Practice For The Final Assessment

My partner for this assessmet, Greta, gave me the face chart with her design and I tried to create her look on her. Her New Elizabethan is Lady Gaga, which I could see straight away when I saw the face chart..

Greta's Face Chart

Products used to create her look: 

Base: Make Up Forever Velvet Foundation + Primer + Loose powder (Illamasqua)

Contouring: 101 (Blusher Palette by Kryolan)

Eyebrows: 101 

Eyeliner: Black Pepper (Kryolan)

Cheeks: TO + Youth Red (Blusher Palette by Kryolan)

Lips: Gold (Supracolor)

Face Painting: Black + Gold (Supracolor) 

Final look

Model: Greta 

(Nov 17th 2014)

 Final look

Model: Greta 

(Nov 17th 2014)

The reason why I didn't finish the eye makeup is that I didn't have enough time. This look takes a lot of time to create and it was quite hard for me to do it in the time that we will be getting in out timed assessment. Greta told me she would make a few changes so that I can get the look done on time.

Kat's told me to try to apply the foundation on the lips before the Supracolor Gold, because the application would be easyer. Also she mentioned that I should use a thinner brush to draw the lines, but unfortunately the brush I used was the only one I had so I tryed to improvise. 

In Sue's lesson she gave me a new face chart with a complete different look. 

Greta's face chart 

Products used to create her look: 

Base: Make Up Forever Foundation + Primer + Loose powder (Illamasqua)

Eyebrows: Black Pepper (Kryolan)

Eyeliner: Gold (Supracolor by Kryolan) + white pencil (along the water line)

Eyeshadow: Fennel (Kryolan)

Cheeks: TO + Youth Red (Blusher Palette by Kryolan)

Lips: Gold (Supracolor) + Red Lipmix + Matte Mixing Medium (MAC) 

Top Lashes: Red (Supracolor) + False white lashes

Bottom Lashes: white mascara

Practice in Sue's lesson

(Nov 19th 2014)

This is a look that I was much more confident doing. The cheeks are something that I need to work on perfecting and making them even.

I did the same look in Sharon's lesson next week, day before the assessment. I didn't use the false lashes just because we have already used them once and I didn't want them to be ruined of full of glue in the timed assessment. 

Have to work more on the base and cheeks!

 Practice in Sharon's lesson 

(Nov 25th 2014)

Practice in Sharon's lesson 

(Nov 25th 2014)

Elizabeth: The Golden Age

Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007) is a film directed by Shekhar Kapur and written by William Nicholson  and Michael Hirst. Cate Blanchett plays Elizabeth.
I absolutely love the hair and makeup in this film, but that is something that I covered in one of my older posts. This post is about how the film is connected to my New Elizabethan in terms of fashion and styling. And of course, it's the huge sleeves. The sleeves were not only worn by Elizabeth, but other actresses too, because they were part of the fashion back then. But after comparing the images from the film and Rihanna's, I realized that Rihanna wears bigger sleeves! This is not a surprize since we all know how much she likes to experiment, have fun with her outfits and take fashion to the extreme. 

Cate Blanchett as Queen Elizabeth

image from the film

(2007)

(source: http://diletant.ru/articles/4938339/?sphrase_id=1068889 -date: Nov 22nd 2014)

Image from the film

(2007)

(source: http://www.imagozone.com/filme/Elizabeth-The-Golden-Age/Elizabeth-The-Golden-Age-023?size=full - date: Nov 20th 2014)

Rihanna (2009)
Photographer: Janet Mayer

(source: http://fametastic.co.uk/archive/20090505/16282/photos-rihanna-at-the-costume-institute-gala-2009/ -date Nov 9th 2014)

Rihanna at 2010 ECHO Awards at the Palais am Funkturm in Berlin, Germany

Photographer: Andreas Rentz

(March 4th 2010)

http://www.thegloss.com/2014/05/15/fashion/rihanna-makes-fun-prombat-prom-dress-alexis-carter/ -date: Nov 25th)

http://www.rap-up.com/2010/03/04/rihanna-arrives-at-echo-awards-sets-billboard-record/ (date: Nov 25th 2014)

Creating My Final Contemporary Elizabethan Makeup Look

Since I decided to use gold in my final design because it is a royal colour, I tryed to create one more face chart with a gold and red lip... 

Products used:
Contouring + Eyeshadow: Bronzing Sun by Kryolan
Blush: 665 G by Kryolan
Lashes: black mascara (left) white mascara (right)
Eyeliner: Supracolor Gold by Kryolan
Eyebrows: Black Pepper + Supracolor Gold by Kryolan
Lips: Gold (top lip line) + 081 Supracolor 

 Face chart

(Nov 22nd 2014)

Purple Lips

While going through Rihannas photos, I noticed that purple is also a colour she loves to wear on her lips. Here are images of her wearing purple lipstick at the Paris Fashion Week (2009). 

Rihanna at Paris Fashion week

(2009)

(souce: http://www.omowrites.com/2009/10/02/trend-report-electric-purple-lips/ - found on Nov 22nd 2014)

I placed a purple lip chart over the red lips in the face chart above to see if it could work and what changes could I make to create a look with purple lips. 

Purple lips face chart

(Nov 22nd 2014)

This is the face chart that I created and took to our lesson where my partner practiced the look on me. 

Elizabethan elements: pale face, rosy cheeks

Contemporary elements: eyebrows and eye makeup, purple lips

Products used: 

Base: Alabaster (Kryolan) + Illamasqua Skin Base White + Loose Powder

Cheeks: 665 G + Youth Red (Blusher Palette by Kryolan)

Lips: Purple/Lila + Gold (Supracolor by Kryolan)

Eyebrows: Black Pepper (Kryolan) 

Eyes: 665 G + Gold ( in the inner corners) + dark brown mascara
                                

(Nov 22nd 2014)

When my partner, Greta, started doing my makeup in the lesson, I made two very little changes in the look. I decided to add some purple eyeshadow in the shade Shallot, by Kryolan, with Black Pepper on the eyebrows and went with gold only on the bottom lip, it was too much if I kept it on the top one too I think. 

And finally, I created my final look for my first timed assessment. It took me a long time but here is the final face chart that I gave to my partner and the look she created in that lesson. 

Products used: 

Base: Alabaster (Kryolan) + Illamasqua Skin Base White + Loose Powder

Cheeks: 665 G + Youth Red (Blusher Palette by Kryolan)

Lips: Purple/Lila + Gold (Supracolor by Kryolan)

Eyebrows: Shallot (Kryolan) 

Eyes: 665 G + Gold ( in the inner corners) + dark brown mascara

Final look face chart

(Nov 24th 2014)

Pracice look

(Nov 24th 2014)

Queen Elizabeth Meets Rihanna - More Research

After Kat's feedback, I started going through Rihanna's photos to see what other elements I could use in my design. Red is a colour Rihanna wears on her lips quite often, just like Elizabeth used to, but I wanted to change it up a bit. I found images of Rihanna wearing very nice brown and nude shades of lipstick. Also, I really like the neutral shades of eyeshadows that she uses and that is also someting that I would like to try to maybe use for my final design.

Launch of Rihanna's River Island collection

Oxford Street Rivel Island store, London

photographer: Stuart Wilson

(March 3rd 2013)

(source: www.stylebistro.com/lookbook/Rihanna/pJfYG5yo2rP/Beauty/angle/Lz-9wFPx_4 - found on:Nov 14th 2014)

At the Gucci and Rocnation Private Pre Grammy Brunch 

Soho House, L.A, California

(February 12th 2011)

(source: http://stealherstyle.net/rihanna/?post_type=makeup - found on: Nov 14th 2014)

After this research I started thinking how can incorporate brown shades on both lips and eyes into my desing. I've come up with two looks where I actually used the same products on the eyes and lips - the Illamasqua eyeshadows. 

Look no.1
Elizabethan elements: pale face, rosy cheeks
Contemporary elements: contouring, brown/gold lips and eyes, lashes, eyebrows 

Products used to achieve this look: 
Foundation: Alabaster (UltraFoundation by Kryolan)
Contouring: Bronzing Sun (Glamour Glow Palette by Kryolan) 
Lips & Eyes: Precipice; inner corners + Graphica; outer corners lips (Illamasqua Reflection Palette)
Cheeks on the face chart: Lover (Illamasqua) 
Cheeks in the selfie: R 21 (Blusher Palette Matt by Kryolan)
Eyebrows: Black Pepper (Viva Brilliant Color Madley Matt Sun by Kryolan)

I used a different colour for the blusher than in the face chart because the Lover shade was not as bright on my skin as it was on the face chart. I wanted to put more colour on my cheeks since the rest of the face is quite neutral.

Face Chart

(Nov 14 2014)

Practicing - Selfie

(Nov 14 2014)

Look no.2

Elizabethan elements: pale skin and rosy cheeks

Contemporary elements: contouring around the forehead, brown/gold lips and eyes, lashes, eyebrows 

Products used to achieve this look:

Foundation: Alabaster (UltraFoundation by Kryolan)
Contouring: Bronzing Agais (Glamour Glow Palette by Kryolan) 
Lips & Eyes: Precipice; inner corners and top lip + Acute; outer corners and bottom lip (Illamasqua Reflection Palette)
Cheeks: TO (Blusher palette -5 MATT  by Kryolan) 
Eyebrows: Black Pepper (Viva Brilliant Color Madley Matt Sun by Kryolan)

Face Chart
(Nov 14 2014)

The look my partner created 

(Nov 19th 2014)

I liked this look but felt like there was something missing. Sue said that it looks very nice, but that it is not Elizabethan enough, she said to think outside the box and maybe use warmer colours. 

Mixing and Matching
Instead of making one face chart at a time, and then having one thing that I don't like about it and then making a new one, I decided to play a little bit. First I drew lips, 10 different ones, on one paper and faces on the other one. 

For the lips I've used mostly colours from the Supracolor Palette by Kryolan and on the eyes and cheeks Kryolan's Blusher Palette. The eyes and cheeks, you can see, don't really match on each side of the face, but they weren't meant to, I was just testing different colours. 
On the 1st face (left to right) I used the shades 665G, Youth Red from the Blusher palette by Kryolan, on both eye and cheeks. On the 2nd eye I used 665G and 101 and on the cheek 665, Youth Red + TO. The shade I used as eyeshadow on the 3rd eye was R21 and I used Purple/Lila colour from the Supracolor palette as eyeliner. On the cheeks I used Illamasqua's cream blush in the shade Libido and mixed it with a little bit of Supracolor Gold, but I don't really like the final resault.

 Lips

(Nov 21st 2014)

Faces
(Nov 21st 2014)

First, I tried to see if red lips would match any of the looks. Left lip is the Supracolor 081 (dark red) mixed with a bit of Gold. I used 079 and Gold on the right lip, with Purple/Lila in the middle of the lips. 

Also, I tested both colours on my lips, as you can see in the images below...

(Nov 21st 2014)

081 + Gold, Supracolor
(Nov 21st 2014) 

The two lip charts up close

(Nov 21st 2014)

079 + Purple, no Gold

(Nov 21st 2014)

Here I used the shades LC009 on the left and LC010 on the right lip, both from the Lip Rouge Palette by Kryolan and mixed both with Supracolor 070 (white). The left lip is simple dark red and on the right one I drew a heart shape in the middle of the lip.

(Nov 21st 2014)

...and here I used Red and Gold from the Supracolor palette. 

(Nov 21st 2014)

Lastly, this is one of the lip charts I've made. The colour around the lip is foundation in the shade Alabaster by Kryolan, and I used it to see how the Gold (Supracolor) looks like, because there is a difference between a white background and what it actually looks on the lips and my skin tone. Then I tested what it looks like on my lips with and without the black lip line and I blended it so it is not as dark. I think it looks better with a lip line, because it gives the lip a bit of depth.

Lip chart

(Nov 21st 2014)

Without the lip line

(Nov 21st 2014)

 Without the lip line

(Nov 21st 2014)

I've spent a lot of time to create these face charts but still I don't think I like any of them. I will definitely use gold in further research because it is a royal colour and it can make the simplest look very Elizabethan, but no, I wouldn't use any of these looks as my final design.

Queen Elizabeth Meets Rihanna - Red Lips & Pale Face

Since our first assessment was to create a New Elizabethan, and I chose Rihanna as my new elizabethan, my final makeup desing is going to be a mixture between Queen Elizabeth I and Rihanna's makeup. 
The portrait that I analysed in one of my first posts is the "Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I"; oil on canvas (c. 1592) by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger. That is the portrait that I chose to be my inspiration; the elements that I will use for my contemporary look are the pale skin and rosy cheeks

Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I

(source: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marcus_Gheeraerts_(II)_-_Portrait_of_Queen_Elisabeth_I_-_WGA08657.jpg - date: Oct 10th 2014 )

Just like Queen Elizabeth, Rihanna loves her red lipstick. As a matter of fact, she has released two shades of her VIVA GLAM Lipstick, by MAC; one is actually called RiRi Woo and it is a similar shade to their famous Ruby Woo lipstick.
Here is an image of her rocking the red lip at the premiere of Battleship in LA (May 10th 2012)

(source: http://www.popsugar.com/celebrity/photo-gallery/23052989/image/23053026/Rihanna-wore-bright-red-lips-white-dress-premiere - date: Nov 19th 2014)

So far I've came up with a few different looks. The key elizabethan elements in these are the red lips and pale skin. The foundation I would to use for every look is in the shade Alabaster from the Ultrafoundation Palette, Trafalgar Light by Kryolan with Illamasqua Loose Powder on top.

Look no.1
Elizabethan elements: red lips and pale skin
Contemporary elements: contoured face, eyebrows and eyeshadow + lashes

Products used to achieve this look:
Contouring - Natural Tan + Pale tan (Glamour Glow Essence by Kryolan)
Cheeks - Blush Mauve (Glamour Glow Essence by Kryolan)
Lips  - LC005 + LC008 (Lip Rouge Mini Palette LMP101 by Kryolan) + Loose Powder
Eyes - Precipice, in the inner corners + Graphica, in the outer corners (Illamasqua Reflection Palette) + black mascara
Eyebrows - Caraway (Viva Brilliant Color Madley Matt Sun palette by Kryolan)

(3rd Nov 2014)

Look no.2

Elizabethan elements: red lips and pale skin

Contemporary elements: heart shaped contouring that goes from the eyes, down the cheek bones, eyebrows and bottom lashes

Products I used to achieve this look:

Contouring  and Eyeshadow - Blush Muave

Eyebrows - 101 (Blusher Palette -5 Matt Classic by Kryolan)

Eyelashes - fake lashes + black mascara, bottom + white mascara top lashes

Lips - LC008

(3rd Nov 2014)

Look no.3

Elizabethan elements: red lips, pale skin, red cheeks no eyebrows and white lashes

Contemporary element: contouring and a bit of eyeshadow

Products used to achieve this look: 

Contouring and Cheeks - Youth Red (Blusher Palette -5 Matt Classic by Kryolan)

Eyes - Bronzing Agais (Glamour Glow Essence by Kryolan) + white mascara

Lips - LC008 + Loose Powder

(7th Nov 2014)

Look no.4

Elizabethan elements: pale skin, red lips, rosy cheeks and no eyebrows

Contemporary elements: contouring, big lashes and eyeshadow

Products used to achieve this look:

Contouring - Glamour Tan (Glamour Glow Essence by Kryolan)

Cheeks - TO (Blusher Palette -5 Matt Classic by Kryolan)

Eyes - Blush Peach (Glamour Glow Essence by Kryolan) + fake eyelashes; top lashes and black mascara

Lips - Lc008, LC010 + LC142

(7th Nov 2014)

Look no.5

Elizabethan elements: pale skin, lips, rosy cheeks, white lashes

Contemporary elements: eyeshadow, eyebrows and contouring

Contouring - Bronzing Agais

Cheeks and Lips - Youth Red

Eyes - Vintage (Illamasqua Neutral Palette) + white mascara

Eyebrows - Wolf (Illamasqua Neutral Palette)

(7th Nov 2014)

After showing these face charts to Kat Vogart, she said that the red lip is an element that most people are thinking of using in their final look. She suggested I try to change the colours. Also, she mentioned that my design should be more of a mixture of Queen Elizabeth and Rihanna, than it is now. This feedback was helpful.

http://www.maccosmetics.co.uk/product/shaded/12326/29624/New-Collections/Viva-Glam-Rihanna/Viva-Glam/Viva-Glam-Rihanna-Lipstick/index.tmpl (date: Nov 25th 2014)

Who are the New Elizabethans?

Rihanna's style is very edgy, revealing and sexy, and you never know what she will wear next. To be honest, I am not her biggest fan and I don't like her at all, but then again, many people disliked Elizabeth. It is not that I don't like Rihanna as a person, I've never even met her, it's the image of her that tabloids, magazines, tv and internet have created. Back in the days they didn't have magazines and tv but Elizabeth made sure that there were many portraits of her, instead. 
The outfits in the images below are showing why I think Rihanna is a New Elizabethan... 

The first outfit is a black suit. A puffed up blazer by Dolce & Gabanna (Fall 2009 collection) and a ruffle white shirt. That instantly reminded me of the big sleeves that Queen Elizabeth I used to wear as well as her favourite colours. Rihanna showed up wearing this outfit to the MET Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (2009).

Rihanna (2009)
Photographer: Janet Mayer

(source: http://fametastic.co.uk/archive/20090505/16282/photos-rihanna-at-the-costume-institute-gala-2009/ -date Nov 9th 2014)

The second image is from the photoshoot for Sessions@AOL in Los Angeles (February 2010). Again, she is wearing a black and white outfit that is tight at the waist. Big sleeves with ruffles go all the way down from her shourders to her wrists.

Rihanna (2010)

photographer: Joseph Llanes

(source: http://www.pixmule.com/aol-sessions-photoshoot-february-rihanna-photo-images/ -date Nov 9th 2014)

http://www.graziadaily.co.uk/fashion/people/rihanna
http://www.ultimate-rihanna.com/gallery/index.php?cat=7
http://www.justjared.com/photo-gallery/1898681/rihanna-met-costume-institute-gala-2009-08/
http://www.lipstickalley.com/showthread.php?t=752767&page=4
(all information found on Nov 9th 2014)

William Shakespeare - The Taming of the Shrew film review

This is a comedy drama written by William Shakespeare in 1590s and it is one of his most controversial plays. In 2005, BBC and Horsebridge Productions produced a tv series called Shakespeare Retold and this is one of the four plays they interpreted called The Taming of the Shrew. The film is true to the original plot, but not the text. Sally Wainwright wrote the screenplay.
It's about a very successful member of parliament, Kathreine Minola (Shirley Henderson), a 38 year old multimillionaire bad tempered woman. Her wild displays of anger and aggressive behaviour are the reason why she is still single and a virgin. She insults and degrates men around her sometimes even physicaly attacks anyone who tries to talk back to her. Despite that, her family and co-workers want her to get married, but as she is running for the leadership of her party, marriage is the last thing on her mind. Her sister, Bianca (Jamie Murray), is a complete opposite, in both looks and personality. She is a fashion model with 'renaissance' beauty, who gets marriage proposals on a daily basis, mostly from her manager Harry. Even though he is hopelessly in love with her, she turned him down every time and said "I will get married when Kathreine gets married". 
But tables start turning for Kathreine when she, storming out of Bianca's party, gets stuck in the elevator with Petruchio, Harry's friend. Petruchio (Rufus Sewell) is the 16th Earl of Charlbury and a passionate eccentric who wants to marry a rich woman. The reason for that is that he didn't have a job and his father died and didn't leave him any money.  He is determant to 'tame' Kate, as he likes to call her and make her fall in love with him. Eventually, she falls in love and agrees to marry him. Not long after that, Bianca gets engaged to a 19-year-old boy she met on the plane, Lucentio.
 On the wedding day, for everyone's surprise, he turned up wearing a velvet cloak, a shirt, a kilt, high heel boots, net thights, makeup and black nailvanish. That made Kathreine very furious, not to mention humiliated, but she still said 'I do' and they went to Italy on their honeymoon. He was drunk, and she was raging with anger and threatened with divorce. He even invited Harry to join them and when Harry explained to Kate why Petruchio is acting the way he is, she starts to understand. Harry and her mother (Twiggy) also fall in love and get engaged. At the end Kate finds out she's pregnant with triplets and they live happily ever after. 

Since Shakespeare wrote this play during the Elizabethan era, it is not a surpise that there are many similarities with not only Kathreine, but also other characters and Queen Elizabeth I. The first one, and most obvious, is the fact that everyone pressured Kathreine to get married. Even though Elizabeth had never been married, she experienced probably even more pressure than Kate, since she was the queen. They were both very powerful women and didn't need men in order to be successful. What Bianca and Elizabeth have in common are their portaits. Elizabeth controlled the way she looked in her portraits, she probably had them up in every room just like Bianca. Clothes whise, at the beginnig of the film, Kate wore a black and outfit, tight at the waist, with a collar. Her hair was in a bun. Her mother was usually dressed in luxorious fabrics such as velvet and lots of jewlery, mostly pearls and big statement  necklaces. The colours she usually wore were red and purple, including makeup. Bianca loves to wear fur, and Petruchio wore a shirt that very much looked like the ones that tudor men wore. The last thing I noticed was that, Kathreine was wearing her wedding dress on the flight and for a couple of days in Italy. That was because Petruchio hid her suitcase, but it reminded me of the elizabethan era because back then, they rarely changed clothes and even slept in them, and that is exactly what Kate had to do.

Personally, I liked the film. Although, I thought her anger and bad temper were a bit too exaggerated and dramatic at the beginning, but the way she acted after her wedding was probably how any woman, including me, would react in those situations. It was funny and very entertaining. 





http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0453555/
http://www.shakespearefilms.com/the-taming-of-the-shrew-shakespeare-retold/
http://www.lariat.org/AtTheMovies/nora/tamshrew.html
http://www.shmoop.com/taming-of-the-shrew/
http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/shrew/canalysis.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/shakespeare/tamingoftheshrew/
(all information found on Nov 7th 2014)

Alexander McQueen

Lee Alexander McQueen was an english avant-garde designer, one of the most respected in the world. His close-cropped hair, Doc Martens and feisty attitude earned him the label 'the hooligan of English fashion'.
He was born on March 17th 1969 in Lewisham, London. At the age of 16 he quit school and began training as a tailor on Savile Row. Then he worked with the threatrical costumiers Angles and Bermans where he mastered 6 methods of pattern cutting - the razor sharp tailoring has become his signature. When he was 21, he went to Milan to work as Romeo Gigli's design assistant. When he returned to London, he decided to get a degree.  In 1992 he completed a Masters degree in Fashion Design at Central Saint Martin's in London and his entire degree show was bought by stylist Isabella Blow. She commited suicide in 2007 and Alexander dedicated his entire spring/summer 2008 collection to her memory. 
He started his buissnes in 1992 designing clothes for women. The 'bumster' pants and skirt, low-rise, crevice- revealing, made him famous. He was very much about anarchy and about the anarchy of the British streets and music, and always tried to put that into his clothes. 

The Bumster Skirt (1995)

 ‘Highland Rape’; autum/winter collection ('95/96)

(source: http://blog.metmuseum.org/alexandermcqueen/bumster-skirt-highland-rape/ -date:Nov 7th 2014)

"I wanted to elongate the body, not just show the bum. To me, that part of the body—not so much the buttocks, but the bottom of the spine—that’s the most erotic part of anyone’s body, man or woman." - Alexander McQueen, The Guardian 1996

In 1996 he became the chief designer at the French Haute Couture House Givenchy. He won the 'British Designer award of the Year' award that same year, as well as in 1997, 2001 and 2003. In 2000 Gucci bought 51% stake of his company and he became their Creative Designer. He expaned to New York, Milan, L.A. and Las Vegas. The collections included womens and mens ready-to-wear clothing, as well as accessories, eyewear and fregrance (Kingdom and MyQueen). 
I've noticed many of his designs were actually inspired by the Elizabethan Era. There is usually something both in clothing (collars etc.) and hair/makeup (heart shaped hair/no eyebrows etc.). 

Look 5 from his Spring/Summer Ready-to-Wear collection (2007)

Model: Anna Mariya Urazhevskaya

Photographer: Marcio Madeira

(source:http://ilovegreeninspiration.com/2012/02/21/ysl-and-alexander-mc-queen-create-nature/ -date:Nov 7th 2014)

Look 10 from his Fall Ready-to-Wear collection (2009)

Model: Georgina Stojilkovic

Photographer: Marcio Madeira

(source: http://www.style.com/fashion-shows/fall-2009-ready-to-wear/alexander-mcqueen- date:Nov 7th 2014)

In 2003 he also won the International Designer of the Year award and A Most Excellent Commander of The British Empire by her Majesty the Queen. He was awarded with the GQ Menswear Designer of the Year award in 2007.

After a long battle with drug addiction, February 11th 2010, on the day of his mother's funeral, Alexander was found dead at his Mayfair home. 

McQueen turned fashion upside down with his outlandish, unconventional and very extravagant designs. He didn't just create bold fashion, he created spectacles and fascinanting shows will be hard to forget and his legacy lives on. Sarah Burton, his co-designer, now is in charge of his brand. His contribuition to fashion was honored by an exhibition of his creations at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 2011. 




http://www.alexandermcqueen.com/experience/en/alexandermcqueen/biography/#id_article=137 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8511404.stm http://www.vogue.co.uk/spy/biographies/alexander-mcqueen-biography
http://www.lifetimetv.co.uk/biography/biography-alexander-mcqueen 
http://www.infoplease.com/biography/var/alexandermcqueen.html
http://www.biography.com/people/alexander-mcqueen-541384#profile
(all information found on Nov 7th 2014)

Carina Buckley Analytical Review - The Danger Dress

This is a review on the post called 'Where have all the surfing cowboys gone' from the fashiontoast.com blog.

The writer of this blog and the model in this image is called Rumi Neely and she is a fashion blogger. I went through all of her blog posts and I her images are amazing, she's a beautiful model and the locations are amazing. This image was taken in July, 2013 at the Venice Boulevard, LA, where I would love to go one day. The thing I don't like about this image is lighting. You can't really see her or the background and even though I am all for using less Photoshop and making the image look as real as possible, I think she could've darkened the images just a little bit. These images don't look as professional, compared to the other ones she has on the blog. But the reason for that could be just that she used a different photographer. This image is my favourite one because you can see the sun rays which make the image look very fresh, relaxed and warm. I like the contrast between her white dress and white Harajuku slip- ons with her tanned skind and bright blue background. The dress is called a 'Danger dress' and it is pretty much the definition of flirty. Ti is very short and has quite a high cut at the front of her left leg. Still, she looks very comgortable in it.

Image from the shoot

Model: Rumi

fhttp://fashiontoast.com/2013/11/where-have-all-the-surfing-cowboys-gone/ (date: Nov 1st 2014)

This sign is where the title 'Where have all the surfing cowboys gone' came from.
She is wearing this very flirty dress and even though the sign is here, there are no boys around. From her poses and facial expression I can tell that she is getting bored waiting for them. She seems a little bit sad that she got dressed up but no one showed up or took notice of how pretty she looks.


fhttp://fashiontoast.com/2013/11/where-have-all-the-surfing-cowboys-gone/ (date: Nov 1st 2014)