Tuesday, 12 February 2013

90's clothing and sampling.

Now I have completed my research and looked at graffiti in detail, I'm going to start my sampling. I decided my colour pallet was going to be a mixture of bright, block colours. Red, purple, blue, green, yellow and black. A lot of graffiti is done with spray paints and the general colours used are these colours.
As I've looked at hip hop and urban style clothing, I want to make a t-shirt with some writing on. A lot of high street shops I.e TopShop are selling clothing that I can definitely link back to my research and my project. TopShop have recently released a range of clothing including block colour track suits, crop tops with graffiti print on, trousers with graffiti print on, and T-shirts with writing on. Fashion has definitely taken a turn back to the 90's, I think we are going to be seeing a lot more of this 90's trend around.
This gave me a few ideas of the product I wanted to make. I thought about making a tye dye t-shirt and then printing some writing on with the heat press. As I thought about the tye dye process more thoroughly, I didn't really think this process would show off the kind of effect I wanted to create with the fabric and the t-shirt. So I began thinking about other processes's that I have used before, something that uses bright colours and different shapes on the fabric. MARBLING!
Marbling is an ink process used with bright coloured inks and water. A great process that links great with my project.
Time to get started!
I've added some pictures of the TopShop range. These items are a must have in your wardrobe.









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