katy perry and inspiration

My inspiration from my childrenswear came from the music video "california gurls". This is where my intial idea came from. I loved the idea in the video of a candyland. I then wanted to look at different shapes and coloured sweets to photograph and draw.  I also made a colour palette and made some intial samples, which helped me along into design development.

Katy Perry

Even though Katy Perry is a singer I find her style and attitude inspiring. She loves everything to be fun, loud and colourful. Katy's songs are also very inspiring to me she expresses the way every teenager feels but I think she can also relate to an older audience aswell.

Final college graded unit concept sample.

This final concept piece was from my college graded unit we got the brief of the traveller. I chose to take my inspiration from hippie travellers, traveling in American in the 1960s. I wanted to still give it a girlish feel. Hippies love tie dye so I decided to experiment with this and made some fantastic designs with this technique. I used cotton and shiffon fabric. Cotton was best for tie dye and the shiffon gave that free floating feel, that reminds me of hippies. I stuck to a bright colour and concentrated on drawing flowers and all things hippie.

Handmade door hangers

I started making these with scrap material I had. At first I decided to machine stitch them but then I hand stitched one and decided that was the look I wanted to go for as it looked more vintage.

jewellery designs

 jewellery designs

some of my faviourite jewellery pieces I have made.

Introduction to Alex Black

Hello, im Alex I live in scotland and am about to go to heriot watt univesty in galashiels to study fashion. For a couple of years I have been making jewellery I really love it, it's a great pass time. I have just finished my studies at cardonald college where I studied fashion Textiles. One of my faviourite projects was one we worked with Mc naughtons to Design and make a cushion for them to sell to john lewis. I got into the final 15 with my cushion and was interviewed. From my 2 years at cardonald I found I loved designing kidswear as my designs and colour palettes suited this. So for my final fashion show I designed two kids dresses with shoes, with the theme of sweeties.

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