Make Up Ideas

For the make up, we wanted to highlight the cheek bones and also add colour onto the eyelids, this would be used to combine the colours of the garments.

Cheeks:

Eyes:

Hair Styles

Myself and Fay discussed different hairstyles for the shoot and whether we wanted to change the hair styles between the different images. As we were unable to get a hair or make up artist, this fell on us to do the styling for this. As we realised it was going to be hair to achieve different looks between the images, and do the styling and the make up, we thought it be best to stick to one hair style.

Fay suggested using a scraped back hair look. This would show off the styling to its most and it is also modern and up to date with current trends from the runways. I personally favour this look as I think its very strong and is used in many fashion shoots so I thought it was a great suggestion.

Here are some images we used as inspiration:

alexander wang

megan fox

Sasha Pavarova

heidi klum

Group Meeting Two

In our second meeting, we discussed our overall idea, the way it is advancing, and the direction we wanted to take it in.
Steph had booked the studio for a test shoot and myself and Fay had started to source.
We had already previously discussed my suggestion of using more graphic style prints instead of florals and so this was raised again to make sure everyone was okay with this new direction.
We had brought the garments we had soured and some images we had taken of other garments we were thinking of purchasing. We looked at the sourcing and discussed the look we wanted to go for. Steph and Nikita both felt it was okay for myself and Fay to proceed with what we thought would look good for the shoot.
When we were sourching, we discussed the lighting, hair and make up ideas as we felt that we needed a big imput on the way the photos were going to look on the day of the shoot to make the styling look better.
We discussed the lighting ideas from Fays blog and Nikita brought some tear outs from magazines so that we could okay it and they could get to work on how they were going to achieve this.
Fay suggested hair ideas and so this enabled me to go ahead with research of my own bsed around this. We both favoured a more dramaritc make up style for the shoot and i suggested emphasising the contours of her face with bronzer. We both thought that we should have dramatic eyes using shadow, this could also be altered in the shoot to vary with the colours in the garments.

Alexandra Fullerton

For the plainer, darker images I have flooked at Alexandra Fullerton, she styled an editorial called Film Noir. In this all the outfits were black, but she has made the outfits more exciting by accessorising or using a range of shapes for example oversized jackets or skin tights leather dresses:

Using different accessories such as the long leather gloves and strappy shoes, it gives the garments more diversity other than plain black outfits. Also the shapes and fabrics she has used in the garments such as the one shoulder dress and the leather and mesh body, it makes the images more appealing and gives them more of a fashion edge as they encorporate the trends of the time. 

Rebekah Roy

I have looked at the stylist's Rebekah Roy's work. She styled an editorial called Kaleidoscopic in which the garments had to be graphic and artistic. For this editorial, colour and prints were the main focus to put across the theme:

I think these images are a great way for us to start thinking about sourcing and putting together garments. These images have helped as inspiration for our own styling and shown how prints can clash together but still look great in an editorial.

Holly Fulton

I have looked at Holly Fulton's Spring/Summer 2011 collection for inspiration in terms of colour and pattern clashing. I think her designs as they are more artistic and consist of mixing shapes and colours which will work well with the theme we looked at.

The shapes in the garments are fairly basic shapes and are graphic which I feel will work well in the editorial as they make the iamge look more exciting and dynamic.

Post Production Ideas

I found this editorial by Thom Hamilton, it combines both studio images but in post production he has applied a factory background that he had shot previously:

The styling I think is terrible, but the idea does actually work quite well. I think if we were to use this idea it would steer away from the idea of losing creativity and lead more towards the idea of a production line and a factory process. I think I prefer the idea of supressing creativity and ideas within the schooling system and so I dont think it would work as well with the theme we are swaying towards.