Surburban secrets

 Pamela Royce

Amelia Myers

Isabella Strickland

 Victoria Bloomisted 

All the right junk in all the right places.

2016 a year when yet again we all obsesses with perfect 'ideals' of the human form.

With Kimmy K bums and sculpted rock solid tums, this idea of the power 8 hourglass figure has become more unachievable than ever.

Having a size 6 waist and a size 16 ass is not something we are all born with, and  this 'dillema' has caused a dramatic rise in requests for plastic surgery procedures. Including the likes of Brazilian butt lifts, breast augmentations and liposuction at an all time high.

"Women are asking for larger, but more natural-looking breasts as well as enhanced buttocks, rounder hips and slimmer thighs," - Dr. Stephen J. Greenberg (top plastic surgeon)

Over to the holy grail 'thigh gap' desired by seemingly everyone in lulu lemon leggings; this is achieved by 'inner thigh laser lipo' which removes exercise-resistant fat. cute.

 And then to waist trainers, a contraption conjured up in the 1500's designed to pinch your waist and hinch your hips. Well they've had a 2016 sprushed-up to become all the instafamous girls latest toy. Although exclaimed "It's unrealistic to expect that these devices can fundamentally change body shape," - Dr. David Hidalgo. But apart from lack- lustre results and damaging health #thewaisttrain doesn't seem like its departing anytime soon.

 Plastic surgery shouldn't be seen as an aspiration for a 13 year old watching KUWTK, or flicking through Cosmo. Body standards and oppressive media images are making people feel as if perfection will never ever be achieved. but perfection dose not exist and never will next year huge ankles and tiny thumbs colour be the new rage. Diversity and difference is the most beautiful thing we could ask for. 

You are #blessed and #loved so #yolo.

Turquoise the honest colour.

The Color Turquoise

Colour psychology states the meaning of the color turquoise is one of open communication, honesty and clarity of thought. Turquoise helps to open the lines of communication between the heart and the spoken word. It presents as a friendly and happy colour enjoying life.

This is contradictory as turquoise is heavily featured in the interiors of the totalitarian country of North Korea. The eerily fresh, dystopian sterilisation of these images creates a picture of deceptiveness of the corrupt world.

Milk is because milk flows

The milky moustache’s crawling towards their mothers, and then away from their arms; keeping the safety net of warmth and dependancy soaked in lactose.

The primary source of nutrition and life line for the infant mammals. 

The antibodies march like soldiers providing protection to the toothless that are growing the roots to become shoots, and then for the shoots to leave.

Continue to consume beyond infancy, using others to settle stomachs of worry and stress, a heavy load lightened by the white water. The elders did not posses the skill of digesting the silky solution, but yet they ignored the calling and continued to swallow. Abnormal. Intolerance. Instead, they call it lactase persistent; this subset of humanity to stay milk drinkers into adulthood.

The roots start to grow back to nostalgia to refuge in that sentiment. They drink the milk to gain the childlike memory and state of comfort reverting back to their youth and reconnect with mothers.
 to induce warm sleep and serenity, to become full in an empty room.




Film / Photography 
Styling / Production - Chloe Hughes

Music Sampled - Miasma (Baths) 

Model - Hebe Iris Blackett

Assisting - Sarah Elizabeth Curran

Simplify

Textiles print derived from the graphic patterns created in the cracks and fissures of rock formations. Print created using ink and glue rubbed between two sheets of cling film, then scanned, enlarged and transferred onto fabric. 

Exploring a side of fashion which breaches traditional tailoring and androgyny. 

'Simply Strong'

Print, Garment and Photography :  Imogen Davies 

Model : Hope Barraclough 

Make Up and Styling: Chloe Hughes 

Nuclear winter

We climbed the ladder of technology, took on the mantle of civilisation and declared ourselves masters of the planet. Then fought to stand the tallest. A laughable game struck by sin, ending in fright, pushing our own self-destructive button. Villages disappeared in a flash and blinking lights of emergency vehicles were dazzled over glossed eyes.

A mushroom burnt above the horizon, the sky blazed with the radiance of a thousand suns. Millions of lives fragmented into ash and shadow. The blanket of smoke climbed up into our atmosphere to cover our planet, in billowing pillows of black clouds and ash.

This winter was once just a theory, a concept, a myth. Yet the frost and breeze have a murderous touch. Terror depends on people being scared, and shock depends on surprise. As we stood in huddles, ‘terrified' hovered on every child's tongue.

We are called the ‘soft targets’, as the others are hard to hit. They ignited their huge uncontrollable fires, and the sky became so alight. Then we softly laid on the rubble, waiting for the sky to break.

The air is black and clouds could drift for weeks before dropping back, or being washed out of the sky-space. This extreme cold bites the flesh, blisters the radiation and widespread destruction. Hunger struck stomachs and sandpaper throats, bloated frames floated in rivers poisoned by the rain. Fallen bodies and left overs laired like feathers between the broken economy.

A nuclear nightmare smothered latitude and longitude, washed up by blackened veil, and dried by suffocating and subfreezing.

There they stand terminally, gazing, longing and waiting for settling dust.

Isometric illustration

We created 6ft tall fashion illustrations aimed at discovering our inner illustrative style.  Each choosing adjective 'style words', we tried to portray them through the means of drawing.

Sarah Elizabeth Curran 

'Theatrical grandma'

Marina Patalano 

'exaggerate'

Stephane De Keerle

'deconstruct'

Brook Robertson

'subconscious'

Meghan Warren

'scatter brain'

Ella Dallaglio

' joyful and free'

Warren Reilly

'Flamboyant'

Yang Hu

'edgy'

Hebe Iris Blackett

'Carefully Spaced Out'

Imogen Davies

 'clean & layered'

Hetty Mahlich

 'analytical'

Brontë Crouch

'organised chaos'

Aoibhe Maguire

Marcus Watkinson

'over thinking'

Chlöe Hughes

 'foamy'

Alexandra Sipa

'huge messy mistake'

Oksana Peretyatko

'mysterious'

Cara Edden

'illogical'

Artichoke Hearts

With the task of creating a paper garment that was able to change the shape of the body, my initial idea came in the form of an artichoke.  

The fragile properties of paper combined with the idea of a delicate flower, created the concept for the shoot and a character narrative. 

A small, youthful, nymph like figure, surrounded by a huge outer shell of layered paper. Highlighting how small and dainty the girl looks and how the only protection she has, is as equally fragile as her.

Fairy sparkles and artichoke hearts.

Garment and photography : Imogen Davies 

Model : Hope Barraclough