Closure to the Pathway...

Alexander McQueen

The final Piece

'I have a dream' Martin Luther King.

Vintage Myth - It will have worn out in a few days.

Pathway is coming to an end now and I am beginning to finalize the sketchbooks off ready for marking by the infamous Marilyn. To bring you up to speed, Marilyn is an unknown lady who Dan has been talking about and haunting us with, she will be the one who looks at our work to determine our fate. What a week it has been and Friday was the busiest as final pieces had to be made, I hoped and prayed that mine would be completed. It was horraaahh, more on that in the next paragraph, Naughty. Previously in my life I have been told my obsession with Yankee is getting out of hand. OBJECTION MY LORD!! I have 50 tarts and numerous jars but I am not obsessed but I do love the smell of them. This past weekend I visited Warrington City Centre which was fun as they have a lovely ice cream parlour called 'Scoop' which entitled me to 6 scoops of ice cream. Mwaahhhs. I do love ice cream, I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream. Anywhooo, I sorted my room out top to toe moving my Swan teasmade and 50's vintage tea service went into the loft for storage for when I move out eventually. I will never let of my vintage gear as it makes me who and I am it's what I love.

Development for shoulders. 

Anyway back onto pathway and the reason why your reading my blog. My Foundation studies. The final piece has been done but does need tweaks here and there. I have further been looking at the ideas of shoulder pads and advancing the geometric shapes, focusing on a continuous flow throughout the work. I continue to question the what's and if's and possibilities that could be linked throughout it. The pieces above continue to exploit the figure and exaggerate and disfigure the body.I have chosen to look at shoulder pads as it exaggerates the body and makes the person top heavy, I want to take in the waist to represent Metropolis. A collar would balance out the hips, they came into fashion during the 17th Century with the use of ruffles which I have converted to spikes to cover my geometric ways.

More development into shoulders.   

The piece is the finalizing stages before I drew my final piece where I finalized the ideas and concepts behind the shoulder pads and the shapes that would be placed in and around it. The decisions seem petty but add to the evidence into the decisions that I have made when it comes to drawing the final piece. Squared off vs Sphere'd off is a decision between cubed shoulder pads and sphere shoulder pads. The final piece has been given squared shoulder pads as they harden the garment and outline the figure in a stronger form and prefer them as they look less puffball and more power-puff as they dominate the shoulders and deliver and prowess and confident stature that reflects the ideas behind the geometrics. Exagerating the shoulders and other elements brings back in the start of my project when I was looking at alien and obscure shapes that challenged the catwalk. Alexander McQueen was a major research response as he uses obscure shapes and objects to challenge what fashion is and what it could be.

Personal life...
Harvey now has a new collar which after many years without one has not taken to it and is demanding a removal which won't happen as he needs one. Bad luck Harvey.
Partner is doing well and going strong as always, we have began taking adventures to places and letting ourselves go. Enjoying coffee and ice cream parlours that enable us to divulge into the simpler pleasures in life. A trip to Ikea and Walton Hall gardens is in order tho!!