Hello my darlings! Sorry I've been so quiet recently, I have been catching up on my social life as well as celebrating my birthday, it isn't the best thing to do when you've just been handed a new brief at college but it's safe to say I really needed the break and regret nothing! It's been amazing this past week, made some fabulous new friends, experienced the nintendo wii for the first time ever and I think I may have consumed my entire body weight in Wine, Cigarettes and Vodka. The best motto in life is definitely work hard but play harder in my eyes!
Anyway, there is my reason and now back to fashion!!
This new brief! I'm excited I can't lie, the thought of my very first fashion show makes my stomach churn for two reasons; 1: because it's EVERY fashion lovers dream to have your own work walk past you on the cat walk, but also 2: It's possibly the most nerve racking thing ever and terrifies me almost twice as much as Paranormal Activity 3! And that my followers, is scary!!!!
Music has always influenced the way I dress the most, I've been through so many different 'labels' growing up due to what I'm listening too, the first for example was influenced by my pure obsession with American Rock band Greenday. I was always in black combats, vest tops and walking boots with major dark eye liner all the way around my eyes. Scary right? After that it was all about owning as many floaty dresses and converse trainers I could possibly imagine as I was set on being just like Hillary Duff in the film Cinderella Story listening to bands like Jimmy Eat World and The Kooks! When I look back now at the frightening age of 19 it's strange to think how easily our personal style is influenced.
For example, when I look at my younger sister now, she is the ultimate bomb shell and girl next door! She's blond, she has a beautiful curvy figure and loves spraying herself daily with fake tan and floral perfumes! What does she listen to most? Tailor Swift and other confident female artists alike.
It's this that got me thinking about which way I could develop my original idea of being inspired by Androgyny for my final brief.
So, I am now using the obsession with labelling the people around us in society based around how they look I am now taking Equality and Diversity to a whole new level and using inspiration from the streets for my final designs.
Social Differences that influence Fashion and how individuals present themselves.
I like it because there is nothing more DIVERSE than personal style and in society the government are constantly referring to us citizens as EQUAL... So it would be daft not to take the opportunity by the short and curlies and strive to reach the best of my potential!
Through the next couple of months I'm hoping to go back into our historical brief and look into how 'labels' all began, the original punks for example in the 80's as well as the androgynous looking New Romantics, the hippies of the 1970's and grunge rockers of the 90's lead by Kate Moss's Heroin Chic. And of course, not forgetting the boom in the 1960's when everyone realised it was okay to be sexually confident and skirts got shorter, gay became okay and boys discovered that you didn't have to be a banker to wear a suit, out came the teddy boy look that made conservative chic.
These days however, style is more about fitting in than standing out which is a shame! I know a lot of bullying went on in my school growing up due to how certain people presented themselves as we were a girls school! It was like a twisted adaptation of Mean Girls, you genuinely did find that there was the 'Popular Girls' (also known as up themselves bitches) and then there was the 'Greebos' and 'Chavs', 'Sporty Girls', 'Art Freaks'... The list is endless. So, things like bullying etc was a massive issue in our school. I know I went through it due to the way I looked enough times! Bullying is just another area of the equality and diversity aspect of the brief I am hoping to cover. If we were all equal, we wouldn't get bullied for who we are. Pretty simple really!
