Monday 12th March 2018

Friday 9th March 2018

Monet

Van Gogh

Renoir

Erin Hanson

Leonid Afremov

Thursday 8th March 2018

During the first week of this project, we went to Bicester Village to have a look at all the designer stores. Over the course of the day, we made our way into Givenchy, Fendi, Stella McCartney, Vivienne Westwood, Burberry, Valentino, Armini, Dolce and Gabbana, Alexander McQueen, Dior, Kenzo, Acne Studios and a few more. As we made our way in and out of all these stores, I kept in mind all the details these top designers add to their garments to make them individual.

It was a memorable experience to see such amazing quality fabrics and garments! This will give us inspiration for our designs and how we can make our garments with the best finishing and outcome. We spent a lot of time in Fendi, looking at the print, use of colour and different fabrics. At that time, the store had very light and bright blues, pinks and reds. I really loved the garment in the image below. The use of the bold, block print on the light chiffon fabric, created a holiday like feel.




As I continued to make my way around the store, I really loved the dress, in the image above. The use of washed light blues and purples, with the lightweight fabric, created a dream like feel to the garment. The print at the bottom of the dress reminded me of a scene you would find in the Victorian or Edwardian era, the grand house and mass amount of land surrounding the property.



Fendi had a lot of different textures running throughout their selection of garments in the store. The use of fur, silks, chiffon and leather created an intriguing combination. I also really liked the use of embroidery in the very colourful flowers in the image below. 

Wednesday 7th March 2018

To start our COAST live brief, we gathered research for our colour in art work, designers, movies etc.
Key imagery that came to our minds as a group, were images from the impressionism selection of art work.We began by putting images that sat well together to create some kind of a mood board for the beginning of the brief. Using colour and print to group these images together.

As a group, we found the occurring colours of  purple and orange. We thought that these colours would sit very nice together, especially in a resort collection. Vibrant colour and print is needed in a resort collection, as it's the outfit that someone will be wearing on their escape to an exotic destination or just an escape from their day-to-day lives.


Once we grouped our key imagery together, we then presented these to the COAST members, as they came to have a chat with our group.

They really liked our concept of using impressionism to develop our colour palette and to create some prints from our own inspired pieces of work. Another idea we had, was the possible idea of illustrative floral. I did a quick research into print trends for Spring Summer 2019 and unfinished floral is one of the trends. We mentioned this idea to the team members of COAST and they very liked it. But as we thought about it, we wanted to offer something other than floral to COAST, as they already create such beautiful print.

That's when we began to look into what Escape could mean to us individually and on a more majority scale.