When creating my catwalk look I will have the same concept, Texture, in the hair and makeup. So the images below are all the found inspiration that has brought me to my desired look.
With the hair, I was mainly inspired with the bottom right image, I have spoken about this artist in another blog post, but Asya Kozina is an amazing paper artist and has created many beautiful historical wigs especially the Baroque era. I will buy a pre made wig as I will not have enough time to make one from scratch myself, and spray paint it white all over to take away the acrylic shine. This will therefore create the texture I desire. I will then be setting a scene within the wig, a birds nest with birds in it and petals in the hair complimenting the makeup. I thought that as everything is so fast paced int he catwalk industry with makeup and hair that if this was to be done in that time frame it would be, the wigs already dressed and all you have to do is pin it to the head.
When thinking of the make-up I wanted to keep it simple like the portrait of Marie Antoinette, soft cheeks and rose lip. However, I don't want it so simple that all you look at is the wig. I want it so you feel that rich quality, so I decided firstly the base, the base is to have a slight white sheen to it and you are able to see the texture of the make-up brush, to resemble a painting. To have a soft brow and brushed upwards, but not so dramatic you eyes are drawn to it. To create a catwalk esc look I want to get some pearls and stick them to the face to outline the eyes and cheeks. On the eyes I want limited amount of mascara and to have fake individual eyelashes on the outer corner of the eyes. Finally on the lips I will be using the chosen brands rosepout lipstick to keep to that soft pastel theme.
So fullers earth is the product that I think mimics a cracking painting the best, with not that much work, meaning its a quick. As the colour is a light muddy colour I will have to get the right acrylic paint for a light skin colour. to mimic the 17-18'00s kind of painting.
So an experiment is needed to make sure I get the right consistency and the right colouring I want and in the quickest time possible as I will be on set and need to do this to I think more than three models, so timing is everything.
The image below took four coats, and I dried it with a hair dryer to make it quicker. I then applied acrylic paint onto it and then moved my hand to make it crackle more and it came out really well exactly what I wanted compared to the first time when I made myself look like an very sick painting.
So here are some images below of how I get the skin tone for my look, I mixed White 001, Yellow Ochre 690, Primary Blue 159 and Vermillion 588 to get the colours I want in a variation to create different tones on the skin, light, medium and dark.
Going with these colours have really helped me focus in on what skin colour is best, not getting it too light and not getting it too dark or it could ruin the whole think. As my look is based on texture I'm not worried in the fullers earth shows through as I am looking for that aged look.
I also tried at the end of my experiments spraying with with water/ fixing spray and it looked really good crackle and shine like the oil paining.
So, after all this experimentation why did I choose to do this look and not something a whole lot simpler, like a glamour look with the texture twist instead of the whole face neck and hands all textured in this way? Well the reason behind this is I want to experiment and want to gain the knowledge in how to create different things instead of always choosing the 'easier' route. I feel that after this experimentation if I where to do this on a film set or another shoot I would know what products to use to get the best result for me and my client. This knowledge will stay with me and help me also get the grade that is needed.
This week was okay, just really trying to concentrate on the contextual studies side of things as I am really struggling with the responses, but I have talked to Carina Buckly in the library and she has looked over my work and helped me in responding in the wright way. In regards to this side of the work, its going okay, just experimenting with texture as that is key to my interpretation to a new collection for my chosen brand, and looking at different paintings from the London Portrait Gallery the V & A and online sources. My main inspiration is Maire Antoinette for the wigs and style I want to go for, a period piece. So this week I was going round town like a headless chicken getting acrylic paint from hobby craft, fake flowers, fakes butterflies, fake ivy, and fullers earth for the face. I just need to get the fake sweets, or maybe real so I can eat them after with the models! Also need to get a fake bird and create a nest out of twigs; so I will be the weirdo in the park picking up twigs! Oh I also need to make a skirt, I brought the material and a dress but I need to make the organza material into a poofy skirt. My mum lent me her corset to use also so that side is nearly done. I just need to do test shoots in the photography studios for my advertisement shoot and also catwalk look as I want to do it as a look book.
Mondays:
Contextual Studies First Question
Beauty and the brand two blog posts of research and my own ideas
Gym/ break for the evening
Tuesdays:
Contextual Studies response
Beauty and the brand two blog posts of research and my own ideas
Gym/ break for the evening
Wednesday:
Contextual Studies response
CV work and finding work experience
Gym/ break for the evening
Thursday:
Beauty and the brand two blog posts of research and my own ideas
Gym/ break for the evening
Friday
Beauty and the brand two blog posts of research and my own ideas
Gym/ break for the evening
Saturday:
Contextual Studies responses
Beauty and the brand two blog posts of research and my own ideas
Marie Antoinette is a 2006 historical comedy drama film written and directed by Sofia Coppola and is based on the life of the Queen in the years leading up to the French Revolution.
Sofia Coppola
Coppola is an American screenwriter, director, producer and actress. She is famous for her films such as Lost in translation. She has a beautiful eye for looking at things in a different light and within the film Marie Antoinette, she really highlighted the sweetness and spoilt Queen and the destruction that became of her.
Marie Antoinette
Marie Antoinette, played by Kirsten Dunst, used
her unique personal style to defy the unyielding decorum and scheming courtiers
of Versailles.
Sofia Coppola’s film Marie Antoinette, covering
the nineteen years that magnificent and tragic woman spent at Versailles,
created a sensation when it was presented in France. It was filmed largely on
location in the palace, with unwavering support from the directors of the
museum. This really gave the film a feel like it was real. The two leading
actors, Kirsten Dunst, as the young queen and Coppola’s cousin Jason
Schwartzman as King Louis XVI, it must have been an experience to walk in the
beautiful silk garments and heels through the halls filled with the ghosts of
the real people. For Dunst, exquisitely but unstuffily costumed by Milena
Canonero (who deserves an Oscar for this work), it was a very sensual role.
“You breathe differently in those dresses; you
move in a special way,” Dunst says. And to prepare herself, on the night the crew
was filming the emotional balcony scene, she walked alone through the palace in
the dark and said, “I could look in those mirrors,” she says. “Be still in
myself. Feel my place in that house.”
Coppola was aware that her film is
controversial and that people, especially in France, either saw the queen as a
saint and martyr or genuinely hated her. But Coppola overlooked all that and
brought her own Marie Antoinette to life.
In this film, the history of Marie Antoinette is
seen from a very feminine and young woman’s point of view. The queen’s love of
fashion particularly interested Coppola. “You’re considered superficial and
silly if you’re interested in fashion,” Coppola says. “But I think you can be
substantial and still be interested in frivolity. The girl in Lost in
Translation is just about to figure out a way of finding herself, but
she hasn’t yet. In this film she makes the next step. I feel that Marie
Antoinette is a very creative person.”
The History
In 1770, the fourteen-year-old Archduchess
Marie Antoinette left her home in Austria and travelled to meet her
fifteen-year-old fiancé, the dauphin, heir to the throne of France.
She was an attractive young thing, with her blonde
hair, blue eyes, and pale skin. She was the fifteenth child of a difficult
mother, the Empress Maria Theresa, who led her huge empire so efficiently that
she went on reading state papers while she was giving birth!
At the last minute, it had been revealed that
the future bride (who liked dancing and playing with children and dolls) could
barely read and write. Her mother had arranged for a ‘crash’ education and a
makeover, including cosmetic dentistry, a less regional hairdo, and a complete
new wardrobe of French-style clothes.
The young Marie rolled through the forest in a
special gilded coach with gold roses, asymbol of the Hapsburgs, and lilies, a
symbol of the Bourbons. Behind the huge glass windows she was like a jewel in a
padded case. Her mother had warned her, all eyes would be upon her, and she
should do what she was told.
“The journey went like clockwork; the Austrian
court followed her in 56 other vehicles. To pull the carriages in relays,
20,000 horses were posted along the route. In a temporary pavilion on an island
in the middle of the Rhine, the Austrian princess said goodbye to her mother’s
courtiers.”
When she was handed over, highborn ladies from
the French court of Versailles stripped her of every stitch of clothing and
dressed her in clothes that would make her a dauphine. Her new ‘trousseau’ was
distributed as ‘perks’ among her well-born attendants and they even took her
little lapdog, Mops, out of her arms! That scene in the film really got to me,
ther was no need to take the poor puppy! However, Some kindly soul arranged for
them to be reunited after she was settled in her new home!
She had one job ahead of
her, really: to secure the power of the French state and the alliance with her
native land, and by giving birth to a future dauphin. But here there was a
problem more fatal to her life story than any other, for seven years of her marriage to Louis was unconsummated and
she remained a virgin. On their wedding night, the teenagers were dressed in
their nightclothes and then climbed into the great state bed in the presence of
the king, and every courtier who could obtain entry, before they were finally
left alone behind the curtains. But there were no secrets at Versailles, and
the whole court soon knew that nothing had happened.
She found an increasingly
confident personal style to use as a weapon against her enemies at court. In
alliance with creative people—her architects, landscape designers, and most
notably the couturier Rose Bertin and the hairdresser Léonard—she made the
Trianon and her own person as exquisite as could be. “She had a great passion,”
said the memoirist the Comtesse de Boigne, “and that was for fashion. She
dressed to be in fashion, she got into debt for fashion, she was witty and a
flirt—all to be in fashion.” She liked to dazzle with the very best outfit at
her own costume balls; she enjoyed the buzz about her tall hairdo when she
appeared at her box in the theater in Paris. She and her friend the Princesse
de Lamballe were the talk of the town when they appeared in the Bois de
Boulogne for a winter sleigh ride—two blondes, all in white, with diamonds and
furs.
With all this in mind I want to create a look that would make the young Marie proud and share her passion for fashion and huge hair doo's. Looking into her past has made me have a greater understanding for her life and her turmoil’s and how she tried to make herself feel even a little better by being creative. This is one of the many things that made her famous and I want to think of her being the main fashion icon of her time.
Overall this film Higlights the key points in Marie's life all the turmoil and all the fun she had. Its colouing throughout the film is of lush colours and I want to highlight this within my own work. The reason I think Coppola presented her in this way in the film is because she felt sorry for her, she was made to do things at such a young age, and never had the mind set to help rule a country. She was a young and creative sprit and an inspiration in her this aspect. Information found:
