Illustration project
These are some of the first-year fashion design students are taught by illustrator Richard Gray. These are a selection of first-year students fashion illustration work, depicting this season's runway collection.
What I really like about these illustrations is how the student deliberately decided on what to draw and what to leave out. Like for example the face is drawn so beautifully and the hair is left out but it gives you a slight idea of the hair. And I like the way they drew the body and they barely drew the clothes on but it gives you a brief idea of the silhouette of the clothes and the texture. Also, mixed media with the gold in the back makes me think of how I could experiment with foil to paint in my illustrations.
Same with the second illustration, the face is drawn so beautifully but the clothes are barely drawn properly which makes the drawing so much more interesting.
I also saw this on their website and it stood out to me because of how experimental the student was with their illustrations. I love how they played with scale and how the background the illustration goes so well together. Also, the color palette is so intriguing and I think it really helped the illustration overall. The lines are so expressive again, like with the other illustrations. The way this student created the textures on the clothes was very effective and overall the business and layering of the textures and mixed media (of the illustration) was very successful.
Westminster BA London Fashion Week A/W 2019 collections
CSM library research
And then i found these illustrations from a book called Fashion and people by Gladys Perint Palner
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"He was a 20th-century artist and designer in an array of fields, including fashion, jewellery, graphic arts, costume and set design for film, theatre, and opera, and interior decor."
"Erté is perhaps most famous for his elegant fashion designs which capture the art deco period in which he worked."
Cherril Parris
I love Cherrill Parris' illustrations because of how expressive her lines are. I love the mixed media which also inspired me to work with multiple mediums in my illustrations. Also, the lines are so fluid which probably indicates that she drew them really quickly. The silhouette is very clear and definite.
09/09/19
Illustration project
Today we have been given the brief and we will study how to best interpret a silhouette and movement through drawing.
Howard Tangye’s drawings explore the nuances of the human form in an effort to expose the sitter’s energy and body. The artist prefers to work with oil-paint sticks on paper, though he also incorporates graphite, oil paint, and chalk into his works. He often scrapes and smudges his lines to create sketchy, expressive figures whose bodies are composed of fluid marks. Tangye’s drawings have grown increasingly painterly in recent years, incorporating seemingly random swatches of color. Looking to artists like Mark Rothko, Bridget Riley, and Agnes Martin, Tangye captures the essence of his sitters through an unadulterated lens, often positioning them as fragile, shy, and romantic.
mary Quant
19/09/19
Mary Quant V&A Museum exhibition.
These are some pictures a family friend took from the exhibition but I will go myself on Friday 4th of October.
"Its perfect timing for today’s politicised age: from the moment she opened Bazaar - her boutique on London’s fashionable King’s Road - in 1955, Quant designed clothes for real women. Cutting fabrics that she bought nightly in Harrods (before catching onto the necessity of wholesale purchasing), she made clothes with herself in mind that she felt would appeal to all women, ones that she couldn’t find on the market: hers were the clothes of the mod, of the sexual revolution and the liberated: all gamine and coquettish with Pop Art influence and schoolgirl playfulness. They symbolised the beginning of London as a locus of street style."
surroundings project
The surroundings project
"Hussein Chalayans' fashion shows are characterised by minimal sets and a mood of suspense, incorporating elements of contemporary interiors, urban architecture, and geometric structures. In the shows the conceptual and theoretical inspirations behind his garments are played out across the body."
What i really like about Hessein Chalayan is how he takes inspiration from everything around him. Even from a coffee table and he turned it into fashion. I think hes deigns are so fashion forward. He always is interested in creating new shapes and textures in his designs. I think his work is more of an artwork than fashion because of the interesting and fragile shapes he creates.
Coffee table skirt 2000
Hussein Chalayan – Gravity Fatigue
"The most eye-catching moments are when Chalayan’s costumes take on a central role. For Elastic Bodies, the lights rise and fall on pairs of dancers locked into twisting poses inside shared rubber outfits that extend across the stage, like things that have escaped from a Francis Bacon painting. Arrival Of Departure features boxy jackets and heavy overcoats that are transformed with a shrug into glittering sequinned dresses, which the dancers spin in like whirling dervishes. And in Word Dictators and Rise Disembodiment, beautiful dresses take on lives of their own to the vague alarm of their wearers, in elegantly constructed coups de theatre.
Choreographer Damien Jalet has been the man tasked with transforming Chalayan’s diverse inspirations into a coherently choreographed show. He makes a virtue of the stop-start nature of these pieces, assembling a vibrant collage of ideas teamed with a sometimes rather overpowering soundscape. But he can’t disguise the fact some of these vignettes are pretty under-developed. And you can’t help feeling disappointed that, whereas art/dance should really invite you into somewhere emotionally profound, Chalayan, for all his interests and influences, seems content to stay skittering across surfaces"
Possession/ childhood memories
10/09/2019
For this project i wanted to bring in personal things that remind me of specific memories i had when i was young. I brought in a shell that i got from Greece this year because I was able to go there with some of my old friends and it reminds me of them. Also one of my Petshops because it reminds me of when i got it from Christmas and my friends and I were playing with them. I brought in a picture with me when i was 4 because it reminds me of the day my dad's friend took it and of my old house back in Timisoara. I also brought a pen i won at an arcade because i also got it this summer. All these toys remind me of my parents and i during the Christmas time looking at toys and me begging them to buy me them and then they would surprise me with them for Christmas which was such a nice memory. Especially with the little pet toys, i would play with my friends and create stories that they are real and it was the best way to use my imagination to create new worlds and discover new things. Its what brought my friends and I together and we would play for hours and hours.
I also brought in a little purse my mum bought me on Sunday morning when i was abut 4. She would let me go play with one of out family friend and she would go to the market that was only open on Sunday. And when she came back she gave me one and my friend and i was really happy.
Possession/ childhood memories
One day project.
Day 10/09/19
Possession project
We had to bring in 5 objects that describe us as an individual. I think I am a very childish, energetic and positive person and so I brought in a lot of things that remind me of my childhood and from where I'm from. For example, I bought a pen that I won at an arcade place in Romania when I went this summer. Also, I had a little purse that my mum gave me when I was 4/5 and I bought it with me because It reminds me of the day she gave it to me.
We then created small motifs from our interpretation drawings we did as a group and individually which we then combined all of then to create a nice textile idea.