Hybrid Project

We did a two week project just before Christmas and the whole idea was to take old clothes and regenerate these into new, high fashion garments, and then do a photoshoot which had a clear concept and which sold the clothes.

I chose to work with an old denim jacket, some knitwear, and a suede jacket. Bits and pieces either from home or found scouting the charity shops where I live. On their own I didn't have much to say about the pieces of clothing and i wouldn't have worn them but I was happy with how my garments turned out in the end.

This was my final photoshoot for the project:

I chose to develop the idea of literally disecting the garments and then piecing them back together in a different way. I think my interest lies in the structure of clothing, the shape it creates, as opposed to detail and texture. Therefore I chose to not really manipulate the fabric as much as to shape in and reconstruct it.

I wanted my photoshoot to have the same dissected and reconstructed look as I chose to play around with the idea of scale and focus to highlight the idea of the garment being altered from its original purpose and being given a new life.

What do you think?

I'm back, I promise.

Firstly, I'm so sorry that I took so ridiculously long to update this. Over christmas I took a bit of break off and since i've been back to Ravensbourne after Christmas and New Year I've been busy getting myself back into the swing of things, getting myself up in the mornings etc. and I seem to have let the blog slip a bit. But I promise that I am back now and I am on it. No more slacking.

Here is a couple of beautiful shots from my skiing trip in December to Val Thorens, France, as my way of apologising for being so bad at blogging recently: