Craig Lawrence

 Craig Lawrence "new collection, using an unusually supple yarn called Kyototex. The slashed Gaga-approved knits from past seasons have been tightened for spring, with a slinky silhouette akin to a mermaid’s tail. In fact, all the dresses are inspired by a siren’s call—like a metallic-green gown with pleat-like ladder stitches or a white dress streaming with chopped yarn that literally billows up a storm in the wind”

http://www.vogue.com/vogue-daily/article/craig-lawrence-spins-yarn-to-a-sirens-call/

Craig Lawrence inspires me through his use of materials, creating mermaid like figures through the use of knitted fabrics. When thinking of knitted fabrics you would think of thick chunky knits, not something sleek and close to the body as it as seen in Craig Lawrence collection, this inspires me to use knit as a delicate fabric in my project instead of using as a chunky fabric. I could also look at the structure of wool and how this contributes to the rock formation.

Its made me think about weaving and also using rug canvas and wool to create a weird texture, and also trying to create a delicate fabric.

In this video is Craig Lawrence S/S 2011 collection


If you want any more information go to Craig Lawrence website http://www.craiglawrence.co.uk/pages/SS2011.html  

Felicty Brown

Felicity Brown a fashion designer which graduated from royal college of art, is inspirational to me because her collection has elegance wear ability and surrounds textiles, which are all things that I find inspirational.

"Wearing Felicity Brown is a sensuous, delectable, covetable experience. It makes you feel like kicking off your heels and running through a dew sodden English meadow, kicking and twirling all the way. These are the dresses girlhood dreams are made of. In a very grown up sexy way."


"Raw yet refined the collection shows the amazing attention for detail and fantastic creative talent that have marked Felicity's career to date." Vogue Italia March 2010.


"Largely inspired by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's paintings where flamboyant and provocative women are painted wearing extravagant silk ruffles and showing off shamelessly. The dresses, using precious silks are highly structured with hand dip dyed pleats and prints. The British Fashion Council were quick to recognise Felicity's talent and have awarded her the much coveted NewGen sponsorship for SS11."

 

I like the way she has used dip dye and silk fabrics, creating this really dream like collection, inspired by an Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's which painted women in big ruffle silhouettes also his painting were very colourful, which is where Brown has got her inspiration for colour, felicity brown has inspired me through her textile techniques, I am going to explore into dip dyeing and other processes of dyeing to get the desired effect from my inspiration.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's art work.

http://lkthayer.wordpress.com/tag/henri-de-toulouse-lautrec/

Felicity Browns pictures and quotes and any more information you can look her up here:

http://www.youngbritishdesigners.com/designers/newgen/felicity-brown/

Fashion Journal

Looking at the graduates last year and students that have inspired me, and now the time for me to put a print on the fashion world has come, to inspire someone, somewhere would be a great achievement for me, so the next posts are going to be about my work where it is going and how I have been inspired by different artist, designers and anything else.

The summer went quick, and I have been looking closely at rocks and water, about erosion, weathering, the shapes that are created and how the water has changed the environment we live in, how this is so calming to look at but it is so destructive.

Here are some images I took in Wales

It is here where I sat and thought about how I could translate maybe feelings, shape, texture, or destruction into my garments, that I wanted to design.

From concept to design, it is a hard process as my idea relates hardly to fashion, a designer that has always inspired me for this is Hussein Chalayan and his blurred lines between art and fashion. He designs from concept to garment is a follow through of his desirable work ethic, he never fails to amaze me. 

So this is the start a little idea to spark my fashion career

http://artandfashionfusion.blogspot.com