PITCHING THE F.M.P
With the Final Major Project just weeks away it was time to pitch my concept/idea to my tutors. Originally I wanted to produce and style a photo-shoot but with the project being seven weeks long I felt I needed to do something that would be more challenging for myself.
Along came the birth of OMANAKO a bi-annual fashion & arts publication which shall serve as my FMP. I tend to find myself getting lost in magazines just for the articles, topics, trends and editorials to the point I always find myself buying several each month and with a background of interning and working at a few fashion publications for the past few years I thought it'd be cool to put in all that I've learnt and design my own. It was originally going to be called 'estate' and focus around london's high crime rate but that felt cheesy and been done before so I was on the hunt for a new theme which surprisingly hit me in the form of 'feminism'.
Within the media i'd been reading and watching a lot about feminism through no fault of my own one week, mainly within todays popular where postars like Lily Allen and Lorde class themselves as feminists compared to 30 years ago when people like margaret thatcher were considered feminists. Then Pharell released his album GIRL probably the first feminist concept album produced by a guy which got me thinking about an idea for my FMP.. Feminism From a Males Perspective, It was new, interesting and more importantly something I was passionate about exploring.
