Lady Gaga: The Monster Ball Tour March 2010

On March 3rd 2010 i saw Lady Gaga at her Monster Ball Tour at Cardiff International Arena. Her support acts were Alphabeat and Semi Precious Weapons. The first song she sang to open the show was Dance In The Dark. She sang songs from her first and second album, The Fame and The Fame Monster. During the whole concert she puts on an amazing show and interacts with the fans. designers who influence the outfits she wears include Alexander McQueen and Philip Treacy. Lady Gaga, who is most famous for her crazy sense of style, certainly gave the crowd a show with her performances. Some of the sets included a large scaffholding which she opened the show to, a piano which was on fire, the monster ball spinning ring, a giant moving fish and of course the infamous disco stick! She also spoke out about how much her fans mean to her and calls them her little monsters!
Throughout the show she had many outfit changes. Her outfits included..

Here were some of the videos from the show! Enjoy!

Lady Gaga - Bad Romance

Speechless - Lady Gaga


All in all the best show i have been to and would definitely buy tickets for her next show! :)

Future Beauty: 30 Years Of Japanese Fashion

On Wednesday 12th January we all took a trip to the Barbican in London to take a look at the Future Beauty: 30 Years Of Japanese Fashion exhibition. The exhibition brings together the work of the avant-garde Japanese fashion designers of the 1980s to the present day and shows a contrast between Japanese and European fashion. The designers included Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto and Rei Kawakubo who all had parts of their collections on display, who had an enormous impact on the world’s couture in the late 20th Century. They are also designers who involve peformance art in their catwalks to project the inspiration and influence behind their collection.

  Instantly looking at the clothing on display it was clear that they were pieces of art rather than pieces of clothing based for practicality.  There were drapes coming down from the ceiling, surrounding pieces of work by each designer, with each outfit on its own individual stand and small description of what it was. The pictures show just a small amount of the work on show. The techniques used challenged Western notions of beauty and redefined previous notions of fashion.

Independent Project: 1950s Influential Fashion

For the independent project i chose to make a garment which was influenced by 1950s fashion. I firstly wrote myself a brief which was the aim i gave myself for the project. The aim i gave myself was to research the fashion in the 1950s and to design 4 different garments based on my research. The most successful design that i chose to make, i porduced a working drawing for it and then i could start making it. After drawing up the working drawing i then looked in to different materials and fabrics to use that was relevant to both the theme and the design. I chose to use a polyester type material as the top layer with a netting layer underneath as the under skirt. For the waistband i chose to use this satin material which looked nice when tied up as a bow. The process i used for making the skirt was mainly using the gathering stitch to create the ruffled shape and to give the skirt volume and shape. i made the skirt to fit my best friend who i used as my model and i could get a realistic idea of what it would look like when it was finished. The first part of the skirt i made was the two layers by sewing the gathering stitch and then sewing at the back, leaving room for the zip. I then stitched the zip in and tubed the material to make the bow. The final part was to attach the waistband to the skirt, trapping the raw edges of the outer layers inside it. Once the skirt had been completed all that was left to do was to put it on the model i made it on so i could take photographs to be printed off. 

The photos below are the ones i printed and handed in along with the skirt and my sketch book as evidence of the project.

Back view

Front View

Side View