Week 3 Seminar : Portrait 11

Tales from the Publican 
(theories of consumption)




We were asked to visually represent the person within the chapter through 
collage or photo montage from the  Daniel Miller - the comfort of things 

"there is something about this mass of stuff and its openness. it is impossible to regard it as mess, it seems instead the evident testimony to a very full life."

Aware: Art Fashion Identity

Aware : Art fashion identity

The exhibition examines how artists and designers use clothing as a mechanism to communicate and reveal elements of our identity. 

Study Task                                                    
















What Does the exhibition teach us about people's motivation for consuming fashion ?














the exhibition taught us about identity as individuals and cultural identity

Sue Timney

Sue Timney  and the design of timney-fowler

The exhibition all though small was filled with all different examples of  printed textile from interior to fashion. Timeny's work shows examples from large wall hangings to small samples and swatch books. The work is very eccentric, with great use of  vivid patters and colour the exhibition was well worth it. 

Budapest

PIERRE PUVIS - MAGDELENE

EGON SHIELE

JOZSEF RIPPL-RONAI

“POP UP PRIMATIVE II “

“POP UP PRIMATIVE  II “

For my  net two rotations i will be doing Weave and Knit. I have planned to take a different approach to my new objects and decided to focus in the colour and the form of the objects.
These objects are used for herbal tea.

Sorrel

Swatch :

 This is a continuous project where we have been asked to collect  a wide variety of samples  this is in order to help us think about  the way weight , texture may effect the mood of the garment.

Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion

Future Beauty

Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion is the first exhibition in Europe to comprehensively survey avant-garde Japanese fashion, from the early 1980s to the present. Curated by the eminent Japanese fashion historian Akiko Fukai, Director of the Kyoto Costume Institute, the exhibition explores the unique sensibility of Japanese design, and its sense of beauty embodied in clothing. 

Japanese fashion made an enormous impact on the world fashion scene in the late 20^th century and designers such as Issey Miyake, Rei Kawakubo and Yohji Yamamoto redefined the very basis of fashion. Their works will be shown alongside Kawakubo’s protégé, the techno-couturier Junya Watanabe, together with the acclaimed Jun Takahashi, and the new generation of radical designers including Tao Kurihara,Fumito Ganryu, Matohu, Akira Naka and Mintdesigns




The Japanese culture of the kimono is very apparent in this exhibition, the cloths can only be described as shapeless and genderless. Western designers use the contours of the body to design in 3D but the japanese wrap the body in fabrics which hides the body shape.  


 Rie Kawakubo/ Comme des Garcon plays with this idea of proportion and what the contours of the body , creating garments which often either conceals the body or disfigures the contours of the body.

Flatness:  These garments designed by Rie Kawakubo/ Comme des Garcons were photographed by Naoya Hatakeyama in both dimensions  one gives you an image of the garment as a painting and the other as sculpture. this idea allows the viewer to see the garment seperate from  

At the end of this Exhibition the concept of "ma"  has fueled my ideals. The word "ma" can only be roughly described as "gap" "space" or "pause"  and when put into practice is the understanding of from and non-form in other words  negative space.
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