Atonement

Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland

The blue dresses worn in Alice and Wonderland are beautiful. They are all in a shade of blue and are floaty and pretty. I would like, in my project, to do sleeves on a blouse that are ruffled and draped like in some of these dresses.

I saw the movie a couple of weeks ago and thought it was magical. All of the costumes were great and just magical!

500 days of summer

My garment shapes and style are coming from the inpiration from this film. In these scenes you get a sense of the story and the style. I found the pallette is similar too. Most of my design ideas are floaty almost child-like styles.

Knitted sample

One of the many samples i've done. I was playing around with different yarns and colours. I like this one especially as it's lightweight and the colour is pretty..fits in with my pallette.. and i waeved a limey yellow zingy colour though the looser stripes.. although it's hard to see in this image!

ditzy repeat

I was so pround of this print! I like how it's turned out. I wasn't planned this way but i like it! It wanted it to be unrecognisable as a repeat. I'm waiting for it to be printed on silk and hope it comes out well.

Ditzy florals..

These are some watercolour florals i did would be quite interesting so see them repeated. I like the colour of the third one especially. I changed it but altering hue/saturation and the levels.

Mm ah fresh!

These are most of the pictures that form the baisis of inspiration for the style and colour palette of my project. I liked the breezy fresh feel to the colours and i think they also tie in well with the hermes style of feminine light weight fabrics.

Serendipity..

This image is one of my wood block prints. The one first happened by accident and I found I really liked the print off the wood. It reminds me of fingerprint dna! I did some more with a full round slice of the tree, that I will upload soon once i've finished messing with in in photoshop. I can imagen these being the print design on the silk sleeves. I want to work on making the colours more subtle and to more my colour palette.

Hermes Spring range has some lovely feminine lighweight fabrics and the chiffon blouses partly inspired my garment shape and style. Im going to use silk or creppe fabric to print on and rouge up for leg-o-mutton style sleeves. Hermes colour palette is really nice and also similar to the one i'm using. The colours are fresh, pretty and 'spring' style. The prints are also very feminine florals which i love!

Hermes Spring 2010

I love this image!! Zooey Deschanel starring in 500 days of summer, was best film i've seen this year and im basing my mood, colour palette and style for my current slow fashion project on this movie. I love the blue bicycle in this image it reminds me of spring season when most people get the urge to be more feminine and go for bike rides in the country side on a mild spring afternoon!