Sirens-Redone

This place is a prison

I played with pointillism this week.

This city holds me down the lights blind me at night. I walk home and im harassed by people, physically mentally. I hate this place. I hate the world around me.

Metropolitan Lifestyle

The Metropolitan museum of art is Home to art from all over the world but the most interesting to me is their Egyptian wing. With an actual tomb placed inside the museum the space is beautifully built and it’s truly an amazing experience to visit. Everything from Egyptian culture inspires me from the gold and jewel tones to the silhouettes and textures.

The Egyptian materials are what stuck out to me during my recent visit, the use of embellishment, the materials, the cotton, and silks. All used so beautifully and perfect. Their use of pelts and animal skin may not be proven in their hieroglyphics but you can see the use in few of their designs, which really stuck out to me.

This week I focused on menswear. I took literal inspiration from my Egyptian inspiration, as well as inspiration from sportswear and using more casual silhouettes that I would find myself wearing. I wanted to make something for myself something that I would actually wear if I could produce it.

Week 1-5

Away from the lights and buildings of Manhattan, Brooklyn feels more like home. It’s comforting to see the sunset and know that in the skyline my city is waiting for me to come back home. Colors were taken from colors of the sunset and then a candid photo of myself walking to my friends’ apartment a few blocks away from where the picture was taken.

I was exhausted, just gotten off a nine hour shift, and then a twelve hour the night before with very little sleep between with homework and regular stress of life. I had a mix of emotions going through me, wanting to get home, it was too hot and I was wearing a leather shirt, bad idea.

Even when we hate how we look and our situations and the world around us in the moment, it can really take your breath away to stop and look around me. I’m so thankful my friend took this photo as to show me what I was stomping away from around me, a beautiful color pallet among other things.

My retrospective has changed from the original with words, and overall feel. I’ve changed the tone to match the rest of the pages and journal pages.

PS1 resides not too far into queens and it’s a few stops away on the G train from where I sleep half the week. Having gone to the summer concerts at PS1 and seeing many exhibits from my friend who interned with the museum, I knew I was going to be inspired by the museum. But it wasn’t until I was left the museum that I found the best inspiration that I had never really looked at. The intricate system of flags, cords, and wires that make up the installation above the courtyard, really jumped out to me. I used modern silhouettes I found in people watching in the museum, and then pushed them with the idea of over lapping cut outs and pleats. I wanted to make designs that would move with the body just like the installation fluttering in the wind.

Brooklyn makes for an amazing place to buy fruits and vegetables. Aside from the freshness and cheap prices, that make any poor college student cry in joy, the market also makes for a great place of inspiration. The colors of the produce and fruits always stick with me hours after the shopping trip.

Brooklyn Queens Brooklyn

I didn’t get the chance to make it out of my environment much this past week so I decided to discover and embrace the environment around me: Brooklyn.

Dusk in the city is what really made me stop and appreciate my surroundings. The way light would hit the objects around me and then the objects that made up Brooklyn and how different they were from Manhattan.

Next, thanks to the shuttle bus to queens, I looked into the PS1 museum. How the modern art and architecture inspired me and the tons of people around me.

Lastly, I was inspired by the night life that followed and the shapes and silhouettes that I found in the evenings.

New kind of post-Inspired.

I was inspired by my surroundings this week when I went bull riding. I decided to look at images of the night and push through the hang over and push out some different innovative silhouettes that’s could be inspired from the night.

Figure-ing out this blog.

is week I used images from my drawing class and put them together to make just some interesting images and create something that inspired me and highlighted my strong points in drawing.

Looking Further: Paul Poiret

For my summer assignment I chose to focus on Paul Poiret.

I took the looks and inspirations of the 1910’s and tried to modernize them. I focused on shoulders and large jackets that were heavily embellished.

Looking into Fashion History

10’s +Paul Poiret- Attention to shoulders and empire waist dresses, a sharp turn from the corsets of the last century.

20’s +CoCo Chanel- Brought menswear to womeswear and became popular the flapper, fridge, shorter skirts and Hollywood glamour.

30’s +Madeleine Vionnet- made the bias cut and made looks more structured and minimal after effect of the great depression.

40’s +Christian Dior- The new look was created to counter the minimal look of the depression.

50’s + Cristobal Balenciaga- The housewife was the icon, high-waisted skirts, heart-shape buntlines and overall feminine overtones was the theme.

60’s + Yves Saint Laurent- The Anti housewife era, the look was all flower power and extreme fashion.

70’s + Halston- Capitalized the 70’s Glam look that became so popular. Disco and Three piece suits became in fashion.

80’s +Dolce and Gabanna- pushed by pop icon Madonna, his edgy styling translated into ready to wear and made popular the shoulder pad, bright patterns, and the power suit.

90’s +Calvin Klein Cocaine chic was the look, with other ideas involving anti-fashion and grunge.

00’s +Alexander McQueen- The millennium set the tone of the decade, with brighter colors, weird textures and bringing the club/nightlife look into ready to wear.