Central St.Martins, fashon stying course 2010.

31/8/10 - 3/9/10

so this summer i did a 4day course 'fashion styling' at Central St.Martins College of Art and Design in London. The course involved: a styling project which was 'experimenting with draping and creating new and exciting shapes;' a lecture with a working stylist who was also one of the tutors; and finally a photo shoot.

i really enjoyed the course and i think this may be somthing i would like to do in the future.

wrap and drape

Words given: flow, pleat, fold, relaxed, manipulate, classical, robe, toga, sari.

the idea here was to use classic colours, we used a cream skirt with lots of bright flowers on the bottom so we turned the bottom up out of the way, then we wrapped, draped, and pleated the silk and the same idea with the chiffon. when we thought we were finished he dress it was too standard so then we added an embelished jacket and pinned it to the side of the dress, this feature made the dress more interesting and gave a contrast in texture.

confusion and explosion

words given: unexpected, messy, disrupted, eclectic, busy, suprising, upsetting.

basically what we did for this one, was take all of the bright, weird, and random fabrics and clothing and put them all together on the mannequin, and as you can see we took up one of the trouser legs and wrapped a fabric that had a different pattern and contrast in colour around the leg. This one is my least favourite out of the three.

volume and drama

words given: big scale, theatrical, confident, diva, ball-gown, showpiece.

here, we took a huge skirt and turned it inside out, and used the underskirt to make it into a dress, we also added a white net for a contrast in colour and texture, and then used fusia fabric and pinned it into a 'creased' looking feature on the dress.

photo shoot.

FUTUR(IS)M

our task was to create a three page (minimum) fshion story for a magazine of our own choice. we chose the theme futur(is)m so we decided to use recycing materials to make clothes, and we gave the title protecting the future. In our group of 5 we had to style, photograph, and chose a model.

The materials used : tin foil, pegs, string, newspaper, dish cloths, bubble wrap, polyester balls, bin bags, and rubber gloves.