Toi Silhouette c'est manifique!

Don't worry boys and girls I'm still blogging in English, my French is not that advanced sadly. But, the title does involve a word I think we can all understand. 

Silhouette. 

As part of my brief I'm having to write about and research into the design principles, as they relate to all areas of art... I got those very words from the brief itself. 

The first Silhouette I have looked into is the famous Hourglass. 

When I say famous I'm referring to the high profile the hourglass figure comes with thanks to famous iconic women such as Marilyn Monroe, Sophia Loren and more recently Super Model Lara Stone, Plus Size model Crystal Renn and T.V siren Christina Hendricks. 

All beautiful and I mean, breath taking women. 

But this Silhouette blog isn't about our NATURAL hourglass shape, it's about the one our clothes give us. the hourglass any girl can have whether she be short, tall, curved or skinny. Every girl deserves even as little as five minutes to be dressed like a Hollywood sex symbol. 

I have a real love for the hour glass; it's chic, its simple and really sexy. But then who wouldn't want a figure like Marilyn Monroe. 

My young sister is the hourglass out of the two of us, she was blessed with beautiful long blonde hair and bombshell curves, sadly I'm the tall, flat chested one of the family, I've got what I would say is a good sized bum but its still only a handful...Hardly the hump a man can hold on too! 

Anyway, you see where I am going with this? Some women have it and some women need help. No bad thing and it's certainly nothing to worry about, this is where I bring the fabulous Stella McCartney into the equation. 

Cast your minds far back into 2011'way back when', as they say and that is when this fabulous British designer created a beautiful solution to either enhancing your hourglass or giving you one just for a day, all from the crafty use of the right kind of Silhouette. 

Remember now? The beautiful mesh and black dresses which after the canny playing around with a few lines here and there, McCartney managed to create garments with a sculpted silhouette to give the illusion of a heart hourglass, and lets be honest, if you can give super model Natasha Polly an hourglass shape you  really have achieved what you set out too! 

For me it was the only way I could understand what the term 'Hourglass Silhouette' meant in design terms by looking back at this collection because I can't lie, when I first read it I was totally baffled, and even after my lecturer went through it with me I wasn't 100% certain I knew where she was coming from! 

McCartney also very cunningly also used natural skin tone material in areas where any woman's body would naturally curve in at the waist whatever her size contrasting with either red, white or blue and gave the illusion of a nipped in waist and the outcome really was quite outstanding. 

The evidence? Two of the great British kate's, Moss and Winslet. 

Here is the perfect examples on how any woman whether she be a skinny super model or voluptuous screen siren or maybe just your sister! Anyone with the right amount of confidence to work the ultimate man-made, or in this case, stella-made Silhouette can have it all.

Enjoy your cake AND eat it girls, the clothes have got your back when it comes to that extra half an inch. 

Technology is not as scary as it looks if you just give it a chance...

Until today I was the biggest technophobe you could ever meet, I hate technology and it isn't very fond of me either I have always felt. 

I always had in my mind that there were two types of people in the world, those who succeed and those that don't. That was what my mum always taught me the whole way through high school, then I came to college!!! 

The motto is still the same concept wise but I changed a few words, there ARE two types of people in the world, those who can use computers and those that can not. 

I am one of those few that just can not get my head around it. Especially things such as Illustrator and Photoshop.

Both equally as essential on my course and ironically both equally baffling to me! 

Personally if I could I would write everything by hand, use a dictionary and use camera's that need developing using film instead of everything being digital, usb and auto-checked. 

But, perhaps I'm just old fashion OR! I just haven't given myself and technology a chance to get to know one another well enough...

Any one would think I was stubborn like that... 

Anyway, today, as part of my 'I've come back to college so I may as well do well while I'm still here' philosophy I tried really hard and paid more attention to my CAD class than I think I ever possibly could have done in my life, and I have to say, I really enjoyed it once I figured out what I was doing. 

I still think polaroid camera's and fine art are more my thing but this modern technology stuff isn't half bad! 

This you see above is genuinely my first EVER attempt at Photoshop, I know it isn't amazing or really exciting to look at but I am personally quite proud of the achievement. I feel a bit like that grandparent everyone has that discovers texting for the first time and think's it's a revelation 10 years too late but still! Better late than never at all with these things! 

I wasn't entirely sure what to do for my photoshop assignment so I chose a place I like and an image I like, so, before you there is Camden Street Market and a Brit-Punk fashion model.

The background layer I did not alter but I did import the Brit girl onto the image using a lasso tool and dragged it over from one image to this one. 

I'm thinking next time I need to be a lot less safe and a lot more confident with what I'm doing but for now, I'm quite happy with the results and I someone somewhere will agree, it isn't half bad for a beginner. 

Fingers crossed anyway!