Fox and Shriek

Last Thursday I had the opportunity to help out back stage of the Fox and Shriek show as well as seeing the show.
I can not describe how much fun and an honour it was for me to be able to see and do what I had experience that day. The whole day was very surreal and I couldn't come to grips that I was backstage running errands for Paul and Matt. There's nothing like running across the street in your platforms for a pair of tights.

My day started at 11am and I was greeted by Matt and Paul and then straight away I was put to work, making 150 gift bags and running errands. I learned very quickly that things needed to be done as quickly as possible and not to be hesitance to ask if there is anything else that needs to be done. I was pinning patches to the back of bright red professor coats, moving empty boxes to a hidden area away from the show, placing stickers on the bag making sure that they all were facing the right direction, looking for a bright red bracelet to go with one of the outfits and running across the street for a pair of tights.
The day went by so fast and the next thing I new it was show time!

Although I was there all day I did get to see the outfits throughout the day but seeing it all together with the music, the make-up and the attitude it made the look complete.
The show had a dark twist with a raven portrayed by a ballerina, opening the show, dancing in between models and showing off Fox and shriek to the audience.

The garments displayed had dark and bright patterns which was shown throughout each garment. The models who displayed them wore them with attitude and sex, showing the audience that they own that piece. The show featured wips, feathers and masks showing a slight bondage side to the clothes.

One thing I will say about my experience is that I would love to start as an assistant, I loved the idea of being busy all the time, having something to do right after another task and meeting a lot of new people. I was able to see what it was like back stage and to see all the effort at the end by watching the show.

One thing that is for sure is that I am ready to work in this field and I would love to experience something like this again!

This months ELLE, time warp GUCCI and CHANEL advertising??

This months issue of ELLE seems to be very retro and bursting with colour, including the collections.
 Flicking through the pages past Diors' bold purple jacket, the heavy patterns and textures from Chanel there was one page in particular that stuck out the most.
And that was the leather on leather ensemble by Gucci.

(Leather on leather ensemble on the right)

The colour hasn't exactly shown properly on my camera due to the lighting in the room but too describe it, the shade of green just works phenomenally well against the brown which is pair with the bag in the same shade but made with different leather. The style it self is very retro and the colours fit perfectly well with the era of style, it looks as though Gucci has updated the 60's style by showing softer tones of colour rather than the harsher tones we are used to.

Keeping with the trend that went on during the era they've presented garements paired with accessories and shoes in the same tone, some have been kept plane whilst others have patterns and textures like the image shown to the right.

Another thing that I wanted to mention was the Chanel advertising that was presented in ELLE. It did take me a while to understand what was going on but I will let you see for yourself.

Have you figured it out yet??

The hands on the watches matched the photographs in the left. 

This is probably one of the few best ways to promote and advertise, it's clever, creative and the black and white against the watches? It just goes well and intertwines with each other. They work as a positive and negative!

Not as 'love' and 'hate' But as negative imagery. What I mean by this is when you take a photograph using a film camera and you develop it it comes out black and white, this being a positive image. To create a negative image you place a piece of photographic paper underneath the original and blast the light for about 30 seconds to a minute depending how dark the photo is and you will end up two photos that are of the same image but the complete opposite!

It will appear black and white but a way to describe the outcome of the two would be:

Positive - Black background and white objects.

Negative - White background and black objects

The complete opposite of each other!

The negative and positive may not have been intentional but it may be as well but it's just something that I've noticed.