'A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.' - Lana Turner
What another week it has been!! I have been busy with Art Foundation, soon my blog about my Art and Foundation studies will be coming to an end and I am saddened by this as this past year has flown by and what a year it has been with high and lows with a lot of laughter along the way! My dear reader chums! 2 weeks approx till the end and I don’t want to leave! Previously in my life, I thought Florence was in France. Now that was awkward! Also I have found a love for sleeping which is not normal as I can sleep 8 hours but now I sleeping more! I am lazy! It is half term! Horrrah! I have been sorting out the final stages of my foundation studies with final drawings and research before I make the final piece. I am going to be making a dress that will represent the idea of the death of Haute Couture with the use of disposable fashion and coffins to represent its death. Bike is still hiccuping which is very quickly becoming the bane of my life as it runs fine for 20 minutes and then decides to hiccup and cut out at the lights. I don’t get why it does it. Aaaaaa well. We move on. The book at the top of the page is a new book that I was bought by my kind friend and I love it so much! It is representative of mystical creatures.
The mood board. This mood board has taken me 2 days of work to get together and produce as I was struggling with the use of imagery and the balance of fashion and objective objects. Initially I was criticized for the page being too black and white so improved this with the introduction of black and red permanent markers. This has enabled me to look at the ideas of shapes and structured nature of the dresses and coats. I also have put on fabric samples onto the board as it brings the 3D nature to the piece. The mood board is done for inspiration with the use of crossed bodied bondage for the top half of the body and top of the dress. the point of a mood board is to give me ideas and show where my ideas are coming from and how my mind is working when it comes to the production of the final piece. I found producing the mood board hard as I had finalized the final piece in my head which meant that there is alot of certain objects on the mood board, e.g circle skirts. Overall I am extremely happy with the piece as it represents everything that I need it to and this has helped with my design process as it pushed the dress design forward. 
This piece shows the construction of the crochet coffin that I have wanted to try and create. I have found creating the coffin hard as it means increasing and decreasing stitches which I found hard as it meant creating consistency on either side of the increase. The decrease was harder as I felt like I was creating stepping stones down rather than a graduated decrease on an angle. The idea of the coffin is to create the death of Haute Couture through a piece of work rather than having the message lost as the audience guess what it's about and not being able to distinguish what it is about. The message needs to be obvious and the use of the coffin creates the easier way of displaying the symbolism. I really like this piece as it well constructed. I want to put wax over the top as it would display the cracks in the Haute Couture work. Bin bags shows the ideas behind the disposable fashion and the creation of a new fabric. Overall I am very happy with this experimental piece and will be involved in my final piece.
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