Run Away With the Wind - Looking back to encourage the future!

Hi all!

Above is the fashion film that got me a Distinction result from my foundation in art and design at Ravensbourne this year named 'Run Away With the Wind'. Seven weeks of relentless work went into producing the designs and eventual garments; as well as styling, writing, directing and editing the film. Fortunately Rave was full of incredibly talented people who were very happy to help me and were all wonderful to work with. I am overjoyed to finally be a 'proper' fashion design student at Westminster University (it gives me chills to even think about how long its taken to get to this first step!) but I will always look back on my year at Ravensbourne with great joy. My course was great, not as fine art based as I would have liked, but without all the tech-heads I shared the building with, none of this film would have been possible!

Looking back at this work now makes me proud of what I achieved in such a small space of time, but also makes me feel terribly amateur. I am determined to improve my entire armoury of fashion skills over the next year, in preparation for producing work that will sell my unique vision in a way that is uncompromising on skill, technique and design.
To be honest, this film almost makes me cringe. I was amazed that I could even fit in making any sort of fashion film, but I'm determined to do better. I've watched it so many times that it doesn't even make sense any more. If you wish to know what on earth is going on in the film (it honestly serves a greater purpose than being pretentious with my Youtube membership!) then please read the description below:

'Away With the Wind' - This is the final product of my Final Major Project, and my first ever fashion film! 
The concept is based around the current development of a 'Forgetting Pill' that will be used as a psychological 'cure' to delete the pain of traumatic memories. If it is deemed successful it could be used to delete whole memories. The clothes and film have been designed with this is mind. The film starts with garments representing the beauty of collected life experiences, the bad and the good. As the pill is taken chaos ensues until the model is entrapped in a stylised medical gown, representing the deletion of personality that comes with the most important of life's memories, pain.

Here We Go!

Hi,

My name is Lydia and I will be your guide through my scattered and surreal thoughts on fashion, art, music and culture (and maybe the occasional political turn too (really whatever takes my fancy)). I am a fashion design student at Westminster University (ooh get you!) and like most art campuses we have been banished to the outskirts of the vast city of London to the less the merry town of Harrow. No, not the high brow 'Harrow-on-the-Hill', they have the joy of looking down upon my new Harrow crib if they bother to crane their necks to the east of their affluent seat. Unfortunately I am due to be stationed in this grey town, looking longingly in the direction of the East End for at least three years.

Never-the-less, I hope the intensity of the next few months will help to distract me from the pain of not being permanently sited in East London (West just isn't me if you couldn't tell already). My course promises to be full-on. 10am-5pm five days a week to be exact. I have also managed to keep a weekend job at Office Shoes for over four months now. Despite this I seem to have the earning power of a chinese sweatshop worker, so the real test will be managing both my financial survival and course stress. 

Setting up 'Run and Fell' is part of one of my very first course projects, but not my first blog. I attempted to begin one early this summer as a means of earning a London Fashion Week pass, but my lack of enthusiasm got in the way of that dream. Here's hoping that being forced to start what could act as both coursework and a therapeutic exercise pays off his time!