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| Alexander McQueen A/W 2006 |
Can fashion be art or can art be fashionable? When applying to fashion degree courses many times I heard the phrase "But this course is very fashion". So are they implying that I'm not? As you will see from my work again and again I am more than "fashion" I am an artist with style! Fashion is fickle while style and creativity are timeless. All you have to do is look at great "style icons" such as Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn and Coco Chanel. They didn't follow fashion they WERE fashion! They didn't follow trends they BECAME trends! Again and again we see creative ingenious minds who broke the mould like Alexander McQueen, Grace Coddington and Issey Miyake. Fine artists who looked beyond the limitations and constraints of "fashion" and bought us thought provoking, awe-inspiring and eccentric works of art!
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| Visual CV of me and my homage to McQueen and Grace Coddington
Below: Original illustration of me
by my friend and fellow creative
Natasha Zierhofer. Editing
graphics and re-styling done by moi
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With this blog I intend to take you through a journey that will expand your mind beyond the traditional and the expected! So the next time you try to put someone into a box so you can understand where they fit into your perception of the norm. Try putting them on the outside near the edge and then maybe just maybe you will see a little clearer.
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| Issey Miyake |
I am a visual person I love colour and light and the emotions you can invoke with these elements. I am creative person I am a stylist, an art director, an illustrator, a photographer and many other ""things"" that I can turn my hand to. I am complexed but focused. I am business minded but imaginative. I am fashion but artistic. I have set my sights on one career but will overlap into many. Creatives such as Barbara Kruger started out as an artist, then moved into graphic design, then magazine art direction and finally back to being an artist. From her own conceptual art practice to design for fashion publications like Mademoiselle and to art direction for House and Garden magazine. As you will see from the pictures below. Barbara Kruger and her unique style adapted to which ever medium she was using to express her talent.
Magazine Nov 2010 issue staring Kim Kardashian by Barabra Kruger
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| Barbara Kruger 1987 |
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| Babara Krugers Plenty Exhibition |
For my end of year college exhibition I wanted to display my love of art installations using my favourie mediums of light and colour. I was ready to prove to the fashion world and others that fine art lives within fashion and like my inspiration Grace Coddington ("Coddy") I will not take no for an answer..........
So with a a lot of white paint a paper mached tree......
A video that was created with inks, oil and and an overhead projector.............
I ended up with this...........
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| Before projected movie was added
And not forgeting the promo stickers.......
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| After projected movie (my little slice of serenity) |
..........I designed myself - after all I am a Fashion Communication student!
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| Sienna Miller Photographed by Mario Testino for the September 2007 Issue of Vogue |
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| Joy to the world: Tonne Goodman, Grace Coddington, Steven Meisel and John Galliano Dec 2009 |
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| Vogue: Grace Coddington Model: Raquel Zimmermann |
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