African collage moodboard A2

The brief that I chose to do for my current A2 project is to create an outfit for Rihanna to wear at a music festival to celebrate music from all around the world coming together. With this in mind, I decided that one of the cultures I would base my outfit on would be African culture as it has a heavy influence on today's fashion. I researched into colours, symbols and themes to inspire me and created this mood-board.

Indian Moodboard for A2

Here is a moodboard based around Indian Culture. India is another part of the world that has made its mark on today's fashion and so I wanted to find out a bit more about the culture, specifically patterns, colours and symbols that would inspire my designs.

Initial design Ideas, A2 coursework

These are two initial design ideas based around the theme Indian, African and Western culture. I've organised my designs around the page along with samples of construction and decoration techniques.

Spring/ Summer 2012 Designs

I created four designs for the Spring/ Summer season of 2012. I had to research into popular current trends aswell as styles that were predicted to be popular in 2012 from trend forecasting websites. I then collected images and presented them onto a moodboard to summarise key trends for the Spring and Summer, this gave me inspiration for my designs.

Final design idea for first AS project

This is my final design for a dress to fit the theme of 19th century festivals. The research I conducted through an inspiration moodboard aswell as an existing products moodboard gave me the inspiration for this dress. I particularly liked elements of bohemian styled festival wear such as jewel tones and chunky beading and applied this to my garment in a more quirky way.

AS second project initial designs

My brief for this AS level project was to produce a bag based around the theme of the 1960's and take inspiration from Mary Quant who was most popular during that era. I produced several moodboards on this theme and took certain elements (such as pop art, paisley, jazz posters) and applied them to my designs.

Barbie 'livin the dream' AS Art coursework

For this piece I used acrylic paint on a large canvas. The idea behind this composition was about portraying the realistic, slightly morbid side of 'barbie''s life. I was interested in the way barbies are represented through the media and how this could have a negative effect on how young girls expect themselves and the world to be when they grow up. Typically Barbie is an extremely skinny woman with a perfect body, features and make- believe life style but I've twisted this perfect persona and presented barbie in a situation where Ken is a drunk and she is crying in the foreground, pressed up against the packaging of her box, wanting to get out. I wanted to address real issues with this idea and raise awareness of them, showing the opposite to unrealistic stereotypes.