Start of final project!

The time has come to start my Final Major Project (FMP) at uni. Very scary business indeed. I've been really stuck for ideas but after lots of brainstorming I came to a decision to look at collage and decoupage, using very classic British imagery stemming from three key themes- tea rooms, gardens and the seaside. The images below are from the beginning of my research. 

General collage experiment before focusing in on my three key themes. 

Starting to look at the British Seaside.

I've been busy eating myself into a coma over Christmas so haven't blogged for a little while.. I've been frantically trying to finish my dissertation this week but took a break to visit the Fashion Museum in Bath. The picture below from their website (http://www.museumofcostume.co.uk) is from their Dress of the Year exhibition and shows the two dresses selected from 2008. My dissertation is about reoccurrance of trends, specifically long and short hemlines in the Sixties and Seventies. These two pictures show perfectly these two trends are as important today as they were back then.

The dress on the left is Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel. 

On the right is Kate Moss for Topshop.