A little bit about me

My name is James Brew-Koufie  I am currently studying for a BTEC Extended Fashion Diploma at Tameside College. I am also working part time at the River Island store in Denton.

I enjoy  reading about fashion, carrying out research about the latest fashion and trends and shopping for clothes. I make and customise my own clothes to create my own style.

This is a fashion shoot I did in summer 2013, modeling one of my garment I designed and made for spring summer 2014

 

This is one of the outfits I have designed for me to wear, I was inspired by Dior Homme Spring/Summer 2014. The shoes I am wearing in this picture are ones that I customised myself with silver spikes and were inspired by Christian Louboutin.

Moodboard of 1950 Fashion Illustrations and my imitation

This A2 mood board influenced by the 1950’s shows things inspired me from that decade.  The images of icons and commercial trends were researched from the internet and magazines. The media I used to create my main image was watercolour, which I find helpful to create the effect of florals.

6 Fashion figures inspired by 1950's fashion illustrates

I developed my design ideas by looking at 1950’s fashions and styles ,I also looked at fashion illustrations from this decade to help me with my drawings. This is because I felt that the drawing of my garment suited a figure from that decade instead of a modern style figure. The project also asked me to look at the high street retail fashion for my research,  I feel I have brought this into my designs. Again the media I used was watercolour and this work was produced onto an A2 size sheet.

Final design board – 1950s

Final design board – 1950s

This A2 board is an illustration of my final outfit and was done in the style of the famous illustrator David Downton. The background shows images from that era and was done in the style of a magazine page, I feel this board easily reflects the theme of the project.

Final pictures of 1950's skirt I designed

Photograph  1 – garments of 1950’s project

This is the final  garment, this was modelled by myself and a friend. I produced my 1950's garment on the size of model so I could make it an individual fit. After I made this garment for this project I had time and fabric left over to make another garment so I decided to make a matching outfit for this project,  I made I top and shorts for a male which had the same fabric I used in the ladies wear. 

Photograph 2 – 1950’s project

In my spare time I designed a beach hat and a bag which had a link with the ladies garment I had made.  I wanted my model to have the 1950’s beach look for my college fashion show and from this picture you can see Gemma and me backstage getting ready to go on the catwalk. Although my garment wasn’t design for Gemma, I personally think it fits her perfectly.

My sketch book work on my Gaudi project

For this project I felt  that my work would be better if it was presented in an A3 sketch book. This project was based on the work of  Antoni  Gaudí, the architect from Reus, Spain. In my sketch book I used all kind of media such as paint and mixed media. I tried to interpret his work using different media because it helped me to replicate the textures and shapes.

A few designs of Gaudi inspired skirts

These are a few of my designs of my Gaudi skirts, I designed these skirts on a basic fashion figure I did this because I felt that the main focus of the designs should be the skirts and not the fashion figures. With each fashion figure I used a different kind of media, I used watercolours and acrylic paints because Gaudi’s work is brightly coloured so I used these paints to achieve a similar effect.  I got inspiration for the designs of the skirts from Gaudi architecture, each skirt represents one of his buildings.