Change of direction in my project:

I have decided to change what I am doing in my project. I realised that its not the designing and creating of clothes I want to do but the buying and merchandising and styling of fashion, making two outfits would be very time consuming and wouldn't help me learn much more about the fashion industry.

Looking into how I am going to create the outfits

My main priority at the moment is me starting to think about the 90's section of the project. I need to find out where I am going to be able to get hold of items for me to be able to create one of the outfits. I have the idea of going into charity shops and looking, but I have the idea for what I am looking for in my head and if I wont be able to find it there I will have to search the Internet. I am going to make sketch on the design ideas I have for the 90's outfit, then I'm going to the do the same for the noughties one.

Learning about technology

As part of our extended project we need to learn about a new tecnology and use it. I have decided that my final piece of my project will be a photoshoot. The next part of my project will be creating two outfits, one from the 90's and one from the 00's. Once I have done this I will learn how to use a professional camera, then I will use photoshop and Picasa. Now I need to start thiniking about where I will be borrowing the camera from and who I will teach me how to use it and edit the pictures after.  

10th February 2011

I am coming to the end of my research and I think I now have a clear idea of what the 90's and 00's fashion trends were about.

The 90's was all about very bright clothing, shapes of the clothes were very important- and patterns. Cropped tops were popular as so were mini skirts. The clothes were very creative and although certain trends were in fashion everyone seemed to look different this is what i love about the 90's, everyone had their own style of the certain styles.

Whereas you can see the 90's was more about what the trends were at the time. Neutral colours were popular, so was black. Body con came back into fashion contrasted with baggy cardigans.


This research will help be learn about the way fashion has evolved throughout the last 20 years. I will then use what I have learnt to create my 90's and 00's outfits.

3rd February 2011

After speaking with my teacher I think it will be a good idea to email some new up and coming designers. I think this will be a good idea to get other peoples opinions and see what drew them into fashion, who their favourite designers are and who inspires them.

3rd February 2011

Over christmas I been collecting pictures and cut outs from magazines to use for my collages. Once I have collected enough cut outs I will start to put the collages together.

Today I going to keep researching British Designers and see if I can fnid out as much as I can about them.

I need to start thinking about who I am going to borrow a professional camera from and how I am going to learn to use it.

I am also going to start looking out for 90's and 00's clothes now, for my two models to wear in the fashion shoot.

16th December 2010

As part of my research I have decided to add on to my initial mind map which I started the project with to help me ideas.

• I will use mind map to help me organise my research and thoughts and ideas during the project.
• I have also decided that I'm going to make collage boards, one for the 90's trends and the other for the 00's trends. This will help me visually put my ideas and findings done from my research.
• The boards will also be useful when I present my extended project because it will give the audience something to look at and give them an idea of what I found out in my research.