Tulips and Lace: March 2011

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Style on the Street

Just some snaps from around the place :)

Loosly Drapped
Styles are very in!

Festival Fashion

Another loosly draped dress

Hotttt Shoes!

Emma Ngere Looking Stylish!

Quirky Earings

Loosly drapped skirt-Lovely!

Monday, March 21, 2011

Re-inventing Clothing

In class we had to bring in 3 items of clothing and re-invent them using the environmental designer we researched as inspiration.

Here's what I came up with using paper clips instead of can tabs!

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

The first proper magazine was called The Lady’s Magazine and was published in 1770. The longest running magazine Harpers Bazaar began in 1861 under the name The Queens Magazine from England, the name changed in 1968 when Harpers Bazaar bought out the magazine and renamed it Harpers and Queen. The name then changed again in 2006 to simply Harpers Bazaar

Some other magazines we researched included The Delineator founded in 1873 lasting until 1937 featuring articles about needlework, dressmaking and millinery. Vogue magazine founded in 1892 for higher society readers. Cosmopolitan founded in 1886 and still running began as a family magazine focusing interests of women how to look after children, kids section and women’s section based on fashion articles, household decorations, and cooking. Vanity Fair started in 1859 to 1863 as a humorous weekly publication and was reinvented in 1983 by Conde Nast as a more fashion focused magazine.

Fashion and Costume Plates

In the 18^th and 19^th Century fashion printed plates to inform people about new upcoming trends in magazines, costume plates however were made to show how clothing was worn in the past and they showcase costumes from different types of national, theatrical, court and royal dress. They were originally in black and white but in the late 19^th century they started hand colouring them.

Two men began to make publications of fashion plates, Jacques Esnauts and Michel Rapilly from Paris. They produced roughly 342 figure plates and about 72 hat plates. Fashion plates were seen a lot in 1770 in The Lady’s Magazine an English monthly magazine, plates weren’t featured in every issue but were in some.

Fashion Plates and Costume plates are great collectable art pieces now days as they give a great look at how fashion was in the past and how magazines and technology has changed since then.

What’s a Zine you ask?

“zine also 'zine (zn) n. 1. An inexpensively produced, self-published, underground publication”- Bird in the hand Zine Shop

Starting in 1946, Zine’s are non professional/ non official publications made by fans of a cultural phenomenon, like fashion, music, science fiction and art. The word Zine is an adaptation of the words Magazine and Fanzine.

Zine’s are similar to blogs, anyone can make them and they are a smaller version of a larger publication eg. blogs are a version of websites and Zine’s are a version of magazines. Internet based Zine’s are called E-Zine’s, they are different to blogs as they have more articles information and are more art based where as blogs are mainly pictures and thoughts.