Pablo Jurado Ruiz

Pablo Jurade Ruiz is an artist based in Spain. He creates these incredible black and white portraits with Pointillism techniques. This is were the artist uses tiny dots to create their illustration or painting, which become blended in the viewers eyes.

I like how detailed his work is and I can only imagine how long it took to do all those dots. The portraits are very realistic and I think they show emotion.
 

  When explaining his work, he says, "I like to talk about love, disappointment, nature, childhood…and I show it in a glance, a gesture, or a detail as if it were a metaphor of life."
 

 

 

40 Designs

For the current brief, I have to design a capsule collection for a label we were given. As I have said on a previous post mine was "From Somewhere". To create our collection we had to do 40 fronts and 40 backs of designs. I didn't find it that hard to design for another label. Although you have to stick to their style, you can inject some of your own in there which I found made it easier.   

These are all my designs. I then narrowed it down to just eight designs. Below you will see the final eight which will be drawn on two A2 boards for my portfolio. 

Origami is back

In my first year of college, I got really interested in origami. This lead me to incorporate it into my final dress at the college fashion show. This sustainable brief we are on now, has sparked my interest in it again and to make it Eco friendly, I am using scrap paper to make my paper creations. 

                             

   

So far I have made two cranes, one flapping bird, one rose, a dragon, a dinosaur, a dog and a dragonfly.

"I moulded my dresses to the curves of the female body, so that they called attention to its shape"

 

Christian Dior

New Bag !

I saw this bag in New Look and couldn't resit buying it.  



College Trip To Manchester

 

I went to Manchester with college today. It was to collect fabric ideas, inspiration and to find out about the eco policies some shops have. In the afternoon we visited the Gallery of Costume which had a special exhibit on Dior. I found his designs very inspiring because he always creates garments that make women look elegant and stylish. I can see from his designs he favoured the hourglass silhouette, which I have mentioned in previous blog posts is something I like to incorporate into my designs. 

 

   Above are some mannequins I saw in Topshop. I like the clothes on display, they show the current trend of  bowler hats, blazers and black ankle boots

 

I saw this incredible pin dress while I was at the Gallery Of Costume. While I was looking at it , I was thinking how did they get it in this room without hurting anyone in the process. It must of been really difficult. 

This dress will be good for my sustainability brief because the designer has found a way to reuse these pins and  give them a new purpose.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From Somewhere

The brief I am doing at college is all about sustainability. For one of the tasks I have to work in pairs to research into a given label. My label is "from somewhere". 

 

 

 

 The designer behind this label is Orsola De Castro. She takes fabric which is discarded on the floors of manufacturing rooms and textile mills and turns them in to high end, high street garments.
 

 

Out of all her designs this one is my favourite. The colours are vibrant and the shape is very elegant. She has managed to make scrap fabric look stylish.