toddlers in tiaras

I have also looked the tv programme 'Toddlers in Tiaras' to see how children in beauty pageants are shown, they too seem to be on a fine line between just making the children look pretty and over sexualisation/also making them look grown up too quickly etc.

My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding

Looking at how children in the Gypsy community look and dress etc and how it could be seen as over sexualisation of children..

fabulous fashionistas

I'm veering towards age in the diversity topic because i really like the idea that fashion goes hand in hand with fun and confidence which is something that little girls and some older women share. I think this is the same sort of feeling that the people of Berlin had, the same sort of confidence to do and wear what they want without thinking about what other people think.

Drawing session 1

                                 

Children in vogue

 

 

 

Fashion film

I found this short fashion film on SHOWstudio that I thought was an interesting modern interpretation and appropriate for this project..

http://showstudio.com/project/joie_de_vivre

Second Practical - Supracolor

For our second practical for this project we experimented with Supracolor, we used Otto Dix's paintings as inspiration (the ones below are his self portrait and his painting of Anita Berber). Because Supracolor is grease based we took a more blending approach to our looks but again worked with the contours, shadows and highlights of the face.

This is what i created -

Second Seminar

Here is some research from the notes i made in the seminar and also just things that were shown that caught my eye..

This is a photo from the Rick Owens S/S 2014 collection, we were shown this to see how some designers are introducing more diversity to the catwalk in a big way and also portraying women in a new way too. It's got to be said i don't think it was quite my cup of tea, i can appreciate how he is trying to get a more diverse range of models/people onto the catwalk, however i personally think you have to with who the clothes look best on to sell them so i feel this show was more of a statement or an artform rather than actually advertising the clothes. I read a few years in a book called 'Fashion Babylon' that designers want models who look as close to the paper their garments were designed on as possible so that they don't change too much from paper to body, i don't by any means agree with the stick thin and limited ethnicity of models at the moment however i can kind of see where that statement is coming from, surely there has to be a happy medium though?!

Another thing that was introduced to us was the rise of the older generation fashionistas, we watched a exert from an american film/documentary on them and i have really started to like this concept of fearless styling with age. I were also told about another blog along the same line http://advancedstyle.blogspot.co.uk/ .

• iris opfell
• difference between beauty and attractiveness
• uncanny valley
• youtube - why human replicas scare us
• youtube - dove real beauty sketches (controversy)
• otto dix's
• anita berber
• illamasqua controversy over imperfection and human fundamentalism campaigns

Goodbye to Berlin

To start the project off we have been asked to read Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood, to both get a feel of the time and to understand the descriptions of the bold characters. I am now starting to understand why we had to look at this book because it gives us an idea of the time when anyone could be who they wanted to be and all the eccentric characters that included. It was particularly interesting reading about Sally Bowles because she is so much of what the 20's was about  including the decadence, glamour, sex, fashion, cabaret, putting on a show and anything goes/carefree attitude.

First Practical - Aquacolor

In our first practical for this project we were using Aquacolor to see how we could paint the face in an abstract way, using the lines and contours of the face to inspire our brush strokes. Because aquacolor drys very quickly you have to make bold moves and can't really blend so you have to use block colours, lines and patterns. This was what i came up with -

At first i found it tricky making the bold moves to just get some colour down but once i started i tried to use the shapes of the face, shadow areas and highlighted areas to create an abstract asymmetric look.

My thoughts

At first I found this project quite confusing because I thought it had to be more about Weimar Berlin but now I understand it better I think it might be quite interesting. I think I'm going to take more of the eccentricity of the people of Weimar Berlin than going with a character based look. I'm quite interested in age in fashion within the diversity in fashion debate so I think I might do something age related.