working on the stand/draping

Autumn/Winter 12/13

In a world of extremes and turbulent unrest, neutrality becomes the most progressive standpoint. Shifts in perception, extreme androgyny and a faux uniformity inform this new minimalism that is soft, immersive and boldly modest.

This trend fits in perfectly with what I want to look into, with the trend being androgynous and I am looking at cross dressing and transexuals for my dissertation and I am also looking at the word transition for research practises where I want to look into transvestites and transexuals as well as men and women looking gender neutral.  

Ai Weiwei: The unilever series at the tate modern

The turbine hall was filled with ceramic sunflower seeds, which very much took me for being 'art for art's sake' as surely it would have been better to have just planted this many sunflower seeds, but after watching the video it seemed it was more about the individuality of the thousands of sunflower seeds and the villagers who made them, and the fact that Weiwei was able to give so many people work which they were paid for for the amount of time it took to make the sunflower seeds.

Sue Timney - Fashion and textiles museum

Yohji Yamamoto exhibition

I went to the Yohji Yamamoto exhibition in London the other day, I thought there were a lot of interesting details on the garments, although most of the actual garments I wasn't a fan of I thought small details were interesting and would be fun to sample and develop. We were unable to sketch at the exhibition so most of the things i had to remember, but there were some interesting pleat detail that was in a small sleeve which ran down the dress and around the back.