A style I adore...

Everything about this fashion shoot appeals to me, from the big hair and delicate frills to the contrasting dingey, graffiti-filled background!

Each extravagantly feminine and voluminous garment is made casual with the aid of soft knitwear and pulled up socks.

Each garment soft and delicate in colour is splashed with accessories of bright and vibrant spring colours, yet remain complimenting one another.

If I could afford to I would love to dress this beautifully!

Harvey Nichols - Windows!

There Winter windows did it again! Bold, beautiful and eye-catching! I love the women relaxed on the moon 'wishing upon a star' for the new year and adorned in all things sparkling, glittering, crystalized.... which was the trend for the party season.

Stand Work...

Part 2 - Research Bodies and Garment.

Being provided with list of Artists and Phrases to choose from gave me quite a lot of freedom but also pressure to ensure I chose the right one of each to give maximum inspiration. I believe I made the correct choices and throughout my research bodies, as I was not happy with one aspect of 'Skeletal' I changed the theme to provided more inspiration.

I would say I struggled slightly through the research with experiments and image making, mainly because I found it very time consuming which added pressure. However I found that transferring images to inspire garment shapes was a good way to begin each experiment.

Working on the stand with calico and the shapes from my research was actually very difficult, it was difficult to avoid manipulating the fabric too much (such as pleats, gathers) as all my research referred only to shapes.

I believe my Ideas Sheets were the most successful pages within my body or research, they were very visual with fabric samples, drawings, images and photography all linked together. I am not happy with all of my research however I worked hard and realise I need to acquire more visual presentation skills and finesse within my pages.

Although pleased with the concept of my garment and with it's creativity, the appearance disappointed me. I think this is mainly due to it lacking in professionalism and structure.

Part 1 - Portfolio Images...

I white - washed a magazine advert, added a faint layer of pink paint so the model was barely visible and used this as a guideline for my own illustration over the top. Good technique for ensuring proportions are correct.

Clippings of soft fabrics and colours from magazines make up the illustration of this garment, I added further garment details with black fine-liner over the top.


A combination of a photograph and my own illustration from the photograph. These images were split up and merged together with the aid of CAD and the 'feather' technique.

A slightly abstract image of different accessories using mixed media to emphasize this.

Pinstripe fabric was scanned in and repeated to make a pattern using CAD. My own illustration was placed over the top of the pattern and made slightly transparent using CAD.

Creative Approaches to Fashion.

This brief required us to produce a portfolio of 20 successful drawings/images of people in contemporary clothing. Part 2 of the brief was to combine 2 bodies of research of an artist (I chose Eva Hesse) and a phrase (Skeletal.) The combination of research was to be explored to create a garment made from 3 deconstructed shirts, a man's, women's and a child's.

The portfolio of images did not intimidate me as much as I imagined, I think I felt more comfortable having taken the drawing elective previously. The image making workshops were quite abstract and images were produced quickly, different from the sustained drawing technique I had learnt in the elective.
I am proud of most of the images I produced and appreciate the abstract qualities of Fashion illustration, as the quality of drawing and proportions themselves appear under less scrutiny. I applied some of the techniques and style I had discovered during the elective, however the portfolio was to include a large variety, this pushed me to experiment more with materials and styles I wouldn't normally choose.
We were introduced to CAD and I especially liked the 'feather' and 'transparent' effects, these gave images a softer appearance which I prefer to bold images.