I find it ironic to find that on this past week episode of Lifetime’s Project Runway was about designers and where they find their inspiration. It’s ironic to me because in my Design 001 class we were discussing about designers and their inspiration of how they look for their inspiration from either within themselves but mainly outside of themselves. For example, Andy Goldsworthy uses nature as his inspiration of creating art. His material by the way is free! I just realized. What away to save money and the environment, right? J
Okay so back to Project Runway. They had Michael Kors appear on their challenge that had to do with inspiration. I learned that his inspiration was visiting beautiful landmarks such as Greece, New York, Aspen, Santa Fe and St. Tropez. So by doing this Kors had the each of the five designers pick a place from the one of the places above where he provided images and a small description of the place to design a garment. I believe that this excerise was a good excerise because it is also saying that when you look at these postcards or read something about an exotic place you simply think of the weather or what to wear if you were to ever visit that place.
Now, I have been to Greece last summer and I was excited that Greece was one of the places to chose from. And the first thing I had in mind was whatever that designer makes would I wear that in Greece? And this is only because when I was there it was boiling hot! So this designer better design something that is thin and very fashionable. And surprisingly enough this designer did a horrible job at designing a garment that is suppose to represent Greece! He had the model were tight grey pants and a sheer tight top! I looked at it and said, “This is not Greece at all! You can’t wear pants! No one wore pants in Greece! It too damn hot!” And you know what the judges felt the same way about this designers design because he was even eliminated from the show.
So I guess beautiful landmarks didn’t inspire him.
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