so we've properly got into design realisation now which is our last proper make before we go into 3rd year and I'm really enjoying it i was a bit apprehensive at first as i wasn't sure what we had to do and what our final outcome would be.
but after working with my vintage garment last week and doing more research Ive really got into it.
today i started working on the pattern for my garment which is my favourite part of any project I'm making a cropped jacket with pieces of jagged fabric layer down from the top of it ill upload pictures soon!
i worked out the basis of my pattern today quite easily with a little bit of help from gemma and Hugo and seam placements but apart from that at the moment its been alright making my pattern i say this now and by next week ill hate it!!!!
but at the moment I'm really enjoying design realisation and i hope my garment works out the way i want it to.
Thursday, 21 January 2010
Tuesday, 12 January 2010
A few photos of inspiration
A few Spring 2010 inspiration photos
John Galliano
Galliano may have been slighty slated for this collection but i dont care i still think its fabulous!
Valentino
A classic collection of sheer nudes and lace neutrals
Christian Dior
A stylish yet classic collection with a trend on lingerie as outerwear rather than under wear
....
So yesterday we all got back our tailoring practises marks and i got 55% and to be honest i was quite disappointed with my mark but i think this is the same within the whole fashion group within both pathways.
I enjoyed this project a lot more than i did the last one we did especially the trip to the west yorkshire playhouse which as you will have seen from a previous post i really loved.
I really did put a lot of effort into this project although at the beginning i did get slighty confused but once we got into it more i really did enjoy it and understood what we working towards.
I do sometimes wonder what im doing with my life and whether im good enough for this at all but i guess we all go through phases like this and i will just have to except this and get on with life and ill try harder and hopefully get a better mark in our next project.
okay rant over...
I enjoyed this project a lot more than i did the last one we did especially the trip to the west yorkshire playhouse which as you will have seen from a previous post i really loved.
I really did put a lot of effort into this project although at the beginning i did get slighty confused but once we got into it more i really did enjoy it and understood what we working towards.
I do sometimes wonder what im doing with my life and whether im good enough for this at all but i guess we all go through phases like this and i will just have to except this and get on with life and ill try harder and hopefully get a better mark in our next project.
okay rant over...
Sunday, 10 January 2010
Christmas is Over...
Ive just got back to Leeds after Christmas although i didn't think i was going to get back with the snow and everything i had to miss work yesterday because i got snowed in, in hull but i didn't mind that much!!
During the Christmas holidays i haven't done as much work as i feel i should have i was working a lot and some of the work we had to do was critical studies writing pieces and to try and find a subject for the essay we have to write, but i find writing and essays sooo hard to do and then i get stressed out and upset that i cant do it that i put it off and off which i really shouldn't do but i just get soo stressed out with myself i think ill have to start going to the student services help that they offer for essays and things so that should help me with writing essays.
During the Christmas holidays i have also been trying to look for work experience for the summer but its really hard to find somewhere at the moment as summer is quite far away and companies want people for now but ill keep looking and hopefully ill be able to find something soon.
For our next project we had to do a shop report on the high street in the Christmas holidays i always enjoy doing shop reports and looking at the different trends that are out but this time because of the sales there wasn't that much new stock in the shops so it was quite hard to look at the new trends but still i managed to do it and enjoyed it as well.
as this is only a 10 credit module i hope it wont be too stressful but quite enjoyable to do as well.
After Christmas I'm ready to get back into the new year and back into uni life!
Saturday, 19 December 2009
handing in of tailoring processes
tailoring processes i found a bit difficult at the beginning as i didn't really know what we had to do exactly however once i got into it i quite enjoyed it i especially enjoyed our trip to the west Yorkshire play house were we got to look around all the clothes and costumes used within the plays at the west Yorkshire play house.
i also enjoyed doing the samples and learning how to do different techniques especially putting in a shoulder pad this gave me more understanding of the construction of a jacket and what goes into making one, this sample was one of my favourite to do as i feel i really learnt alot from it.
throughout the whole project i did find it hard to fit it all in as we had 2 weeks of taught lesson and 2 weeks of independent study i enjoyed doing my work at my pace however my pace isn't always best and i would have preferred maybe an extra week of taught lesson.
throughout the project we were doing samples which we then had to do and create something innovative out of it this i did enjoy as it helped me learn more about the creation of a tailored jacket and different ways of changing the silhouette of the wearer.
after handing my work in i had a tutorial with sue which I'm not gonna lie i was nervous about but she was really nice and gave me constructive feedback on my work which i found really helpful and useful to my next project as well.
during this time of tailoring practices i had a test for dyslexia and yes if you haven't heard by now i have dyslexia although i am waiting for my 3 hour test to have it confirmed and yes i may have been hurrendously hungover when i took the test which i think could only have helped me!
i also enjoyed doing the samples and learning how to do different techniques especially putting in a shoulder pad this gave me more understanding of the construction of a jacket and what goes into making one, this sample was one of my favourite to do as i feel i really learnt alot from it.
throughout the whole project i did find it hard to fit it all in as we had 2 weeks of taught lesson and 2 weeks of independent study i enjoyed doing my work at my pace however my pace isn't always best and i would have preferred maybe an extra week of taught lesson.
throughout the project we were doing samples which we then had to do and create something innovative out of it this i did enjoy as it helped me learn more about the creation of a tailored jacket and different ways of changing the silhouette of the wearer.
after handing my work in i had a tutorial with sue which I'm not gonna lie i was nervous about but she was really nice and gave me constructive feedback on my work which i found really helpful and useful to my next project as well.
during this time of tailoring practices i had a test for dyslexia and yes if you haven't heard by now i have dyslexia although i am waiting for my 3 hour test to have it confirmed and yes i may have been hurrendously hungover when i took the test which i think could only have helped me!
Monday, 30 November 2009
trip to west yorkshire playhouse
as part as our research for tailoring practices we had a trip to the west yorkshire playhouse costume department to have a look at all the costumes they have made for their plays and thier construction techniques in how they were made.
it was such an amazing place and all the costumes they had made were amazing they were so good they were so many different types of costumes, these are some of the pictures that i took in there,
Friday, 13 November 2009
critical studies lecture one asethetics and taste
some problems of knowing
rules of beauty-aesthetics
how do we require knowledge? 1) a knower 2) something to be known
do i know that i exist?
do i know that the world exists?
Rene Descartes-"i think therefore i am" certainty he was thinking.
part material part immaterial-mind and body
body is the vehicle of the mind
mind names sensations and objects of external world.
BEAUTY AND TASTE
"no object is so beautiful that under certain conditions it will not look ugly" - Oscar Wilde.
Plato-truth
reality is an imperfect copy of the forms (truths) art therefore is a much less perfect copy of a copy
PLATO'S CAVE
Plato imagines a group of people who have lived chained in a cave all of their lives, facing a blank wall. The people watch shadows projected on the wall by things passing in front of a fire behind them, and begin to ascribe forms to these shadows. According to Plato, the shadows are as close as the prisoners get to seeing reality. He then explains how the philosopher is like a prisoner who is freed from the cave and comes to understand that the shadows on the wall are not constitutive of reality at all, as he can perceive the true form of reality rather than the mere shadows seen by the prisoners.
Aristotle - art whilst largely mimetic could purge the soul
the Kantian revolution
radical explorations of the condition of knowledge what does it mean to know and what is the result of that knowing
the mind contributes to the experience of objects.
the thing- the thing in itself
noumenon-phenomenon
things in themselves can be known only in the imagination
where is beauty?
not in the object of observation?
nor is it in a reasoned response ?
disinterested not to be confused with uninterested
disinterested-having no interest direct engagement with.
read Rousseau so long until the beauty of expression no longer interferes only then kovnt.
Hegel content v form
- no such thing as the thing in itself
everything in the universe building to something else
art is evidence of revelation of spirit
what cannot be known is nothing
there is no unbreakable thing in itself.
phenomenology- an examination of consciousness and the structures that underpin experience.
what does experience feel like?
what does our life world contain?
HEIDEGGER
thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason glorified for centuries is the stiff necked adversary of thought.
the origin of the work of art 1935-1937
Artworks, Heidegger contends, are things, a definition that raises the question of the meaning of a "thing." As this concept is so broad, he narrows down the definition to "mere things," meaning inanimate objects. He then chooses to examine a pair of shoes painted by Vincent Van Gogh, looking to the work to establish a distinction between artwork and other "things." This was actually typical of Heidegger as he often chose to study shoes and shoe maker shops as an example for the analysis of a culture. Heidegger explains the viewer's responsibility to consider the variety of questions about the shoes, asking not only about form and matter—what are the shoes made of?—but bestowing the piece with life by asking of purpose—what are the shoes for?
a painting is a thing of a certain type.
wearing shoes is different from seeing.
the being of shoes of their usefulness
painted shoes reveal the truth about shoes
LANGUAGE AND WITTGENSTEIN
big questions
how do we understand the world?
is the limit to that understanding?
if so how are parameters to be defined?
TRACTUS 1921
"whereof one cannot speak there of one must be silent"-Wittgenstein
language cannot say everything
language and the world share a common form.
art, god ethics etc reside. outside of language (occupying the realm of the mystical.)
"the limits of my language are the of my world?"-Wittgenstein
language games
meaning is a social activity words are not pictures of objects, ideas and situations they mean only in so far as they can be used.
god, beauty, good etc don't exist (in the platonic sense)
they mean what they do only in the context of how they are used.
MEANING IS USE
beauty is not property that we can come to know
nor is it a type of a response but we know how when and where to use it.
rules of beauty-aesthetics
how do we require knowledge? 1) a knower 2) something to be known
do i know that i exist?
do i know that the world exists?
Rene Descartes-"i think therefore i am" certainty he was thinking.
part material part immaterial-mind and body
body is the vehicle of the mind
mind names sensations and objects of external world.
BEAUTY AND TASTE
"no object is so beautiful that under certain conditions it will not look ugly" - Oscar Wilde.
Plato-truth
reality is an imperfect copy of the forms (truths) art therefore is a much less perfect copy of a copy
PLATO'S CAVE
Plato imagines a group of people who have lived chained in a cave all of their lives, facing a blank wall. The people watch shadows projected on the wall by things passing in front of a fire behind them, and begin to ascribe forms to these shadows. According to Plato, the shadows are as close as the prisoners get to seeing reality. He then explains how the philosopher is like a prisoner who is freed from the cave and comes to understand that the shadows on the wall are not constitutive of reality at all, as he can perceive the true form of reality rather than the mere shadows seen by the prisoners.
Aristotle - art whilst largely mimetic could purge the soul
the Kantian revolution
radical explorations of the condition of knowledge what does it mean to know and what is the result of that knowing
the mind contributes to the experience of objects.
the thing- the thing in itself
noumenon-phenomenon
things in themselves can be known only in the imagination
where is beauty?
not in the object of observation?
nor is it in a reasoned response ?
disinterested not to be confused with uninterested
disinterested-having no interest direct engagement with.
read Rousseau so long until the beauty of expression no longer interferes only then kovnt.
Hegel content v form
- no such thing as the thing in itself
everything in the universe building to something else
art is evidence of revelation of spirit
what cannot be known is nothing
there is no unbreakable thing in itself.
phenomenology- an examination of consciousness and the structures that underpin experience.
what does experience feel like?
what does our life world contain?
HEIDEGGER
thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason glorified for centuries is the stiff necked adversary of thought.
the origin of the work of art 1935-1937
Artworks, Heidegger contends, are things, a definition that raises the question of the meaning of a "thing." As this concept is so broad, he narrows down the definition to "mere things," meaning inanimate objects. He then chooses to examine a pair of shoes painted by Vincent Van Gogh, looking to the work to establish a distinction between artwork and other "things." This was actually typical of Heidegger as he often chose to study shoes and shoe maker shops as an example for the analysis of a culture. Heidegger explains the viewer's responsibility to consider the variety of questions about the shoes, asking not only about form and matter—what are the shoes made of?—but bestowing the piece with life by asking of purpose—what are the shoes for?
a painting is a thing of a certain type.
wearing shoes is different from seeing.
the being of shoes of their usefulness
painted shoes reveal the truth about shoes
LANGUAGE AND WITTGENSTEIN
big questions
how do we understand the world?
is the limit to that understanding?
if so how are parameters to be defined?
TRACTUS 1921
"whereof one cannot speak there of one must be silent"-Wittgenstein
language cannot say everything
language and the world share a common form.
art, god ethics etc reside. outside of language (occupying the realm of the mystical.)
"the limits of my language are the of my world?"-Wittgenstein
language games
meaning is a social activity words are not pictures of objects, ideas and situations they mean only in so far as they can be used.
god, beauty, good etc don't exist (in the platonic sense)
they mean what they do only in the context of how they are used.
MEANING IS USE
beauty is not property that we can come to know
nor is it a type of a response but we know how when and where to use it.
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