Week 10 - Final poster

Final poster

BackGround Processes.

As Lee Alexander Mcqueen is a famous fashion designer, I decided to pick and put some of his works that touched me in the background. So, I start to research.

Photoshop Process

I picked a background frame for those runway photos and labeled the name of the show under the picture.

I added the face of Lee Alexander Mcqueen to see how it was like.I added my favorite phrase from him.

"Love does not look with the eyes, but with the mind."

I finished the book Love Looks Not with the Eyes: Thirteen Years with Lee Alexander Mcqueen by Anne Deniau and found something in the book that describes his design preference and works.

In an interview with his former colleague SARAH BURTON, I found that Mcqueen loves small shoulder, short proportion, and tiny waist. I could saw those design preference in his works.

I would like to combine this design preference and one of my favorite work of him black duck feather dress to create a collage on the paper.

Step 1 - 2

I found a picture from Mcqueen's runway with tiny waist dress. I kept the shape of it and tried to fill with feathers.

Step 3 - 4

I attached a piece of fabric that looks from a dress on the button and to full the shape with dyed feathers

I dipped the feather to the pink acrylic.

Step 5

Step 6

Adjust the color, details and shape with Photoshop.

The fabric was incidentally dyed when I was using acrylic, and the waist part of the dress was not tiny enough. I made a few adjustions with that.

Step 7

I putted the dress collage on the previous collage background I did and erase the white background of it.

Step 8

Finally, I put my portrait drawing and his phrase on it. Here we go with my poster.

Reflection

I would say that I'm not satisfied with the feather part. I should either large the whole poster or use smaller feathers. I expect the feather part would be like a small version of a garment, but it turned out to be more like a 2D collage. Maybe trying to pile up the feathers would be a good idea.

Thank you!