Dress Designs

Here are a couple more designs i have scanned in... I realise they are missing faces and hair, but i was concentrating so much on the dresses that i forgot, and then i really couldn't be bothered. So try and imagine a head please :) The first one i love because of the variation between detail and simplicity. The second one leaves the detail to the structure of the dress, with plain fabric. What do you think?

Fashion Shoot Fri 2nd Sept 2011

Okay, so i managed to grab my friend Finlay to do some modelling for me yesterday. It was such a busy day, and i was so tired afterwards. However i have managed to edit some of the photo's ready for uploading. I still have some more to do, but i thought i would share these ones first. We had a huge dilemma when the photo's didn't upload to my laptop properly, and i had already deleted them off my camera, which meant we had to run round like lunatics trying to take some more. But we did it, and we got some gooden's i think! 

Fashion Designs

Vintage/Victorian Design

 I think this dress is quite vintage fashion. It reminds me of victorian dresses because it's quite extravagant. The simple colour leaves all the attention to the shape of the dress which was what i intended. I thought that rather than stealing the show with some fussy print or detail, maybe i should let the shape and style take all the attention. That's why i added the extra layer of material at the bottom, to create a more shapely appearance, the change in fabric contrasts well also. The buttons help create the vintage style and the bow just adds a touch of femininity to the dress. I added the gloves to yet again enhance the vintage feel of the dress.

Open chest & split leg Design

I really like this design actually. I intended for the sleeves to be a different fabric than the rest of the dress, as i wanted them to be opaque. The whole gathered layers i think adds subtle extra detail to the dress, it makes it more interesting and where i positioned this is so that it will draw the eye to the chest (which is a very open part of the dress) and the thigh (again, open). I think this work really well, drawing attention to the biggest features of the dress without being too fussy. I wanted a lemon/lime colour because i thought it was fresh, and a colour that is underused. Also with block colouring coming back into fashion i figured that some bright heels would look great. I chose a bright aubergine/violet pair, because i though in patent they would look stunning.

Photo shoot from Wed 31st August 2011

Yesterday i tried what i have heard of many people doing... I did a photo shoot where i worked on the camera, and in front of the camera. Yes, it proved a little tricky, the setting on my camera only seems to allow me about 10 seconds on timer before it takes the picture. So after sorting through my shots, and deleting those where i was running frantically to pose, i managed to find and edit some photo's i thought were worth keeping. And here they are.

I was going for the whole, garden party mixed with vintage look, including the fans and the parasol.

Stylised Sketching

Here are a few quick drawings i thought to upload. They are what i like to call, 'stylised sketches.'

Portrait Shoot

These photo's were actually taken a while back by myself, and i have just tweaked them a little on photoshop. They were taken as part of a school project during my GCSE studies, and modelling is my beautiful best friend, Finlay. I love these photo's because they are completely focused on the model, no background distractions to draw the eye away, which makes them almost intimate and accentuates the model and her features. 

The above shot it my particular favourite out of this shoot. I love the focus on her face, and the natural look there. There isn't any intense pose, it just strikes a viewer as the natural beauty of the model. The eyes are highlighted by the reflecting light that shines in them, this also draws the eye to make contact with the face in this image. 

Below are some colour shots. A couple of them are the same as the black and white shots, i just couldn't decide which ones to upload, so i uploaded both!