Breward, Christopher and Gilbert, David
(2006)
Fashion's World Cities
Berg Publisher
New York
I was just reading a section on Japanese fashion to help with my essay about designers using national identity and found a few quotes that I would like to share:
* Japanese have been fascinated by Western dress
*Tokyo today holds a unique position in the urban hierarchy of fashion where consumption and production take place simultaneously
*Tokyo as a fashion city and Japanese designers gradually began to attract attention vicariously through the emergence of Kenzo Takada in Paris in 1970
*Kenzo's sudden appearance and his almost overnight success in Paris as a designer provoked an interest in Tokyo among the fashion professionals in the West, as an exotic, mysterious city, where there could be more creative designers, like Kenzo, hidden or waiting to be discovered.
*It was the combination of Japanese and Western elements that forced the destruction of both in order to reconstruct something completely new
*What is new and different about the current street fashion that emerged at the beginning of the 1990s is that different institutions of fashion for together to make use of and take advantage of the marketing potential of teenagers
Hey there and welcome to "The making of Rosa Blanca". I'm a designer-in-making and this blog is set up to archive the creation of Rosa Blanca. This is done by lots of projects, notes, photos and drawings as I do my Fashion Design course at Hertfordshire University. So sit back, relax and enjoy.
Sunday, 4 March 2012
Friday, 17 February 2012
Spray on T-Shirt Technology
A fashion designer and scientists at Imperial College today demonstrated their revolutionary spray-on clothing technology
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/video/2010/sep/16/spray-on-t-shirt?INTCMP=SRCH
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/video/2010/sep/16/spray-on-t-shirt?INTCMP=SRCH
Friday, 3 February 2012
Mr Simple
Completely obsessed with the song.
Love the tune, love the lyrics, love the costumes. Bold and pop!
BWARA MR SIMPLE!!
Monday, 30 January 2012
New Blog
Created a new blog: http://themakingofrosablanca.wordpress.com/
This is for my new project: Design in Focus. Hopefully, if I'm strict enough, I shall update everything that is related to my work on that blog. The first post is up, background information on the project. Still playing around with the design look, but finally got the music up and running. Now to try and add tracks after tracks so that it flows from one song to another....
This is for my new project: Design in Focus. Hopefully, if I'm strict enough, I shall update everything that is related to my work on that blog. The first post is up, background information on the project. Still playing around with the design look, but finally got the music up and running. Now to try and add tracks after tracks so that it flows from one song to another....
Thursday, 3 November 2011
The Carpenter's Chair
Hello,
Just finished doing The Carpenter's Chair project, where I learnt how to tailor a jacket. I must say, despite the amount of time, effort and work I've put into it, not once did I feel stressed out! I must be enjoying this area of fashion. And to find out if I do, I'll be doing soft tailoring for my next project.
In the meantime, sit back and relax and the photos of what I have done so far will be up!
Laters!
Rosa X
Just finished doing The Carpenter's Chair project, where I learnt how to tailor a jacket. I must say, despite the amount of time, effort and work I've put into it, not once did I feel stressed out! I must be enjoying this area of fashion. And to find out if I do, I'll be doing soft tailoring for my next project.
In the meantime, sit back and relax and the photos of what I have done so far will be up!
Laters!
Rosa X
Tuesday, 18 October 2011
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
Monday, 19 September 2011
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