ThatFreckledChic

Talking about one of the famous Crafts of Kashmir, Paper Mache!

All about the Designer Mr. Nitin Bal Chauhan and his work with Sewa Himalayas an NGO in Chamba, Himachal Pradesh for his graduating collection, Nift in 2002.

Here i had a T-shirt whose i never liked the color and the fit too, It was a little bigger and i used to look fat. But once i just used my scissors on them and only a few stitches Voila! i had something totally different than before. It was a Crop top now with a deep V at the back neck looking like a structure of a Bow which i can not resist to wear anymore.

Somethings i just can  not live without

Well, How would it come out to be? Somewhat like this? I took the artwork of Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe and tried it on Jeremy Scott’s collections to give it an idea of the same. 

The mindset / pre-conceived notions

Also i have explained on one of the pages what is the difference between costume, dress, clothing, apparent and Fashion 

Everything here talks about the society, the culture and traditions in the past and how they have evolved OVER THE YEARS. I’ve also tried to create a parallel comparison between the brides and grooms of 80s and 90s to the brides of today (taken, Sabyasachi) and compared elements that match and those which do not.  

Well here i explain what is Beauty and what is Aesthetics!

 To define something ugly is really tough in terms of appearances but subjectively all the images have something that makes it “not Beautiful”; once the person gets a closer and deeper look with the understanding of the visuals individually, i am sure he’ll understand what i am trying to say . 

Here, I have used a playing card as my background and for the faces, I took - a hitler (for the Nazi Germany) representing one of the EVIL side of the Symbol that is famous for the “GOOD LUCK and PROSPERITY” for which i took the face of a laughing buddha and created a visual board out of the imagination. Hope you like it. :)

I first talk about the field of study-  SEMIOTICS (the study of signs and symbols) and further i have explained how SWASTIKA has been used in different contexts throughout the world. 

Brahmaputra market, popularly known as the BP market, is a tangled line of shops, and also a paradise for street food lovers. It comes to life in the evening, when scores of vendors set up their stalls in front of the shops selling everything from fantastic gol gappas to divine kebabs. It’s Noida’s rendition of Chandni Chowk, only less crowded.

another one with lines. In this one inspite of dots we were to place lines (elements) on the dress forms in different positions so as to maintain balance and proportion (principles) of the dress forms and the garment silhouttes generated. Here too it was easier to work with two lines at the same time to achieve the principles than it was to work with just one.

Can you see some dots on the dress forms?? Well in this exercise we were to place Dots (elements) on the dress forms at different places in a manner so as to maintain proportion and balance (Principles) in the garment silhouttes generated. While doing it with two dots it was easier than with one dot because its easy to maintain balance then.

The one i Loved was RADIAL BALANCE as were to take any motif (i took my rorschachs) and replicate it in a manner that it creates a pattern which when divided in half from any side looks the same just like a PIZZA or a Circle. Hence the patterns were flipped, mirrored, rotated etc to get the desired look of the Radial Patterns. I found it really interesting and easy to do and also observed that while we create a radial pattern we get another pattern or a motif out of the same .

As we proceed further we were asked to do Rorschach. One of the most fun exercises but what actually we were to do was to generate silhouttes out of these rorschachs placing it once, twice, mirroring it, what so ever possible. All my rorschachs were really different from one another in terms of their contour hence i could get a few understanding out of the same. Two of my rorschachs were hardly joined in the centre which created a lot of issues while placing it on the croqui as it was not possible to follow natural lines of the body with that shape. The one well connected in the centre did a pretty amazing work. Another observation was that it was really difficult to use one single rorschach as a whole for the body beacuse it was not in proportion to the body. Also the rorschachs were easily placed on the widest parts of the body first.