Class Excercise no.5 - Fashio Forecasting and thedriving force of fashion

Class Exercise no.4- Designing color colletions

The color Family used here is Balance of Color. The variety of the hue and values help to distribution of color among each other according to color weight helps overall steadiness. The intensities also convey similar moods and gining enough variety for interest but also avoiding boredom and conflict.

Final Selection

Addition information for the Kenzo collection

After the tutial class of presenting my work, Pantone no. were missing. Here show a conclusion in color usage of Kenzo Spring & Summer 2009.

Class Exercise no.3 - Color in Apparel

Here shows the variation in color usage in apparel according to different period of time.

Interior color design

Description:

Applying the both balanace of color and harmony of color, the interior is colored in indigo(Pantone®19-4028), Wine (Pantone®484C), Bright Yellow (Pantone®3945M), White (Pantone®11-0601), Groundnut(Pantone®17-1410) and Forest Green (Pantone®7490M).

It is desinged with an indigo,"heavy weight" floor which project a calm feeling to match with a white leopard skin to give a sence of elegance. Wine and lustous yellow merchandise help to draw customers attention and add an interest to the store atomsphere. And thus, the mood would be enhanced to be more energetic and cheerful.

Groupmates work on Kenzo

Here link to groupmates' web blog containing research on Kenzo's collections in past few years.

1. F/W08 http://colorandfashiontrends.blogspot.com/2008/10/blog-post.html
2. 2006 http://07346647d.blogspot.com/
3. 2005 http://07091199d.blogspot.com/
4. S/S04 http://07187209d.blogspot.com/
5. F/W04 http://07336214d.blogspot.com/

Kenzo Designers I - Kenzo Takada

Born in Hemeji Japan in 1939, Kenzo Takada used just his first name when he launched his own label.
Mixing Japanese sensibilities and balance with European elegance, He studied at the Bunka College of Fashion. He worked in Japan after graduationa and moved to Paris in 1965.
Kenzo's designs are distinctive. One of trademark designs in incorporating the elements of the kimono, the Japanese traditional dress in modern clothes.
Kenzo is a a great colorist and a fine tailor, mixing multi-cultural aspects and converging them into one.
Kenzo menswear was designed by Roy Krejberg after Kenzo's retirement until December 2003 when the designer left the house. His last collection was shown during the Fall 2003 Paris Menswear season held last January 2003.
Gilles Rosier designed the womenswear line after Kenzo retired. He left the house in 2003.
After Rosier, Antonio Marras was hired as Creative Director for womenswear and he debuted in Paris during the Fall 2004 season.

Source: http://www.fashionwindows.com/runway_shows/kenzo/default.asp

Theme of Kenzo Spring 2009

The designer, Antonio Marras, invited his audience into a storybook fashion fantasy, inspired by 'Alice in Wonderland' and Victorian flower-collectors, in his spring/summer 2009 collection for Kenzo, at the Paris prêt-à-porter season.

	Alice in Wonderland: Storybook fantasy at the Kenzo spring/summer show

Bouquets of flowers, botanical embroideries and satin, chiffon and gabardine in mossy and pastel shades, recreated the dreamy sauntering of "Alice" in a sun-withered garden.

Against a set of larger-than-life wildflower books, piled up as if on a drawing-room table, the models paraded in watercolour florals and brighter, herbaceous border-patterns. They resembled "flower fairies", with their piled-up hair strewn with feathers and their faces made-up with sparkle eye-shadows and shimmering rose blush-on.

Smock-dresses came with delicate bodices embroidered with crystals and pearls. Longer, empire-line dresses, with rise-and-fall hemlines which disclosed petticoats of lace and flounces, had shoulder-straps embellished with tiny shells and beads.

Puffball dresses were crocheted in gold-tinged yarn, scattered with sequins, over tutu-underskirts, while jewel-embroidered knits were worn with loose-cut trousers, tapering to the ankle

Article from: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/main.jhtml?xml=/fashion/2008/10/04/efkenzo2104.xml