#fashion isnpiration

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YOUR Fashion Icons!

I couldn’t cover everyone you guys asked me for in one post, else we’d be here for a while! I picked a few of the top mentions, and a few to add a bit of contrast to hopefully hit as many styles as possible! I threw in a few of mine too as a bit of self-indulgence, but I hope you guys appreciate them too!

Old Hollywood: Marilyn, Audrey, etc.

I saw quite a few Marilyns and Audreys, as well as Ava Gardner and a Grace Kelly or two. I decided to group them together, but let me know if you’d be interested in a more extensive deep-dive.

To me, the thing that’s going to set you apart as vintage Hollywood is hair and makeup, especially a victory red lip, but that’s not my area of expertise, I confess! I also didn’t want to say “just wear vintage and vintage-inspired, duh,” because that’s cheap. I’m going to try to break down the looks.

Common elements are all designed to emphasise and create a traditionally feminine silhouette such as something to emphasise the bust and decolletage, cinch the waist, and skim the hips- be it pencil or flared at the skirt. Of course, this speaks to the times, but it can be recreated in daywear and nighttime glam by recognising the shapes you want to create. Ideas: a halterneck, a long-line necklace, a sweetheart or bardot (fitting) that reveals the decolletage. Pencil skirts and flared circle skirts are equally vintage, but we do not talk enough about a pretty little short/skort/romper situation.

But let’s also just normalise wearing big, fluffy robes that look like we murdered our fourth rich old husband as an appropriate outfit to buy groceries in.

Jang Won Young

Y’all are educating me, this was a fashion queen I was not familiar with and I’m interested. I’m going to be basing this off of what I see on the images tab, though, so I don’t know how accurate this will be!

She seems to have such a classic, pretty style that goes everywhere from the fashion girly uniform from a few years ago, to classic tumblr, to all the k-pop staples. She’s reminding me of Lara Jean Covey. What I’m largely seeing is a lot of tailored shorts, big poofy white blouses, and pastels. She seems to be in pink a lot, so she’s after my heart, and I’m seeing a lot of varsity stripes on socks, hems, etc as well as denim, especially shorts.

The elements I would use to emmulate her style would be some nice pairs of shorts- pastels and denim, perhaps- and black. I’m seeing frilly white blouses so a range with long and short sleeves and different details such as collars. Varsity jackets and socks in black, white, or pink would add to the vibe, and are going on my wishlist.

Jennie Kim

My blackpink heart! I’m happy. Her style is so ranged from like, that baddie kind of style to the Chanel. To me, I feel like black and white together can play into both of those styles, as well as a good pair of denim jeans. I’m also seeing bows coming up a lot, be it a pussycat bow on the top, a gorgeously big bow that takes up most of her top (I’m sure you’ve seen the iconic ‘fit with the pretty purple cardigan), and you can even do one on the hip on a skirt.

If you really want to emmulate Jennie, you could go a long way with a big gold buckle to look like the Chanel buckle… or get a real Chanel belt, I’m not stopping you. Pearl details are my favourite and also add to the classic Chanel look. Tweed goes a long way too.

I am consistently seeing black and white, with the casual side being a striped tee with baggy jeans, and the more classy side being matching Chanel sets.

You can find nice cardigans that dupe Chanel sets, and a simple skirt matching the contrasting colour can have a classy look.

Megan Thee Stallion

I’m not that familiar with her, but I know she eats red carpets for breakfast, and I stan. I’m going to use that as my main inspiration because I must say, I worship it.

I think that, in order to take inspiration from Megan Thee Stallion, you should go for bustiers, camisoles, and other pieces that take inspiration from lingerie, especially either in black or a very bold, strong colour like a vibrant orange or gold. You can go full red carpet with a long, sexy dress, but day-to-day wearing something that highlights your favourite parts of your body to show off such as a bodycon skirt or tight-fitting jeans.

Despite the oppulence of the dresses, the shoes, while usually high heels, tend to be quite simple and elegant and easy to dupe.

I’m seeing also this stunning black blazer from the 2019 VMAs with silver stud detailing. It’s paired with matching socks and black boots. You can find leather blazers, studded leather jackets etc and for a casual look, you can go for a black skirt or shorts with boots, and for a glam look, something with silver sparkles.

Jennifer Check

To whoever suggested this one, I love you.

We’re all thinking of the heart hoodie, so let’s start there. Given the surge of this kind of pattern in the past few years, this is probably pretty replicable. It can also be applied to blouses, sweater vests, and anything else you’d like for more of an influence than a recreation.

For the rest of her style, the key elements are cropping and/or low-rise- basically, we’re showing off skin around the midriff or stomach. She has another pink moment, but to me the key colour has to be a dangerous shade of red from the lovehearts to the fishnets… ....to the blood… Maybe we try to emmulate the blood instead of recreating that exactly- but more power to you if you go out and buy fake blood and make it part of your normal routine. Anyways, the fishnets are a nice little nod, as would a lacey texture, or like a pattern overlaid over another colour- she tends to wear a lot of black and white, so its one to consider.

My favourite moment is the long white dress (again, DRENCHED in blood) which I would nod to with a white blouse or skirt with a black bow detail and white accestories- or just go for it with gloves.

Hillary Banks

You’re not getting away without a hat for this one. The Hilary Formula is repeated regularly and its a 90s power suit moment. She wears short skirts, usually pencil skirts, with bold shoulder-padded blazers and a funky little hat. Rinse and repeat that, and you’re doing it, baby. I associate her with red, but anything strong and striking will give the effect you want, ideally in just as eye-catching a pattern.

She’s also a huge jewellry kind of gal, so more is more on this one- the gaudier the better. Gold, flower accesories, bold stones; rings a-plenty, earrings for the gods, and a chunky gold necklace.

You can modernise Hilary too because the look doesn’t go out of style, it just evolves. Personally, I would change up the blazer a little to a more modern silhouette. To me, that’s more tapered at the waist and less-boxy. If it were me, I’d go for a little bit of a shorter skirt. You can lean a little towards Cher and Dionne to keep it in the same decade, but slightly-less aggresively 90s.

But you must keep the hats. You will not change my mind.

Lady Gaga

This one was tough because her outfits range from aliens and Venus to red carpet glam. I feel like for Lady Gaga, there are still a few elements that you can go for like platform shoes, and geometric, angular pieces like shoulder pads or asymmetery but the main thing is pushing the boat out and trying new things.

But the simplest way to do that is looking into subversive basics. Try cut-out details, angles, jeans that button on a diagonal, and pushing the norm just slightly.

Lady Gaga’s big fashion thing is making it into art, a performance. Find pieces that feel creative and out there and try new jewellry, big chunky platform shoes, studs and details, and something that adds a bit of spice. Even if you add a neon earring to a plain black outfit, you’re pushing your own comfort zone.

Figure out what makes you feel not just confidant, but like a work of art.

Now we’re getting into a few of my icons…

Katie from Steal the Spotlight (YouTube)

This woman is my biggest fashion recs, the way she plays with fashion is so inspirational to me, even if its not that I want to to copy her literal style.

She layers and accesorieses like nobody’s business and blends different elements like J-fashion, K-pop influences and girly cartoons. The key aspects of her style are use of colour-co-ordination, layering pieces, and accesoriesing, but her range is truly everything from pastel princess to Misa Amane.

Sweater vests, harnesses, mini skirts, platform shoes, and leg warmers are huge aspects of her style, and the big go-to is colour co-ordination and theming outfits aggresively.

Regina Mills, Once upon a Time The Evil Queen of my Heart, Regina is always ready for mayoral duties, or murder depending on where the mood of the day takes her. Then there’s also the fairytale dresses that I dream about, honestly.

I’m going to need a collection of structured, elegant blazers and trousers, dresses, and skirts, and a bustier or two… or twenty in the theme colours of black, blue, purple, and red. I might swap the red out for pink for my own preferences but my eyes have already glazerd over daydreaming about her wardrobe. I have an eye out for some under-knee black boots.

In the Enchanted Forest, outfit inspiration comes from her tight corseted bodices, dramatic collars and necklines, murderous heels, and playing with txtures- leather, lace, and velvet come to mind.

Real-Life Princesses (Diana, Meghan, Kate etc)

Diana is back in public consciousness after The Crown, and for me, I love a good university sweatshirt to add a bit of academia to even a casual look. My favourites are also the masculine button-up shirts and structured trousers or jeans that read very old money. While I personally plan on swapping my colour palettes out a bit, true Diana styling would be neutrals with the shirt in white or perhaps blue jeans. For shoes, loafers.

She also had a fabulous elegant style featuring evening dresses and business-ready suits. This to me is the real-life princesscore standard. Daywear is often a blazer or jacket matching a knee-length dress underneath and usually neutral heels. This kind of look has been seen on Diana, Kate, and Meghan, and around the world on Princess Martha Louise of Norway, Princess Haya of Norway and Princess Mako of Akishino. Let me know if a full analysis of real-life princess fashion would be interesting to anyone!

Let’s talk about the details of the Revenge Dress, because that’s what we all really want to look like at all times: Its black, off the shoulder, draping in a bardot-style neckline below her shoulders and dipping into a sweetheart and drawing attention to the collarbone and cleavage.

It is asymmetric, wrapping tightly around the knees at an angle and creating an almost-slit. The shortr side plays host to the billowy drape of a diaphonous fabric.

She’s wearing pointed-toed black shoes, and a hardcore pearl choker with the most stunning sapphire by the looks of it…

This look deserves the long-lasting attention its had, it is genuinely stunning and is giving me so much inspiration.

[summerknowledge]

Blake Babies, circa 1990

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Conversations 17/10

After my tutorial I decided to start recording general conversation I had with my flatmates. I think this will help develop my project because it allows me to see how a line of conversation changes as the conversation progresses. I have decided to keep it to only my flatmates and course mates because they are the people I currently talk with daily. I have decided to not include conversations with family as these are quite sparse and mostly over phone calls.

Before recording these conversations, I discussed with my flatmates if they were happy to participate and what they would be comfortable talking about. Emily, heather and Becky agreed that they would be happy to participate however, they would like only general conversation to be included.

On the 17th October I recorded 2 conversations I had with Heather and Emily. I found that these conversations diverged from their first topic a lot as the conversation changed. However, they usually ended with a similar topic to the starting topic. For example, the conversation names 'Mattress' (Treais and Gilchrist, ,2023) by my phone recorder app, started with talking about bed bugs and ended with talking about Mattresses. I found this quite amusing because although we got distracted from the bed bugs multiple times in the 10 minute conversation, it still remained in our subconscious as we referred back to it.

This is further shown in the recording 'Skirt' (Treais and Gilchrist, ,2023b), where we started by talking about outfits that would not interfere with my flatmates insulin pump and ended up on the topic of my flatmates new insulin pump. Although we had also talked about fashion trends, phrases and pasta.

I am also as interested in how my phone app named the recordings. The first recording was named after the last topic we had discussed. However, the second conversation is named after an object we talked about in the middle of the recording. However, these are both something that we referred to frequently in the conversation because they both closely link to the main topics.

I will use these conversations to direct my research and experiments. This will make my experiments open but on brief as I am referring back to the Line of conversation. This will also allow me to explore different aspects of the conversations.

Using these conversation, I explored how combining illustrations with short phrases can give them a context. This will change how they are viewed. When looking at Davis work, I noticed that the words he places emphasis on, directly relate to the illustrations.

When I drew a quick illustration of a skirt using market and placed it below the sentence without any type manipulation (Isnpired by Davis' illustrations), I found it looked uninteresting and sounded dull. The illustration also looked separate from the type, making the layout look disjointed. Furthermore, I chose this illustration based on the main focus of the conversation (Clothes) instead of the phrase itself which has led to the text not relating to the illustration.

However, when I made the word Tug, larger with a heavier weight, it made the ending sound louder and more violent. By combining it with an illustration of tug of war rope, it creates the competition and violence, because it creates an image or a fight.

However, when the phrase it combined with the illustration of a door and the words a 'little tickle' and 'tug' underlined it makes the phrase softer and imply it described the opening of a jammed door.

I found it quite interesting how the manipulation of the text changes how it is said. By combining it with an appropriate illustration, it reinforces the tone.

When looking at Davis work, I liked how he mapped out disorganised thoughts. By using different line thickness he was able to emphasised the main topics whilst still showing all the small thoughts. This inspired me to explore the journey of one of the conversations.

I like how the joined lines show how topics connect but the thicker lines show that the main topics were around bed bugs. I would like to explore the journey of the conversation further to look at different ways this can be visualised. I am interesting in how the conversation would be interpreted depending on the method I used to explore it.

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The Complete Book of Seminole Patchwork

From Traditional Method to Contemporary Uses

Beverly Rush and Lassie Wittman

Madrona Pub , Seattle1982, 123 pages

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Developed by the Mikasuki-speaking Indian women of southern Florida around the end of the 1800s, Seminole patchwork has become a highly visible art form and genuine symbol of Seminole culture. Distinguished by its bright, mosaic-like patterns, Seminole patchwork is created by sewing cloth strips into long, multicolored bands. These are then cut into segments, rearranged, and sewn into geometric patterns that produce a multitude of effects when combined into lengths of fabric. This profusely illustrated guide to Seminole patchwork — one of the first books on the subject — offers complete instructions and hundreds of clear, easy-to-read diagrams for making Seminole bands. These can then be assembled into skirts, wall hangings, pillows, mats, tote bags, book covers, belts, and many other attractive and practical items. In addition, the authors provide Native American craft, a glossary of important terms, an attractive display of patchwork patterns, and detailed instructions for reading assembly diagrams. Illustrations of attractive contemporary quilts and wall hangings as well as comments on traditional and modern clothing complete this informative and useful guidebook

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[h-o-n-e-y-1]

it inspires me so much 🦋

[bettersongs]

jude’s fashion sense is honestly kind of plain for a hippie, which comes both from his background and the fact he’s just poor, but don’t i wish i could somehow use the very broad secret pinterest board concerning the men's fashion of the ‘60s and ‘70s? yes, i do.

[elfiore]

Fresh flowers and soft pastel colours to celebrate spring 🌺 

[gloriavilla21]

#fbf to my thesis project. 👩‍🎓🌷 Worked on this 3 years ago, but haven’t shown much of it on here.

[amusteredmind]

[snowy10604]

Oop wait I found the others-

A Gordo and a benry

[creativescollection]

Shinning Girl Lolita Dress by Devil Inspired

[sokgab]

Had to share this @WeHeartIt

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This, like most of the images I post are not mine. I just find it beautiful. If it belongs to you, please let me know and I will take it down.

[pulchinelle]

Yuu-mun's overblot design!

This might change later, but for now I'm happy with it!

The main inspiration was early Reinassance clothing with touches of 16th century fashion. As for the other isnpiration I used Prince Florian (Snow white) and Philip (Sleeping beauty). Now, some design notes so cringe warning bc I love making symbolicnot really but I try clothing for my ocs (;-;):

-His hair while he overblots is mostly left open, to symbolise the first Years/mc finding out his identity (hair let down is general symbolic for one's true nature) but it's somewhat still tied since he isn't exactly himself (this makes no sense but please bear with me)

-Yuu-mun's hair was also made long to symbolise his royal/wealthy status, and to push on that I also chose the color blue for his jacket which is also a reference to Prince Florian's outfit 

-He wears a cape to symbolise his status too, but also his burden of being the next in line as capes are also used to represent authority. Even the color purple accentuates this, but it also means enlightenment since Yuu-mun's arc is about discovering a more twisted (this pun sucks pls end my suffering) side of the world (since he has been sorta sheltered by his family). The weight of his status is also represented by the blot crown

-I also chose for him to wear a green jacket (?) Underneath and green pearls, both to reference Naveen, and to hint at his character developedment since it means rebirth 

-Deep red here and there for Prince Florian and Prince Philip

-About that, I decided to use only Prince Florian and Philip's outfits as main inspirations instead of the other princes because in the movies they are both strangers in the eyes of the princesses (and potentially threats since they both knew nothing about them.

-As for the sword, He doesn't use the one with the magic gem in it because that one is supposed to be the sword of Truth, passed down and changing throughout the generations in Yuu-mun's family. It should also be the weapon used inthe battle against him but I'm still working on that.