Accessory Creation

Here are my accessories. I spray painted them a few times to make sure the colours were bold enough to show up on camera but still fitted into my pastel trend. My next job is going to be finding milkshakes that match each accessory.

Spray paint

Here are the spray paints I am going to use to create the pastel colours for my accessories. I chose a slight gloss finish on the paint so that when I am doing my shoot they items will have a nice sheen which replicates the materials they would've been made from originally.

Lenor Blue

Lavender Purple

E2E Green

Miss Piggy Pink

Concept

After looking at my trend boards and my research I feel my pastel trend fits in with my research into milkshakes. I feel as I have been focused on colour throughout my research these two concepts are very closely linked. My initial idea was to display the accessory item next to a food item with similar colours and include the recipe at the bottom but I have moved on and developed my idea to make it more suitable for a fashion editorial. I went back through my photo's from Manchester and looked again at the 17th/18th Century garments and noticed they were all quite pastely soft colours due to the technology and knowledge of how to dye clothes at the time. I looked again at these when going through the accessories I want to use for my shoot. I have tried to incorporate the two as well as considering my food experiences. I really decided on milkshakes when I was going through the trends as I kept seeing pastel pinks which reminded me of the shake I had at the american diner In Camden. If you compare the colours of the accessories I have chosen to the photos from Platt Hall you can definitely see the links and where I got my colour pallet from.

Charlotte Olympia

Jimmy Choo

Nancy Gonzalez 

Gryson

All accessory images from http://www.style.com

Trend alert

I decided to look at s/s13 for my accessories as I felt there was a lot more to chose from than a/w13. I have compiled 3 mood boards of the trends I felt were strong. I really like the contrast trend as it's bold and black&white are always on trend and there is so much that they would work with but I don't feel my research, which is based on colour would work but I feel for my research pastel works much better. I think after looking at my research I am going to link pastel colours to milkshakes. I think this is a strong link to my research and I can produce something that relates to the trends.