Case study-Bill Gibb

Bill Gibb was born in 1943.he was oldest of 7 children. Bill was educated at Fraserburgh Academy. The art teacher encourages him to attended st Martins school of art in London.

During the 1970s and the 1980s Bill Gibb was a highly respected International style and fashion icon and clothing designer who was much in demand. Many celebrities and stars wore his clothing including Twiggy, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Collins, Bianca Jagger and Tessa Dahl. 

Awards of Bill:

• 1970 - Vogue Designer of the Year Award
• 1975 - Fellow of the Society of Industrial Artists and Designers
• 1979 - ITV Best Fashion Show Award

 

Analysis of design

•       Nets, lace, silk,Chiffon panels

•       Knitted garments

•       Combining different patterns together.

•       Fringed

•       Beaded

•       Simple cut

•       Appliqués

•       Heavy embroidery

•       Layering 

•       Pleating

•       Volume

 

2000's

Mash up decade, didn’t have one particular style. People stated wearing clothing from other decades trying to create more individual looks.

But retro look got really popular:

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These days we got vintage store everywhere

(top styles)

(agyness deyn)

Skinny-Minnie Trend

Nicole Richie, was one the people that started it.Then a lot of every day girls followed.

A lot of models just collapsed and died on a catwalks 

1990

Ravers:

The term 'Raver' emerged in 1970 from rave music. It later re-emerged in the early 1980's as a term given to people who attended 'Acid House Parties'. These parties played fast-paced electronic music and attracted many from afar with their appealing visual shows. These parties usually took place in derelict building, warehouses anywhere really with a large open space and an area to 'bang out some tunes'! Smoke machines, strobe lights, laser shows and projected images were all major visual factors that complimented the audio.

 

Fashion trends of 1990's

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1980

New Romantics

The New Romantics were a glamorously dressed evolution from punk and wore ostentatious, foppish clothes. Their clubs were Billy’s in Soho’s Meard Street, opened in 1978, and Blitz, where their habit of mid-week clubbing gave them the name the 'Blitz kids'. New Romantics listened to synthesised electro-pop by groups such as Spandau Ballet and Electrovox. 
  

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Casuals

Casuals came from the ever-strong tradition of working-class male 'sharp dressing'. Casuals dressed down in outwardly conventional menswear, but wore fiercely expensive labels: Fred Perry shirts, Pringle jumpers, and Burberry accessories. They were as likely to gather at football matches as at soul-music 

clubs in Essex.

 

I also watched this movie 

1970

Hacker/computer subculture took word geek with pride. Computers were not as available to people, but many people were very interested in a look of it, probably of its appearance in science fiction. So they had a fantasy of owing one. This subculture grew with a few others like: horror fandom, comic’s fandom and fantasy freaks. 

Famous hacker of 1970:

John T. Draper (later nick name Captain Crunch, his friend Joe Engrassia, and blue box phone breaking hit the news with a magazine story.

 

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(Bill Gates)

Blondie one of the best artist in 1970 up to now.

My favourite girl band form 1970, also watched the biographic movie about the band.

1960 subcultures

Freak scene

They used to have a long hair normally. The fashion was like role-play costumes. They used to wear hair bands and cloaks , caftan.

Freaks used to listen to rock music and go to all different festivals

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Yippie 

The youth international party, commonly called yippies. The term Yippie was invented by Krasner and Hoffman on New Year's Eve 1967.

I also watched this film , which is about the 1960  and the what life was like if you were a girl.

Single man 1960

Single man, is the movie by Tom Ford, A story that centres on an English professor who, one year after the sudden death of his partner, is unable to cope with his typical days in 1960's Los Angeles.The movie is very stylish and shows the fashion of that day in great detail.

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Case Study John Galliano

He is known for his love of theatre and femininity. Galliano has repeatedly used Charlie Thereon as a Muse and has been creating couture dresses for her to wear to formal red carpet events. So, it was surprising when in 2006, his concept were homeless people, that he so while jogging every morning. From a fashion point of view the collection got some strong reviews.

For his part, Galliano says:

 "I don't feel the need to apologize for the collection." he said in a telephone interview on Friday. "I really, really saw nothing wrong with it." He then proceeded with an articulate, if by now well-practiced, defense, characterizing his critics as "bourgeois people,’’ (John Galliano)

 

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It was quit a controversial concept, but I suppose you can find beauty in everything. The collection was crafted from a specially-designed newspaper-printed silk, as well as other luxury fabrics that were ripped, aged, and abraded so that they would appear dirty, and worn with laddered tights. And that created a trend called ''Homeless chic''

Then in 2010 Vivian Westwood used the ''homeless chic trend for one of her collection too.

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Then in August of 2010 The famous fashion blogger  Scot Schumann posted a picture who appeared  as a homeless person.

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Findings in my own time ....

As we were giving the example of Marc Jacobs ''the dress with the bow''. I have noticed something quit similar to that myself.

Alexander Mcqueen  designed  a collection using dog-tooth pattern, and then we sow quit a lot of that on the high-street.

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This is one of his dresses, of the catwalk.

This is how hight-street reacted ....

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     (Alexander Mcqueen)         ( Little woods)

Introduction to the Module

We had a lecture on theoretical framework used to understand the inception,diffusion of trends and define subculture.