Style Hunt and Blagging a show

Style Hunt

Today we took a little break from our studies to take on a one-day job for the company 'Unilever'. We carried out a 'Style Hunt' around london, taking groups of Unilever Employees to different venues that we considered inspiring to our own style. I took our group to Lily Allens Fashion boutique in Covent Garden and also to Liberty's off Carnaby Street. In discussing what had inspired us for our latest project, I actually found it helped me to discover new ways to look for inspiration, especially when talking to the other students about how their ways varied. 

After the Style hunt a few of us went for a meal and it was outside the restaurant that another student Elliot Dollie, and I, were approached by a couple of very dressed up girls. They offered us two tickets to the British Fashion Awards that night, for free, as they had made the mistake of ordering twice as many as they needed! Never one to miss out on a freebie, Elliot and I continued our fashion-filled day by going to watch the awards show, hosted by Claudia Winkleman and attended by top fashion faces such as Naomi Cambell, Claudia Schiffer, and top actress of mine, Thandie Newton. 

Among the many awards the winners included: The late Alexander McQueen who was awarded an outstanding achievement award in fashion:

 Alexa Chung who won the acolade for Best British Style

 and Pheobe Philo for Celine who won Best Designer of the Year.

We also got goodie bags included with our (freee) ticket, and Elliot was kind enough to pass on his free Mac lipgloss to me :)

Goldwell Shoot Day

We have now completed the photoshoot for Goldwell. It's been a brilliant team effort where all members of the group have used their individual strengths in either photography, styling, hair and makeup, or general production. I particularly enjoyed shooting the video today - we had to produce a minute long film clip that portrayed our idea of 'Gender Entanglement'. We did this visually by twisting the models hair together, and then having them slowly move apart.... in the editing stages this will also be reversed so it looks as though the two models are morphing into one another. Unfortunately due to copyright issues, I cannot post any images yet!

Desire Presentation

Today I completed my powerpoint presentation for Desire. Having completed the shoot and the journal alongside the images, I realised there was so much more to this topic to be uncovered - with regards to mother and daughter style influences and the meaning of gifted clothing. For this reason, I anticipate that I may continue this topic into my final major project.