This is Me

This is how I look with out make up,

when I don’t wear a bra my boobs sag down low,

my hairs never grown hung down to my shoulders,

and it might not grow,

but you never know.

But I’M CLEVER

Bag LADY

Bag LADY,

you gona miss your bus,

dragging all them bags like that.

I guess, nobody ever told you,  all you must hold on to

is you,

is you, is you…

One day,

all them bags gone get in your way,

I said, one day all them bags gona in your way so…

pack light.

“Tears are words the heart can’t express”

Alexis, I disagree

 

When speaking to one of my tutors about my thoughts about the development of my concept, I brought to his attention the story of the Aborigines. I spoke of the emotion I carried for this subject and how the empathy for this had a reaction on me and in turn could, I felt enrich my work. Whilst I feel he appreciated my thoughts he did not believe in them. He said to that this was all a bit random, due to him liking my initial ideas based on the 20th century film stars. He said why don;t I look at a British culture. For me, that comment triggered some thing in me, confusion, the feeling of being lost. I begin doubting my own belef in these emotions I was feeling. I went home. Do not know how to continue.

 

For some one to make me doubt about my own feelings is some thing I have trouble dealing with. I put a full stop to that emotion.

Stolen Children

Mothers of some Aboriginal children would cover their fair-skinned children with black clay, hide them in trees, behind sand dunes, or in hollow logs. The children in the institutions were the most neglected children in Australia. Many had to sleep in dormitories with about nineteen to twenty-five other girls in each of dormitory. If any of the girls wet the bed, she would get her nose rubbed in the wet sheet and then receive a beating. The food they ate was so bad that sometimes the meat was infested with maggots. Often the white people would send Aboriginal women out into the white community, and if they came back pregnant, the rule was to keep each woman for two years and then take the child away; sometimes mother and child would never see each other again. The white society thought it would be in the best interest of the child to remove her from the corrupting influence of her Aboriginal family.

 

Colour cleansing

Presentation went well, I was the first one to present. My tutor understood where I wanted to take my concept which I made cohearent in the presentation. My tutor did say that I could have maybe have used less words on the slides and just only images to prompt me. He also said that I came across confident and assured about what I was talking about, which I also feel is accurate.

I am becoming well aware that my style is the total opposite to Cavalli’s approach which, I feel makes this task not only more challenging but also personal, as I am having to put  more of myself in this work.

I watched a film on Aborigines. The film told the story of three sisters ageing between 5-11 whom were taken away from their mother and family by Australian police officers. The reason they were taken was because they were mixed race, a result of their mother being raped by white Australian men. This was a frequent acurance and many children were taken away by the police to a camp that would scrub theses children until they were white enough to be adopted by white families. The three sisters decided to make the long journey back to their village in which took months however they made it back to their family. This was a true story.

The film triggered many emotions for me, so many, that some of which I do not even know the words for them.

This for me was the turning point for me in this project where I became emotionally attached. Whilst I have been looking at the 20th century and various film stars, these images are just a forsage of true emotion. The emotion that comes from those images are not what I can emphasis with, as they have been made to look like that, they are not wearing their own clothes, they have been given the props the emulate this atmosphere. Artificial.

 

Thoughts

I want this collection to provoke emotion and I felt it necessary to look at early 20th century actresses such as Gloria Swanson and Rossy De Palma.

 

I feel that these images are a good starting point as they emulate the emotion and sophistication that I am trying to capture. I feel it is also at this point very necessary to look at impressionist paintings, because it is the attention to detail in these paintings I would like to incorporate as Cavalli has done in his designs previous.

Cavalli

Roberto Cavalli was born in Florence Tuscany. Cavalli was the son of a tailor and his grandfather was an Impressionist artist, therefore Cavalli was exposed to creativity at an early age. I feel the influence of the art that surrounded Cavalli is very important when thinking about his inspirations for his work today. The attention to detail is something that I feel Cavalli has taken with him when he is designing

Cavalli is most widely known throughout the art and fashion worlds as a gifted leather designer. Through detailed and thorough research coupled with modern technology Cavalli unveiled the process of printing on light weight leather.

In 1972, Cavalli unveiled his first fashion line in his home town in Florence. His use of denim was seen as less than fashionable, since the fabric had not been previously part of the high fashion world. The first Cavalli show that opened the way for real success was held in Milan in 1994. The first sand blasted jeans were presented and became an instant hit.

I am assuming Cavalli has come to me to create a collection that inhabits his attention to detail however also a classic, more emotional collection, in which I can provide.