The White Shirt and Denim for Stephanie Johns styling workshop (10/10/16)

The White Shirt & Denim Research

THE WHITE SHIRT

I am an avid blog reader and vlog watcher, so it was only necessary for me to dive into some of my favourite blogs to find information about ‘The White shirt’. I have been watching blogger Anna Gardner from ‘The Anna Edit’ for almost four years now and know that she is a lover of simple clothing like myself and a participant in ‘The capsule Wardrobe’ experiment. A capsule wardrobe is where your only have a small amount of clothing garments for every season, stereotypically consisting of plain versatile clothing garments with the occasional printed top. When searching through ‘The Anna Edits’ among many others I found that they all included ‘The White Shirt’ showing how much of a staple piece of clothing it is that is apart of every woman’s closet.

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I have inserted screenshots from all of ‘The Anna Edits’ capsule wardrobe videos, and in every one there is a white shirt included. To me this depicted how important this single item of clothing is. I decided to take my research further and look into how ‘The White Shirt’ is being used and designed in the present top designers new collections.

 

 

CELINE:

 

 

 

 

 

 

I looked into CELINE, as they are one of the ‘big’ designer brands in this present day. They are known for their plain, simple but staple style to their clothing designs. I looked on the website and took screenshots of where I saw the classic ‘White Shirt’ and looked into how they had manipulated it. I thought this could be a good source for inspiration when in the styling workshop.

DENIM

I also did the same research for denim, and wanted to look into top designers and how they were using denim. Within the past few years the ‘vintage’ denim has really come back on trend, especially the ‘boyfriend’ jean. As a class when we were speaking about denim jeans we were asked who buys vintage denim over high street and most people put their hands up, a main point that came out on the conversation was that when buying vintage denim its 1 cheaper and 2 different to every body else.

The designer brand I decided to look into was ACNE STUDIOS. Acne is a top designer, especially with the young generation at the moment, even though most of us can’t afford it we take ideas from them.

Below are a few screenshots from the ACNE website:

 

 

 

 

 

Here are some screenshots from ACNE’S winter 2016 jean collection. As you can see they are using vintage jean styles such as flares, boyfriend and straight cut. From looking at this collection I can definitely see ACNE’S inspiration from vintage 70’s/80’s/90’s jean/ denim cuts and colours.

I felt this research for denim could be very beneficial to me when it came to the styling workshop, as I was working with ‘old’ denim and jean cuts I wanted to see what I could do and take inspiration from my sources. I really like the vintage look of jeans that is in trend and that we now have more to choose from than the ‘skinny jean’.

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I have inserted some of the images we took in the styling workshop. As my object was sheer tights, we wanted to incorporate these into the outfits as well. We decided to get our model to wear sheer tights underneath ripped boyfriend jeans which I feel show the vintage/ 90’s look very well. From taking inspiration from designers such as Celine and Acne we wanted to keep our look ‘clean’ and ‘simple’. We decided to get rid of the collar on the white and pin the excess material to make a ruffled low cut blouse, we felt this worked well. I love the imagery of the three girls together as it reminds me of a 90’s girl band. The only improvement we would make is to next time hire our professional lighting and a camera in order to gain the best quality images however we felt the slight grain in the image and natural lighting did add to the ‘vintage’ effect.