As fashion design students at Istituto Marangoni, we go through the “lovely” tasks of creating thematic collections, constructed with guidelines of the school board. My latest project consisted in the selection of a brand, and the creation of a collection for the respective brand. As an avid admirer of avant-gardist art and androgyny, I selected Ann Demeulemeester as my brand. However, it turns out that I over-floridified the whole deal. Oops.
For this post I wanted to show you some of the steps for creating out collections (there are many steps missing).
1. First i had to pick the inspiration. Given that Ann’s last collections for men and women were inspired by specific individuals (Isabelle Eberhardt for SS12 women, Arthur Rimbaud for SS12 men) and their adventures, I decided to follow her inspiration paradigm…. sort of. My collection was based on Ferdinand Cheval, an early 20th century mailman from France who decided to build a castle on stones that he collected in his mailman route. Amazing story, click on his name for his Wikipedia article.
I'm a fashion design student in Milan. I created this blog to reach out to people with my same bizarro tastes and interests. This is not a sugar-coated blog so don't expect to see anything "pretty." My purpose is to find the beauty in the dark and grotesque arts and to link them to my own work, resulting in blog posts where some of my own work: sketches, sewn garments, paintings, photoshoots are featured next to other artists.' The outfits or the garments in my own photoshoots that are branded Rob Chamaeleo are all designed, patterned and sewn by me. You may also follow me on blogger at www.the-beautyofthebeast.blogspot.com
