Editing the shoot.

I managed to take quite a lot of photos on the day and only a few I liked enough to edit. Here are a few of my final edits.

Final makeup

For my final makeup look I tried to keep the look very natural. I wanted to enhance only the eyes. My model Ioana, wore blue contacts which made here eyes already stand out. I tried to enhance this by creating a golden metallic eye look. I also highlighted her inner eye with an iridescent white glittery shade which I also used to highlight the bridge of her nose and cheek bones which unfortunately does not show up in my photographs.  

Paco Peregin

In further research into the makeup I wanted to do for my fashion shoot I came across the work of the photographer Pace Pergein.

I really liked his use of colour and how the skin of all the models looked so flawless. I wanted my makeup to enhance the natural beauty of my model as well as being a bit extreme. When I did my models makeup I really applied a lot of highlight but this is very toned down in the actual photographs due to the day being very overcast my makeup was not captured as well as I would have liked.

Illustration flats

To show how my final design would look as a flat drawing I drew up the images bellow in illustrator. My garment looked the same front and back so instead of showing a front and back view the first image shows the shape of the dress and the laser cut sections separately then in the next Illustration I combined the two and also added in the gold colour of the final dress

Makeup inspiration

I wanted the makeup to be kept natural and simple for my look as to not to detract from the dress as I felt that should not be out shined . I wanted a bronzed golden look that was very youthful and enhanced the models features. I also knew I wanted to have golden eyeshadow as to have the gold of the dress reflected in the makeup. I was torn between either having nude shimmery lips or a bold red lip.
These are the images that I` drew my main inspiration from.

Kirsty Mitchell's Wonderland

In researching how I wanted my model to pose for the final fashion shoot. I came across the work of Kirsty Mitchell and the wonderland series. I felt these images were very striking and a lot more atmospheric and emotive then typical fashion shoots. I loved the mystery and mood captured in these photographs and wanted to capture something similar in my own work.

Final Dress.

First try working with metallic lame fabric not entirely finished first try as didn't want to waste time bagging it out. Looked nice in the silver but for the final decided to go for gold. I wanted gold to give a sense of regality and power to the dress. The piece reminds me of a priests robes (in previous designs the dress also had a cape yet this distracted to much from the laser cutting so was removed) and I felt the gold gave an earthly warmth to the piece which the silver lacked as I felt it was much to cold and made the piece more sci-fi than I had envisioned.

 I love how the light plays through the laser cut sections and reflects of the metallic fabric.

Laser cutting my pattern

From my initial research into patterns I came to create my own repeating pattern that I then laser cut onto fabric.

This was my final pattern that I drew up on illustrator. Although the final result was amazing if I'm ever to laser cut again I will make sure to come up with something simpler as to cut out enough for the final and the tule it probably took the machine the better part of eight hours. 

Laser cut on silver for my mock up/ tule. 

Trip to yorkshire sculpture park

As part of the previous project we went to yorkshire sculpture park as part of the primary research for out designs. These images are of the sculptures that particularly inspired my design.

 I loved the way the sculptors used different shapes and some of my original ideas for the final outcome to be a more structural piece than the final outcome actually was.

I liked the way lines and curves were used to draw the eye which made the pieces very interesting to me. 

I also liked in this one how both solid and void space was incorporated and planned in my piece to use the lazer cutter to introduce this principle to my own piece.

Casting a Ant Nest

I found this video a couple seconds ago and felt it was both very strange but also beautiful.

The video shows molten aluminium being poured into an ants nest to take a cast of it. Although the result is very beautiful, Im not sure I like the idea as I believe it is poured into an active ants nest. Although the video explains these ants are "red imported fire ants which are harmful to the environment and their nests are exterminated by the millions in the United States using poisons, gasoline and fire, boiling water, and very rarely molten aluminum." 

The end result is stunning and shows just how intricate a nest is.