Fashion is about change. Fashion continually re-invents itself. This project, was to choose a film and using it as a starting point develop and design a collection for Autumn/Winter 2012/2013. Using historical, cultural and social contexts; colour and fabric; character and mood of the film to inspire the collection. For this project, I chose the film ‘Flashdance’ focussing on the dance focus of the film, I chose to compare contemporary dance fashion with historical dance fashion, as wells as shapes formed through a dance movement. Throughout the film, there was a juxtaposition of this feminine dance theme with a masculine persona that...

London Fashion Week held at Somerset House is one of the most prestigious events of the year in the fashion calendar. Many in the industry attend as well as celebrities. Designers put together their S/S 2012 collection ready for glamourous models to walk the catwalk showing the world their latest inspirations. The project was to engage in London Fashion Week, as a fashion student you are not allowed entry to this trade only event, however we were encouraged to go and see what we could find. The aim was to get involved and understand the inner workings of London Fashion Week. I chose to focus on the social media hype behind London Fashion...

Camera-Less Photography “The essence of photography lies in its seemingly magical ability to fix shadows on light-sensitive surfaces. Normally, this requires a camera. Shadow Catchers, however, presents the work of five international contemporary artists – Floris Neusüss, Pierre Cordier, Susan Derges, Garry Fabian Miller and Adam Fuss – who work without a camera. Instead, they create images on photographic paper by casting shadows and manipulating light, or by chemically treating the surface of the paper.” - V&A This exhibition shows an interesting collection of camera-less photographs of situations that never really...

Martha Graham wrote, ‘Movement never lies, it is a barometer telling the state of the soul, weather to all can read it.’ The Oxford dictionary definition of movement is an act of changing physical location or position or of having this changed. Movement is essential to our everyday lives, even the simplest breath or blink. The many different forms of movement with the extremities fascinating: the shaping of the spine as a person arches their back; the speed of a cheetah’s legs as it runs its 70mph sprint; to the natural movement of a hurricane tearing its way across the land. Movement is a reaction to an impulse; watching a...