PORTFOLIO WORK

 

INK IN WATER EXPERIMENTATION

Here is the second test we did using diluted wall paint to get more detail as the paint spreads through the water.


emma box from alexander jordan on Vimeo.

Music taken from The Kills, Superstition

Here are some stills

Here is a very quick play around with how i can use it in print.

INK IN WATER

Last week I had fun developing a new print, I wanted to photograph ink going into water. So trusty photographer Alexander Jordan filmed it so I could take stills from it to work with in photoshop.

We did two different videos, heres the first very quick test we did.


video test from alexander jordan on Vimeo.

And here are some stills...

I will upload the second one later....Its pretty good. 

TUMBLR

I now have tumblr, one for my work and one for my likes and inspirations. Take a look...

http://emmabox.tumblr.com/

http://emmabox-scrapbox.tumblr.com

PRINT DEVELOPMENT

THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE

After months of waiting for this film last night i finally got to watch it! It's typical that the night i find it online my boyfriend finds it in Asda the next day. But whatever, i got to see it and I LOVED IT!!!


Anna Wintour is surprisingly really likable. Shes not a bitch as everyone makes out shes just doing her job and if your not supplying work that is good enough then why should she make you feel like it is? Its a really good view on the industry and a really nice insight to the people behind vogue, i think even if fashion isn't your main interest its deff worth a watch!

slowly but surely...

getting there. Its taken me a long time to get my jacket done and I've still got the collar to do :( I think it has actually been the hardest thing i have ever had to sew. I have even almost shed a few tears! I'm actually feeling like death so i don't think I'm gonna be able to handle an all nighter as planned. i think i will manage tomorrow to get everything done. well i will have to. 

Sassoon isn't looking likely! I'd post some pics but i don't like people to really see my work until its actually finished! 

Shoot on thursday! 

eeeekkkk!!!

Think we are gonna do somehting like this around the hair with really big dark eyes showing through...thanks Giles!!

PEACE X

Little Boots for Notion Magazine

I had a nice day in london today bought a couple of new things including a bargain watch, which is plastic and chunky! and managed to get hold of the new copy of Notion magazine which includes the shoot i assisted on for Little Boots. My scanner is broken so ive just taken a couple of snaps with my iphone's crappy camera...

There you go a couple of pics but if you want to see the rest and see them properly you will have to go buy one! Look out for my name in the 'Special Thanks To' section at the beginning and under 'Fashion Assistants' in the shoots credits.

Hope you like! 

Lauren's Shoot

My friend Lauren is in the process of making a magazine atm for her latest uni project, she asked me to model in a shoot for her and used my jacket for one of the looks so i have some pics of my Black Widow Jacket now! heres a few of my favourites...

Hope you like!?

Ohhh the new layout has begun...

Got the start of the new layout done tonight... what do you think so far? I'm not a web or graphic designer so i've just had to edit using the regular blogger restrictions, hopefully ill be able to add some more things n change it up a little I'm just searching for random tutorials online to help me. If you notice i have changed the little icon next to the web address so its the little face! i like the small tweaks like that! Anyway i think it looks a little fresher than it did before! 

TOPSHOP fashion targets breast cancer

I'm proper loving the new Target tee by Topshop!! Its for a cause i feel very strongly about and its totally me!! loving the Op-Art inspired feel to it! i Know what I'm buying next and it goes to a good cause!!! Watch the Promo Vid HERE.

Oohhh

I FINISHED MY ESSAYYYYYY

I'm on a relentless overload right now. 

ESSAY

Is going to kill me today. got to hand in tomorrow. not looking forward to it. I don't think fashion students should have to do a dissertation. eurghhh. On the bright side i should be getting the pics from the shoot back today so i will be able to post some up online tonight! woop! 

The Black Widow

I had to make the jacket in this black fabric for a project. Didn't turn out to great. I'm gonna alter the design and make it into a caplet type thing maybe change the collar and make it in leather!!

But for now heres a few pics of the garment at this stage...

Was such a bitch to sew!!!

Jean Pierre Braganza

Today at uni we were given a lecture by designer Jean Pierre Braganza, he used to tutor at 3rd year untill just last year he had to leave which was quite disappointing, but we were lucky to get a lecture with him today which has to be my favorite lecture of the year! I love his work and found his lecture really inspiring and interesting, its great to hear about the industry from someone who really does live it. Of course like every designer and lecturer he made it very clear how stressful, draining, and he used the term heart breaking a lot, it is to run your own label! For some reason its the stress and manic schedule of the industry that appeals to me and excites me the most! the feeling that you can get out of that is worth it all in the end. It does make me laugh when people are constantly mocking fashion courses and the design industry, a few favorite smug comments, "Fashion? thats not a real course", "So what do you actually want to do then? just be a famous fashion designer" their is nothing more patronizing or annoying than when people ask me those questions. Fashion is not just a doss it is not glamorous in the slightest that is all just a front, yeah their maybe parties, celebs and shows but that is just a tiny part of it. The work that goes into making a collection and a business is never ending their is always more work that could be done. I think it all depends on how much love and passion you have for it which determines how much you will be able to take which then determines how successful you are, along with knowing the right people of course!!! Which could seem unfair but thats life you wont get anywhere if you can't network. After all its not about what you know its about WHO you know!

Anyway i need to get on and do some work. Time to start draping! 

The toile...

So here are a few pictures of the completed toile as promised yesterday, excuse my messy bedroom in the background. Its impossible to keep tidy when doing work...

Front

Side

Back

It was pretty difficult to sew together as there are a lot of corners and points running into one another so i had to be very careful and precise on the machine! The sleeves, collar, and the pieces that kinda stick out on the back and at the bottom on the sides were all interfaced so they stand well. I have made this in final fabric for a project their were a few problems which need resolving but ill post pictures soon! My next plan though is to use the top of the garment to make a leather caplet type garment! I'm going to add buckled straps to thr front across the chest and some to the back which will come out from the bottom of the sleeves to hold its shape! As soon as i have money that is what i will be doing! hope you like! 

The Making of the 'Black Widow' Jacket

I love using paper on the stand to come up with cuts for garments now, you can explore a lot more faster and cheaper! here are some pics of the process i went through to create my jacket that i like to call the 'Black Widow' 

I created a technique piecing triangles and rectangles together and just played around on the stand!!

I added things and took them away taking pictures as i went along so i could easily go back to a idea! 

I started to fill any gaps that i could create other shapes with out of calico by pinning and tracing it off on the stand.

Sticking with the main features i liked i placed on style lines ready to drape the rest of the garment. 

Once id marked on the rest of the style lines i was able to trace them off in calico and take patterns from them and the paper shapes i had created ready to cut out in calico to make my toile!

I'll post pictures of the toile tomorrow! 

Courtney and Kurt shoot for LOLITA magazine!

Lolita is a fashion magazine that is being put together by a group of Fashion Promotion students from UCA Rochester! Over the past week my housemate Naomi and i have been planning a shoot to be featured in the magazine! We were given the brief to create a shoot inspired by Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain and their young love for each other! 

After a few different ideas and directions we decieded to use our house in the end and shoot in a bedroom, the living room and our garden! It took a while to set up the different scenes so it didnt look like we'd just done it in our house as a last resort but after a few different attempts we got it looking right and setting the right mood! We gathered a load of clothing together and sorted out some different looks ready the night before and hung them on Naomi's rail that she had bought from Argos a few days before to use for shoots...

...turns out it was cheap for a reason!! 

Our lovely models arrived early yesterday morning ready to get the hair and make up done by myself and Naomi once we had them looking hott we got straight down to a long day of shooting! We got a lot of cool shots so we are now just waiting for the images back off of our Photographer Ryan ready to send to the girls at LOLITA! Can't wait to see them! I will post up the best ones once i have received them! 

You can check out my housemate Naomi's blog HERE.

Gemma's Letter Poster Publication

My Good Friend Gemma who i studied with in my first year of fashion design at diploma goes to university in Leeds she is a graphic designer who is putting a Letter poster publication together to show the work of artists and designers from all over the world. She asked me to submit a piece which is what i arranged the shoot for shown on here a couple of weeks ago. I got the Letter F which is cool as i was doing the fashion side of the design industry! Here is the image in all its final glory! 

I was given a bunch of questions to answer for a profile on myself...

Name

Emma Box

Location 

Chatham, Kent

Subject field

Fashion

Inspirations?

Popular culture, Modern architecture, female sexuality, Op-Art, music and interesting people.

What are your design tools?

A Black fine liner, a mannequin, lots of fabric and my sewing machine!

Describe your style in three words.

Eclectic, Fun yet sleek  

What first drew you to design?

My first craft set from the early learning center then when I invested in fashion wheel I just new that was the direction for me… but on a serious note design was the only thing I ever wanted to do it gave me something to focus on and a way to express myself. Nothing else gave me as much satisfaction, I couldn’t imagine doing anything else. I just wouldn’t want to.

What is hanging on your walls?

Posters, Vinyl covers, inspirational quotes and photos to remind me of good times!

Place of escape? 

An evening alone in my room with incense, some good music and my own thoughts…

Who is your creative idol?

Hussein Chalayan never fails to amaze me!

Who has been the most influential person in your life?

My Nanna, she taught me a lot about life and in fact introduced me to sewing! She was a woman with great strength my true inspiration.

If you could be a colour, what would you be?

Electric Blue but ideally I would like to be black and white together, stripes!

Favourite word.

Serenity

If you could be anywhere right now, where would it be?

In a garden at nighttime, anywhere hot with the sound of running water and a clear sky with the moon as big as you could ever see it!

Favourite quote.

“Its your baggage that makes you who you are, you have to embrace it”

Check out Gemma's Blog and Myspace

Group Project for the BBC

We have been put into groups for a group collection which i will write about in a new post soon but to start; we have been given a brief by the BBC to make a garment to be shown at London Saint Pancras station. The event is to celebrate Englishness! So we have been asked to make an outfit using whatever we like to show what we see as english! So as we were told to be as inventive as we like we decided to use English newspapers as our theme. We didn't just want to make the dress straight out of paper so i made some sample pieces where i PVA glued newspaper cuttings onto muslin fabric. When the glue dries its left stiff but still moveable! you can screw it up into a ball and the newspaper doesn't crack or rip so it was perfect to make in bulk and use to drape on the stand! We are going to paint headlines on top of the fabric that show English events in history. 

Took all night to dry but worked so well! Cant wait for us to start making something out of it now!