After finished this module...

So, it reached an end for this blog because the module finished. However, I would like to remain this blog as my personal creative diary. I am happy to show what I am thinking and doing. Somebody may be interested in me some day, so :-) Or it may be continued using for another module, that is most likely. Anyway, I am always saying, Enjoying is the most important thing in my life. I enjoyed this blog, that's why, I will keep doing!

The final piece: In my mind...

I always do not have any idea for my design.
But I always have a plan what the outcome is going to be.
This is slightly strange explain, but in fact my brain works those two things separated.
So I prepared 3 different fabrics following my plan.
2m purple and 1m silver Lycra, and 1m hard silver organza.
The concept is a super modern architecture. Now a days, Futurism goes more organic shape.
(A few decades ago, future style was more squarish, wasn't it?)
And I admire natural shapes very much. It is not my way that force everything to fit for human.
I totally agree with Miyake, Yoji, and Kawakubo.
So, in my mind, there is no idea for making 'garment'.
Where are sleeves? Where is a neck? That should be very last part.

Anyway, My plan is this.
I am going to present an organic shape with Futuristic style.
The silhouette indicates natural atmosphere such like wind, forest, water and bio, while colours suggest futuristic clean image.  

Future Beauty

A few weeks ago, I went to an exhibition about Japanese Fashion at Barbican Art Gallery.
It was strange feeling because I am Japanese but I had not known about any of them well.
When I was in Japan, I was not interested in fashion at all.
So my fashion study is purely made in Britain.

I watched and sketched them a lot.
Even their designs were fresh for me but I felt something familiar smell.
Flatness, which is one of the Miyake's concept, is very much Japanese thinking.
Our garments are traditionally all flat. No bustle, No corset. Japanese love to remain everything natural. For example, Japanese even represents our garden like a part of mountain and river.

By the way, I put a music which you can feel Japanese thinking.
The music has 'ma' which means 'blank space'.
But actually there is certain time which synchronizes to our body and breath.

FOREVER21 Fashion show.

Probably this post is not relevant to creativity but it was the tutor who gave us a chance to experience a real fashion world.
It was the first time I have joined a proper fashion scene. There were many staff in the backstage. hair dressers, make up artists, models, photographers and more who I don't know the roles. We were dressers. All staff prepared and checked many many times taking a long time for only 20 minutes show. It was getting serious and serious when the show time got closer.
Changing time was super short. It made me a bit nervous but I was lucky.
Because my model was Coco. She is also Japanese, so we could get nice mood immediately.
Anyway, it was great chance for me to feel the real scene. Overall, I really enjoyed!

Glue & cloth...and Hussein Chalayan

This exhibition trip is from module 1501. The work is 2009 S/S by Hussein Chalayan.
[Similarity: Mold and prominent shapes]
Even if we do not know how he made this mold and where the original idea come from, we found similar taste from our experimentation which we did yesterday. His work is very organic shape but also has a hint of super modern architecture like NOX.
Anyway, the point is why do his design and our model have similality. The main reason is the shape. Mild and sharp streamlines express nature shapes like mineral growing, wind line and mountains. Once Walt Disney said that there is no perfect straight line in nature world. (That is why his charactors are drawn by curved lines.) As these reasons, his design has man-made organic shape. If we follow this logic, our model will also be a natural silhouette after we cut it out and hung on a mannequin. I expected in the middle of making.

[B-SIDE] Hussein Chalayan
http://www.springproject.co.uk/



Introduction -Make my own place-

I am making this blog and it is going to be my third one. Now, I am trying to put all of three into one web page because it will be easier to administer them. It was required new skills, but I am enjoying learning them very much. I believe that any kind of IT skills could help me in future. Better than Nothing.

So, that is why I have already spent for 38 hours in front of my laptop.

By the way, this red stamp like logo is my logo which I made for a project last year. The design comes from my name, 'R U me?'. Did you find it? I am going to put it in my blog.

Anyway, I am enjoying, that's the most important thing.