Friday, 18 December 2009

End of term...phew!

Very glad that this term is over, been a tough one! Don't really want to talk about our final presentation as its really couldn't have been much worse! I will give you a tip though, "I'm sorry, but we really don't know what we are doing" is definitely the worse opening line i have ever heard some one use! Now i know we weren't as prepared as we could have been but its not the the first presentation we've ever done so their really was no need to make us all look stupid! Any who... Its over just hope my work is good enough to survive our disastrous team work! Just about happy with the results and i have to say Kay is a star!!! She is also fantastic at what she does!! She managed to create an amazing print for our jackets and she made each of our fabrics individually designed to match our designs. Below are the prints she created for my jacket. I couldn't have turned out better! Its as if she read my mind!!

I think that although our jackets are very different styles they still look like a collection so the end result is great!
Below: L-R: My jacket, Amy Burns's jacket, Patrick Jaspers Jacket.




Hope you agree but i think that they look fantastic!!

This week we also got our briefs for our Professional project, which are all live competitions too. There were 4 to choose from but i have decided to do the brief based on colour. Its from Society of Dyers and Colourists and the brief is to‘To demonstrate the creative, imaginative and original use of colour in either fashion or textiles’. I am really looking forward to this project and have loads of ideas already!! Time to research!!!

Thursday, 10 December 2009

London Trip

Went with my class up to london for the day this week. We went mainly to see the Nick Knight Show Studio exhibition at Sumerset house but also to try and see the Norman Parkinson exhibition.
Show Studio was good but where was the fashion!!Ok, so there were a few garments placed around the exhibition but the main display were mostly about celebrities! However most of the exhibitions were interactive. Your able to colour and draw digitally on to three giant Naomi Campbells! I did think it was an interesting way to display things and the use of technology was great. Plus they have a live studio where you can watch photo shoots! Below is Junya Watanabe and Gareth Pugh.
NaomiCampell X3

Went to see the Norman Parkinson exhibition after lunch. Really love his photography but thought the exhibition was quite small!

Also managed to see the Courtaulds gallery which was amazing!!
Manet
Degas
It was quite a successful day in London!