Life in London

The theme for my first module on my Fashion course is Curves, Angles and Volume. We took a trip to London to visit the Textile Forum and The V&A gallery. I found the Textile Forum quite over whelming, with a mass of people in a space with rails upon fails of hanging fabrics and buttons displayed by sellers throughout the country to advertise their fabrics to potential clients, you can buy books of sample pieces and everyone is handing out business cards whilst you are trying to see and touch fabrics upon fabrics. I found this quite difficult because I felt I had to have a design in mind to know what I was looking for but I can understand the helpfulness of having hundreds of different materials in front of you to inspire and encourage new ideas and designs.

I have always loved London and my dad lives there so I visit very often but actually haven't visited many of the gallery's or museums. And I loved the V&A, first we visited an exclusive exhibition that didn't cost much at all and was based all around the Fashion in the 80's, personally I enjoyed the Fashion exhibition that was already in the V&A outside this exhibition, but this more of a personal preference of taste. In the exclusive exhibition there were names such as Michiko Koshino, John Galliano and Vivienne Westwood, Antony Price and Rosemary Moore. 

Like I said before I found the other Fashion exhibition to be much more interesting I prefer the bigger more exaggerated dresses and gowns. Here are a few that I really liked.

Then I visited the science museum just because me and my friend fancied it, and we found a lot of curves angles and volume within here too, a lot of inspiration that would help develop more ideas. Here are a few from here. 

And that is all!

Charlotte x