BROKE CASH
My Group came up with the trend Broke Cash meaning mixing cheap fashion with luxury fashion.
BAILEYS STARDUST
On Thursday I went to David Bailey’s Stardust exhibition showcasing the British photographers work from the swinging 60’s all the way up to 2013. Located at London’s National Portrait Gallery the exhibit tells an intimate story of Baileys East End upbringing, influences and work strategy.
No photography allowed so I resorted to a lot of note taking and sketches, a much better way of personally taking it all in even though their was some truly beautiful portraits I saw that I’d love to be looking at right now on my camera roll. I noticed he took a lot of photos of Mick Jagger during the 60’s that looked so timeless and pure his other famous muses included Paul McCartney, Suzanne Sarandon, His wife Catherine and Andy Warhol who he made a documentary of in the early 80’s before his death about New York and his friends, They interviewed each other whilst lying in Warhols bed.
I felt I identified a lot with Bailey through learning about him in this exhibition such as hanging out in the same places as a teen, the same sense of visual style and a fascination with the human skull to which he made a whole book full of them called Flowers, Skulls & Contacts (2010) Bailey likes “The idea that we all end up as a piece of art” and that the ultimate sculpture is a “skull”. Below is my favourite piece from the exhibition titled Human Skull and Blue Roses.
Then we went to Carnaby St and Shoreditch to do a trend report of the area and did street style there.
