Work Experience.

Ive been thinking about work experience, and im not sure entirely about what i want to do...
i would really like to learn more about tailoring, i think its one of the areas i am more interested in fashion.
Location wise i could do it in Leeds, Brighton where i live or london cos i have alot of family and mates who live there. So the choice is pretty wide..
I have a massive love for one mens tailoring company in brighton, Gresham Blakes. Its in the lanes and i use to go in there for lots of inspiration for my foundation which was over the road. so im tempted to email them for work experience next summer.

http://www.greshamblake.com/

Or Gieves and Hawkes in Leeds...

Other than tailors i literally have no idea where i would like to gain work experience.
I am going to do some on the emmerdale wardrobe set soon, a few of my friends are sound producers there and they said i can go and help out in the studio sometime!
I always wanted to do costume when i was younger, and the idea of working in television really appeals to me...

I hate thinking about the future though, it makes me feel a bit sick!
What i really want to do is move abroad, to south of france or north of spain, and go on cruise ships for a while as a barmaid and see the world...

The fashion world is all a bit cut throat for me! ive come to realise just how many people are fighting ove one job or to be different. i cant take it!

i just try not to get too caught up thinking about all that...

Thoughts etc

Some bastard ate my ben and jerrys so im not altogether happy.
A whole new tub !
but its okay ...

im very excited about innovative cut, i like pattern cutting alot, ive got some exciting ideas. I want to go straight back to menswear...
i want to do a take on military wear, pockets, built in gloves, hat etc, quite gadgety clothes with inside hidden pockets and big collar, wind protection etc.
im dead excited about cutting something so precise and exciting!

few little ideas ... combining design ideas
future fashion.

Inspiration

Beginning critical and contextual studies.

Surprisingly i very much enjoyed our lecture this morning, with the lovely tom, after having a terrible year last year not understanding a word, i learned more in this hour than the whole of last year.
We were learning about aesthetics and beauty which was fascinating.
How you have to disengage with something to truly appreciate somethings beauty. When someone considers something beautiful for example another person. This is because they are attracted or associate them with sex. To truly appreciate beauty none of these other factors can intefere with objectifying the person as beautiful.

Learning about DesCartes and "i think therefore i am" ideas. and dualism, where "the body is the vehicle of the mind". He told us about how Descartes believed nothing truly exists except the mind of the individual and thats how everything is built up around the mind of the person.
All the different philosophers have completely different theories and ideas, it seems a bit crazy.
How did they come up with all these thoughts, and why ! how did they ever even begin to think of these theories!
Still fascinating none the less, it made me quite thoughtful all day.
Marcells seminar was also suprisingly good, he reinforced the lecture and we had a good discussion, which brought up some interesting points...
im left unusually satisfied from philosophical talks!

Final elective photos.

digital photography

For my digital photography elective i got into the work of avedon, paticuarly his portraits as he travelled across America of everyday life for many different workers, captured in all of its raw and gritty truth. From snakes and dead animals to cowboys, the pictures are beautiful , intimate and emotional, you can almost imagine the day to day life of each person.

These are three of my favourites.

The beekeeper in paticular is such a weird image. I want to use exciting props and weird poses etc to create some odd looking images.

Cosy time

My final coat modelled by Bella...beautiful!