Lily Moore
Fashion Design Diploma
Fashion Retail Academy
Graduates: 2023
Specialisms: Fashion Illustration / Genderless / Textiles - Print
My location: London, United Kingdom
Lily Moore
First Name: Lily
Last Name: Moore
University / College: Fashion Retail Academy
Course / Program: Fashion Design Diploma
Graduates: 2023
Specialisms: Fashion Illustration / Genderless / Textiles - Print
My Location: London, United Kingdom
About
Enjoying artistic subjects from a young age, I am a creative and imaginative individual enjoying creativity outside of my fashion studies I recently completed in London. I have always been very ambitious where I work hard to produce unique and engaging outcomes whatever the creative task at hand. My bubbly and enthusiastic nature helps with new interactions and relationships where my flair is evident in how I present myself and communicate with others. A recently-graduated fashion design student hoping to one day share my interests in design with the wider world outside of my current smaller bubble, my biggest design passion lies with tailoring. I prefer to opt for creating silhouettes that will flatter the customer however they desire whether it is to be fitted and sleek or androgynous and make a bold statement.
For this mini project to commence the second and final year of my Level 3 Extended Diploma at the Fashion Retail Academy, we used the previous project of reading a book and finding key themes to explore and design contextually for. I explored Blanche Dubois’ spiral into delusion and chaos from the play A Streetcar Named Desire. I delved into how there is deception and manipulation throughout the play, toying with Blanche and essentially making her mad. To follow with the common theme in my portfolio of a natural aesthetic (e.g. flora and fauna, symbolism in nature, natural settings), I thought it would be interesting to study how deception is very common in the animal kingdom. As this project would be purely digital due to its shorter length, I felt that this would give me scope to explore markings some animals possess; in particular, deceptive animals that appear beautiful on the outside but are lethal on the inside, like Blanche Dubois throughout the original play. She may have a movie star appearance, but she is mentally unstable and volatile beneath the mask she tries to keep up. I really enjoyed creating digital mark making pages by layering patterns and colour palettes from various softwares including kleki.com, Photoshop and ibisPaintX. The mark making was quick as it was digital using different textured brushes, as well as fun as a result of mixing colours and shapes based on secondary imagery I had researched. Due to developing our knowledge of industry processes with this shorter project, we began to learn about trend boards, PESTLE analysis, muse boards, colour boards, draping on the stand, collaged silhouettes, fashion mood boards and fabric boards. These were very fun to make, as well as educationally developmental, as it helped me see a clearer vision earlier into the research and development – we studied these specific boards, as well as other industry boards, further in projects that followed. I believe the project is very clear in what I was researching as I went along, especially as I clearly laid out my collage silhouettes (from sketchbook work), fashion mood boards, then final line ups.