final yohii

Illustrations:

Except the final ones have black shoes, whoops.

Technical/flat drawings:

Exhausted.

illustrator ilustrations

All I've done all day is work on my fashion illustrations for my Yohji Yamamoto collection. Literally thought of the outfits, drew them on paper, scanned them in, traced them into Illustrator, added knit details, added hair and features then finally added the title and stuff about 10 mins ago. I've been doing this since 12pm.

Just thought I'd put them up, cause I quite like them being monotone, but I have to add colour, boo.

I hate adding colour.

All images © Dominique Johnson.

tamagotchi

Finally finished the group work for our Yohji Yamamoto design project.

Here are the customer board, mood board and fabric board; the outcomes from our EXTENSIVE research, hahaa.

All work © copyright Dominique Johnson, Hannah Jempson and Chloë Mckernan.  

london x2

Yaaay, London trip! Again it was pretty educational.

Me knitting on the train. Standard.

So, we went to the "Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion" exhibition at the Barbican. It was one of the best exhibitions I've ever been to - definitely worth the money. There were two floors full of outfits from a large range of Japanese designers, it was amazing to see.

Here are some of the (illegal) photos I took. That's why some are a bit blurry, sorryyy.

As you can see there are a lot of Yohji pictures, the purpose of our trip haha.

We also went to the Yohji Yamamoto shop. It's the second time I've been; it seemed much more friendly this time, I think cause there were generally more customers in.

I even managed to try something on! I would put the pictures on but they are so laaame, I was all nervous and taking them quickly even though I was in a changing room -_-.

Found out a lot of interesting stuff though, currently working on the research page now. I need to get all my work out of the way in preparation for the Otley Run tomorrow, yaaay.

Went to London yesterday, to go to the Future Beauty Japanese designers exhibition at the Barbican, and also to visit Yohji Yamamoto's store. More on that later, I'm in a rush to get to uni and knit. Speaking of knitting, today I'm wearing a (pretty much) all knitted outfit!

Got this extra long (you can't tell here) stripy jumper and knitted trousers from H&M yesterday. H&M is weird, I either go in and find absolutely nothing, or some absolute gems.

These trousers are the greatest. They are like a knitted version of the current peg-leg trend. And they have this awesome silken panel. THEY ARE SO COOL.

Jumper's pretty awesome too, I'm gonna wear it as a dress with extra-thick tights and boots for the coming wintery months.

This monochromatic palette is also pretty relevant, as Dom's house's chickens got killed by something last night and I'm very sad, so brights can be saved for another day. X

long time no post

Hey there. Jeez it's been ages, shaarrry. Here's a bit of an update on what I've been doing, and also 'cause I'm probably going to have to use this as a form of "online promotion" for one of my modules anyway, it's a little bit of that too.

First, for design development, we have to begin by researching the brand/customer of a certain designer. We got Yohji Yamamoto. Here are a few of the pages I've personally done so far..

Next, in garment techy, apart from learning how to use knitting machines, and (from monday) starting to make our own garment(!), we've had to do research boards every week. Well it's only been a week so I've only done one but hey,

Currently attempting to research "body shapes/blocks in knitwear". I have to go to town tomorrow and do a bit of primary though.

Went home for the weekend, it was nice. It was really really misty. I've decided mist is my favourite weather. But yeah, did a bit of chilling, a bit of shopping, bit of eating. You know. Also got this amazeee ring from Ding Dong Vintage, slowly starting to build up my jewellery collection.

Also went to the 20%-off student "lock-in" at Urban Outfitters last week, got a couple o goodies, which I will no doubt show you another time.

Anyway, better go work now, so I can hopefullys go see Jakwob on Tuesdayyyy. ♥ Barry.

p.s. all work copyright Dominique Johnson ©.

london

I set off on Monday to the capital in my disco pants and a shirt that looks remarkably like AA but was actually £2.50 from the Salvation Army.

Train journey was pretty awful, it was delayyyed and there were hardly any seats. Oh and that is a safety pin fastening my trews, I need to adjust them. Whyy did I buy medium?

Anyway, first place we went was the Design Museum, to see the Basso & Brooke and Sustainable Futures* exhibitions.

This is all I got from Basso & Brooke. It wasn't really an exhibition, you didn't have to pay or anything, it just had a video showing their inspiration for the collection and the dresses displayed.

Sustainable Futures* wasn't just fashion-related, it was all about eco-friendly designs, however the fashiony bits were these garments made from hemp and dyed with all-natural dyes by Miriam Ridha;

And these garments made from "unusable" parachute material from the Ministry of Defence by Chris Raeburn.

Another interesting exhibition at the Design Museum was the Brit Insurance Designs of the Year 2010, which was basically a collection of life-changing/enhancing designs all under one roof. My favourites were;

These little pandas which were mounted on swivelling platforms and followed you around whenever you moved. It was like those little aliens from Toy Story.

Miniature Beth Ditto! Nah, it was just a teeny-tiny Beth showing her most famous design from her collaboration with Evans.

There were also screens showing McQueen and Balmain's S/S 2010 shows, with just "Alexander McQueen" in general as one of the designers of the year, and "Balmain Jacket". I'm assuming they meant the epic shoulder pads, although the A/W 2009 show would have been a better example of it. It was amazing to see videos of the shows, it's so much more mesmerising than just looking at pictures. 

Next, we went to the Grace Kelly: Style Icon exhibition at the V&A. Unfortunately we couldn't take pictures, it was cool to see the beautiful clothes she actually wore, and to get a better insight into her relationship with fashion both on-screen and off.

Took about a million pictures of the general exhibitions at the V&A that are always there.. here are a few.

Asia;

Fashion;

McQueen dress. Oh baby. It was like seeing a famous person in the street only a million times better.

Moschino bra dress;

Paul Poiret dress;

Theatre and Performance;

Adam Ant makeup!

We also went to the Maison Martin Margiela exhibition at Somerset House, which was amazing, but again I couldn't take any pictures. It was really inspiring to see how they approached the design process, and how it was divided up into certain techniques such as "Paint", "Destroy" and "Trompe l'oeil". I also got to see such iconic pieces as the wig coat and the disco ball top in the flesh.

The final educational activity was visiting some "conceptual designers" stores. We went to Comme des Garcons at Dover Street Market, Yohji Yamamoto and Rick Owens. AGAINNN, I wasn't allowed to take any photos, but the clothes were absolutely amazing. My favourite was Dover Street Market. It was way more informal than the other stores and had a wide range of designers there. The interior was really well done too.

However, I've finally returned, and it's taken me about an hour to write this when I was supposed to be napping before meeting Meggo. Whoops.

Ps. sorry if the quality on some of these pictures isn't the best, I wasn't allowed flash and have shaky hands.