Carol Christian Poell

I really like this work by Carol Christian Poell, he seems to be really experimental with materials and tailoring. I've found out he actually uses materials like blood-dyed leather, bodyplast, plastered leather, and human hair. How I came about Poell was by reading an interview on Aitor Throup and he mentioned that he gets some inspiration from him. When I first looked at some of his leather jackets I thought they reminded me of something I would see in Allsaints for example, but on closer inspection, his clothes are unlike anything i've really seen before, almost artistic pieces.

Aitor Throup

I've been inspired by Aitor Throup since I saw his C.P company stuff, which singly inspired my trend book project and other work. He did fashion at the Met and carried on to do his masters at the london college of art and then carried on to work for Stone Island and C.P company where he re-designed the iconic goggle jacket. Recently he has joined forces with umbro to design the England home and away shirt. Here are a few images that have inspired me.

Supporting Study: Digital Print

The past 3 weeks I have been doing a 3 week supporting study on Digital Print. For inspiration I looked at the pattern car lights make at night on the motorway when leaving the lens open for 3 -5 seconds. I came up with some interesting images and used Photoshop to make some print designs for a small menswear collection. Here a few of my final design prints I was most happy with.

Illustrator work

Here are a few of my initial illustrator experiments I've been working on for this project.

Bolton Away...LAV ITTT!

On a very wet sunday afternoon, me and my boyfriend made our usual way to watch Blackburn Rovers play, however it wasn't Ewood park we were going it was the Reebok stadium at Bolton, my first 'away' game! The bus down had both sets of fans, I was shocked at the amount of teenage boys were allowed to go by themselves to what I think is quite a scary experience, especially a Lancashire derby match. I was also surprised at some of the labels these boys wore, Traccini and Fila, really retro tracksuit tops worn by boys I would say no more that 15. At a usual football match I see a lot of grown men wearing these brands, stone island especially even though it's band inside the ground because of it's association with football hooliganism. I might add that most stone island jumpers and coats have removable badges...conveniently.
I tried to get a good look at some of the fashion worn in the ground, the old retro brands still going strong. I saw a jacket with goggles in the hood, the C.P goggle jacket really influenced me in my last project, again wore on a teenage boy.

Afterthought...

THE BRANDS: Here's a selection of brands that were the most popular at this time.






Today I had my tutorial with one of our new tutors called Jo, a lady from fashion. She's different from Alex and Alan but still really useful and given me some good ideas and more direction! I've decided now to focus on just Terrace Fashion and football hooliganism and leave the Mod idea as it's too much range, I need to focus on one thing. I'm going to begin research on old football hooligan fashion and compare it to newer versions that the designers are currently bringing out. I want to create a Trend Book style presentation, but using more illustrations. Jo told me to draw from actual clothes to get a good idea of how to draw fashion illustrations, I really want to practice this and using illustrator rather than Photoshop all the time. Here are a few more inspiration images I will look at in the next stage of this project.