Oops I haven't been sticking to my summer resolution :(...I have got well and truly stuck into the sketchbook - having done half my list of what I need to to do it's looking very full and busy. I'd even say this is my best sketchbook yet, I've put so much effort into it - spending about and hour on a double page spread. I hope it pays off! I've done a lot of research and definetly know what details to look at designing on the jacket.
I'm currently on the designer research part of my sketchbook, I've looked briefly at Vivienne Westwood and now looking in depth at Bill Gibb...after that I have some research into John Galliano, Yohji Yamamoto and Alexander McQueen to stick in. I've just bought the Bill Gibb Fashion And Fantasy book and I'm loving it - I went to an exhibition of his work in November and wanted to look more at him.
I'm finding his work really inspirational and exciting. I want to use his links to nature to inspire me in designing a floral pattern for the lining of my jacket.After that I've got to look at future trends and colours. I've looked in a Colleczioni magazine for Autumn/Winter 09/10 and I need to look on WGSN, style.com and possibly fashiontrendsetter.com for more research.
And then finally I'm looking at flowers, doing some observational and other paintings/drawings for shape ideas and research into floral fabrics/patterns, possibly vintage. I'm swaying more towards brighter colours and more unusual, tropical flower shapes to be different to the ditsy English garden type florals that are in now.I want to try and get some scanned images of my sketchbook pages onto here as soon as I'm done.
Then it's onto my 40(+) designs....busy busy busy!
