It is now week 3 of my project so I really wanted to start moving on from research and into develop. So I spent this day finishing up the last of my research.
I researched one of my favourite new singers, Abra. I really like her casual, feminine style and confident attitude which is how I want my woman to feel in the clothes I'll be designing for this collection. I think Abra will be my ideal wearer for these clothes so I am going to keep her in mind will designing. I also like the lyrics of her songs, particularly Roses so I want to incorporate them into my designs, maybe through free hand embroidery or I could paint directly onto fabric. The lyrics also have a lot of refers to a lot of nature which fits in with my research on the Omo tribe and Nadine Ijewere's photography project 'Flowers'.
I also research a poet and writer called Bell Hooks. My favourite quote of hers is 'I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.' I like this quote because it show what a strong, confident and educated woman she is which is the type of woman I want to dress in my clothes. I started to think about what kind of clothes make someone look powerful and strong and I thought of suits and armour so I want to use elements of these clothes in my designs. I also think someone who is confident with themselves, with or without clothes is confident person. I think a person who is comfortable being completely naked is the type of person I want to dress which sounds strange I guess considering I design clothes. I want my clothes to show a lot of skin, cutouts short skirts, crop tops but since I am making an Autumn Winter Collection I have to find some way to mix the two together and still make the clothes appropriate for cold weather.
I researched Delphine Fawundu and Lubaina Humid but I don't feel like this research was very useful so I don't think I'll expand on this.
Finally I looked at possible colour schemes. I used one of my favourite photos of Nadine Ijewere's and extracted colours from it on photoshop to create different palettes. One of them was quite dark autumn colours, navy, burgundy, mustard khaki green which fits very well with an Autum winter Collection. The other is very warm tones, amber, lime green, turquoise and a deep lipstick red. The colours are very Spring Summer but I quite like the contradiction as I feel like having bright colours can give warmth to the colder months.
I feel like for now I have done the majority of my research and although I will probably continue doing research throughout this project I am now ready to move on to development. I think I'm going to start with working on the stand using shapes from my research. Although I don't think this will give the clothes the essence of the message I want to give, it will help me to create some interesting shapes which I can then work from. I also want to experiment with lots of textiles as it is something that I'm interested in but haven't had the time to explore in our previous projects. I'm going to see how my theme translates into knitting, weaving, print and embroidery and then choose 1 or 2 of these to use in the final collection.
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