Woke up this morning still pretty exhausted from yesterdays mammoth day but excited to go visit The Musee des Arts Decoratifs. Here we saw an amazing exhibition featuring designer fashions from the 90s and early 2000s. There were some beautiful creations that I sketched trying to think in terms of my project work. My MA project focuses around the idea of bringing larger body sizes into the fashion industry, so i tried to imagine the clothes in front of me on larger women. I got lots of inspiration for creating shapes and silhouettes with clothes and started thinking about how feathers and furs could be used in my illustrations.
After visiting the fashion exhibition I decided to explore the rest of the gallery and came across lots of interesting works. I stayed in the Art Noveau room for hours taking in all the beautiful shapes and patterns. The use of line from this period is something I really want to take forward in my work.
I also spent a lot of time in the 'Animal' exhibition, which focused on works inspired by animals and nature. The collection of peacock works was really interesting to me because recently peacock feathers keep appearing in my work. An image of a tiger with people hidden in its face made me think about how I could hide figures in my work to add extra dimensions. I was also inspired by some very strange circus freak images as circus and sideshows are another theme I have been exploring lately.
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