Head dresses

This headdress consists of mainly repetitive shapes of leaves that are decorated with various beading. The beading used is tranparent, pearl and diamonds. It is set on natural colours white and silver. The base is made of an alice band and feathers covers more than half of the face.



This headdress design consists of a feather and repetitive circles. Geometric shapes are inspired from Art Deco. Again the beading is silvery and transparent. Very simple and elegant.

This design is different from the others its mainly based of textile. Lace is the base of the headress.
Pearl beaading is layed on the floral design.

Seeing others work helped me more to understand different types of head dresses. The main material used is beading, feather and lace. They also included floral patterns and geometric shapes.



Bibliography

Wedding and Bridal Dresses, 2012. [online] Available at:

<http://www.weddingandbridaldresses.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Jazz-Age-Feather-Bridal-Headdress.jpg> [Accessed 16 December 2012]
 

Sanyukta Shrestha, 2011. [online] Available at:

<http://www.sanyuktashrestha.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Marion-dress-1.jpg> [Accessed 16 December 2012]
 

Unknown [online] Available at:

<http://a7.typepad.com/6a0120a65f64b9970c0168eaee7e7f970c-pi> [Accessed 16 December 2012]

How to do a head dress

Before continuing any further designs I wanted to learn more about head dresses. I found a clip from the designer Ralph Pink. In this tutorial he shows how a head dress is created to fit the head. The head dresses are inspired from Art Nouveau  and Art Deco. 

I  was pretty amazed how with simple metal wire he managed to create and amazing headdress with great detail. He explains very well. This gave me a very good idea of what I have to think when designing. How would it fit the head? Would it be heavy for the head? and to be careful to cover all the wire for health and safety purpose.

Bibliography:

 

 

 

Ralph Pink 2011, 2011, Headdress Tutorial 1 You Tube. [online] Available at:

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo9_AtUBWtU> [Accessed 16 December 2012]
 

Ralph Pink 2011, 2011, Headdress Tutorial 2 You Tube. [online] Available at:

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnfbC9-UG8I> [Accessed 16 December 2012]

Creating Design 

I started sketching some design, I just didn't want to think too much about what I'm designing. I just remember some characteristics and drew. I think on the whole I came up with some good ideas. The pieces that I liked are the bow on the maroon dress, I think that the simple bow gave more elegance to the dress. Accessories that are actually attached to the dress. I really like this idea cause for a women its always a hassle to find the right accessories for an outfit. But this design came up with a slight complication, cause if the accessories contain metal they will rust when washed and sending to dry cleaning won't be economic. So I came up with the idea to make the accessories removable, Like that this dress can also be dressed down for casual wear. 

I particularly like the most is the green headdress. Its very simple, but yet so elegant. A simple headdress can change ones look. So from this design I have decided that instead of designing dresses I will design head dresses. The colours will be dark colours with a drastic contrast such as white and black.   

The Roaring Twenties (1939)

Poster of the film

The film is produced in 1939 but is set in the 1920's. The film is about a good man that has served the country and fought for the country during the World War I. When the soldier returned back to his country,  everything has changed he found himself with no job.After several rejections, found himself working as a Taxi driver, during one of his shifts he was offered to deliver a parcel. He didn't know what it contained and ended up arrested. At court he lied to save this woman, that the parcel was for, from being jailed. This woman paid his bail. He was offered a job in fraud. He started producing alcohol and delivering it since it was not permitted in the country. He was betrayed by one of his partners and was arrested. In the meantime he was in love with a woman that was in love with an other man. The film ends by the protagonist killing his partner to save the husband of his loved one. He was shot to dead.

The film was very interesting cause one sees the history of the 1920's. The film is a complete history from the story itself to the clothing, cars and lifestyle. All the rich people gathered in bars, drinking, smoking, watching performances and dancing. There's a drastic change in the protagonist character, In the beginning of the film he was a hero, fighting for his country. While he ended up in fraud and being jailed. But in the end of the film he changes again his character, he faces all his hurts and fight for the person that made his loved one happy. He died as a hero for his loved one.

Watching this film, it reminded me of a cartoon character of the Warner Brother 'Rocky'. The gangster that owns  a car from the 1920's ready to shoot someone and always smoking. This character resembles the character of Humphrey Bogart.

Humphrey Bogart

'Bugs and Thugs'

  For me this transformation is very interesting. Rocky kept his character, he portrays himself and a very courages and powerful man, but at the end he is always beaten by bunny. Same as the film Humphrey Bogart always showed that he is more  powerful than James Cagney but at the end he shot to dead by him. Humphrey was always very prompt to shoot someone and Rocky is always feeling powerful with the gun and always shooting.

The Cacharel Fashion Show Fall 2012

Hair:

During the 1920's hair was always cut into 'bob'. It started of from the first world war, cut bob with a fringe and straight. It was later developed with curls, finger waves and Marcel waves. In this fashion show hair is all up styled to seem that its cut short. A clip on the side is added to create the effect of the finger wave.  

Patterns:

Patterns are inspired from Art Deco. Geometric shapes are used, including repetitive patterns creating symmetry in garments. Two floral patterns are included in the fashion line. One of the pattern includes hues of red and repetitive pattern. While the black and with floral print seems much more of layered flower enlarging itself.

Clothing:

Very few characteristics are portrayed in this new 2012 fashion line from the 1920's. The main characteristic was that all dresses and coats are just above the knee. In the plain garments we find geometric shapes in the cuts and shapes in dresses. The main colours used are primary colours (blue, red and yellow) and black and white. Several different neck lines are used from low V necks to round necks and polo necks. This diversity in all the garments kept the viewer interested in the originality of the designers. 

Shoes:

Shoes are very simple, from heeled pumps to 'Mary Jane' shoes with added straps. But when looking from the side of the shoes on sees a transformation in the heel. Half of the heel is joined with the arch of the shoe.

'Mary Jane' Shoes with heel attached to shoe arch  with several straps.

In my opinion this is a great example of transformation. One of the main things that our mind keeps us consistent with the inspiration of the fashion line from the 1920's is the hair. The rest of the ideas are twisted to new modern ideas that if one sees the garment on its own can barely say from where the inspiration came from. Its a well combination of pattern from the same period of time use especially in architecture and interior decoration.

Bibliography:

 

Fashion TV, 2012, Cacharel Fall 2012:Modern 1920's hues and prints at Paris Fashion week PFW/ Fashion TvV. [online] Available at:

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCPXeTPVKho> [Accessed 16 December 2012]

 

Unknown, 2012. [online] Available at:
<http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9ymg9iR8d1rvyr2no1_500.jpg> [Accessed 16 December 2012]

 

 

Flapper Photo shoot


Chloe Moretz for Russian Vogue Magazine

Transforming the style of the roaring twenties not only by the clothes and hair fascination but as well by the moves of the most common dance of the time, The flapper dance. The repetition in the same human figure creates movement and flow in the photo. The repetition as well makes the viewer look more than once at the clothing, it's really great cause the viewer doesn't get lost in the emotions of the photo. The colours are very natural tones and very minimal. The background is a great contrast with the clothing and her pale skin, it makes the image stand out.

In the clothing design it was also taken in consideration the main characteristics of 1920's fashion. The waist line cut brought down on the hip line.The coat is long just above the knee. In my opinion the hair fascination is not really a typical 1920's hair fascination but with all the moves and clothing it really gives the viewer the impression that its from that period. 

Bibliography:

 

Less Chat, More Hat, 2012, Trends. [online] Available at:
 <http://www.lesschatmorehat.com/trends/page/2/> [Accessed 18 November 2012]

 

 

The Artist

 

 

 

 

 

Conflict:

 

The story consists of a conflict between the evolution of cinema. From the silent movies to the talkies. The actors from the silent movies couldn't accept the fact that people wanted the talkies. Producers were in difficulties cause people were looking forward for new faces and actors from the silent movies weren't good actors for the talkies. The actor ended up from being rich and confident to loosing all his faith and confidence in himself and poor. His pride dragged him more to his helpless side and took him quite a while that he needed the help of the women that he loved.

 

 

Harmony:

 

The fact that there's no other sound than music its very harmonic. The black and white film gives more harmonic feeling cause of the use of different tones in colours, its very relaxing to the eyes.

 

 

Costumes:

 



 

 

The costumes were a study of the period of the late 1920's to the early 1930's. In the coral dress one can see a perfect example of a 1920's day dress. The layering of the jacket, the low waist line cut placed down to the hip, pleats in the skirt and the skirt just above the knee. The front two dresses on the right are the perfect designs in textile from art deco prints. Repetition and simplification of lines. The use of fur was added to create richness and elegance to the dress.

 

The poster:

 

 

In the poster again we see mainly the two colours used in the film, Black and White. When one first sees the poster one draws the attention to the faces of the artists. One will immediately see the harmony in their faces, this was created with the amount of light placed on the face. After looking at their faces the colour red draws your attention. This colour red creates creates in the viewers eyes, with this conflict of colour it creates curiousity and draws your eyes to the title of the film. This poster brings you directly to the two main elements in the poster. The actors love and passion and the title. 

 

 

 

Bibliography:

 

Viso Trailers, 2011, The Artist - Official Trailer (HD). [online] Available at: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK7pfLlsUQM> [Accessed 18 December 2012]

Circle Cinema, 2012, The Artist Poster. [online] Available at: < http://www.circlecinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/The-Artist-Poster.jpeg> [Accessed 18 December 2012]

The Skinny Stiletto, 2012, The Artist Costumes. [online] Available at: <http://www.theskinnystiletto.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/The-Artist-Costumes.jpg> [Accessed 18 December 2012]

 

Coco Chanel 

 

 

 

Evening coat, ca. 1927
Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel (French, 1883–1971)
Silk, metallic thread
The Metropolitan museum of Art

The coat is from the art deco line she uses a French textile with pattern from Japanese kimono. The evening coat consist of three colours Black, White and Gold as highlight and richnesss to the fabric. The coat is very harmonic with the amount of balance and attention given to the perfect space. In the collar we find the three colours blocked in vertical given same space when seeing from the back. The coat consists of two layers of material on top of each other. The colours are continuous when they are layered. The black and white consists of the same amount of colour, in between the colours we find the gold in half of the amount given to the black or white. The black and the white are overlapping in between the gold to blend in the colours. All the garment is well spaced and given attention to have all same spacing. The coat is symmetrical.

 

 

Bibliography:

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2012, Evening Coat. [online] Available at: <http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1984.30> [Accessed 17 November 2012]



 



 

 

 

 

 

L'instant Taittinger

 

 

 

 

 

Taittinger was a French wine family who were very famous for the production of champagne. This Art Deco poster was created by Claude Taittinger the Presedent of the company. This poster features Grace Kelly a (very  famous actress of the time) behind the huge champagne glass.

 

This poster is only based on two colours brownish yellow the colour of the chamapgne and black as a very bold colour. The light background gives a sense of  hamony to the poster. The shape of the triangle in the glass is also repeated in the dress. It creates a balance in the picture in the above and lower area. The picture is mainly focused on the right hand side but balanced with the writing and the faint silhouette in the shadow. The white reflections in the glass give the only sense of roundness in the glass.

 

 

Bibliography:

 

Scott, Robert, 2012, 1920's Art. [online] Available at: <http://www.1920-30.com/> [Accessed 17 November 2012]

 

The Roaring Twenties.

For me this is the period that mostly inspires me. It’s the period were art and design is well combined and designed. In fashion the ladies are always well groomed and all garments well finished touches such sequins and fur, hair always curled and styled, and always accessorized with matching chic items. I also really like the fact that at that time all the people followed same fashion line.

Art Deco and Surrealism were the arts followed at this time. Art Deco also affected the architecture. Art Deco is characterised by use of materials such as aluminium, stainless steel, lacquer and inlaid wood. Surrealism began in post-World War I European avant-garde literary and art circles, and many early Surrealists were associated with the earlier Dada movement.

Movies well the best way to make people laugh after all the pain caused by the WWI. During this time we find the greatest change of movies from the silent movies to the talkies. In these films we find the perfect images/examples for fashion and Art deco designs.

My concept for this assignment will be studying history of this period to create a transformation of the highlight of this period in a fashion line of twenty pieces. The fashion line will consist of day wear and evening wear.

 

Bibliography:

Scott, Robert, 2012, 1920's Art. [online] Available at: <http://www.1920-30.com/> [Accessed 17 November 2012]