Design Transformation

I took a book out of the college library on print and material and found an interesting artist called Alexander Henry. He created folklore, fantasy and fable fabrics that could be transformed into a tattoo design which in its self is an art. Another way of working that can relate to tattooing is print making, which can be described as an extension of this natural instinct. Decoration on the body is also supposedly part of evolution.

 

In the same book I found a nice looking dress which I thought the pattern was interesting, with feathers on. This dress design was called the fluid "red carpet" dress in dragonfly print by Matthew Williamson. A flourish of feathers has always been used to symbolise sexual display, both in the natural world and in fashion. Williamson stated that he liked to experiment with colours particularly turquoise, this is why he uses peacock feathers in some of his work. These particular feathers have the eye motif on them which are known to the superstitious as harbingers of bad luck.