GRAFFITI ACTUALLY
 

Taking inspiration from street culture and street art ‘Graffiti Actually’ is a collection with no gender boundaries. With this men’s collection I want to challenge the traditional gender boundaries fashion faces and create visualisations which push the male societal norms. With the need to express human’s personas through their clothes this collection should allow bold powerful male personalities to do this. I have therefore investigated the use of tabards and oversized coats on the runway in order to influence my visualisations which present themselves as wearable art.

The inspiration from my artwork will partly come from Nottingham’s own street art and the wider street culture in addition to Nottingham’s’ brutalist concrete architecture. This will mean that photography will be a key source for my visual research, as I will be capturing street art and using the primary images as the inspiration for part of my visual research. Truly capturing the art of Graffiti and Nottingham.

In order to create this collection of fearlessness, colour will be vital to my project. I will directly take my colour from Nottingham’s graffiti scene; this therefore allows my palette to be directly inspired through primary research. Additionally, as a juxtaposition to my bolder colours I hope to create more muted tones of colour, using inspiration from concrete brutalism which is directly linked to areas of graffiti and street art. In order to explore colour effectively I hope to be able to explore more muted tones with pointcarre and the simulation of Jacquard weaves.

‘clothes are your wings, they let you fly’ (Jenkins, 2015)

The collection will consist of prints tailored towards the high-end market, exploring the use of rented fashion. Using a combination of reused and high-quality material, I plan to explore different techniques and other disciplinaries such as jacquard weaving. Research will therefore be taken from high end designers such as Off White, Bethany Williams and Louis Vuitton.

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