flower heads

This is the follower up post to my playing dress up post. These headpieces are more fun, I used my mums flowers from around the house to stuff the headpieces. The flowers add a nice Caribbean appeal to the headpieces as well so I'm happy with that. Again these are inspired my Junya Watanabe's headpieces. I wonder if I can make these a little bigger but I must consider how heavy these will be on my models heads on the catwalk. They're also quite fragile so I have to figure out how I want to attach them to the models heads. These headpieces are more colourful, fun and vibrant which is what my project is all about so hopefully the end product for the catwalk show will be just as great.

being refined

As I'm currently working on my final major project everything has to be refined and sophisticated, for numerous reasons:-

# My final piece will be in a catwalk show

# This project is marked at first year degree level

# And I want a distinction for this project :)

At the moment the thought of getting a distinction is put aside and I'm just focused on enjoying the project and really showing my potential. And I feel this is really working my for me. My samples and fabric selection is sophisticated, my illustrations are more personal and stronger and my confidence in my work is increasing. So I'm Happy

Here is a quick peek at my sketchbook, here I'm playing with earthy greens for a garment design. I really love the illustration on this page, the look I went for here was a sea witch that lives in an undersea cave. A bit like an high fashion version of Ursula from The Little Mermaid.

So these illustrations sums up the overall theme I'm working with for my final major project. Firstly inspired by Tao Kurihara and now morphed into a Jamaican theatrical castaway theme, I hope to execute very well on the catwalk show.

Final Major project: Reading and Research Week

Cultural Mash project has been handed in , so now I have a week off to read and research books on my SOI (Statement of Intent) Bibliography list. In total I have 8 books to read so far I've been through 5 of 8.

Tomorrow is photocopying day and organising the information. My OCD of planning and making sure everything about my project is in order is becoming even more obvious, but it's my sickness that I unfortunately can't help and probably refuse to help.

Doing all the reading and research for this project is making me so excited about it and I know that it's the right project for me. It's going to be fabulous!!!

Sneak Preview of Images from my research: