ArtEz

recently, i was lucky enough to be involved in a project collaboration between my university, UCA Rochester, and ArtEz in Arnhem, The Netherlands. we visited them for Amsterdam Fashion Week (you may remember the blog in which i was anxiously pondering over what i should wear to the event?) and they came to visit us during London Fashion Week. split into four different groups we worked together through the topic of fashion as performance to come up with new concepts to revolutionise the fashion show as we know it. the project was very fun and gave me the chance to meet some wonderful creative individuals who were also tonnes of fun.

my tutor emailed a link to a blog about the ArtEz students own work about a week ago which, i must confess, i have only sneaked a peek at today. to my delight and surprise, the work shown are mood movies by the MA fashion strategy students in reaction to the project title "the future of visual communication in fashion". much for me to mull over and be inspired by. may even think about making my own little mood movie myself.

enjoy.

*** just read that susie bubble has quit her role as commissioning editor at dazed digital. whilst not upset, i always thought that her taking on that role gave hope to bloggers everywhere and showed how bloggers were beginning to be taken seriously by the fashion industry. what's interesting about susie bubble's latest post is her remarks on how she feels the fashion industry are not as accepting of bloggers as they like to claim they are. perhaps bloggers are just a passing fashion fad and not as dominant as we first thought? or perhaps its the eternal battle of the establishment versus the revolutionary? whatever it is it, the fact that the fashion industry as seemingly reluctant to accept bloggers just proves what i always thought about the fashion industry... conformed individuality. i hope that time and continued research into this project of mine will prove it all wrong.