More Designzz.

Just doing more random little designs

Stylin ideaz!

I was thinkin about different styling ideas for ma collection, i like the whole idea of this been kinda androgynous/street style going on, i was thinking of using handcuffs and chains to kinda represent it been locked up and chain gang style.

More Designzz.

I've just been designing an sampling ideas really, some of the stuff I've been looking at it's a prisoner's mental state an how it drive them mad an also looking the idea of humiliation as a prison uniform with the stripes was used to humiliate a prisoner, it was as if they where wearing a badge of shame.

Designing!!

I've also started designing taking inspiration from prison culture an the effect it had, one of my ideas is using recycled denim, the idea behind is that the idea of prisoners re offending and coming in an out of prison, it's almost like recycling doing it over an over again and wondering if they are every going to make a change in there life. Also I was inspired by a film called 'the boy in striped pyjamies' this one scene in the film at the end where all the uniform is hanging from the cloakroom and its all dirty and worn out.

I started trying out diiferent ways I could piece up the denim together and, at first I started doing it with stripes, I asked everyone there opinion an they didn't thinkin it was effective enough so I decided to do it on smaller parts taking key elements like the pockets and stitching out.

tattoos

I also started talking to people with tattoos and asking them waht tattoos mean to them and why they have them and I also started drawing tattoos.

Samplin...

I've also started sampling, for my print I want to use gang tattoos and prisons, as I think tattoos play an important role in gangs. Because there tattoos have meanings and stories behind them. Each tattoos means something, I like the idea of incorporating a tattoo with a story behind it. I looked the gang MS 13, as I think there tattoos are interesting, also more tattoos you have the more devotion you have to your gang. It's almost as if they cover themselves completely. I've done a few samples of print on denim, I think it's ok I like the idea of it been subtle, but I asked other people opinions they said I should think outside the box and try something different then stencil.

The numbers gang..John Mongrol this man is truley scary!!!

I watched an episode of Ross Kemp on Gangs and this time he was in south africa, and interviewing the notorious Numbers gangs called the 'the 26s, 27s and 28s.
The leader of the 28s gang is a man called John Mongrol this man is responsible for over 2000 deaths inside the prison and rapes a different inmate every 3 weeks even though he claims he's not gay! He then talks about how he tattoos with a razor blade ouchhhhh!