Tuesday, June 3, 2008

vodka is my friend

dear reader, iver pick myself off the floor by throwing my self in the point less task of handing in my contextual work. I also completed a brief for a book jacket cover i been surprised by people reactions. yes i can draw apparently who knew.
to be honest i havent even bothered to post most of these online anymore cos i dont want them read. anyway the end is ngih back to measuring bra me thinks is that a step up from selling shoes i dont know. drink any one

Review
10 years of Mathew Williamson
Design museum and the urbis gallery
I went to see this exhibition twice once in London the second time when I came to Manchester
Matthew Williamson is design no for his part dress and use of neon and bold colours. But to see how his work has grown creatively developing first in the use of his better and more interesting pattern cutting. To secondly moving away from being a design and become a complete fashion house and brand and see how he tackles introducing basic piece and accessories and how the change under influence of the brands look feel and message.
There is differently a feeling of coming of age in the middle of the exhibition and you can see how the move to show in New York rather then London affected his choice of prints. They become more geometrical with flash of seventy disco ketch. This is in contrast to the every camp and pastiche Indian and prints with ultra beading mixed in with 1950’s northern wallpaper from the early collection which reference bollywood and his own up bringing in Manchester.

The overall feeling of the exhibition is greatly effected by the venue that its in

It felt as if the work was fight against the space and your eyes where be bombarded by riot of colour from the print and fabric the use of the artificially light made the print panels striking and neon but the clothes dull. Even the clothing on catwalk still looked lifeless

In Manchester the open fell gave the overall exhibition a life that was not apparent in London . the clothing pick up the natural light and with the setting of urbis itself u feel the weight of beading and detail in the cloth.

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