Tuesday, 20 March 2012
WithWorth Gallery Visit - COTTON Global Threads
Inspirational Video
The other day in group tutorials Julie showed us this video, to try to get our group to be more adventurous and creative with promoting our 'trend less world' idea with collecting the clothes.
DJ talk- Dave Halsam
The idea of having a talk from a DJ seemed odd, and didn't have much relevance. He spoke about the music scene in Manchester from the 1980's to current times and its effects on the world. Bands like Joy Divison, The smiths and many more came out of Manchester. Dave Halsam spoke about a rebelious undeground period in time, all of the talent and artistic people were emerging from this 'margin' rather than the main stream. He went on to discuss that we as a group of practioners should be taking our inspiration from the margin rather than the main stream, to go to events with less than 200 people. He suggested a place called Kraak gallery....obscure name and slightly intimidating i convinced my flat mate and her boyfriend to come with me. We showed up and there was about ten people there, we waited and talked and drank sure enough about an hour or so this tiny dinghy room was packed with people. This was probably one of my favroite nights out and i intend to go to more smaller events.
Although at first I couldn't find the relevance to this talk, giving it time to sink in I have become very inspired and excited to become part of this risk taking rebleious 'Margin".
Although at first I couldn't find the relevance to this talk, giving it time to sink in I have become very inspired and excited to become part of this risk taking rebleious 'Margin".
Tuesday, 13 March 2012
All Saints
Summer Court Cardigan
£150.00
| Colour |  | Linen |
| Other colours |  |
Cotton/linen deconstructed cardigan created on the stand using vintage jumpers. The Summer Court cardigan combines paneled and open work crochet with lace stitches and fastens along the asymmetric placket with signature dark rust metal buttons. A new take on an Aran cardigan.
Fabric 55% Linen 45% Cotton
The idea of working with old clothing and getting new ideas, shapes and outcomes from them is somthing All Saints company does as well. I work for this company and we had a workshop explaing the new and invative techniques they used to create this seasons trends. Stated above by the company they used vintage jumpers and cardigans, cut them up and re-assembled them on mannequins to achieve these unique shapes.
MOSI - Museum Of Science and Industry
When visiting the archives in the MOSI there was a series of posters and advertisements ranging from the late 19th century onwards. Company's that would send products to non-English speaking countries would put these bright recognizable images on the products, shipments and in shop windows. Some have English, Arabic, or both languages on them while others just had images on them. This idea was very effective in that if someone was not able to read the language on the package to remember it for next time, they would just recognize the images and colours. This got me thinking that in the future with the possibility of many cultures coming together, and therefore many languages we may have to resort to this technique again.
Swishing
This concept of sharing and exchanging clothes rather than going out and buying new ones has reminded me of an even hosted by a company called 'swishing' I had been to a few years ago. In which you bring unwanted items of clothing (in good condition) drop it off and they then proced to set up the items people have brought with them into a form of a modern shop. The idea is to bring a few pieces of clothing with you, and there for you can take the same number of pieces out with you.www.swishing.com
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