god bless google.

SO I THINK IV'E COME TO A BREAKTHROUGH WITH THIS PROJECT, FINALLY. BETTER LATE THEN NEVER THOUGH RIGHT? I WAS BROWSING GOOGLE IMAGES LOOKING AT PICTURES OF DRAGONS, PRODOMINENTLY THERE WINGS AND SCALES FOR INSPIRATION FOR DESIGNS. I WASN'T REALLY HAVING MUCH LUCK UNTIL I CAME ACROSS THIS PICTURE; I LIKE IT BECAUSE IT'S NOT A TYPICAL 'DRAGON' PICTURE. IT HELPS ME UNDERSTAND HOW THE SCALES WOULD MOLD AND TESELATE ROUND THE BODY WHICH GIVES ME A CLEAR INDICATION OF HOW TO DESIGN. THERES ALSO SOMETHING QUITE BEAUTIFUL AND SINCERE ABOUT THIS PARTICULAR IMAGE, HOW THE DRAGONS/HUMANS ARE ENTWINED ASIF THERE FIGHTING AGAINST THE WORLD BECAUSE OF THERE UNIQUE LOOKS AND INDIFFERENCES WHICH IS QUITE SIMILAR TO MY APOCOLYPTIC SYNARIO. I DON'T KNOW WEATHER NOW TO TWIST THE STORY INTO THE HUMANS EVOLVING INTO DRAGONS? MAYBE IT'S A POSSIBILITY...

gareth pugh is god.

I HEART THIS MAN, LIKE SERIOUSLY, I LOVE THE WAY HE'S CHANGING THE CONVENTIONS OF FASHION AND TURNING IT INTO SOMETHING WAY MORE EXCITING.
MAYBE I SHOULD START PLAYING AROUND WITH VIDEOS AS THATS WHERE IT'S ALL HEADING NOW. THE USE OF VIDEO MAKES THE GARMENTS LOOK SO MORE VERSITILE AND PERSONABLE.

so i'm designing on skeletal transvestites, at least it's original, right?

OKAY, SO IT'S QUITE EVIDENT I CAN'T DRAW, WITH THAT CLEAR I NEED TO TAKE A DIFFERENT ROUTE WHEN DESIGNING. WE HAD A LESSON WITH OUR TUTOR EMILY THE OTHER DAY WHEREBY WE ALL SAT IN A CIRCLE ON THE FLOOR INFRONT OF A MANIKIN AND WERE TOLD TO DRAW IT IN VARIOUS DIFFERENT WAYS SUCH AS DRAWING IT WITHOUT LOOKING AT IT, DRAWING IT USING A CONTINUOUS LINE, 5 SECOND, TEN SECOND DRAWINGS ETC. WE WERE ALSO TOLD TO DRAW WITH OUR LEFT HAND BECAUSE IT GETS THE CREATIVE SIDE OF YOUR BRAIN WORKING WHICH I DID TRY IN THIS PARTICULAR DESIGN/DRAWING WHATEVER YOU WANT TO CALL IT. CONCIDERING THERE WASNT MUCH THOUGHT PUT INTO MY DRAWINGS I WAS QUITE HAPPY WITH THEM THEREFORE I GOT HOME AND GOT DESIGNING ALTHOUGH I'M STILL STUCK FOR DESIGNS I JUST STARTED PUTTING DOWN WHATEVER WAS RUNNING THROUGH MY HEAD. I'M OBSESSED WITH SKULLS AT THE MOMENT, THE LOOK OF THEM AND HOW 3'D THEY CAN MAKE A GARMENT LOOK. IV'E BEEN STRUGGLING WITH TRYING TO MAKE MY DESIGNS LOOK ORIGIONAL AND DESIGN TEMPLATES MAKE ME WANT TO CRY, AS I CANT DRAW IN PROPORTION TO SAVE MY LIFE AS RUPERT MAY KNOW I DECIDED TO TRY SOMETHING DIFFERENT SO I DREW A SKULL FOR A HEAD, IF YOU KNOW ME YOU SHOULD ALSO KNOW I HAVE A MAD OBSESSION WITH DRAG QUEENS AND TRANSVESITES. WHAT THERE ABOUT, HOW THEY LOOK, HOW THEY ACT, HOW THEY TALK. EVERYTHING. I HAD THIS VISION OF ALL MY GARMENTS BEING WORN BY MEN EVEN THOUGH THEY WOULD BE DESIGNED FOR WOMEN TO MAKE THEM LOOK VERY CONTRIVERSIAL AND EXCITING.
WE'VE BEEN GIVEN A NEW PROJECT LATELY ON APOCALYPSE WHICH ANNOYINGLY I CAN'T SEEM TO BE INSPIRED BY. WHEN IT WAS FIRST ANNOUNCED I WAS SO ENTHUSIASTIC I WENT STRAIGHT TO THE LIBARY AND THATS WHERE THE PROBLEM BEGAN I SUPPOSE. I HATE CLICHES. I LIKE MY DESIGNS TO PROVOKE INTREST AND THOUGHT, NOT TO BE PREDICTABLE. I WAS SO DESPERATELY TRYING TO AVOID A TYPICAL 'APOCALYPSE' SITUATION SUCH AS AN ICE AGE OR GLOBAL WARMING/MACHINES TAKING OVER THE WORLD.
I'M READING A BOOK AT THE MOMENT CALLED BRISINGR WHICH MEANS FIRE IN ELVISH, IT'S MAINLY ABOUT DRAGONS WHICH GOT ME WONDERING WHAT THE WORLD ENDED AND DRAGONS TOOK OVER JUST LIKE WHEN DINOSAURS WERE ABOUT AND ONLY I WAS LEFT?
I TRIED TAKING THE ROUTE OF BEING THE LAST DRAG QUEEN ON EARTH AND IMAGINING WHAT THE HELL I WOULD WEAR BECAUSE WHEN YOU GET INTO THE ROUTINE OF LOOKING LIKE THAT IT'S HARD NOT TO EVEN WHEN NO-ONES AROUND BUT THAT IDEA FAILED AS I JUST COULDN'T PICTURE IT; WHICH IS WHERE I GUESS THE WHOLE SKELETAL TRANSVESTITE DESIGN CAME INTO PLACE. CLEARLY IT'S NOT FINISHED, HARDLY EVEN STARTED IN ALL FAIRNESS, I'M REALLY NOT HAPPY WHERE THIS PROJECT IS GOING AND THERES ONLY A LIMITED AMOUNT OF TIME BEFORE THE SKETCHBOOKS ARE IN, I NEED SOME SORT OF INSPIRATION VERY SOON...

boy george.

AN INTERVIEW WITH JOAN COLLINS PRETTY MUCH SUMMING UP EVERYTHING I BELIEVE IN.








SO THERES NO REASON FOR THIS BLOG OTHER THAN TO BOAST AT THE FACT I'M GOING TO SEE ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL MEN ON EARTH. WELL, IN MY OPINION ANYWAY. I'VE BEEN WAITING TO SEE HIM FOR AGES AND WITH HIM BEING IN PRISON THAT WASN'T POSSIBLE UNTIL NOW, I'M SO GLAD HE'S TOURING AGAIN, I THINK PEOPLE FORGET HE WAS A BOY VERSION OF GAGA IN THE 80'S AND I ADMIRE HIM FOR STANDING OUT AND BEING HIMSELF 'GRANNYS FAVOURITE TRANNY'.
I LOVE THIS MANS STYLE ALSO, I WAS WATCHING AN OLD INTERVIEW WITH HIM AND JOAN RIVERS AND HE EXPLAINED THAT HIS JACKET WAS MADE OUT OF A BED SHEET HE FOUND IN LONDON IN A RANDOM BED STORE, I LOVE THAT, I LOVE PEOPLE THAT CAN WALK PAST A BED SHEET AND SEE IT IN A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT WAY TO HOW THE 'NORMAL PERSON' WOULD. FAIR ENOUGH HE HASN'T BEEN AN ANGEL IN THE PAST BUT I STILL LOVE HIM ANYWAY FOR HIS CONTRIVERSIAL PERSONALITY AND HIS INFLUENCE ON THE MUSIC BUISNESS.

iglu & hartly, 27.01.10

27.01.10 I GOT TO PHOTOGRAPH IGLU & HARTLY AT THE ACADEMY, IT WAS ACTUALLY QUITE RANDOM BECAUSE WE WENT TO DO PHOTOGRAPHY FOR MY FRIENDS BAND WHO WERE SUPPORTING AND ENDED UP DOING THEM ASWELL. THIS WAS SUCH A GOOD GIG, THE NEW POLITICS WERE ALSO SUPPORTING, AN AMERICAN BAND FROM LA WITH GORGEOUS AMERICAN ACCENTS AND AMAZING STAGE PRESENCE, THE SHOW WAS ELECTRIC WITH THEM DOING BACKFLIPS AND BREAK DANCING, IT WAS SO HARD TO GET DECENT PHOTOS OF THEM HOWEVER BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T STOP MOVING! THERE SUCH NICE PEOPLE THOUGH, BACKSTAGE ANTICS ARE ALWAYS THE BEST PART OF THE GIG IN MY OPINION, ESPECIALLY WHEN THE GORGEOUS IGLU & HARTLY WALK PAST AND HAVE A CHAT WITH YOU, ONE OF THE LEAD SINGERS COULD HAVE PASSED FOR OZZY OSBOURNE IN THE YOUNGER DAYS, MM. THIS BAND IS SO DOWNGRADED AND REALLY DONT GET ENOUGH RECOGNITION FOR HOW AMAZING THEY ACTUALLY ARE, I'VE BEEN TO MY FAIR SHARE OF GIGS THIS YEAR AND THEY WERE DEFINATELY ONE OF THE BEST, EVEN THOUGH THEY NEARLY KNEED ME IN THE FACE A FEW TIMES JUMPING ABOUT! I'M ACTUALLY QUITE PLEASED WITH THESE PHOTO'S, I LOVE IT WHEN THEY LOOK DOWN AT YOU AND GIVE YOU EYE CONTACT AND YOU CAPTURE IT, IT MAKES THE PHOTO SO MUCH MORE PERSONAL, I CAN'T WAIT FOR WHEN THEY COME BACK TO BIRMINGHAM, HOPEFULLY I CAN SHOOT THEM AGAIN!

Matias Faldbakken: shocked into abstractation.

I WENT TO AN EXHIBIT RECENTLY AT THE IKON GALLERY IN TOWN AS IT WAS RECOMENDED TO ME BY ONE OF MY TEACHERS AS THERE WAS A SUICIDE EXHIBITION ON WHICH WOULD HELP ME GATHER INSPIRATION FOR MY GARMENT HOWEVER AS I ENTERED I FOUND MYSELF LOOKING AROUND THE 1ST FLOOR AT THE 'SHOCKED INTO ABSTRACTATION' EXHIBIT WHICH I FOUND FASCINATING. THIS EXHIBIT CONSISTED OF A BURNT CAR, SOME CASSETTE TAPES, TAPE ARRANGED ON VARIOUS CANVAS'S AND A WALL COVERED IN SPLATTERED PAINT.OF COURSE THERE WAS A MEANING TO EACH OF THESE PIECES HOWEVER. AS I READ THROUGH THE ARTIST'S BOOK I FOUND MYSELF LOOKING AT THESE PIECES IN A DIFFERENT LIGHT. FOR INSTANCE THE CAR WAS NO MORE THAN A CAR 'THAT HAS BEEN BURNT DOWN TO A DYSFUNCTIONAL CARCASS AND THAT HAS BEEN NAMED ABSTRACT' MATIAS ALSO SAID THAT 'THE WHOLE POINT WAS TAKING AN OBJECT THAT WOULD IMMEDIATELY HAVE ALL KINDS OF DRAMATIC POLITICAL CONNOTATIONS AND THEN EMPTYING IT OG ALL SUCH THINGS, ENDING UP WITH WHAT IS ESSENTIALLY A RATHER VAPID FORMAL GESTURE' - THIS WAS ESSENTIALLY HOW I FELT ABOUT MY VOODOO DOLLS, HOW THEY WERE BASICALLY NOTHING MORE THAN A HAIR MOULD OF A WHAT WAS FORMALLY A PLASTIC DOLL HOWEVER STRIPPED TO A CAST IT COULD BE INTERPRETED IN SO MANY DIFFERENT WAYS.
I LOVE IT HOW ALL HIS WORK MAKES YOU QUESTION WHAT HIS MOTIVE OR REASONING WAS TO CREATE IT AND LAY IT OUT IN THE WAY THAT HE HAS, APPARENTLY HELF HEARTEDNESS IS THE CORE PART OF HIS PRODUCTION, HE WOULD LEAVE THE OBJECTS IN THE WAY THE MOVERS LEFT THEM TO ADD TO THE ABSTRACT NATURE OF THE PIECES WHICH I PERSONALLY THINK IS REALLY CLEVER AS EACH PIECE DOSEN'T LOOK TO THOUGHT OUT.

jacob kimmie.

- A MONTH OR TWO AGO MY TEACHER EMILY ASKED US WEATHER WE WOULD LIKE TO WORK WITH A FASHION DESIGNER CALLED JACOB KIMMIE TO HELP HIM PREPAR FOR LONDON FASHION WEEK, IF WE DESIRED THE OPPERTUNITY WE WERE TO SEND HER A 500 WORD ESSAY ON WHY WE SHOULD BE CHOSEN FOR IT, THIS WAS ALSO OPEN TO THE SECOND AND FOUNDATION YEARS.
AT FIRST I WASN'T GOING TO BECAUSE I DIDN'T THINK I WOULD HAVE A CHANCE BUT SENT MY EMAIL LAST MINUTE REGARDLESS JUST SO I WOULDN'T REGRET IT LATER.
WE THEN BROKE UP FOR CHRISTMAS AND CAME BACK AND THE PEOPLE CHOSEN WERE ANNOUNCED WHEN WE ARRIVED MONDAY MORNING. I WAS TO BE PUT FORTH FOR AN INTERVIEW WITH 18 OTHERS. I WAS ABSOLUTLY SHOCKED, MY EMAIL WAS PROBABLY 100 WORDS LONG AND CONCISTED OF ME BABBLING ON ABOUT HOW MUCH I'D LOVE TO WORK FOR HIM AND HOW GOOD MY ATTENDANCE AND PUNCTUALITY WAS WHICH PROBABLY MADE HER PULL A FACE AS SHE READ IT AS I'M CONSTANTLY LATE AND SPEND MOST MY MORNINGS BEFORE COLLEGE IN COSTA.
ANYWAY, AFTER THE RESULTS WERE ANNOUNCED WE WERE TOLD THE INTERVIEW WAS AT 5PM ON THE SAME DAY! I DON'T THINK IV'E LOOKED WORSE FOR A NORMAL DAY OF COLLEGE SO I MET KERRY, WENT HOME AND CAME OUT DRESSED IN A SUMMER DRESS AND A FUR COAT TO BRAVE THE SNOW, NOT MY BEST IDEA! I NEARLY SLIPPED 29239 TIMES AND THOUGHT I'D ENTER MY INTERVIEW COVERED IN SLUSH. 10 CARAMEL MACCHIATO'S LATER I BRAVED THE WALK DOWN DIGBETH IN MY SOAKING WET DOLLY SHOES, SHAKING WITH COLD AND NERVES AND ARRIVED AT MY INTERVIEW.
I SAT DOWN NOT EVEN THINKING TO TAKE MY COAT OFF AND SPOKE ABOUT HOW MUCH I LOVED FASHION AND MY ASPIRATIONS TO BECOME A FASHION DESIGNER ONE DAY, I PERSONALLY DIDN'T THINK IT WENT VERY WELL AS I JUST SAT THERE TWIDDLING MY THUMBS FOR MOST OF THE INTERVIEW NOT KNOWING WHAT TO SAY HOWEVER I GOT IT!
I WAS THRILLED AS IM QUITE A BIG FAN OF HIS ANYWAY SO IM SO HAPPY THAT I CAN SAY I WORKED WITH HIM AND HOPEFULLY LEARN ALOT.

SO HELLO LONDON FASHION WEEK, NOW FOR THE NEXT CHALLENGE. WHAT TO WEAR?