Past and Present

Looking into what looks I'd like to do for my catwalk looks, I've thought about incorporating different cultures into my work to carry on the vision of Ricardo Tisci with the feeling of love and religion; but above all that the collection was about coming together and that love is love and we are all in this together.

Looking at past spring summer collections and looks I found a page online 'Miss Whirlwind' that looked back also over past collections and found really amazing similarities between the spring summer 2016 and previous collections. So it seems he brought back his favorites, updated and tweaked them for 2016. He also brought back some of his favorite models which I thought was a nice touch.

Here are some images from the similarities and they're uncanny!

Givenchy Spring 2010 Haute Couture; Spring 2016

Givenchy Fall 2010 Haute Couture; Spring 2016

Givenchy Fall 2007 Haute Couture; Spring 2016

Givenchy Fall 2010 Haute Couture; Spring 2016

Givenchy Fall 2011 Haute Couture; Spring 2016

Givenchy Spring 2012 Haute Couture; Spring 2016

Givenchy Fall 2011 Haute Couture; Spring 2016

Givenchy Fall 2009 Haute Couture; Spring 2016

All of these looks have been recreated and they all exude a sense of culture, style and elegance. 

I've decided to incorporate these old designs aswell as the newer reworked designs and take inspiration from these to form my new looks. 

For my first day look I'm using an angelic theme, making a lace type coif headress (knight chainlink styled) that will come down onto the face into a V shape incorporating diamante's and crystals. This is to symbolize protecting the mind from outside negativity and to reinforce the lace and design on Givenchy's new spring summer collection along with an overly dewy, angelic skin. I was imagining putting a lace design on the hands and maybe the feet aswell, in everything we do in life when we use our hands and our feet we must do so with love and purity and this would reiterate this for me as I feel like fashion and makeup should be influential and should make an impact on people.

For my evening look I'm thinking to use small dark silver circles on a wet look hair coming onto the face also, this was inspired by Ricardo Tisci's jewelery choice on some of his models in his ready to wear pieces. The models wore large circles around their neck which shouted out to me as a sign of unity and I'd like this to be the main feature for this look. The wet look hair was influenced by current trends for 2016, I may incorporate a braid somewhere but we'll see when it comes to my design process!

All Images:

mswhirlwind_editor (2015) #NYFW’s most Tweeted-About shows and models. Available at: http://misswhirlwind.com/2015/09/14/givenchys-spring-2016-clothes-are-the-ultimate-throwback/ (Accessed: 23 February 2016).