27 Apr 2012
15 Apr 2012
Design Inspiration...
Colour Palette, Costume and Make-up Inspiration-
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| 'Water Lilies'- Claude Monet |
Claude Monet (14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing perceptions before nature, especially as applied to landscape painting.The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant).
Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement that originated with a group of Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence during the 1870s and 1880s in spite of harsh opposition from the art community in France. The name of the style is derived from the title of a Claude Monet work, Impression, soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise), which provoked the critic Louis Leroy to coin the term in a review published in the Parisian newspaper Le Charivari. Characteristics of Impressionist paintings include relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes; open composition; emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time); common, ordinary subject matter; the inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience; and unusual visual angles. The development of Impressionism in the visual arts was soon followed by analogous styles in other media which became known as Impressionist music and Impressionist literature.
Tim Walker
Timothy "Tim" Walker (born in England, 1970) is a British fashion photographer.
Tim Walker’s photographs have appeared in Vogue, month by month, for over a decade. Extravagant staging and romantic motifs characterise his style. After concentrating on the photographic still for 15 years, Tim Walker has begun directing short films.
On graduation in 1994, Walker worked as a freelance photography assistant in London before moving to New York City as a full time assistant to Richard Avedon. On returning to England, he initially concentrated on portrait and documentary work for UK newspapers. At the age of 25, he shot his first fashion story for Vogue, and has photographed for the British, Italian, and American editions ever since. The Victoria and Albert Museum and the National Portrait Gallery in London include the photographs of Tim Walker in their permanent collections. He staged his first major exhibition at the Design Museum in London in the spring of 2008, coinciding with the publication of his book ‘Pictures’. In November 2008, Walker received the ‘Isabella Blow award for Fashion Creator’ by The British Fashion Council and, in May 2009, he received an Infinity Award from the International Centre of Photography in New York for his work as a fashion photographer.
Tim Walker's photography is often described as surreal. British Vogue has a long history of collaborating with Surrealist's. Already in 1930's Man Ray, Cecil Beaton and other photographers used Surrealist ideas to express themselves on the pages of British Vogue. Fashion photographers see themselves as artists, their work is barely related to fashion products at all. Fashion is very playful and fashion photography gives photographers the means and possibilities to express their ideas.
Walker's photography is irrational and extravagant in a sweet dream like way. He has been influenced by the Surrealist's, who used to Vogue already in the 1930's. Before even studying photography, Walker worked in Vogue with Beaton's archive. But when Surrealism came into fashion it was with fervour. Overtaking the fashion arts with zeal, Surrealism has never left. Ideas about presentation in magazines, window displays and apparel have changed in the intervening years, but Surrealism remains fashion's favourite art. Fashion and it's instruments were at the art of Surrealist metaphor, touching on the imaginary of woman and the correlation between the world of real objects and the life of objects in the mind. - Richard Martin- Fashion and Surrealism
"All of my photos are linked to the things that have made me dream as a kid."
"It made me appreciate that colourful, fairytale- like world of the British Vogue- photographer even more."
"...Why you see all those- Alice in Wonderland- like settings. Walker likes to play with perspectives, by using huge props in his photos."
{http://www.triin.info/2009/08/tim-walker-vogue-and-surrealism.html}
Alexander Mcqueen-
The men’s collection features khaki wool felt tailoring, flannel shirting and heavy ribbed sweaters with military detailing.
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| 'Year of the Dragon' Tim Walker |
Timothy "Tim" Walker (born in England, 1970) is a British fashion photographer.
Tim Walker’s photographs have appeared in Vogue, month by month, for over a decade. Extravagant staging and romantic motifs characterise his style. After concentrating on the photographic still for 15 years, Tim Walker has begun directing short films.
On graduation in 1994, Walker worked as a freelance photography assistant in London before moving to New York City as a full time assistant to Richard Avedon. On returning to England, he initially concentrated on portrait and documentary work for UK newspapers. At the age of 25, he shot his first fashion story for Vogue, and has photographed for the British, Italian, and American editions ever since. The Victoria and Albert Museum and the National Portrait Gallery in London include the photographs of Tim Walker in their permanent collections. He staged his first major exhibition at the Design Museum in London in the spring of 2008, coinciding with the publication of his book ‘Pictures’. In November 2008, Walker received the ‘Isabella Blow award for Fashion Creator’ by The British Fashion Council and, in May 2009, he received an Infinity Award from the International Centre of Photography in New York for his work as a fashion photographer.
Tim Walker's photography is often described as surreal. British Vogue has a long history of collaborating with Surrealist's. Already in 1930's Man Ray, Cecil Beaton and other photographers used Surrealist ideas to express themselves on the pages of British Vogue. Fashion photographers see themselves as artists, their work is barely related to fashion products at all. Fashion is very playful and fashion photography gives photographers the means and possibilities to express their ideas.
Walker's photography is irrational and extravagant in a sweet dream like way. He has been influenced by the Surrealist's, who used to Vogue already in the 1930's. Before even studying photography, Walker worked in Vogue with Beaton's archive. But when Surrealism came into fashion it was with fervour. Overtaking the fashion arts with zeal, Surrealism has never left. Ideas about presentation in magazines, window displays and apparel have changed in the intervening years, but Surrealism remains fashion's favourite art. Fashion and it's instruments were at the art of Surrealist metaphor, touching on the imaginary of woman and the correlation between the world of real objects and the life of objects in the mind. - Richard Martin- Fashion and Surrealism
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| 'Lady Grey' Vogue Fahion Photoshoot- Tim Walker |
His work draws the attention of people who are very strange to fashion. His work seems not be about fashion but about something else, something much deeper, about culture and history. Muir who is a photographic historian says in his foreword to Walker's book 'Pictures' that it is inescapable that there is a streak of Surrealism in Walker's pictures. Muir says that this is the genial Surrealism of Margritte rather than the ambiguous, sexually charged tableaux of Dali. At its most intoxicating, it's that particular British notion of Surrealism as slapstick, endless summer fun; Beaton's era again, perhaps, when those who were lucky enough to have emerged from the Great War unscathed were still ignorant to the storm clouds gathering again.-
"All of my photos are linked to the things that have made me dream as a kid."
"It made me appreciate that colourful, fairytale- like world of the British Vogue- photographer even more."
"...Why you see all those- Alice in Wonderland- like settings. Walker likes to play with perspectives, by using huge props in his photos."
{http://www.triin.info/2009/08/tim-walker-vogue-and-surrealism.html}
Alexander Mcqueen-
Lee Alexander McQueen, CBE (17 March 1969 – 11 February 2010) was a British fashion designer and couturier best known for his in-depth knowledge of bespoke British tailoring, his tendency to juxtapose strength with fragility in his collections, as well as the emotional power and raw energy of his provocative fashion shows. He is also known for having worked as chief designer at Givenchy from 1996 to 2001 and for founding his own Alexander McQueen label. His achievements in fashion earned him four British Designer of the Year awards (1996, 1997, 2001 and 2003), as well as the Council of International Fashion Designers Award's International Designer of the Year award in 2003.
Autumn Winter 2012 Collection- The collection is about a love story, a love of McQueen and a love of great British style – from military coats to overblown ball gowns.
Sharp tailoring. A nipped in waist with a masculine dropped shoulder and an exaggerated hip gives an hourglass silhouette for women.
{Alexander Mcqueen A/W 2012- Via Youtube}
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| Alexander Mcqueen Autumn Winter 2012 Collection |
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Alexander Mcqueen- Autumn Winter 2012 Collection
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Mirror Mirror-
Mirror Mirror is a 2012 comedy fantasy film based on ‘’Snow White’’ by the Brothers Grimm. It is directed by Tarsem Singh and stars Lily Collins, Julia Roberts, Armie Hammer, Nathan Lane, and Sean Bean. The costumes were designed by Eiko Ishioka.
{Mirror Mirror Trailer- Via Youtube}
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| Still From Mirror Mirror |
Costumes designed by: Eduardo Castro
Once Upon A Time is our new fairytale drama from Edward Kitsisand Adam Horowitz, the team behind Lost and Tron: Legacy.
Emma Swan knows how to take care of herself. She's a 28-year-old who has been fending for herself ever since she was abandoned as a baby.
But everything changes when Henry - the son she gave up years ago - finds her. Henry is now 10 years old and in desperate need of his birth mother's help. He believes that Emma comes from an alternate world and that she is Snow White and Prince Charming's missing daughter.
According to the book of fairytales that he was given by his teacher Mary Margaret, they sent her away to protect her from the Evil Queen's curse, which trapped the characters of fairytale world forever and brought them into our world.
Emma instantly dismisses Henry's theory, but when she brings him back to Storybrooke, she finds herself drawn to this unusual boy and this strange town. Concerned for his welfare, she decides to stay for a while longer, but she soon suspects that Storybrooke is more than it seems.
It's a place where magic has been forgotten, but where fairytale characters are alive, even though they don't remember who they once were and where the Evil Queen, known as Regina, is now Henry's adoptive mother.
In order to understand where the fairytale world's former inhabitants came from and what led to the Evil Queen's wrath, you'll need to take a glimpse into their previous lives. But it might just turn everything you've ever believed about these characters upside down. Meanwhile, the epic battle for the future of all worlds is about to begin. For good to win, Emma will have to accept her destiny and fight like hell.
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| {'Once Upon A Time' - Via Channel Five} |
Make-up company-
Costume Designs...
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| Character Relationships |
Character Profiles/Design:
Amelia- As the piece is focusing on what Amelia sees and believes, her costume reflects her dream like state and how she, views herself within this dream world or 'Wonderland' Inspired by the cut of Alexander Mcqueen's autumn/winter 2012 collection. Her costume reflects her desire to change time- with the hourglass figure emphasised through a cage structure symbolising how Amelia is caged within her own thoughts. The colours of her costume and the piece as a whole are inspired by the impressionist artist Claude Monet and his Water Lilies studies and the photographer Tim Walker- in particular his Lady Grey image and The Year of the Dragon.
Designed, Illustrated and Constructed by Sophie Knapp
Jake- Amelia's 'Prince Charming'. Jake's costume is the anthesis of his character, outwardly portraying a self confident 'peacock' but inwardly lacking self esteem. The colouring of Jake's costume reflects this. Amelia sees and associates this within her 'Wonderland'.
"Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in grey than in peacock bright." (Quote by - Van Wyck Brooks)
Amelia sees a young attractive man, and does not necessarily delve deeper into his personality.
"At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all". (Quote by - Balthasar Gracian)
Designed, Illustrated and Constructed by Sophie Knapp
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| Designed By Colette Tulley |
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| Illustration By Colette Tulley |
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| Designed, Constructed by Colette Tulley |
Chloe-
Amelia's nemesis- Not the most popular girl, because of her bitchy nature and has an vindictive evil streak. Her occupation is that of a Barmaid and so she is privy to gossip. Amelia see's Chloe's costume as a tarty barmaid or a traditional villain figure. The colour purple symbolises her promiscuity, dissent and conceit.
Cliff-
Designed and Constructed by Sam Sullivan
Cliff-
Designed and Constructed by Sam Sullivan
Molly-
Designed and Constructed by Sam Sullivan
Lizzy-
Designed and Constructed Collaboratively
Dr White: White Rabbit-
Designed and Constructed Collaboratively
Costume Design:
{Coleen Atwood- Designing for Alice in Wonderland: Via Youtube}
{Wicked- Behind the Curtain- Costume Edition: Via Youtube}
'Malice In Wonderland'...
Following from the feedback given on Thursday, the group congregated around Holly's to watch 'Malice In Wonderland' (a suggestion from Andrew) to get inspiration and ideas for our own concept.
{'Malice In Wonderland' Trailer via Youtube.}
-Malice in Wonderland is a 2009 British fantasy adventure film directed by Simon Fellows and written by Jayson Rothwell. It is roughly based on Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland A modern take on the famous fairy tale by Carroll about an American student (Maggie Grace) who is knocked over by a black cab in London. When she wakes up she has amnesia, lost in a world that is a long way from home—Wonderland. She is dragged through a crazy twisted underworld filled with bizarre individuals and low-lifers, by the cab driver, Whitey (Danny Dyer). Confused, she tries to find out who she is, where she's from and use what wits she has left to get back home safe.
From watching this movie we have taken inspiration for our piece. The concept of time strongly features within the movie, something we wish to replicate with our own production. Below are some of our favourite quotes from the movie.
Presentation (Slide Show)/ Quotes...
New Concept Idea
Story Telling
Fairytales- Sleeping Beauty/ Beauty and the Beast/ Alice in Wonderland
Coma's
Suicide
Spiral Clock
Quotes-
“If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.”
“I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then. ”
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“But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here.”
“One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.”
“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to."
"I don't much care where –"
"Then it doesn't matter which way you go.”
“I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir,' said Alice, 'Because I'm not myself you see.”
Story Telling
Fairytales- Sleeping Beauty/ Beauty and the Beast/ Alice in Wonderland
Coma's
Suicide
Spiral Clock
Quotes-
“If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.”
“I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then. ”
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“But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here.”
“One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.”
“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to."
"I don't much care where –"
"Then it doesn't matter which way you go.”
“I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir,' said Alice, 'Because I'm not myself you see.”
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