Manchester was brill and found lots of inspiration to start my drawing at research, i also made an appointment to look at the Betty Smithers Collection at university where i got some shots of vintage scarfs on models. Here are some photographs of my trips and inspiration..... :)
Betty Smither's Collection.....
Lenny the lady from Owens & Kim took a visit to the studio to see how we were getting on with our research, she was very helpful and asked inspired me most from the things i had seen so far. I loved the old vintage horses, flowers and butterflies. So she suggested i created an old vintage fair theme to draw from. I decided i wanted it to be in a spring summer 2011 collection so looked at magazines such as 'Look' and 'Vogue' to find some trends that are fresh, girly and colourful!
Bellow is my colour board, i used buttercup yellows, lime greens, candy floss pinks and cherry red. Love creating mood boards adding my buttons and ribbons. I was very inspired by Cath Kidson's colours and Pip Studios 'Kitch' feel. Hope you like it!
I decided to create my Vintage Fairground mood i wanted to take a trip to London to have a look at some little toy shops and anything else i might find! Really enjoyed gathering my research i found a lot of things in London....
Love these old teddies.....
This is my new mood board for my vintage fairground theme filled with inspiration i can draw from.
I then started to do some black and white drawings using different media to then put onto Photoshop. I did small small A4 samples of my layouts for my garments to see if the colours worked well etc. I didn't like the feel it gave to my drawings as i wanted quite a handmade feel about my final designs. So i continued playing around and started to use the heat transfer dyes onto the different polyester fabrics. This worked really well for what effect i was looking for so i kept playing around with layouts and the dyes. Then created my final pieces.
These are just a selection of my final garments.....
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