Vivienne Westwood
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| The lady herself |
Vivienne Westwood through power points and influences for the project has always come up; not only does this striking and brilliant role model actually look Elizabethan with her looks but a lot of her workings within the Vivienne Westwood brand are inspired with essences of the style. The Vivienne Westwood brand is quite essentially British; first becoming huge in the 60's and then landmarking herself in our history as a brilliant fashion designer.
The idea I had to incorporate Vivienne Westwoods work and look into using it as part of my modern day referencing was after seeing the London Fashion Show in S/S14. I love this LOOK. Extremely theatrical and extreme but with brilliant referencing towards the Elizabethan era with the use of a whited out face and the inclusions of cerise on parts of the face; like a Elizabethan woman has done her makeup in the dark. A modern twist on something classic. Angles are everywhere from the eyeliner to the cheek bones, contouring is in its extreme being un-bended. Theres an actual finger paint feeling about this entire piece.
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| vivienne Westwood S/S14 |
After looking into this inspiration I also looked at using disclosure and their famous logo work as a inspiration, both looks are different but looking at the use of using a main colour and creating a more angling on the face inspires me within my own New Elizabethan look.
Disclosure
Disclosure. We all know who Disclosure are; the two piece brother band Guy & Howard Lawrence from Reigate who in the last few years have hit the big time in English and the rest of the world with their music stylings. The big hits such as 'Latch' which made Sam Smith also popular. Well done lads.
No what really interests me into their working isn't only the music but the photography and graphic designs they have achieved in the Disclosure brand. How cool are these designs? each image is different but symbolic to Disclosure
Within my own working after looking into modern references the art workings in this style came to me first. A face on a face. At the time of even clocking onto the idea of including a modern reference such as Vivienne Westwood catwalk shows and Disclosures looks was during a powerpoint shown to us by Sharon and then the Disclosure came from actually getting ready and seeing the album art work on Spotify. I looked and clocked onto the new idea buzzing around my brain. Lets incorporate this!
http://nbhap.com/music/news/disclosure-when-a-fire-starts-to-burn/
Completely unique yet simple. I liked the way the lines had created shape onto the face, on that fit the model underneath.
http://nnmusicblog.tumblr.com/post/17779353937/chatting-breeze-jessie-ware
The image above is Jessie ware one of the first Disclosure images I had seen, the song behind the image which was a mix of her song "Running" a popular song for both artists.
The imagery is iconic.
Within my own work I didn't want to take this idea I simply wanted to represent the fact I had been inspired by it. What I like the most is the fact the jaw is highlighted its unique and shapes the face more, my own face is square so a white line would look to harsh plus white wasn't really a all the time worn colour such as gold; which I ended up going for as it also matched my eyeliner so looked like a continuous line.
So after this initial practice a few days ago I decided a softer line was much more suited onto this look.
For me this looks a lot softer still with the defined and obvious inspiration the way this lines been done is more suitable for what I had planned on my facial chart.
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