Christian Dior Haute Couture – Spring 07

As a part of my research for the Interior Design option, I have been searching the web for fashion shows that are over the top, unusual or different from the stereotype runway set and show. I have been looking at extravagent set designs and locations and how the theme has been brought through in the clothes and the overall show. Another important aspect I have been looking at for inspiration in my studio work, is how the designer has chosen to interpret his or her ideas through choice of runway and how/where the audience are seated. This is just one of the examples of many I have found. I chose to put this one up as an example as I feel that it shows everything that I have been looking for. A Japenese theme was emminent complete with big origami details, asian hats and painted Geisha faces, topped off with perfectly matched music.

Sketchup Model Development in Photoshop

Final Design

Final Design 2

This series of pictures will take you through some development stages of my runway. Here I have taken my Runway Design from Sketchup and brought it into photoshop. The patterns in all of the following pictures of aspects of my own clothing. I have played around with the opacity, brightness/darkness/contrast, lighting, and taking out certain layers. I also experimented with perspective and white space.

Sketch Up

View 1 (initial SketchUp Design)

View 2 (initial SketchUp Design)

View 3 (initial SketchUp Design)

View 1 (Final SketchUp Design)

Digital Drawing – Photoshop Collage

One of my Photoshop Collages

To start with we were told to take pictures of Building 1, in particular spaces, objects and textures. Secondly we had to sketch a space in Building 1 and lastly we had to find images from books in the library, relating to our theme. Using Photoshop, we had to create three collages relating to our themes using the pictures we took,drew and gathered. This was my second attempt playing around with photoshop..

Digital Drawing – Researched Artists

JULIA FULLERTON-BATTEN

Chewing Gum, 2005

http://pytr75.blogspot.com/2009/05/kevin-haas.html

 Julia Fullerton-Batten is a German Photographer. This is one of  many photographs from Julia Fullerton’s series‘Teenage Stories’. This photogtaph grabbed my attention the moment it was shown to me. I immediately assumed that a program such as Photoshop had been used to create the illusion of  different scales, when infact the photographs are taken on sets with a very small scale.

 

KEVIN HAAS

“Spokane: North Division Street Perspective Inversion”
Lithograph 2008

http://pytr75.blogspot.com/2009/05/kevin-haas.html

 

ANDREW McLEOD

Love between 5 people, 2003
Edition of 20 digital drawings
 

http://www.artspace.org.nz/editions/andrewmcleod.asp

 

 

John Galliano

This is a Maria Luisa black silk taffeta gown by John Galliano for Christian Dior…

Such a masterpeice. The attention to detail has your eyes scanning back and forth. Designed with the period of Queen Elizabeth the first in mind, but with black as the touch of modernism. Elegant, daring but yet still so simple.

Nigel Barker

Old Hollywood Glamour. A timeless beauty shot filled with sophistication and sleekness. With a sense of shock conveyed on Anya’s face; she’s so in tune with both camera and photographer. The fact that it is monochrome, intensifies the image and message.