Graduate Fashion Week 2012 Installation Moodboard

Graduate Fashion Week 2012 Stand Design

Following on from my initial idea, this is my design for the Leeds College of Art stand at Graduate Fashion week. I've made the central theme light - unlike most of the stands at GFW I've enclosed all the walls, to try and create my own micro-environment. When you step inside I want it to feel like you've almost entered another venue entirely.

Subtle red and blue lights will be placed inside the stand to create an atmosphere totally different to the rest of the exhibition. Almost everything will be constructed from perspex, so that the light will bounce around the room. The pieces hanging from the ceiling are made from perspex tubing, these will disperse the light in a random manner around the space. The garments will be hanging from the ceiling, with the portfolios placed on plinths. The layout is done so that all the pieces form an almost free moving structure, that people can interact with and move around.  

Zomby - Aquarium

 

This video by Zomby is the influence for my stand design at Graduate Fashion Week next year. I like the way the independent lines flex and move to create a fluid structure - I'm going to try and apply this principle to my proposed design. 

The image below is something I made on Photoshop & Illustrator to try and mimic the mood of the video. The lines in real life could perhaps be made from clear plastic tubing with various lights pointed onto them.

Graduate Fashion Week 2011.

Graduate Fashion Week was a great opportunity to see what is expected from a student at the end of the three years. Looking through people’s portfolio’s and sketchbooks was a real eye opener about how much work you are expected to produce.

Overall the standard was really high, there was lots of work that I didn’t particularly like, but I could see it’s merit.  

Earl’s Court II Exhibition Room.

Walking around the exhibition room it was obvious which colleges/universities have money. Some produced very thorough and detailed magazines, whilst some other places had smaller leaflets.

Everyone was trying to do that little bit more to get noticed. I realised that there wasn’t much of a focus on menswear. As someone who is mainly interested in menswear I can look at this in two ways. Firstly, there is less competition and so it may be slightly easier to have a more memorable collection. Secondly, there isn’t as much desire for menswear in the fashion industry so it may be more difficult to get going.

Obviously menswear has a place in the fashion industry, but how much smaller that place is is really rammed home at events such as this. I’m going to take this as a positive, as it means there is less chance for work to be produced which is very samey. What I mean by that is when I was walking around the exhibition room I noticed that lots of the work produced for women was basically done in the same way – there was a few eye-catching stand out pieces, but lots of it seemed to fit into a similar mould. It’s almost at the stage where women designing for women are ten a penny.

Edinburgh College of Art &

University of Central Lancashire Shows.

The two shows that I saw were from Edinburgh and Central Lancashire. Both shows were good, but the Edinburgh one seemed more professional.

The garments seemed to follow current trends which was a surprise, there was lots of colour-blocking and tailored garments.

It slightly daunting about how much work and effort had gone into each collection – and again showed just how much work is expected from a graduate student.