Rihanna's outfit @ NRJ Music Awards!

Over the last few months I’ve started to get back into Rihanna’s style! She manages to maintain such an interesting level of creativity with what she wears. I think this was beautifully shown at the 2010 NRJ Music Awards, when she walked the red carpet wearing a stunning Jean Paul Gaultier Fall 2008 Couture gown! The white embroidered gown was split to the thigh with a silver skirt underneath. Her dress was paired with wedged heels and silver jewels. What a stunner!

Notes from Guest Lecture 'Paul Hartnett'

Paul Hartnett is a very interesting man! He works as a trend spotter/forecaster for GWSN. Paul records street/club style and has witnessed club culture since 1976. The idea of dressing up is an fascination to him! On the spot he will take a picture of what ever he likes, with no planning, no preps and no plotting!

He has contributed to magazines such as i-D, Dazed & Confused, Attitude and Tank.

His opinion was 'Fashion makes you look like a can't.'

His advice when taking photos its important to get really close!

Paul said the followers are out on Fri/Sat/Sun, these people all dress and look the same so the best nights to photograph are week nights.

Tom Ford is pushing male physique by taking photos of men that send out a sexual vibe.

Its a perfect time to trend spot hours before an fashion shows start. Exposed flesh,heels, hairstyles, tattoos and piercings are the most interesting. Also taking sneaky snaps of fashion **** ups!

He recommended drawing attention to yourself by throwing a sandwich at an model or throwing red paint at fur on a catwalk.

He asked us all questions 'why are we the way we are?' whose the most stylish people?

Where would our dream store be? The most contemporary man? Really made me think!

What an very inspiring character! 

I absolute love the flyers below!

 

Magazine Photo shoot!

As my feature would be in purple magazine I felt it had to be quirky and quite odd but interesting!

For research I went in to the library as now boarders has closed down its very difficult to get hold of an copy. I looked through for ideas on layout and font. After finding a few I liked I photocopied them so I could keep them in my research file.

In my photos, I used props such as balloons, a bike tyre, an chair, painted lamp shades, pieces of fabric, teddy bear, condoms and cigarettes.

Sammy wore a range of different clothes from an pvc corset to just a pair of high waisted pants and a bra.

My model is called Sammy and she is an Textile student. She has an amazing size 6 figure, pale skin and black back combed hair!

The story is that this girl has been up all night, drinking, partying hard and has just come home and crashed out in her lounge making a mess and having her own wild party! Showing you can have fun on your own!

I decided to give the photography a go and take over 250 pictures so I had plently to chose from to edit.

Sammy wore heavy black eyeliner and eyeshadow. Purple/blue glitter lip stick!

Here are some photos!!

Wedding Show at the BIC

Whilst researching on Fab Frocks website, there was an advertisement for an wedding show! Apparently the south coast largest! And what awesome timing! Me and Hayleigh thought it would be an perfect opportunity to capture some lovely pictures and a chance to watch a fashion show! They had everything you could possibly need for a wedding. From top hats to top tables, florists to photographers, catering to cars and bridal wear to invitations!

We had to wear exhibitor badges explaining we were photographers for Fab Frocks. Once we had our badges we decided to look around all the stands! It was really busy, we kept getting asked which was of us was the bride! Whilst walking around we got some funny looks as we had cameras around our necks, I think people were suspicious of us! Everyone on the stands stares at your hand, clearly searching for a wedding ring!

Fab Frocks had 3 scenes in the fashion show, one bridesmaid, one mother of the bride and the other bridal. The show was amazing, I felt Fab Frocks stood out because the models danced on stage where has all the others didn't! I did think Chameleon had a couple of stunning wedding dresses! They were gorgeous! We got to the show 45minutes before as wanted the perfect seats so we could snap happy! Tracey said we could take pictures of her stand and all of her garments on the catwalk. I did manage to take a good selection of photographs.

I really enjoyed this experience and felt I gained a good amount of research for my project. I would definitely go again! 

Photography at Fab Frocks!

1/02/10. Today I went to Fab Frocks to take some photographs for my 'look book' which went really well. Tracey was fitting models for the show this friday so we had a little preview of these fantastic models wearing the most beautifully designed wedding dresses. I spent a hour and an half taking photographs, could of stayed longer to be honest. Handling the garments and putting them on to the manikin was tough as they were so delicate to touch. I loved choosing the hats or fascinator to go with the outfits! I thought the hats were so interesting to take photos of! I thought it was a good idea to get a photograph of just the dresses, then the dress with the jacket and then a close up of any details on the dress. I took around 50 photos which is excellent as have plenty to edit. I will take more on Friday at the show, as Tracey has gave me and Hayleigh permission to take pictures back stage and on the cat walk! Also she would like us to help dress the models! This will be amazing!! Really looking forward to it!