briefing : fashion

Unit Code and Title

BA3a

Project 4 Fashion

Project Leader: Les Bicknell, Nick Rodgers

Tutors: Les Bicknell, Jill Rodgers, Nick Rodgers

Key Dates:Project Briefing - week 7Critique (formative feedback) - week 11Assessment hand in - week 13

N° Weeks Study 6

why

Why we have set you this project. What we hope you will gain by undertaking this project?

The purpose of this short project is

to enable you to .........

• make work quickly• support your planning and time management• explore ideas • work on more than one strand at once• tell stories - what is your narrative? • develop communication skills

Context

Textile design has a fundamental connection with the body. This can be the decoration of the fabrics that make up our garments, the fabric we sleep in or the fabric we perform in.

Context

Sometimes the use of fabric is functional therefore less decorative but more concerned with comfort, protection or performance.

Context

Do you want your knee to work?

Context

More recently there have been advances in medical textiles so that the textile can become part of our body and some garments can be used to monitor our health.

Context

How can you stop Bullets?

Context

How can you just look fantastic walking down the street?

Context

Do you want to sweat less and smell better?

Context

We don’t all want to look the same - do we?

Context

Historical and cultural approaches to transforming the body show that there is a long history of modifying our shape to suit current fashions.

Context

What influences our tastes and choices today?

Brief

Develop a range of textile designs that relate to the theme of Fashion.

Lucy Orta

Brief

You decide how you wish to interpret this theme but you must ensure that there is a focus on materials innovation.

Bertjan Pot

Brief

You may want to produce textile designs for high street fashion or explore material applications for health and well-being or develop new methods of protection. The spectrum of approaches is vast.

Brief

You need to research your theme and propose viable conclusions that are supported by material and process investigations.

Chalayan Hussein

Indicative Content

Personal planning

http://www.elinorcarucci.com/

Indicative Content

Material manipulation

Wim BothaColors Magazine

Indicative Content

Research strategies Andres Serrano

Indicative Content

Innovation in technical process

sensate - Tonita AbeytaRobert Stone

Advice

Remember that this project runs in parallel with project 1.

Issey MiyakeLeonardo

You need to ensure that you manage your workload therefore effective planning from the outset is essential.

Advice

Advice

Use the workshops to test ideas and processes. You may not reach fully resolved technical conclusions but what you do may inform further study.

Advice

Your designs can be decorative textile designs (print, weave, etc) for contemporary fashion or you can create a new context.

Advice

Explore material properties and processes such as bonding, cutting, welding. Don’t just do what you already know.

Nobuyoshi Araki

Advice

You may want to use non textile materials.Iris van Herpen

Some possible starting pointshttp://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/body

http://www.booooooom.com/

http://www.thisisliveart.co.uk/

http://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/themes/investigating-identity/the-body-in-art

http://www.tate.org.uk/search/the%20body

http://psychologytomorrowmagazine.com/the-body-in-fashion-review-by-tiago-pinto-ribeiro-and-raquel-barbosa/

what is fashion?

what is it to have a body?

what is it to cover it?

nicki minaj

Rubens

image?Botticelli Bosch

image?

what is it to inhabit a body?

what is it to design for it?

Ryan Trecartin

We are all mediators, translators.Jacques Derrida,

Marie ChouinardMatt Fraser

body image – LGBT – disability

Laura Bridgeman and the Drakes

There are so many young women who tip over into being a facsimile: they don't really inhabit their lives or their bodies.

Susie Orbach, Fat is a feminist issue

Leigh Bowery

Live art development agency

http://www.thisisliveart.co.uk/

http://www.double-exposures.com/double-task/The Famous Lauren Barri HolsteinOreet Ashery

http://spillfestival.com/

http://www.nicolacanavan.com/raising-the-skirt.html

Nicola Canavan

Heather Cassils http://heathercassils.com/

Franco B Orlan

StelarcAimee Mullins

Matthew Barney for the Cremaster 3

Valerie Belin

The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.

Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

J D Okhai Ojeikere

The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.

Thomas A. Edison

Rebecca Horn

Transformers cybernetic stuff

Transubstantiation.

To describe the change from bread and wine to body and blood of Christ in the Eucharist

Jo Spence

health -

Helen Chadwick

skins for Minecraft

My body is my art, and it's also the tool that I use to make money.Sasha Grey

skins for Second Life

Queer theory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7CTo2-bAA8

FKA Twig

Guo Fengyi

decoration - adornment

Body politic

decoration - adornment

Eliza Bennett Abas Amin

third wave feminist theory

http://www.ufunk.net/en/gadgets/culotte-anti-viol/

A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history.

Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth

http://thecuttingclass.com/

structure

http://cockyeek.com/projects/kuma-kuna/

narrative?

Arthur Bispo do Rosário

Phyllis Galembo Ghana

nick cave sound suit

performance?

dance

costume?

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch

costume?

tradition?

sport

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.Simone de Beauvoir

defence

defence

Aya Tsukioka

sleep

death

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

Edvard Munch