32. AGRICULTURAL INFLUENCES

32. Design Message.

Designs can evoke landscapes through print, colour palettes and texture.

32. Design Aim

My large shapes and earthy palettes deliberately make a fashion statement about equality and freedoms.

My designs make a connection with the earth, the land, farming and the countryside. I use neutral colours. I especially chose the tweed for its association with a moderate climate and, a rural English farming life. I associate the tweed colours with a rich, green life, where our land provides a wide range of foods. We are educated to the level where food caters to so many food intolerances and we are educated about balanced diets.

I lined my tweed with black Abaya fabric, my fabric supplier’s best selling Abaya fabric since the 80’s. I chose the black to show sample my core collection. I associate these fabrics with unlucky people born into cruel climate disasters that cause hunger and poverty through land, livestock and crop destruction. Food insecurity causes extreme hunger, bad health and denies education. Uneducated means being imprisoned by poverty, being denied knowledge of addressing dietary deficiencies or knowledge on climate resilient approaches.

My garment styles, colours and fabrics are timeless, slow fashion pieces that are designed to show support for climate change reduction efforts. In turn, by supporting the environment we are supporting agriculture, farming and contributing to food security.

The line must be everyone gets equal access to our shared Earth resources. We are no more entitled than another and could have been born with their circumstances.

32.Design Inspiration

Some of my design inspiration comes from YouTube.

You Tube searches listed below for concepts, costumes and lyrics.

Vanessa Mae Storm Classical Brit Awards 2000 458k views

(Storm from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons)

Cerrone – Supernature Live @ Festival Sonar 2017 78k views