaning it will look amazing on online portfolio's for when it come's to the dreaded uni application! - For those that aren't aware with what Spode is, it was once a main part of the thriving potteries industry! but as the industry for pottery declined places began to shut down and many factories we demolished. The Spode factory is located in stoke in the heart of Stoke-on-Trent a city renowned for its pottery, the space is now used for exhibitions and students work and just as an monument and memory to the thing that but Stoke-On-Trent on the map, pottery.

I adore Spode, as all of the damage and run down, crumbling details give the place an amazing atmosphere and background to any photograph, they even make a beautiful photo with out anything in them.

For the shoot I made a wadded turtle neck jumper inspired garment and head/neck piece, I made it purposely look unfinished to give it that extra-deconstructed look I also sewed it all using the overlocker so that the stitching stands out alot more and almost looks like an outline. 

Whilst there we got a friend from the photography course to make a film / documentary on it, it turned out amazing, shes a really good film maker - check her out on YouTube - Timztelly
Documentary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M--h3cq0JU

TTFN
Beards and Brogues 

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From Rags To Riches

Hello There!

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 

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.

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!)

 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!

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