Jacques Townhouse

Jacques

Townhouse 

For more than a week in August Liverpool’s Rodney Street was a hot spot in the city with one of its Georgian buildings being transformed into the sensational Jacques Townhouse. Jacques hosted the ultimate girly party to celebrate and enjoy their two ciders with a spectacular townhouse decorated to the core to make every room as enchanting as the last. The opening night saw V.I.P guests being the first to witness all the masquerade with glamorous hosts, maids and waiters showcasing a entertaining welcome and giving amazing food. 

Fashion and style were definitely highlighted words in the brief. Talks on A/W trends, along side cupcake making, were give by some extremely influential people in fashion including editors from both Look and Glamour magazine as well as Liverpool’s own Kirsty Doyle and Cricket’s Justine Mills.

From downstairs to up, the lucky ladies, as well as some of the guys, were pampered in the beauty room choosing to spend time to have treatments with either hairdressers, make-up artist, nail technicians and masseuses. All prep towards thier close up, moving on to the photo studio next door. Guests where then brought back to fond memories of their childhood dressing up boxes within the wardrobe of wonders. A whole room complete with rails of vintage clothing, bags of accessories, wigs and a professional designed backdrop and photographer Matt Ford, who I was able to assist each night, for their dreams of supermodel stardom to come true.

As the night passed by, the guests seemed to have extremely enjoyed their night and couldn’t wait for all the photos to be uploaded on Facebook the next day to start the tagging spree. With only two place being chosen to host the event, London and Liverpool, we hope that the party will come back next time and start it all over again to celebrate all things fashionable, as well as all things Jacques.

(photos by Matt Ford)

The White Witch of Liverpool

The White Witch of Liverpool

Given the pick between hero or villain and black or white, I immediately went for villain, which I stress isn’t a refection of my personality, and before even thinking, what came to mind was the white witch. I think I wanted to go opposite with both choices rather than the obvious villain equals black and like most of my projects, I see where the first idea takes me. 

This was all to do with a photo shoot project for university where we had to customize the outfit as well which was done using a vintage wedding dress, which dose make me sound like a villain cutting up something that unique, and a dream catcher.

The location was originally going to be the graveyard at the Anglican cathedral at dusk. However a unforeseen difficulty got in the way in the form of a gang of chavs equipped with fireworks which made me rethink and go for my second choice of a gothic tree and gate setting. I didn’t know whether to ask them to join in but anti-social behaviour and the fantasy world of Narnia is a hard one to mix. 

(photography and styling by myself)

THE TERMINATOR in Vogue

THE TERMINATOR in Vogue

A sketchbook project creating collages and producing something effective just with a few fashion magazine/car advert clipping and a pritt stick. High fashion mixed with machine. I like how well they have came out without the use of photoshop but just getting the shapes, levels and positions accurate.

This is a man's world

This is a MAN'S world

Getting your first university task before even starting a lesson is a exciting yet nervous feeling. The summer project was to do a photo shoot with emphasis on the word juxtaposition and the theme being underwear as outerwear. I kind of wanted to take it one step further and completely give a new meaning to androgynous fashion.

Using three female models and emphasizing the feminine form with the likes of revelling clothing, ticking the task in hand for the theme, but changing it up with a business male attitude and actually using fault stubble, male clothing and a man’s hair style to give it it’s juxtaposition.

Asking some male friends if they still fancied the woman in the picture gave mix reviews of laughter and confusion proves the fact that the first feeling of attraction really start with a slight shallowness of looks. Funny to see the faces of people walking past though.

(styling and photography by myself)  

My Made-up doll

My Made-up doll

An exciting yet surprising thing has just happened to me the other weeks, finding out off a friend who visited the museum, that a piece of work I did has got chosen to be showcased into the new Liverpool world museum. We got given a brief we got giving in university asking to make a doll representing the Liverpool  look. The idea behind mine was thinking about the past and present musical influences on the street of Liverpool such as buskers and of course the main thing that comes to mind when thinking about such a topic, the Beatles.

Am extremely honoured that mine was picked and generally shocked finding out by checking face book when away and seeing a tagged picture of mine and my friends dolls behind a glass cabinet. Quite made up!