Iconic British design 2

Continued from my previous post

Iconic people and designers 

Alexander McQueen

Mary Quant and the mini skirt

Orla Keily

Ziggy Stardust/ David bowie

House of Holland

The beatles

Twiggy

Vivienne Westwood

 

Iconic British Design

This is a post to highlight some of the many amazing buildings, objects, people and designers that have helped make Britain the iconic place that it is now.

Buildings and architecture

Kings cross station, famous for its beautiful architecture

And its platform 9 3/4 in harry potter

The london eye

 

 

London Tubes

Big Ben

Glasgow School of Arts

Inside the gherkin

The Gherkin

The stunning ceiling of St Paul's Cathedral

Inside St Paul's Cathedral

The shard

Iconic objects

Mini Cooper

Angle Poise Lamp

The Concorde

Stamps

London phone boxes

new found love

Modeling is something I never thought I could do or be good at, I always thought that I was to short, to chubby or not pretty enough until now. 

It all started when a few of us fashion students were given an assignment to do over the summer, which is a sample development project based on British design, paying particular attention to haute couture.

Finding out this got out creative minds flowing with inspiration so we decided to do a haute couture inspired photo-shoot.

 Jess,who was the photographer and the make-up artist for this shoot, came up with the original concept. She wanted me to be the model, at first I was unsure as I had never done anything like that before, but when my make-up and hair was done, I really started to let go.
The hair and styling for the shoot was done by Kulli, who is another of my fellow fashion students . Styling is something that she is passionate about, so this was a great opportunity to showcase this passion.

These are a few of my favourite images from the photshoot

The shoot, was an amazing experience, I really enjoyed every minute of it. It gave me the confidence boost that  I needed as well. It also made me realized that modelling is something that I really love doing, and something that I am actually quite good at.

My experience so far

My University experience so far has had its ups and downs, but generally i've had a brilliant time learning new skills and meeting great and interesting people. The lesson I have enjoyed the most, would be Knit, Professional Studies and Pattern Cutting. Although in Pattern Cutting I did struggle quite a bit at  the start, because I had never done it before. However after I went over the notes i'd made and the work I had already done, I started to get to grips with how to pattern cut. In my own personal opinion I found that Professional Studies was my favourite subject this semester, as have loved writing  my blog and learning interesting and inspiration things during the lectures and seminars. I think my blog is something that I am going to carry on after this semester is finished, just because I do really enjoy posting about my inspirations and work. 

All about feathers

In C.A.D we learned illustrator and photoshop techniques and processes. With in the 3 sessions we had  we experimented with photoshop and illustrator, then were set a task to create 3 imagines on our own using both of the programs. We had to use feather imagine, which linked in with our British Birds project, when creating images on these programs. 

 This is the first image I created using illustrator and photoshop. In this image I used feathers to create the shape of the union jack. I really like the way it came out, as I was initially worried about what to do and how to create it. I also like the contrast with the feathers and the normal outline of the union jack, it makes for and interesting effect

This is the second image I created, where I used wood-chip as texture behind a silhouette of birds. I thought the wood-chip at the back gave a great texture, which could match the colour of the birds feathers.

This is the last image I created using photoshop. It was created using an image of brightly coloured feathers, which were repeated and shaped to look like there her hair. I also changed the opacity so you could see the strands of her hair behind, which gave for an interesting look. Another technique I used was the smudge tool which helped to blend the feathers together, making them look like one. I did the same thing for her make-up as well. This image turned out better than I expected; it turned out look more like an illustration witch is absolutely beautiful. 

Its a beautiful day

"It's a beautiful day, don't let it get away"   quote from the song above by U2. I looked out of my Window this morning to see an absolutely beautiful blue, clear winter sky and it reminded me how wonderful it is to live and walk on this earth everyday. It also made  me think that even when times are stressful and you think that all hope is gone, that there is a silver lining to every cloud, things always have there way or working out. In this Industry I am going to need a thick skin,as there will probably be a lot of knock back and rejections so I  need to just think something else will come up, everything will get better.

Only dead fish swim with the Stream

"Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream"  

This quote to me is very inspirational, it's reminding me to not go with the flow, go against the flow. It's telling me to break out of my comfort zone, do something interesting, unique and spontaneous. I don't want to be a sheep and follow the crowd, it wont get me notice, recognized or out there. 

In the fashion and Textiles industries especially, this quote is something to defiantly live by. This is because the textile industry alone brings £21 billion to the UK economy.

*£241 million is Marketing

*£205 million is Media

*12,000 clothing business's

*156,000 People employed in the 

Textiles industry 

*20,000 people work as designers

across the Fashion and Textiles Industry.

The figures above just sort of sum up the amount of people I will be up against if  I want to get into this Industry, So I'm going to have to be the best I can be and be Competitive if I want to make it anywhere. I need to ask my self :

* What… I want to do 

*Where …do i want to be