This week.
As the work for Paris is now complete and been sent off, most of the work I have been working on was included in that brief. Therefore it is now the time to begin a new channel of this project, which I will continue into unit X. I want to look at head wear and primarily the idea of veils.
I have started to build up a collection of samples investigating veil netting and creating a surface upon that.
There is the worry that I am running down a different tangent and I need to make sure I get back in touch with my personal narrative for this project to stop myself from getting whisked away with the pretty things.

 

beginning to look into the application of these pieces.

how a veil works as a construction?

Struggling with the idea of application. I want to make veils but am uncertain of how to continue them into a wearable piece. I find Armarni Prive Couture Fall 2012 to have made beautiful veils and their application intriguing.

 

http://www.style.com/fashionshows/detail/slideshow/F2012CTR-APRIVE/#98

to continue the veil into a cage like structure, using chain, line or beads to form it around the head.

http://www.style.com/fashionshows/detail/slideshow/F2012CTR-APRIVE/#107

or to pleat the fabric, creating an elongated mask, a bowed mask? But the veil would have to be weary of weight so as to not off balance it and with this design I feel it could sit perhaps to close to the face. But both of these techniques are of good thought to explore.

http://www.style.com/fashionshows/detail/slideshow/F2013CTR-MMARGIEL/#23

http://www.style.com/fashionshows/detail/slideshow/F2013CTR-MMARGIEL/#37

http://www.style.com/fashionshows/detail/slideshow/F2013CTR-MMARGIEL/#62

 http://www.style.com/fashionshows/detail/slideshow/F2013CTR-MMARGIEL/#59

masks
maison martin margiela  couture  fall 2013

i like the tie of the ribbon
and the fit to the face
can they see?

i think the tie of the ribbon looks elegant
i wish to try this in my own practice

Resin, Expanding Foam and Foam Clay

I have been looking to use materials that can be used to have a natural bulbous effect, an ease to size up.

I tried expanding foam, which was so fun to use and I can see it has great potential, but I have yet to have had a chance to really play with it, it is something I have plans to forward within Unit X.

 I have been using resin throughout the project, but it has never really come to any concluded answers. I had the idea of covering one of my bulbous chains with it. I thought this would leave a lovely glossy bulbous growths on it. I didn't really think it through, I think it could be achieved but would need layers. Something successful also came out of this experiment, I had some left over resin, so put some old chain samples into some old resin molds that I had made earlier in the project. These came out really interesting, little growths on the side of delicate chains.

The pink and orange beaded type things is foam clay, a super crafty material, with a super fun application. Perfect for bulbous interventions.

Selfridges Bright Young Things

http://style.selfridges.com/whats-in/selfridges-announces-bright-young-things-2013

Selfridges Bright Young Things is an annual project that offers a platform for recent graduates and new designers to showcase their work through the Selfridges name and through creating their own window display in one of the windows of the Oxford Street Store. Selfridges hand picks 15 creatives from across the board, from fashion&accessories to art&design to food.

One of the selected 15 of 2013 that I found to be interesting was Grace Hamilton, an embroidery graduate from Manchester School of Art. Whom makes statement knotted crotchet necklaces costing from around £295 to £700 due to the long meticulous process through which they are constructed.

Selfridges 2013

2011

Selfridges 2013

All three photos taken from 

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Grace-Hamilton-Contemporary-Jewellery/210696555652820

They are not quite aesthetically to my own taste although I do like them, but it is her line of work that I am interested in, creating handcrafted jewellery for a high fashion market. With her being able to work within a gallery/exhibition type environment and commercial environment.

landscape abstractions
landscape artists

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Richard_Diebenkorn%27s_painting_%27Ocean_Park_No.129%27.jpg

 Richard Diebenkorn Ocean Park No. 129 (1984)

 http://joanmitchellfoundation.org/work/artwork/cat/paintings/early-career-france-1958-1968/my-landscape-ii

Joan Mitchell, My Landscape ll, (1967)

Landscape abstractions,
I really admire both Diebenkorn and Mitchells work and how they work with the use of Landscape. Building an impression, leaving a space for interpretation.

 This is something that has begun to sneak into my own work, a collision of the elements, leading to a built in narrative of an abstract landscape. An otherworldly abstraction.

A close up of one of the rings of a chain for the Paris brief.
Elemental spring, I fell asleep beneath the flowers.

Maison Martin Margiela Spring Artisanal Couture 2014

http://www.dazeddigital.com/fashion/gallery/17284/1/maison-martin-margiela-artisanal-couture-ss14

Obsessive collecting and hoarding referenced throughout Maison Martin Margiela's Couture SS14 collection. Miss match and masks. An assemblage of accumulation of design and thrift store.

I like the excessiveness of the head wear matched with the simplicity and boldness of the face masks.

Disregarded trinkets and jewels.

http://www.style.com/fashionshows/complete/S2014CTR-MMARGIEL

http://www.style.com/fashionshows/detail/slideshow/S2014CTR-MMARGIEL/#16

I really want to experiment with headwear and intend to play around with veils and masks. This chaotic juxtaposition of jewels in the headwear is something I want to experiment with, building a surface through miss match materials.

This week,
sizing up,
going biggger,
bolder,
Ludicrous
Luminously Ludicrous
Ridiculous,