Low-res shoot

Photos from last night, (wednesday night) with Callen and David..




these ones are a little bit voyeuristic, with some sort of allowence, obviously, from the models, to be seen.. I took them on the webcam of my mactop..





the garments become rather personified in these shots, i think there is a bit of a "we are creepers" feeling coming from the models, a little bit inspired by that junior boys video perhaps?! Interestingly, you could reflect the way these full body garments, covering majority of the body, give out more of a disfigured persona, the the way people put on facades in every-day dress… The assumptions that come with wearing a suit "i am powerful" "i work" "i have money" all because of this covering.. what assumptions can we create as designers? really.. we are simply marketing how people should look, how they will be percieved… i often dont feel like myself in my own attire, often i think, what i am wearing now, will render who i am to a complete stranger, atleast until the next outfit… These garments, clothes, de-personify the person by having their own personality…


Couple of close shots… low-res detailing

There are about 3 full rolls of film i'm getting developed… but i believe this blog will be ending and being marked tomorrow… so they will be going into the folio

These photos will be used in my book, in a section on utility and mundanity.
maybe a small poster too :)

omg… i will upload the pics tomorrow, need to omit the bad!

Am thinking.. what could i do with these black lights?! i did a shoot with david & callen (3rd year VCA dance) today, which i will shortly upload after i finish this blog post…
and i showed david the bits and pieces (by junior boys) film clip, which i have uploaded in a previous post.. and he asked me.. are the dancers dressed while covered in the UV paint? since they're covered by this "light" and paint.. does that make them dressed?! I mean, what do we even define as being dressed.. fabric is only really one medium to dress, essentially, obvious it makes up just about 100% of the fashion market… (as far as i know) .. what else could people wear, that isnt textile based.. even things that aren't like.. bubble wrap of chicken wire.. that are more like liquid… .. liquid latex?! too dominatrix.. my garments are sexual enough thank-you!!!

anyway, this clip from Momix.. something david showed me as a response to the junior boys film clip is amazing, when i was younger i used to dance, and even then they did things like, place two kids in a three legged suit… so give the appearance of a two headed, three legged gentleman.. Optical illusion using black lights is just another step
… The dancers also suggest we do some sort of collaborative re-take on the junior boys film-clip, kept calling the dancing jazz.. i can't tell.. i bet they can't tell the difference between silk and nylon taffeta either… ahaha… I love the idea of inter disciplinary collaboration… i don't like to discriminate with design, i think that all creation requires design…

An Explaination

Friends, and classmates, who had seen my work have been saying… why the hell are you putting those holes on the penis etc etc. so i think i want to make a post(: here, right now) that shows a little bit more of the stuff i've been looking at. I won't be able to scan anything in from my folio at this stage.. so.. in one small sentence, my work is about menswear that reveals without purpose..
if i'm to elaborate.. revealing without purpose in the same way women's wear reveals, for adornment, on any occasions, particularly the everyday. A man will need a reason to dress in a revealing manner… and so i have been challenging that! to extremes!

as you can read, this is for week 5 of the stretch generic investigation, obviously i couldn't solely focus on men's wear because some garments are simply designed for women only… (obviously sexism ahhaha)
This was sort of my first step towards looking at the removal of fabrics in un-conventional places.. only to cover with a sheer or net fabric.. The idea was a bit tongue in cheek.. if the body parts are still covered by fabric, then is the body still covered, thus decent?!



The result.. a very revealing outfit for a women… Figured if men could show nipple women could too… and if women can do things that men do even more out-rageously, then they can also reveal their lower body parts as well…

These were the leggings i created for the generic investigation.. another additive to the base foundation for the current project… The idea, what was supposed to be the most important part of the garment was the cups that sat inside the net leggings. The cups that pertruded, i suppose, although it wasn't my original intention, looked like erections coming from the knees… which yeah its really funny, ha ha, sex on the mind jack… shut-up. But the skeletal shape was what i really liked about the garment, Also the fact that the pattern was altered only minutely, so the patterns still offer full cover. but you can clearly seen any of the wearers under-garments while these are made in net with the elastic underneath. ALso, the important fact that leggings are competely not conventionally made for men to wear..

this is a toile from my Stretch Project, which has now gone on to be encorportated within the "y" front body suit.. i saw, in the leggings for men, the biggest issue being the penis. Men have big ego problems with their penis, its size and it being seen en masse by the public. What better way to hide something than to cover it with a similar shape on grandeur scale.

See…

Anyway, the idea of this codpiece grew, i think its a very good way of covering the penis bulge, if the fabric is not of sheer or translucent/totally transparent character! also offers extra leg movement, obviously that means comfort. The First steps to a progressive change in fashions is an offering of comfort to a restricted part of dress. You could reflect upon the early 20th century removal of the corset within dresses… Corsets are still around these days, (they're very beautiful when done well as well) but the it seems that function, movement and comfort overruled this. Can changes in menswear also be made? Women once covered as much as men do (in the everyday) now… There will always be un-acceptance, in the early stages of drastic change.

The rest

This garment was the first one shot… model wanted to get it out of the way… most… confronting and difficult to wear… the others are sort of fun and comfortable! i won't be uploading any of the full frontal images.. they really are full frontal. Difficult to get my head around ahaha… deary me




another candid shot… reminded me of the images my Maurice Scheltens that Ricarda put on the brief… was an accidental take.. kind of a funny one again… live and laugh




this garment is from the stretch generic investigation, It sort of started me off looking at the gross side of mens clothing.. its hard to deal with, if the underwear wasnt there.. then it would be gross…
also it makes a really … disturbing and feminine shape when worn around the other way:

More more more

ThEse i think, are my favourite… lots of jumpies… so cool


haha:

this one is a little funny… its for real candid






this one is, as liam said, the perfect pose…

Today's Images!

I think they turned out very good, they arent sexual.. and the clothes speak more than the model or the situation.. not much of a situation! ahaha, I'm going to upload them in different posts… to separate the garments.. for myself! just because we took so many pics
here goes:






the final one here is my favourite, Liam's camera, plus the tungsten lighting just sort of gave the right amount of contrast in lighting to show the details of the garments but still keep it a little secret.. also the filling of the photo with the garment makes it quite focused on that.. rather than any sort of subject matter!






I really love movement in the garments, I'm going to do another post right away of the other garments … there is another jumping shot which gives great vantage point of the fabric's personalities… these more show, i guess, the constructions movement… the bulk of y fronts

Not hugely relevant…

what can i say, i know its all like "hey we're young funky and totaly tune the 80s" but the garments look so amazing under the UV lighting… and the dancing argh, i just love those skeletal lines and shapes! something about linear movements really intrigues me. Minimal volume of leg..maxiumum movement… there's a garment that you can see momentarily which kind of reminds me of the volume that i have tried to get by bunching up the Y front in the big body suit!

anyway, tomorrow morning is the shoot with same.. its exciting… i dont think the studios are going to be all that great, but i figure i can just work at taking good shots of the garments! without being too concerned about the surroundings… i dont want context!

POSTERRRRSS AND BOOOKKKK SSUBBSTAAANNCCEEE

Inspiration for photoshoots:
i just had a look on getty images… bit lazy i know, but i wasnt really sure how i wanted to document the garments, obviously i will be doing some photoshoots and i want them to look plain… so i think these sort of images just hold elements of the sorts of images i want… I looked too at Terry Richardson and a few other "fashion" shoots, but i found that they're either too sexualised/erotic or they have some kind of context...






these photos were by some photographer called "normally" i hadn't really used getty images before.. our graphics teacher in year 11 & 12 instructed us to use it for inspirational images because we can basically type in anything and there will more than likely be pictures of medium quality,.,. sadly with a watermark… these images are really nicely done, i think i will try taking pictures of differnt parts of my garments, particularly the Y front body suit.. because there is so much bulk of underwear that doesnt really communicate far away.. also i thought it might be nice to try doing some photocopies in black and white, i think simone from (now 3rd year) last year did that with her material studies and it looked really beautiful… i also have to think of a good way to present mmyyy material studies (could do this.. )









i typed in sports here.. since the clothes are a little bit informed by this. There is a feeling of sports and sports masculinity in the clothes that i think i should maybe, if only slightly try to get in the images… (dylan, the photographer will need to read this ahaha.) Also, the shoot with Sam and Dylan is in the studios on level 7, and it will be a very minimal white back ground.. with lights… fun fun.





Thinking about the mundane, these are two different photographers. What i like about these shots is the sort of plain nature of the models, its not really voyeuristic, but it could be, easily, and as a viewer i dont feel like we're threatening the men, even though their situations are mundane, we've been taken within their realm, and in a way, something personal is being shown to us… i think i will do a shoot with david and callen (a girl :O) in and around the house, mundane situations.. in the garments..

I've always had this fascination with mundanity juxtaposing something outrageous… ever since i saw roisin murphy's film clip for overpowered a few years ago..

i think the idea behind the film clip was that even diva's have a mundane side…
personally i think its just a bit funny, and the funny side of fashion is always better than the serious side….

These are my final garments, well, the final toiles, the Y front body suit is finished… done… can be photographed.. the other two will be finished next week, i need to elasticate the holes and legs on the white jump-leotard and the yfront singlet suit needs to have the re-drafted Y front pattern … which sort of straightens out those circular shapes that are given when its stretched over the body.. its all very exciting.