Week 6: Tutorial session followed by Todd Lynn up coming designer

Had my tutorial with lucy discussed on my essay question and the trip to Dalston
little interview of Todd Lynn I found on the LFW website to introduction the designer:

Designer name: Todd Lynn

Origin: Canada

Career highlight: “Always the forthcoming show at London Fashion Week.”

Design background: Todd graduated from the Central Saint Martins MA and has previously worked with Roland Mouret.

Design signatures: “Razor-sharp, androgynous tailoring.”

How would you describe the Todd Lynn woman? “Fearless with a heart full of rock’n’roll."

Trademark piece: Best know for his tailoring, Todd’s designs also feature "a considerable amount of fur and leather for good measure."

Name three things that are inspiring you for autumn/winter 2011: “The Bible, The Age of Enlightenment and Sid Vicious.”

What’s next for your brand? “A pre-collection for spring/summer 2012. I’m doing menswear collaborations with ASOS.com and Topman, as well as expanding my own men’s collection for spring/summer 2012.”

What music is playing in your studio this season? “The Vaccines, Arcade Fire, Crystal Castles, Kanye West, The National and lots of others.”

What encapsulates fashionable London for you? “The great thing about London is that it lives and breathes fashion. The street is still the best way to get a snapshot of London style.”

How does London influence your designs? “I love the art galleries in London. I could spend all day wandering from one to the next. The Haunch of Venison is an absolute favourite and always inspiring.”

Available at:http://www.londonfashionweek.co.uk/toddlynn

East of Eden

What's the difference between your shop and any other vintage shop?
We are not just selling clothe we have books, vinyl, accessories and many other things each piss of items been choose and are kind of illuminate we are importing clothe from New york, Japan ex...

Why did you choose Dalston?
I didn't really choose Dalston i grew up here the shop is kind of an heritage

How did your shop get through the recession?
It went quite good... well we haven't had Holliday since we opened, but everything is going well we did not have to borrow money from anyone so far!

Located at 26a Balls Pond Rd in the heart of Dalston, East of Eden is a treasure trove of vintage inspired clothing from rockabilly to rudeboy, Style Council to starlet. Original, independent designers from the UK, America and Japan. We stock: BETTIE PAGE, STOP STARING, TRIPP NYC, TOO FAST, KREEPSVILLE, WARRIOR, VINTAGE ALLURE, HOLLYWOOD MIRROR, PRANGSTA AND MANY MORE…

HERE TODAY HERE TOMORROW

those In store pictures show their really large range of product:

Week 5: Field trip at Dalston

East London has always been into a really cultural creative position with place such as brick lane and now Dalton it’s the spotted area to find any young creative shops. This little field trip helped me to get more info on how do you start a business by proceeding to short interview of some of the shops some owner.

Here today here tomorrow

It little shop who sales a bit of every things there is 5 owners ANNA-MARIA HESSE, EMMA RIGBY, KATELYN TOTH-FEJEL, JULIA CREW and INÊS VICENTE (all ladies)
Shop work as a collaboration they basically all have their domain and work on it. they sales clothes, lots of knitted accessories, knitwear, jewellery, bags, tea cup… and so many others things they have a huge variety of items I can’t really categorise them.

When you enter the shop there is a big table in the middle and a sewing machine on the side like if everything was happening there and it is as they say “… Our aim is to connect the customer and local passer-by to the processes involved in making the products. Showing people the materials, skills and time required to create unique products by hand encourages customer engagement and understanding.”

Week 4: Library session with Cath Johnson

This library session with Catharine Johnson was quite useful she introduce us to the library database and E-journal such as EBSCO- full text article, Nexis-newspaper, keynotes-marketing/company reports, WGSN-fashion forecasting and Euromonitor-key business intelligence on countries, consumers, lifestyles, markets and companies. Catharine also showed us how to use and harvard reference them in order to be complete ours essay.

This session helped most of us to get started on ours essays research.
My essay question is:

Show how the Creative Industries have become one of the most important sectors of the UK economy.
In your discussion, show how other countries economic strategies,particularly the BRIC cultures,(, Brazil, Russia, India, and China) are following suit

Catharine told me that the best E-journal for me to use is Euromonitor as its key business intelligence on countries.

Week 3: Guest presenter Andrew Calcutt

Cultural Studies and Creative Industries Presentation:‘Creative Industry – a contradiction in terms’
Andrew Calcutt gave us a presentation on the evolution of the creative industries form 1711 to 2011

Questions;What was his main points? What did you deduce from the presentation Come up with 3 questions You may like to consider: How did the issues andrew suggested relate to us-(to fashion)? Can you think of any examples of interface between fashion and government, in recent Questions from groups; Group1 said: is the creative industry going to disappear if it counties to out source ? Group2: are you saying the creative industries exist or not? Are our computers due to over take us? Group3 what is the difference between old and new labour? Group4: how will observation evol from here/now? Come up with an individually question for Andrew

British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage.
Alexander McQueen

Fashion tv review on fall 2011 Paris, New York, London

Networks and Connectivity across Fashion

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NYCFW


LFW


Fashions weeks are the most sustainable weeks of the year it is an opportunity to discover the new trends and designers
London is where buyers, editors and bloggers come to scout for the next upcoming future successful since the city is well known for its influx of fashion student freshly graduated from Central St. Martins and London College of fashion where creative minds been spotted form years. And when it comes to new designer there is no better place then London unlike the other cities, London places a high visibility on emerging talent during the Fashion week.

Week 2: What is the creative industries?

We started the lecture with a review of past week session and shared ours founding on a clear definition of what really is the creative industry;

The creative industries are defined by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) as:

"...those industries which have their origin in individual creativity, skill and talent which have a potential for job and wealth creation through the generation and exploitation of intellectual property" ('Creative Industries Mapping Document', DCMS, 2001).

The standard definition of the creative industries used by the DCMS includes 13 industries:

advertising
architecture
art and antiques
computer games
crafts
design
designer fashion
film and video
music
performing arts
publishing
software
TV and radio.

http://www.idea.gov.uk/idk/core/page.do?pageId=11136366

UK Fashion Industry

Spotlight on UK Fashion

This short film spotlights the UK Fashion Industry and captures its unique spirit and energy. Featuring London Fashion Week, it reveals the UK as an influential fashion hub and the UK Fashion sector as a translator of trend setting British creativity into a dynamic global industry.

As a group we have discussed the video above all quite surprised of the impact and the place takeen by fashion in the creative industries but also the economy.