SEMIOTICS

Possibly the best technique of decoding and analyzing an image, it made me understand and create a possibility of what an image could mean.

PRESENTATION DAY

After weeks of prep for our denim task it was finally D Day of our 'informal presentations'.
I, of course, was feeling the nerves as it had been a while since I had to present to a full class. To be honest it was not as terrifying as I had thought, it was similar to the 'end of project' presentations I had when I undertook the foundation degree.

Though it was our first presentation and we worked so well as a team, this may be me speaking as a perfectionist, I found areas to which I wanted to improve and if possible re do the presentation...am I a horrid person??

What went right was how well we worked as a team, we had gathered a lot of information together and individually, we had a clear goal in what aims we wanted to express.
What I would repeat would be how we presented all of our ideas and the general flow of our presentation. The feedback we recieved at the end of our presentations was definitely the most helpful as I could digest what we did well and what to improve on in the future.
Nevertheless, it was our first presentation and we managed to get a great grade overall!

Happy blogging!

CONCEPTS

In our seminar, we undertook an activity by re arranging magazine cut outs and other objects for our colour mood boards.

There were 4 different concepts and this process and task was helped to decide which translates and would be suitable for our mood board.

GRID- It will be neater, I promise

The colour palette for my mood board is 'RED' I am still deciding between 2 designers to finalise my mood board as they express different styles and contrast in their target consumer. However, I found a concept which I found to be my most preferred. Yes...it may be a bit boring, I found the simple and 'GRID' concept to be most effective..maybe because I prefer a more organised texture/design..ironic as I am mostly not that organised.

ML 2015

MONIQUE LHUILLIER

I'm not the typical girl who may spend some of her procrastination thinking about what my wedding will be, what would I wear etc...as that's the last thing on my mind! haha.

But I was taken aback when I saw the SS15 Bridal Collection by Monique Lhuillier. Stunning. Elegant. Fairy-tale. I found it hard to find a specific word to describe the beauty of these designs. 

My Favourite of the collection

I also follow Lhuillier on Instagram and find 70% gawking and in awe of these stunning gowns. I may now find some of my thoughts being what Lhuillier gown I would wear at my wedding....oh no. 

I particularly admired how there were styles influenced from the 20s, in my words, 'Gatsby Style', I find this collection can appeal to most women's personalities by its broad range in design. 

The 'Gatsby'

N0.5

COULD THIS BE THE BEST ADVERT...EVER?

We all know how artistic Chanel adverts are and most of the time I enjoy them. OK only the N0.5 as that's my favourite scent of Chanel. But since the Nicole Kidman featured advert I was uninterested and they seemed boring, until one afternoon, just before 'Suburgatory', I saw a shortened version of the new advert. I WAS AMAZED. The direction of Baz Luhrmann expresses the classic and cinematic feel of what a Chanel parfum story should be.

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The Chanel website ,www,chanel.com, features a variety of sub sections on the making of the advert which were so interesting to watch and understand how and why some of the details in the advert were created.

CERFBOARD.
Chanel N0.5 + Surfing?? Possibly the best idea to have been pitched and my favourite scene. The appeal of wanting to go surfing and wanting the surfboard, from someone who has a self diagnosed water phobia, the advert wins at delivering and understanding of how to appeal to not only their audience but mostly everyone. The setting of the sea and surfing reflects the mood and relationship of the story line occurring and somehow connects and engages the audience...well to me it did.

And also important message to any readers, Christmas is approaching and that Chanel surfboard is a must.

ISSUE 09

THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE

'THE Sunglasses' The signature that is Anna Wintour

Upon recently viewing the documentary, 'The September Issue', I came to quickly learn the fast paced and stress zoned that is the world of fashion. It was interesting to see how long a big issue takes and, during the final decision stages, how different the visions of the Creative Director and of Wintour are.

What I enjoyed most was the vision that the Creative Director, Grace Coddington, had for most of the photo-shoots she assisted in. In particular, the re-shoot for the colour blocking photo-shoot, where she persuaded the cameraman, documenting the footage, to jump and then digitally incorporate the model. I was amazed at the way it was produced especially for the time the documentary was filmed, in 2007.

And....JUMP!

But yes, of course I definitely noticed a slight connection and reference to one of my all time favourite films.....'The Devil Wears Prada'! It was humorous to see how I found the film relate so well to Wintour's persona and the Vogue environment.

Although it was refreshing to see a slight glimpse into her personal life as she hardly/we only see her as this beacon of light as the editor-in-chief. Realistically, in my opinion she is a normal person, waking up to play tennis, having breakfast with her daughter the usual activities of a normal person. What I found ironic, was her daughter not wanting to ever follow in her mother's footsteps in fashion. I wasn't expecting this as you'd have thought Anna Wintour's daughter would be a clone of her mother and immediately create a family tradition of taking over the reigns one day,


Overall, I found I had learnt more into the world of fashion, that I wasn't too familiar with and got to understand the beauty yet stressful and sometimes overbearing role that Anna Wintour has.