Zhandra Rhodes

Zhandra Rhodes worked along with Andrew Logan designing for Alternative Miss World..

Rhodes is highly known british fashion icon and now has her own fashion and textiles company..Dressing international stars and royalty for over five decades and revolutionising textiles.She founded the fashion and textiles museaum in 2003 and is now developing a succseful brand licensing programme using her inimitable deisgns,textiles and colour genius.

Alternative Miss World

http://alternativemissworld.co.uk/
http://andrewlogan.com/the-gallery
 Andrew Logan is the founder of Alternative Miss World in 1972 and became huge in Londons cultural and fashion life.



this was the most recent winner in 2014!

He usually creates the themes with the elements of
fire
water
air
earth
void
and it can be any gender or transgender
it can be anything you want it to be
just EXPRESS YOURSELF!!!

things that striked /inspired me about AMW..

BODY PAINT!!!

NEON!!

and these things !!!... STILTS..
I couldn't find a picture from AMW so..

fashion figures

If I want to get better at my fashion illustrations then I need to do some research to help my drawings improve..
Designers use fashion figure drawings to express their ideas on paper. Generally, each designer has a signature fashion figure they use over and over. This figure is generally lanky, with extremely long body and thin limbs.
I found this technique quite helpful..





there were other techniques and some inspirational drawings aswell..

Even though these are nice and perfect and all..
I like my drawings to have a difference to them.I think this started when I realised my weakness is drawing perfectly straight focused lines,and I work a lot better sketching,mostly squiggly lines.Drawings that are more abstract and fine art rather than perfectly thin shaped bodies..4

 

fashion illustration

Exisiting fashion illustrators i like..
Antonio Lopez
Antonio Lopez is the Picasso of fashion illustration. He captured the pulse of style from the 60s to the 80s, and is still revered as the most inspiring illustrator by today’s practitioners. He worked with a variety of materials including pencil, pen and ink, charcoal, watercolor and polaroid film. His work appeared frequently in Vogue, Harper’s bazzar, Elle.

for vanity 1983

andy warhol 1978

 for Karl Lagerfield

 Mademouiselle 

Jason Brooks..

 miss smith

FRANÇOIS BERTHOUD

David Downtown

turban

folk couture

The thing that drew my attention the most was looking at bibhu mohapatras inspiration for folk art
which was the summer issue of 1994 folk art tattoo designs..
and came across a tattoo of a woman wearing a gorgeous fancy turban..
i then began to start making this turban and as i worked i thought about what it looked and reminded me of relating to fashion and folk art..so i began to think about fortune tellers and fairgrounds..
i want to investigate every single part of this i can..the history,the old fashioned,the new existing fashion for turbans and folk art,hat designers and fortune tellers..

from the ridiculous..

to the fashionable...

 

existing tattoo designs..

by this point,i was intrigued to look at different hat designers

fatima de burnay

 

Jean paul gaultier..

i got slightly carried away with looking at some of his amazing work.. the montreal museum of art..

 

He did an amazing catwalk on folk art inspired by russian decorative trimming..

also thinking about my original folk art research,the wilder man,i wanted to find some incredible hats/fascinators that are almost like a sculpture..

philip treacy 

 

 

milliner william chambers
 

                                                  

 

Chanel Haute Couture, Philip Treacy, Altuzarra, Maison Martin Margiela, Alberta Ferretti and beautiful masks by David Samuel Menkes. 

Stephen jones