The next brief for my college project, is "mini me", this brief consists of: - About my self - My Fashion history and Fashion now - Jewellery - Music tastes - Colours. For this project I will be creating a 3 mood boards, to show my interests. I will also be drawing 5 designs, (Fashion Illustrations) to show key ideas. I've gathered a few photo's together to show my likes and dislikes to show my personality.

I like the British sea side, I think it holds a lot of history in Britain, it's full of my childhood memories!

I really like the brand "Burberry" as he clothing is so simple yet unique. The male model in the photo is "George Craig", from one of my favourite bands, "One Night Only", and now part time models for Burberry.

I think he's a great model, as his musical background reflects on the Fashion World. I look up to him as he demonstrates the look for a male model, which helps me gain confidence on picking future models in the future.

Evaluation

Introduction:
My brief was to create a garment from recycled materials. When I brain stormed my ideas, I realised that I didn't want to do a cliche material such as “Plastic bags”, “Cans” and “Foods”. To put a twist on my recycled project, I picked a chosen era to make my project structured. The 1950’s and 70’s was an era that I felt I could create a garment with no limits.

Influences:
As I based my project on the 50’s era to create depth into my work, I researched famous models and actors from the 50’s and 70’s to clash them together.

Exploration:
For my project I wanted to create/ make a petticoat, and over-skirt.
I required to make the petticoat out of net curtains from the charity shops.
I went to TP Textiles and looked through the cut off bin (Scrap bins) and I found a red and white polka dot shiny material (2 meters), and a thick calico material for the under skirt base (2 meters).

Evaluation:
Firstly, I started to research into designers and artists that are inspired by “recycle” made items. This gave me inspiration and a different outlook on the fashion industry throughout recycling.
The designer that had the biggest impact on my work was “Reem Alasadri”, her work inspired me as the whole point of recycling wasn't the cliche “Cans”, “plastic”. She went out to charity shops and markets all around Britain to create clothing into something completely different, also it gives a retro or vintage feel to her work, which is something I definitely wanted to introduce in my work, l especially the “retro” side of it. The research side of the project was very interesting as I received information that inspired me.
When making the garment I discovered that I the top skirt (The polka dot material) was very hard to sew! Especially on the sewing machine as the fabric snagged and made the material fray. To reduce this happening, I hand stitched the hem line on the top skirt. The zip was surprisingly straight forward to put in the top skirt. I hand tacked it onto the material first, and then went over it with the sewing machine, as the zip needed to be secure.
For the underskirt, I used thick elastic to be sewn onto the waistband; I didn't apply a zip into the calico underskirt as it would be hidden under the polka dot material.
When sewing the net curtain pieces onto the underskirt, I gathered each piece of netting to create a ruffled effect, to make the petticoat look fluffy.

Conclusion
Overall, I enjoyed making the garment and I am pleased with the end result
to show off  my garment I created a photo shoot and styled the hair, make up, and posture of my model. I did a photo shoot to show the best qualities of my garment. The photo shoot was very enjoyable; I enjoyed leading a team and styling the image. It is something I will definitely look into in the future.  

Recycle Project - Moodboards

This MoodBoard is based on the Recycle side of the project. This gave me inspiration on different textures I could use and materials.

This MoodBoard is based on the theme of my project, the 1950's. I chosen to do two different MoodBoards as my project had alot of depth into it, and was easy to break down.

1950's American Diner Photo Shoot

Designed/Made/Stylist/Art Directed - Amy Smith

Photographed by Stephen Maycock





The clash of all the patterns in this shot are a little crazy, but in the 1950's, everybody got carried away with pattern and print, as it was all a new discovery, in a way it all works well together.
This shot is one of my favouriates, as you can see the petticoat I made, the ruffles look even and tidy.
I told my model to act very flirty whilst acting this shoot, as I feel Women in the 50's became very dominant and knew they could win Males over, by flirting!

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This photograph was a head shot. Even though this photo doesn't show off the skirt I produced, I styled the model's hair and make-up, also, I chosen the white blouse to go with the polka-dot skirt, and the bright red pussy bow to add extra effect!
Red lips symbolise 'sexy' 'flirty', also with the splash of red in the bow, and the polka dots on the skirt, I thought it would finish the look off!

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This shot is all about the props!
When I was finishing the last touches on Jessica (The Model) I asked the owner of the diner if he could whip up a Milk-Shake!
I feel the Milk-Shake gave my photoshoot that extra thing to observe!

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I made the 1950's circle skirt, and located the photo shoot in Afflecks Palace, Manchester.

The photographer was Stephen Maycock. I chosen this setting for the shoot, because it was set out like an American Diner.