Trans-Formation

While doing my masters I've been giving a lot of thought to briefs that I did in my undergrad. My process, how I personalised them, disrupted them and the mistakes I made. I can always do better. I'm considering how all this can inform the work I'm doing given the change in environment. This project was a third year project from my degree called Transformation. The objective was to take two old garments de-construct them and produce a collection based on each piece. I personalised this by creating a narrative for the execution of the illustrations. I did some research into some of Leigh Bowery's work and how he re-appropriated female gender stereotypes by exaggerating proportions and changing the silhouette. I was thinking along the lines of 'Trans-gender' and 're-Formation' which fit nicely for me into what was for the most part a technical brief.

                                            

 

Neo-Politik

I  recently styled a Photoshoot for CULT Magazine feat actress Eva Jane Gaffney. The concept consisted of a young Joseph Stalin transcending the space time continuum and meeting Margaret Thatcher in 1979. This Joseph Stalin is untouched by his future legacy and at this point remains idealistic. He is 23. Their ensuing political discord and widely divergent philosophies inflame a passion that consumes them. Margaret is more mature, Joseph is far younger but her intellectual equal.The social and economic backdrop is austere the music is Kraftwerk.

 

 

All clothes courtesy of GollyGosh Boutique Crown Street Temple Bar Dublin

Art Direction and Styling: Mark Dempsey

Photography: Tess Bunworth

Models:  Eva Jane Gaffney & Aodhan

As featured in Cult available online here

Ageless

Rising

My Degree Collection 'Showdown In Neo-Tokyo' is featured in a new book 'Europe: Rising Fashion Designers'

Down with the Kids

"Fifteen-year-old Tavi Gevinson had a hard time finding strong female, teenage role models -- so she built a space where they could find each other. At TEDxTeen, she illustrates how the conversations on sites like Rookie, her wildly popular web magazine for and by teen girls, are putting a new, unapologetically uncertain and richly complex face on modern feminism."

Why should you listen to her?

"Born in April 1996, Tavi Gevinson started blogging at age eleven – then rapidly became a bona fide fashion icon. In 2009 she was featured on the cover of Pop magazine and was invited as a special guest to New York Fashion week. Her site for teenage girls, Rookie, broke the one-million page views within five days of launching in September 2011. She’s currently the editor-in-chief and founder of RookieMag.com and writes thestylerookie.com and has written for several publications including Harper's Bazaar, Jezebel, Lula, Pop, and GARAGE magazine."

"By unpicking the awkwardness of female adolescence and providing a place to talk about it, [Rookie has] helped feminism become almost fashionable. "

Eva Wiseman, The Observer

TED

Alexander Mc Queen Fall/Winter 2012

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Balenciaga

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#hope

over at coute que coute  'hope and glory' is filled with some very beautiful images shot by Matthew Brookes and styled by Way Perry

 via A Perfect Guide

.wasteland

"The world of melancholia was humid, heavy, and cold; that of mania was parched, dry, compounded of violence and fragility"...  Michel Foucault

Showdown In Neo-Tokyo
A Capsule Collection by Mark Dempsey
Featured in 
.wasteland

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.model {aoife mc camley}

Pig Dog Studios (ii) Audrey Woods

Showdown-in Neo-Tokyo

Bachelor of Arts (Hons) Degree in Fashion Design, Graduate Collection: Mark Dempsey

This collection is based on the 1988 anime movie named Akira. Akira is a neo-apocalyptic 'Manga' movie that is set in the future gangland's of Neo-Tokyo. This collection mimics the complexity of the relationship between the two main characters in the movie through the use of dynamic pattern making and complex intersecting seaming. With the use of vivid colour to highlight the intense and explosive moments in the story, I have created a high end street savvy collection using Japanese pattern making methods in conjunction with elements worked on the stand.

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