Deconstruct Reconstruct | Collages

Commencing the introduction to the new project, I collected my old Vogues, Elles, and Teen Glamour to find images of body parts and clothes to mix up and match to new places. After making a collection of images from various books; including Maison Martin Margiela's book and 'Minimalism and Fashion' I mood boarded various ideas that I could carry through to my collages. 

Once I made 6 collages, mainly focusing on the details of the clothes, and the silhouettes you could create through changing where each item was places I decided they looked extremely plain. I wasn't as inspired as I hoped I would be so I decided to work into them.

Printing them onto tracing paper, some in colour and some in black and white, I started to cut out shapes, leave negative spaces and rotate them to place them on top of the original image. As well as this, I used acetate and a permanent marker to draw out a few main shapes and lines.

I was extremely happy with how they turned out, and after working in a few different mediums, I felt much more inspired. From these images, I will turn to the mannequin, alternating where garments could be places, and trying to recreate a few of the obscure body shapes I made in my collages. This technique of using collage with image manipulation has worked well, and one I hope to use in my later work and illustrations.