WHO WILL BE LEFT BEHIND?
THE END IS JUST THE BEGINING
MANKINDS EARLIEST CIVILISATION WARNED US THIS DAY WOULD COME..'
THIS IS THE NEW BEGINING.
2011.
YOU NEED FOOD.
YOU NEED SHELTER.
YOU NEED CLOTHING.
SO WHERE TO START? WHEN WE FIRST GOT GIVEN THIS PROJECT I WAS DEAD ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT IT, THIS ENTHUSIASM LASTED RIGHT UP UNTIL I GOT TO CENTRAL LIBARY AND STARTED RESEARCHING. NATURAL DISASTERS AND ALL THAT LARK DOSEN'T REALLY INTEREST ME TO BE QUITE HONEST SO I WENT TO THE BRIDGET RILEY EXHIBITION INSTEAD I BELIEVE. (OH, JUST TO WARN YOU, I'VE BEEN READING RUSSELL BRANDS AUTOBIOGRAPHY LATELY SO WORDS SUCH AS 'LARK' MIGHT CROP UP ABIT)
WHEN I GOT HOME I THEN STARTED LOOKING AT DESIGNERS THAT HAVE TOUCHED ON THE APOCALYPTIC SUBJECT AND STARED BLANKLY AT THERE CREATIONS (WHICH DON'T GET ME WRONG WERE GOOD BUT I COULDN'T FIGURE OUT HOW I WOULD GO ABOUT DESIGNING SOMETHING UNIQUE WHEN IT HAD ALL BEEN DONE BEFORE) SO I WENT BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD AND DID AS MUCH RESEARCH AS POSSIBLE. JUST LOOKING AT MORE DESIGNERS, ARTISTS AND SURVIVAL EQUIPTMENT, CAVEMEN, DINOSAURS ETC.
THE DINOSAUR BIT GOT ME INTERESTED, IT GOT ME WONDERING ABOUT LIFE BEFORE US HUMANS TOOK OVER THE PLANET AND WHAT IT WOULD BE LIKE IF WE ALL BUGGERED OFF AGAIN. I DIDN'T WANNA' RESORT BACK TO DINOSAURS THOUGH, THATS ABIT BORING AINT IT? SO I THOUGHT 'WHY NOT DRAGONS?'. NOW IV'E ALWAYS BEEN INTERESTED IN THESE WONDERFUL BEASTS. AT THE TIME I WAS READING A BOOK CALLED ERAGON (WHICH I STRONGLY ADVISE) AND THATS ALL TO DO WITH DRAGONS, INFACT, IV'E READ THE TRILOGY AND WATCHED THE FILM SO I CONCIDER MYSELF SOMEWHAT OF AN EXPERT NOW.
FROM THERE I STARTED RESEARCHING DRAGONS, THERE COLOURS, THERE SCALES ETC.
MY THEME KIND OF TOOK OFF FROM THERE REALLY. 'A METERIOID HITS THE EARTH, TRAA WORLD AND HUMAN LIFE AS WE KNOW IT... PLANTS GROW.. DRAGONS SWOOP IN AND TAKE OVER' SIMPLE REALLY BUT I'M THE LAST HUMAN LEFT AND HAVE TO FIGHT FOR FOOD AND SURVIAL SO I NEED AN OUTFIT TO 'SURVIVE IN'.
THIS WAS ABIT TRICKY AT FIRST I HAVE TO ADMIT. I REMEMBER SITTING IN FASHION LAB BANGING MY HEAD AGAINST THE TABLE WHILST A PILE OF SCREWED UP PAPER (FAILED DESIGNS) GREW EVER MORE BESIDE ME.
AFTER A MORNING OF THAT EMILY FIGURED SHE'D TAKE US OUTSIDE AND BLINDFOLD US TO TRY AND GET US MORE INSPIRED - I HAVE TO ADMIT THIS WORKED. AFTER THAT AND A FEW DRAPES LATER I CAME UP WITH A FEW DESIGNS BUT CARRIED ON RESEARCHING FOR FURTHER INSPIRATION FOR DEVELOPMENT.
I LOOKED IN SOME NEWSPAPERS AND FOUND SOME STUFF ON WAR AND OBSERVED WHAT THE SOLDIERS WHERE WEARING FOR PROTECTION. THE COLOUR FITTED IN THE SCEME BUT GREEN NEVER REALLY APPEALED TO ME.
I THEN LOOKED AT RICK OWENS, I LOVED THE LEATHER IN THIS COLLECTION (THIS IS WHERE I GOT INSPIRED FOR MY TROUSERS)
I DID ABIT OF SLASHING WHEN I WAS DRAPING ASWELL, I LOOKED AT GARETH PUGH FOR INSPIRATION HERE AND TRIED TO MAKE A 'SKELETAL' TYPE TOP BY HAVING THE MIDDLE INTACT (TO LOOK LIKE A SPINE) AND THE REST SLASHED (LIKE A RIBCAGE) THIS IDEA WAS A BIT TO 'COPYCAT' AND DIDN'T REALLY WORK ANYWAY SO I SCRAPPED IT.
I LOOKED AT HOW THE CAVEMEN USED TO MAKE THERE GARMENTS OUT OF DEAD ANIMALS BY USING FUR - THIS REMINDED ME OF ACNE'S COLLECTION BUT I DIDN'T TAKE IT ANY FURTHER THAN RESEARCH AS I FEEL THIS HAS RESEARCH HAS ALREADY BEEN DRAWN UPON.
AITOR TROUP - THIS IS WHERE I FIRST GOT INSPIRATION FOR THE USE OF SKULLS. I LOVE HOW 3'D THEY MAKE A GARMENT LOOK.
- RESEARCH ON NATURAL DISASTERS, CHRISTOPHER KANE MADE SOME BEAUT GARMENTS WITH SIMILAR IMAGES TO THE ONES IV'E FOUND. NOTHING FROM THIS REALLY INSPIRED ME THOUGH.
- REVERTING BACK TO DRAGONS, SKULLS AND SKELETONS.
I LOOKED AT ALEXANDER MQUEEN FOR INSPIRATION FOR THIS AS I THINK HIS SCALEY PRINTS ARE AMAZING IN THIS COLLECTION AND REALLY REFLECTED MY THEME.
I THEN STARTED PLAYING AROUND WITH DIFFERENT SKULL SHAPES AND WONDERED IF THEY WERE WORTH PRINTING ONTO MATERIAL.
- A FEW DESIGNS INSPIRED FROM DRAGON SCALES, CHAIN MAIL AND SKELETAL FRAMES.
I WENT TO MY AUNTIES TO TAKE THESE PICTURES OF THE DRAGON FIGURINES, THE COLOURS REALLY INSPIRED ME MORE THAN ANYTHING AND YOU'LL SEE THAT I USED THEM IN SOME OF MY DESIGNS..
AFTER ALL THIS RESEARCH I WAS DEAD SET ON THIS DESIGN, I BROUGHT ALL THE MATERIAL AND HAD IT ALL PLANNED. THE TOP WENT WRONG THOUGH AND WHEN IT ALL STARTED COMING TOGETHER IT LOOKED LIKE A COSTUME SO I WENT BACK TO MY RESEARCH TO HAVE ANOTHER PONDER..
- DRAWING UP DIFFERENT WING DESIGNS PLAYING WITH SCALE AND SHAPE.
- TESTING DIFFERENT KNOTS FOR HANGING THE BONES (ANOTHER IDEA I HAD, THIS DIDN'T END UP AS MY FINAL THOUGH)
- I ACTUALLY FOUND THIS IMAGE WHEN I WAS DOING SOME PHOTOGRAPHY WORK. THIS WAS HOW I IMAGINED MY APOCALYPTIC SITUATION EXACTLY. IT EXPLAINS WHY (MY FINAL GARMENT) IS MADE OUT OF BONES AS THATS ALL THATS LEFT..DESIGNS.
- I TRIED MAKING SCALES OUT OF WAX FOR THE TROUSERS BUT THAT DIDN'T WORK AS I THOUGHT IT LOOKED MESSY SO I ENDED UP BUYING SCALEY MATERIAL.
- I THEN TRIED TO PRINT SCALES ONTO FABRIC USING PHOTOCOPIES OF SCALES (AND BECKYS SCALEY BAG WE MANAGED TO WEDGE IN THE PHOTOCOPIER). IF THIS WORKED I WAS GOING TO USE IT AS THE FABRIC FOR MY LEOTARD BUT I DIDNT LIKE THE OUTCOME EVEN THOUGH I TRIED IT ON TWO DIFFERENT FABRICS (THINKING THE LAST ONE WOULD CONVINCE ME OTHERWISE, IT DIDN'T).
- FINAL GARMENT.
I FEEL ABIT EMBARESSED TO PUT THIS ON, IT'S POSSIBLY THE WORST DRAWING I HAVE EVER DRAWN IN MY LIFE AND IT'S BEEN PLASTERED ALL OVER THE INTERNET FOR ALL TO SEE - WONDERFUL.
SO WITH MY SCENAREO IN MIND, MY FINAL GARMENT IS A LEOTARD COVERED IN BONES (AS THATS THE ONLY RESOURCE AND THERES PLENTY OF THEM, THERE ALSO QUITE STRONG), SCALEY BROWN TROUSERS (BIG ENOUGH TO MOVE ABOUT IN AND STRONG ENOUGH TO WITHSTAND THE WEATHER AND EVERYDAY USE AND WEAR) A COPPER DRAGON WING (AS YOU WOULD NEED TO SHEALD YOURSELF AND IT MAKES FOR A LITTLE SHELTER ASWELL) AND A SKULL MASK (AS THERE EVERYWHERE AS ALL HUMANS HAVE BEEN KILLED AND IT'S PROTECTION FOR DRAGON FIGHTING).
OVERALL I'M QUITE HAPPY WITH HOW EVERYTHING TURNED OUT, IT WAS A RIGHT JOB GETTING THAT SHEEPS HEAD FOR IT NOT TO WORK THOUGH (VERY LONG TO EXPLAIN BUT CUTTING A LONG STORY SHORT, IT'S A BUGGER TO CLEAN, UNHYGENIC AND IT SMELLS AWFUL!) PROPER ANNOYING THOUGH AS IT WOULD HAVE LOOKED AMAZING.
IF I WAS TO DO THIS AGAIN I HONESTLY DON'T THINK I WOULD HAVE DONE ANYTHING DIFFERENTLY, I WOULD HAVE LIKED TO MELT COINS TO FILL IN THE WING BUT I COULDN'T GET MY HANDS ON A KILM.
I PROBABLY WOULD HAVE EMBROIDERED A GREEN SCALEY GLOVE ASWELL TO COMEPLETE THE LOOK AND ADD A SPLASH OF COLOUR.
I'M HAPPY WITH THE WAY IT ALL TURNED OUT THOUGH EVEN IF I DIDN'T GET TO FINISH THE LEOTARD.
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