"The Angels of the Graveyard"

Here are just a few fashion illustrations I did for our trend book project at the beginning of 2nd year. We worked in design teams and were given a WGSN trend as a starting point. We then used this to create our own trend books depicting colour directions, silhouettes, fabric, designs and illustrations. Our original trend was entitled "mystical" which we developed into our own "ethereal." We created a colour palette using the theme of light as inspiration: pale hues, shadowy tints and glassy neutrals. Despite working in a team we had to also produce our own individual books with our own personal interpretation of the trend. I chose to research more into the spiritual, ethereal and religious elements and produced a darker, more gothic style. My first point of research was the gorgeous Glasgow cathedral and its graveyard Necropolis. Being there reminded me of the beautiful video for "It's Ok" by the group "Land of Talk" which I think I have in an earlier post. From the combination of these, I derived my concept of these creatures, "The Angels of the Graveyard" whom I centred my trend around. Overall, the project was rather successful and presentation and content of both the group and individuals' trend books were very well done. I always seem to work better when creating a concept or idea for myself to work from and this helps especially in terms of research. Rather than interpreting things more "literally" (taking an object or pattern and simply working with that to find my shapes, colours, inspirations etc) I like to create almost a story with my sketchbooks. It was interesting to use a WGSN trend as a starting point (usually a very "literal" tool in designing as colours, sihouettes etc are all given and in my opinion alot of pre-determined trend based work can curb creativity) and then actually develop it in a more personal way.