Design Blog Session

Referring back to the aesthetics of femme fatale and film noir, I set myself in these movies imagining myself as the femme fatale character. I am looking out the window at New York city as if I am dominant (referring back to the domination of dominatrix) of the city I live, like a Superhero looking down at what he or she feels responsible of. Film noirs tend to be black and white so the background as well as me are rendered achromatic and I am in low opacity to give the behind-the-window effect. Position is also carefully considered as placing me in the center of the background will draw eyes less on the city and more towards me. As a result, I am looking down upon the city though my head is tilted upward to give the responsibility or domination feel of the femme fatale version of me.

In creating plaid, I have created a rouge feel giving it a coherent flow of the plaids. The plaids were inspired by red, the color of blood, love, passion, femme fatale, couture, as well as pinup girls. I thought pinup girl's style was more aloof from gothic fashion, until I came across the word of existence "halloween pinup" which inspired me to create plaids of dark colors mixed with thin stripes of red combined with the cute playful colors of the pinup girl's attires. Using the stripes created last week, I played with the position of the stripes' direction, ie. horizontal, vertical, diagonal. As a result, the plaids as a collection is bipolar as it shows a cute fun side then brings out its personal evil side similar to the narrative about the evil, hot high school vampire.

 I deconstructed a white shirt for Integrated Studio creating a spiderweb pattern on the deconstruction. Using the deconstructed model as a reference, I created 26 looks inspired by spiderwebs and the shirt aesthetic creating a cohesive spider collection. By tearing bits of woven fabrics off the shirt, I created a series of strings to tangle the newly formed outfit. As a result, the collection which included a wedding gown as a complement were filled with spiderweb patterns though I have yet to grasp the shirt aesthetic idea.

For visual communication, I am required to draw a figure wearing denim with a crazy movement as well as a flat for a denim jacket. Using markers, I considered starting off with a lighter shade towards the darker shade to avoid smudging. To draw denim requires a shade of white pencil to emphasize the yarn's color--white and indigo--and seams needed to be included. As a result, the figure does not seem to have a crazy motion as her legs are in one position but she seems to almost go crazy by acting like a cat ready to jump at the viewers.