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My fashion story shows images from collections I’ve made, places I take influence and gather inspiration, pictures of my personal style, brand I love and worked for, some of my illustrations, and music and designers that inspire me.

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I would say that some subcultures do feed into my personal style. I take inspiration from the 70’s and 80’s punk and New Romantics style. These subcultures definitely influence my design styles heavily, but also how I style myself. I take a lot of inspirations from the punk fabrics like heavy plaids, dark leathers, and incorporating a lot of metals into my look and lots of layering. One of my favourite parts of the punk style was Vivienne Westwood, ‘the mother of punk’. Her designs really inspire me and I love her ‘risky’ and sexual element to her designs; especially back when she was first starting with Malcolm McLaren. I also take inspiration from traditional gothic style. Picking out elements like the black lace fabrics, gothic crosses, black leather jackets, long leather boots, and longer silhouettes. More recently I have adopted more of a business, smart attire into my style. Just like the teddy boys in the 1950’s there has been the trend from young people to wear this business casual in their everyday look. I have incorporated suit pants, blazers, waist coats, loafers, Mary janes, and shirts into my style mixing them with more casual items as a bit of a formal vs comfort look. I really enjoy this smarter look and it is still a really popular style which I think will stick around for a while.

When it comes to trends they don’t feel important to my personal style and I am not one to follow every trend. I don’t want to constantly change my style to fit what is currently popular, especially in a time in fashion where trends come and go so quickly, where fast fashion brands are just pushing micro trend after micro trend, creating so much waste and environmental issues. If I like a trend I will incorporate it into my style but in my own way and usually that evolves to style it differently to other people. Recently, I loved the ‘ballet core’ trend. It has become a massive part of my look, however I would say I was quite quick to this before it was in many high street stores.

I like to find inspiration from tv, music, films, and some fashion influencers, some being: Sofia Mcoelho, Chloe Fratern, Oliven Gcanty, and Millie Hannah. I draw inspiration from musicians like: Olivia Rodrigo, Stevie Nicks, Lana Del Rey, and lots of 70’s and 80’s rock bands; mixing so many different styles into on look.

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For the PLP fashion district research I was part of group 9 and we had to explore Covent Garden. As a group we went and explored Covent Garden on Wednesday the 11th of October. We split off into two groups. Three people went and filmed clips and interviewed passersby for our short video. Whilst the rest of us looked at the apple market and the jubilee market, went into local shops and boutiques, looked at the restaurants and pubs, watched a few of the performers in the square, and found local theatres. From the trip I was able to gather some good primary research images to add to our PowerPoint; it also gave us a good feel for how Covent Garden is and what the people and atmosphere is like.

My particular subject of research was the history and architecture of Covent Garden. A lot of my research was found from secondary research, which I found quite interesting and insightful. However, once we attended the area it gave me a vision for how the area would have looked in the past compared to modern day, to see how much it has changed over time with it becoming more of a tourist attraction.

I thought our presentation was clear and concise, and we were able to translate what Covent Garden is like to an audience. We each talked about our own contributions to the research. We worked well as a group, however if we were to re do this task again I think we should have come back together as a group before writing up all our research for our PowerPoint. As we did our slides individually, many of us had similar information, despite having different topics of research, which made the presentation feel a bit repetitive: making us go over the ten minuet allocated time.