1 July 2013
It’s strange to be writing again,
after such a long time. I thought it might be helpful to write, I have now
finished school and never have much to do anymore. I am gaining some money for
a living, buying clothes and accessories and meeting old friends, but my brain
tends to melt and not engage in many activities. I have become a selfish lazy
fiend, and I want to attend to some kind of productivity.
Since school has finished, I have
endeavoured to try and find my ‘inner feeling’ within my art work. A woman told
me that I have not ‘found myself yet’, which was quitter discouraging as I
would like to think of myself as found, and many would agree with me. I have
tried to paint, draw, and most of all I have regained and reapplied my love for
fashion and reinvention. On other websites I have gained a lot of attention from
both people I know and on the internet, and it has encouraged me to record my
outfits daily.
In addition to this, I have also
met up with my ‘brother’ recently, who has started his own business in making
T-shirts for skateboarders (Taboo). Most may think that he is naiive to fixate
and have so much trust in a business rather than finish his studies, but I’d
like to support him as an artist and friend. He noticed my interest in his work
and knowledge, (I constantly asked questions and asked him to edit my designs).
We may collaborate our different talents and minds to create what I have been
wanting for a long time: to put what I have made into drawing and ideas into
real material designs that exist in the outside world, instead of hiding in my
sketchbooks. I was able to create a design I have wanted to make since my dad
went on a business trip to China, and he was able to edit on Photoshop what I
had imagined it to be like.
He reassures me our plan will
work. He has established a relationship with a big company (which I don’t know
the name of), but we are both highly aware of businesses, but as he has been
attending the business side of Clothing for some months, I believe that his
business and both of our creativity will blend together well.
Saying this we have immensely different
tastes. It’s quite hard to explain. His designs for Taboo are effortlessly
masculine, and he is quite simplistic and uses humour to get his message
across. It is quite clear in those designs that he is mainly based on skateboarding,
and he doesn’t use lots of colour (although he is somewhat obsessed with it in
real life.) I am quite similar, but I realise that I am quite feminine, and my
designs are domineered on my personal life and thoughts. The designs I have
come of up with so far don’t exactly conjure his enthusiasm for my designs,
but hopefully he has faith in my artwork and finds them amiable, but as he
mentioned, he might not wear it himself (therefore they are secular to certain
people).
My intention is to make clothes
for the model teenager, whatever that is. Most of my designs I think project
the feminist attitude, women wanting to voice a message about themselves and their
intentions and thoughts. I think that my designs can also apply to men (and
other genders obviously). In this, I have learnt to have more faith in my own
work, and be able to be okay with others not necessarily liking or
understanding what I am trying to show. I hope the rest of my designs and
efforts are just as well as the first. I know my brain never stops working when
it comes to art and that comes with that.
When making a fashion line, it is
inevitable that I am going to need models for this procedure. I took photos of
a dress that I wanted to sell, and sold it within half an hour! My ‘brother’s’
sister (also my ‘sister’) modelled for me and it looked a little like this: (3 selected, the bottom one is me! Haha.)
I hope that my photography will
get better, so that I am able to perfectly portray what I am trying to sell,
and make it attractive. From time to time I miss the time where I would take
photos, calling my friends to model for me in strange outfits and poses. My
confidence majorly played a part to this not becoming a habit, and I have made
a list of several people who would be perfect to play a part in this.
To finish this first post, I want
to add how glad I am for everything going on in my life!
Hopefully this will turn out well
for me and my partner.
-Youutterwasteofperfection
Claudia A /
Valentina
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