Fashion reference : Cassandra Verity Green’s

Analysis :

Source : Vogue Italia

  • Colours suggest the atmosphere of a form of daze, Etheral  feel
  • Inbetween place between 2 states
  • Relates to the story of coming of age through transformation

Text

Source https://www.vogue.com/fashion-shows/fall-2015-couture/maison-martin-margiela/slideshow/collection

  • Interesting fabric to represent sparkles feels like its spreading as a sort of aura shining from the textiles
  • Should i experiment with that kind of fabric ? 

Mother and child Gustav Klimt

Analysis :

Source : Artist Gustav Klimt https://www.klimtgallery.org/

  • Lascivity sensuality of the women figure in a form of mental daze
  • echoes transformation
  • brigth and sparkly colours brings interesting theme for me to build up my tranformation scene using positive imagery 
  • try knitting with those colours ? Introduce sparkles, lurex ? yarns with bursting sparkly fringes ? 

Analysis :

Sources : Winx Tv show

  • Transformation of childs into young adults 
  • Coming of age as a magical manifested process
  • Colours sparkles overwhelmingness it felt like too much
  • How I felt when I was advised to take the medicine.

Analysis :

Source : Pleasure Taken CSM Library

  • Victorian children, purity innocence
  • Form of melancholia black and white photography
  • The childrens are represented sleeping or with their mothers, visualisation of safety and serenity of the mind
  • Stillness in the faces the moment of the photography feel suspended it feels like it belongs to the past.
  • Photography where taken by Lewis Caroll who wrote Alice in Wonderland a story about a little girl lost in a place of insanity
  • relates to insanity and mental illnesses.

Analysis :

Source : Novel Peter Pan 

  • The kids are dressed as animals they impersonate innocence, the want to never grow up.
  • Interesting visual to applicate to my own character, the child will be dressed like a sheep to represent innocence and vulnerability relating to my personal experience of finding a sheep and identifying to it
  • The character of the sheep is a metaphore of me and how I view my self and my current situation

Analysis :

  • Personal experience of rescuing a little sheep from the cold winter related to my own life as I indentified to the sheep lost in the snow
  • Being rescued made me feel that hope to be better was there  represent the idea of change as something positive even if it can cause fear.
  • Inspiration for character developpement the sheep as a perfect representation of innocence and vulnerability

Analysis :

Sources : Tate modern

  • Joseph Mallord William Turner, interesting setting of a scenery 
  • Really soft lines almost dissapearing
  • representing the idea of the snow smothering the scenery
  • Accumulation of drawing, suggesting the idea of an infinite scenery
  • Use Different mountain landscape to represent the immensity of the scenery the character  is lost in.

Creating a scenery : Melancholia

Analysis :

Sources : Melancholia movie Lars Von trier 

  • Scenery emphasizing the fatality and smothering atmosphere in the film
  • Strong use of symbolism in the scenery to express emotional feelings of the characters
  • music as tool to sublime how slow and heavy the atmosphere feels 
  • reminds me of poetry uses of symbols
  • Should I write my narrative as a conventional quatrain and use numerous symbols ? 

Analysis

Source : Movie The neon Demon 

  • Very powerfull in setting a scenery that emphasize the action
  • through colours and aesthetic
  • minimal dialogue
  • strong surrealist imagery
  • the scenery feels like its closing down on the character highlighting the theme of the movie expressing a metaphore of envy and desire to be beautyful

Analysis :

Source : Book Winter Wonderland Lois Hechenblaikner CSM Library

  • Suspended Gondolas shows suspension in the scenery of the moutains
  • Interesting object to initiate fashion design very angular contrast with the imagery of the sheep
  • Brings in the idea of long cables being suspended in the sky represents the last connection that the sheep has with reality.
  • Collage idea of the mountains being represented as sheeps gondolas showing internal links ?

 

Analysis :

Source : Tate modern

  • line in art fading away suggest loneliness
  • color scheme dark and using blue building up a theme of melancholia 
  • from corduroy parrallel lines to moving curves suggesting moutains

Analysis :

Source : primary research

  • Corduroy, the lines are separated parrallel they will never touch
  • suggest the idea of barrs being imprisoned barrier from reality
  • corduroy in movement, suggest mountain
  • the colours suggest snow

Analysis :

 Source : http://alicejoiner.com/when-i-lived-with-an-eating-disorder/

  • Documents well a real, unglamorised version of what its really like to have anorexia
  • The person is alway alone in the photography relates to the story where the character is alone in the mountains. 
  • Body checking as an accurate representation of the fear off changing appearance portrays my fear off having to go through body "changes" "growing up to adult hood appearence artificially" 
  • As superficial as it seems it is deeply emotional and anxiety provocking Its a fear of the world and having to interact with it.

 

Analysis :

  • Hollydays when i was at my worst I felt extremely alone and suspended from reality 
  • Ironically cold and shivering when i was in Ibiza in the summer, i was in my own world of cold.
  • coincide with depression and  fear of everything, as the character feels in the story
  • A long time ago but leaves wounds not in the same state of mind but could feel like you are some bleak days like the one of that doctor appointement when everything feels out of control again.

Primary inspiration

Analysis :

  • - personal experience of being forced to transform goes with the project 
  • - the idea of being suspended between childhood and adult hood
  • - introduce the theme of fear in the project, personal becomes the one of the character
  • Outside a doctor relates to a lot of anxiety and fear made my mental health problems seem invalid 
  • Cold of the medical world relates to the cold of the mountains

Fashion reference : Cassandra Verity Green’s

Analysis :

Source ; Vogue BA fashion CSM 2013

  • Sheep wool like fabric could use it to represent the innocence of the character in the garment 
  • I like the odd shapes of the clothing

Fashion referenece : Gabriella Sardena

Analysis :

Source : 1 granary

  • Rubans used to create a garmen
  • shiny reflective
  • textile is driping from the garment like the character is drowning in sparkles 

Analysis :

Source : http://www.designartmagazine.com/2016/11/the-cosmos-nature-in-haute-couture.html

  • interesting use of fabric 
  • the atmosphere feels oneiric the characters look like mutations of themselves
  • relates to the transformation include the idea of monstrousity in mutation ?
  • Try knitting with cristals attached to threads ? Experience with embroideries ?

Analysis :

Source : http://1granary.com/category/central-saint-martins-fashion/ba-final-collections/page/2/

  • Colours textures; feels stapled on the clear fabric
  • maybe include both initial state of the child sheep and transformations in my samples and garment

Analysis :

Source : Mew mew power Japanese anime

  • The transformation takes over from the inside and changes you.
  • Its very violent almost lie an explosion of your former self.

Analysis :

Sources : Kate shaw artist http://www.theartandthecurious.com.au/stardust-in-our-veins-kate-shaw/

  • Enlightened by sunset before night takes over and initiate terrifying changes 

Loneliness in Anorexia nervosa

Analysis :

  • Alone, desillusion brutal realisation that nothing can break you free from the troubles in your head.
  • Separation from mother she felt like a stranger. I was alone vulnerable hurting my self as a way to exteriorize buried feelings.

Story development : The imagery of the frozen sheep

Story development : The imagery of the frozen sheep

Analysis :

  • Cold frozen innocence, Snow is caught in the sheep wool 
  • inetersting contrast of idea between the warmth of sheep wool and the ice
  • Visually captures the sheep wool making it hard and still instead of fluffy and soft changes the nature of the sheep in a subtle yet crucial way
  • Relates to how mental illnesses creep on to you and change your original state immensely from the inside (change the nature of your personality) but are not that visible on the outside.

Analysis :

  • Picture of hope the sheep is reunited to "social interaction" he is not alone 
  • there is no snow
  • Could interrogate the opposing vision of winter and flowers to represent spring and rebirth but although its interesting cause it would allow the use of catleya from the novel it might be not that original ?

Analysis :

Sources : Tate modern

  • Watercolour swatches, i like how transparent are the tones
  • it ressembles a landscape almost lost in the white
  • Interesting interrogation around the use of negative space

The importance of scenery in my story.

Creating a scenery : Big little lies

Analysis :

Source : Big little lies movie 

  • The opening scene shows the scenery as taking more place than the characters 
  • Its like the mountains and ocean are more important in the story than the actors
  • music emphasize  the atmosphere 
  • the ocean is either calm are in rage showing with the scenery a prefiguration of the story It would be intersting to build up my scenery to prefigurate the story ?

Analysis :

Source tate modern

  • Colours of the little sheep he is frozen and cold blue and white
  • suspension exposure
  • head is cut off, he lost something.

Analysis :

Source Tate modern

  • Single II is a hanging fabric sculpture, which depicts a headless figure. " ‘the sculptures were either hung from the ceiling or laid horizontally, the idea of erotic dependency [was] shown … with its opposite state of isolation" Louise Bourgeois artist
  • Interesting idea introduces the idea of the little sheep being torned between an affective dependency to something he lost Safety and the need to move on.
  • The figures pupets are feeling very vulnerable suspended ungrounded and alone.
  • I liked the idea of using pupets soft filled linked with childhood to represent such a desperating theme of being deprived from any form of affection.

Analysis :

source : Snow Thomas Fletchner CSM Library

  • the lines in the snow are looking like corduroy 
  • interesting starting point to the scenery in wich the story will take place

Analysis :

Sources : http://bedelgeuse.tumblr.com/

  • What growing feel like for me an explosion
  • like things coming out of me
  • out of control
  • relates to the book "In search of lost times" by Marcel Proust where Swann and Odette de Crécy relate to making love as "faire catleya" its a flower. representing sensuality through the imagery of a flower is relevant to express growing up
  • should i use this imagery in my narrative ? Knitting with silk to represent flower petals ?

Analysis :

Source : http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.co.uk/2008_11_30_archive.html

  • Anatomy of the women breast is here shown in a poetic tender illustrative style however it is paradoxal because the drawings were realised using the breasts of dead women and injected them with mercury.
  • Expresses the constant contradiction regarding growing up as a ultimate positive event that needs to happen but still seeing it as violent brutal and terrifying
  • chemicals in breast represents the feeling i had being advised to take those medicines at the gynecologist.
  • Introduces colours of the chemicals as "webs" around the breast could be interesting to represent change in my story 
  • possible colour scheme for knitting the character transforming ?

Transformation and anatomy

Analysis :

 Sources : http://starbuckanatomy.tumblr.com/

  • Every period in the women life seems as a separation not as a continuing growth
  • anatomy book references that atmosphere of cold and suspension
  • Denies the emotional aspect of undergoing becoming a women the face of the person has the same expression at each age, it feels like a mask.