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This page is made from an article about the use of colour in fashion, it talks about the types of colour and ways you can use it to sell clothes. It inspired me to go and experiment with colour in my project early on, which is only a plus in design. I was interested in the use of combining dark colour shades with brighter colours
I found several classic editorial photos that became the main colour inspirations for my visual theme. One reason I picked these 2 different photos if of course one connects to the sports theme and the other is a military photo from the Vietnam war. One had the darker earthy tomes, combined with brighter lighter tomes that clearly stand out. The image of Muhammad Ali similarly has a dark background that fills most of the photo, and then his figure, gloves and clothing clearly stand out in the foreground as the focus.
These are designs inspired by my Ray Pettri and Buffalo research and using the colour work I did from the images of Mohammed Ali and photograph from Vietnam war.
I decided to make a kilt mock up from my design inspired by buffalo. I used tartan from my house that I pinned into shape and a mixture of my own personal clothes to create a similar outfit shape.
Over the weekend I visited an exhibition at ravens row gallery called People Make television it featured 100 videos from the BBC’s Community Programme Unit Open Door. The Open Door series aired from 1973-1983 with a total 243 episodes. The subject of the show was to allow everyday people to make films about the issues that mattered to them, many types of people and community’s were handed over complete editorial control, to allow their voices, attitudes and opinions to be heard. Groups of anarchists, farmworkers and unions all had a range of debates, comedy shows, punk zines, musical performances and documentary’s. I saw one program about the Merseyside Chinese community which was ran by the first Chinese community worker in Britain they would hold events of Chinese experiences featuring dance and food. Another about a hackney group called “Friends Anonymous Service” who re-enacted scenarios they had dealt with. And one about a ecologist anarchist group called “street farmers” who made a show featuring pieces of homemade cartoons and small docs talking against the policies of the government and about bringing nature and farming back to the city.
My biggest pull away from this was that almost every problem that’s an issue then is in its own way a problem now. Subjects like Structural racism, poverty, gentrification, gender identity, feminism, pollution, workers’ rights and inflation are all problems spoken about on Open Door and are all problems where government and society are leaving people unheard or ignored. How will people be able to make changes or be heard in the now because a small open access to show isn’t an answer even now with social media its had little effect on on making change even though everyone is seeing no one wants to listen or speak out to start or strengthen a conversation.
I wanted to look at both military and sportswear because they are two styles in menswear that have been prevalent for many years and not consider fashion till recently. Sports and military wear are pillars of modern menswear and vernacular clothing, this is because of the historically long-lasting practicality both genres have had. I researched a book called "100 years of menswear" and looked at two chapters specifically, one on military wear and one on sportswear across the world. I felt it was important to make myself aware of a general history on the subjects I was looking at. I then gathered some images I loved and made this collage from them.
I drew theses looks inspired by the book 100 years of menswear and my colours are from the colour work above. the left look has pinstripe trousers with attached shorts
I became interested by the camo military face paint used in the army. I think because of how customisable and creative it can be as well as organic you can make the camouflage look. I made a simple drawing of how I might the face painting technique on the whole body to create a top instead of just the face
I went to an exhibition on my birthday called Beyond the streets. It was about the impact of graffiti and street art. It was centred around punk and the birth of hip hop and how it has impacted fashion and film heavily. I found some pieces that showed ghillie suits and the colour in them made me want to add more colour to my look. It was a great introduction and inspiration for street style looks, and some of the images in the show inspired me to create these 2 drawings, one of a painted body piece similar to a poster I saw in the show and the other I was inspired by the style of the man in a photo I drew and design interpretation of his look
I researched Muhammed Ali because of his outspoken link between sport and war along with his iconic status. I think that the style he had was also fantastic for a person of his position and time. I'm interested in carrying over his boxing shorts and trying to capture his image, vibe and opinion in my designs i'm going to try do this by placing photos on the looks like in some buffalo photoshoots along with clothes you could see him in. im trying to capture attitude in the look through Ali.
Although for obvious reasons I came across the work of both Philip Jones Griffiths & Nick Ut many years after they took most of their seminal photographs(predominantly of the war in Vietnam)the subject matter they both explored so vividly & to a great extent at quite some heavy cost to their personal well being, sanity & safety I often find myself transfixed by the depth of the uniformly terrible despair contained within these images & yet weirdly distracted by the detail depicted of some of the army based clothing mixed with items of traditional Vietnamese attire these poor often terrorised humans took to wearing. A whole Far Eastern ancient culture of fabrics & garments designed & worn to go with the extremities of the oppressive heat & monsoon Vietnamese climate combined with discarded items of US army uniform battle wear creating an somewhat hap hazard & unintentional fashion look which runs as a thread throughout the collective works of these 2 legendary photo journalists…
