Wrath

The most recent brief we have been given at college is inspired by the 7 deadly sins, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony, sloth, greed and pride. The first thread I worked on was wrath. I chose an angry story line from the news. I chose the story about Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani girl pleading for education for women in Pakistan but was then gunned down by a Taliban gunman. I chose this story because of the passion behind it. I then took the story for my inspiration for the theme wrath.

The image above shows my trail of thought visually.

I focused on the fractured skull.

I enlarged the image of the skull and made it into a pattern piece which I cut out of calico, i then modelled on the stand, and the outcomes are seen below.

Lace making

During a workshop at college we learnt how to make lace. First off we started by setting up a domestic sewing machine and removed the foot. We then placed wash away fabric in to an embroidery hoop and pulled it tight. We then placed the hoop and fabric under the needle and lowered the needle into the wash away fabric. Once this was done we gently pressed on the foot pedal and freely moved the hoop creating a desired pattern here was my final result. We then placed it in warm water waiting for the fabric to dissolve and place it on paper to dry I think kit was unsuccessful as I was creating rose buds but I'm happy with it as it was my first attempt.

This is the future

This a photo from my photoshoot that was inspired by the word futuristic. After researching I decided on this look because I feel it is almost alien like. The hair was inspired by a shoot I found in vogue and It reminded me of lady gaga and her futuristic style. I enjoyed modelling and styling this shoot with my peer Mads and the outcome was very successful. This isn't the final image, it was a test shot on how the make up would turn out. The neck piece I made myself from layers of tissue paper pinned to my favourite futuristic inspired maxi dress from Topshop.

Madame X shoot

Here is my interpretation of the famous painting 'Madame X' by John Singer Sergant. I used this image to inspire my own shoot and above is my final outcome. I chose this painting because it was elegant and simple. The model in my image is Hannah Crowther. Hannah is a second year fashion student, I decided to use hannah because I thought she had similarities to the original painting. For this shoot I was able to work with the photography students. Emma Smith was my photographer for the shoot and thought she was easy to work with and understood my ideas. Overall I think the outcome of my shoot was successful as my image resembles the original painting, I enjoyed working with the photographer and would love to do shoots like this again.