Christopher Kane has done a collection based on The queen mother and Queen Margaret based on her 'rebelious' side. Although he's used sorbet shades i think from a textile side the collection is inspiring and shows a more 'fashion' side of the brief :).
FIRST YEARS!
WIN A YEAR OF FREE TRAVEL WITH NATIONAL EXPRESS WEST MIDLANDS (NEWM) AND THE CHANCE TO WORK ON A PROFESSIONAL PHOTO-SHOOT
Fashion Design Competition
A fantastic opportunity has arisen for Fashion:Lab*BETA students: design a dress to promote the launch of NEWM new UV security ticket.
The Brief:
Design a dress from bus tickets to promote the release of a new UV bus ticket on NEWM. When designing you should consider the materials available to you – samples of which will be available to you from Monday 27th September in the Fashion:Lab. Your client has also asked you to consider the following key words when designing – Elaborate, Romantic, Whimsical, Beautiful; the opposite of bus travel!
Deliverables:
A3 Concept Board that includes research, samples of detailing, paper manipulation and initial ideas.
A3 Design Board to include front and back views of your dress design.
DEADLINE All work to be submitted to Fashion:Lab by 4.30pm on Friday 8th October
Designs will be judged by a team from NEWM on Monday 11th October 9am.
The winning designer will help produce the dress with a small team of Fashion:Lab students, you will also be invited to attend the professional photo-shoot and help style your dress on the model. This campaign is scheduled to be used for all advertising and media throughout the West Midlands!!
As well having your dress publicised through the media, the winner will receive one year of unlimited travel with National Express West Midlands.
This is a fantastic opportunity, and something that will look great on your personal statements and in your portfolios for university.
Susie MacMurray's work encompasses drawing, sculpture and architectural installations. A former classical musician, she retrained as an artist, graduating with an MA in Fine Art in 2001. She now has an international exhibition profile and shows regularly in the USA and Europe as well as the UK.
An engagement with materials is central to MacMurray's practice. Her role is one of alchemist: combining material, form and context in deceptively simple ways to stimulate associations within the viewers' minds and to elicit nuanced meanings.
Working in installation and sculpture she has gained a reputation for site-specific interventions in historic spaces. Her work frequently references the history of a space and seeks to merge the particularities of that history, the specifics of site, and the inherent references attached to materials in an attempt to gain insight into the relationship between place and people.
Drawing is an important part of MacMurray's practice. In addition to her large scale pen & ink work she extends the possibilities of making drawings using unconventional materials including rubber tubing, hair and wax. She also makes pen & ink drawings on a more intimate scale and still produces small editions of her sculptural wall pieces for private commissions.
Author Rob Penn travels around the world collecting handbuilt parts for his dream bicycle and charts the social history of one of mankind's greatest inventions.This short film directed by Alex Johns accompanies RCA MA graduate Matthew Miller's Fashion East menswear collection.
The architect and critic Michael Sorkin is interested in animal forms because they challenge architectural conventions. Whereas buildings are often symmetrical and almost always static, a moving animal is neither of these things. Projects such as the Beached Houses shown here explore this apparently fundamental difference. The three houses, called Ray, Carp and Slug, have a similar arrangement of rooms on two floors. They are based on animals that are 'symmetrical but only until they wiggle'. 'Our effort is to measure the space between the fish and the wiggle', says Sorkin, 'This is the study of a lifetime.'
'The Fashion Designer’s Sketchbook is the fourth book by fashion writer Hywel Davies with contributions from the likes of Yohji Yamamoto, Lagerfeld for Chanel, Dries Van Noten, John Galliano, Vivienne Westwood and many others. Contrary to what the name suggests, the book is not just a snapshot of the sketchbooks of some of the world’s most acclaimed fashion designers, although many do offer their sketches as a contribution, but explores the individual design process from inspiration to construction and offers and insight into their working practices.'
Seated Woman with Bent Knee
The Scornful Woman
Self Portrait
Chlorophyll Skin from Lucy McRae on Vimeo.
An experimentation into color, movement, absorption and the bodyMetallic Skin from Lucy McRae on Vimeo.
Metallic Skin is a work in progress that will be featured in Sao Paulo's ROJO Nova event in the Museum of Image and Sound. Over a week Lucy will be experimenting with liquid, magnification, miniaturisation and repetition on the human body.
