Wednesday 13 June 2012

GFW in a Nutshell



UCA Rochester graduates showed their final collections at Earls Court on Monday (woooo), and Me and my friend Amy Warner got to style the show as well as styles two editorials for our Universities graduarte magazine. So I thought id talk about some of the inspirations behind the show and the magazine shoots.

Soooooo going back a few months .. me and Amy where given a loose theme and some key words to start with, what caught my attention was the word 'Illusion'. I then did some research into illusions and magic and came across the story of the Fox Sisters. The story goes that  in 1848 the 3 siblings started what we now know as a seance, or in other words they communicated with with dead. However surprise suprise the whole act was a con, the noises that people where hearing in the room where just one of the sisters knocking on the floor boards with their dodgy toe. Although people in them days were a sucker for a quick thrill, remember they didn't have iPads and Macbooks to keep them entertained. So here is the creepy part .... The Sisters took their act to a town in America called Rochester .... which is also the name of the town where my University is based, finding this out made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up...  I knew I had to do something with this story.    

Below is a little disturbingly good video that tells the story of the Fox sisters and shows how their life's slowly fell apart.


On a lighter note .. Here is Most Haunted presenter Yvette Fielding getting put in her place by a 'ghost' LOL



Also Christ Church Spitalfields was the perfect venue for the internal show, I couldn't believe our luck! 







We now had a narrative, the models on the runway were to carry a similar creepy/eary/ghostly characteristics as the Fox Sisters. The hair for the models was inspired by the Fox sisters own style. Slicked back hair with a dominant hair parting became a strong feature of the siblings so we wanted to take this and develop it for the UCA show. To create a ghostly impression we wanted to give a sunken eye with a tint of peach/red to give the impression that the eyes are saw from crying. The strong dark cherry lip  helped give an added kick to some of the looks that were lacking colour.  




And ....  this is what we got 























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