Muse

The Muse we have selected as a  group is John Cale, we picked him based on the reading list that was present in James Long's brief. We found that John Cale's band the Velvet underground was an experimental band. He was renowned for controversy and would preform on stage with sports masks over his face. His controversy is what lead my group into pushing the idea of a punk collection that has reference to sports wear due to his masks that he wore.

From researching john Cale I was interested in the links between himself and Andy Warhol. I want the knitwear collection to have links to the pop art culture. I decided to select a vivid colour palette that reflected John Cale's prime time of his career in the 70's.

James Long Presentation by Tom

lecture with Tom

James Longs design process starts conceptually and looks at a broad range of medias for the collections starting point. The 'Devine' collection for A/W 13 was inspired by John Waters films mainly the grungy style of 'Pink Flamingo'. The brand extracted glossy and matt finish fabrics from the concept of gross, grunge style and incorporated them into the collection.

The group Tutorial with Tom was helpful because he helped the group to narrow the starting point of our concept down. We have decided to look at the 1976 Punk movement. Tom wants us to collaborate as a team on the sample to manipulate the fabrics in the experimental way that James Long's team work. He advised that we create a range of moquettes that include leather, faux fur, synthetic hair and burning fabric, foiling at painting the knitting as references to the punk fashion culture. He suggested we looked at the painted leather works Claire Barrow designs to be influenced by the rawness of her work.