P is for Photographer...

A photographer I have been interested in for a long time is Bill Cunningham, born in 1929. He has chosen an unusual life to some, as he has spent most, if not all of his time focussing on his work. He is a street style photographer working also with fashion shows, VIP events and his close friends/celebrities. He has become a very well know photographer all over the world being invited to the top fashion events and having his work featured in The New York Times capturing some of the world’s top socialites. He is spotted by his blue coat which is featured in the image below.

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Around a year ago I watched a documentary on him and his work, being interested in street style myself I find him such an inspiration. The image below shows a piece of his work where he montaged various of his photographs together and a short description about what he had found the trends and styles to be on the streets.

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I went to Paris Fashion Week in 2013 and the image below shows a piece I created from my own street style shots mimicking Bill’s style. I didn’t look at a particular trend, but instead at formal men’s street wear in general, I was using this piece as my research for my second year University studies so it had to link to that. It wasn't hard to find as it was fashion week everyone had come dressed to impress!! From my research in Paris and online I created two garments from it which are also shown below, a long men’s winter coat and fitted suit pants for AW13. I passed my second year so I guess it worked out well!!

Hair Up’s

So yesterday I dropped all my plans and went to the hair salon! (Bramhall Hair Studio) My cousin (babysis) Connie is around 3 months away from being a fully qualified hairdresser and she wanted to practise doing a hair up before she had to pass it off at college. I took my laptop with me as I had some design work  to do and sat very patiently as she cracked on! Below are a couple of shots from my phone as we were having a laugh catching up!

Any hairdresser will tell you that my hair is a nightmare to work with, it’s great for the length and style as I don't have layers cut in, so for styling and up do’s it gets a thumbs up! Normally bleached hair will hold most styles because the damage hair is dryer and stiffer, mine however contradicts this, Connie explained why I've never been able to hold curls in my hair, and it’s down to the cuticles all over you hair strands, mine are basically too smooth so they won't hold a curl for a long period of time! So she had to work as quick as she could before mine dropped out…

The process  of this style is to curl the hair in sections and then pin the curls  to the head to allow them to cool in the shape of the loop rather than the length of it. She then sat me under a hood dryer and blasted it on cold to help the cooling process. She then took all the clips out and began to back comb my bouffant into shape, once she had this looking right it was all pinned into place. The curls were then looped around her fingers and clipped into position around the back. Once she was happy with how it looked she finished off the front curls and then coated it in hairspray.

I got home and luckily my dad was in, he is a professional photographer so I got him to get a few snaps for me so I could pop it up here for the world to see!!

Photography by chillphoto © 

chillphoto@hotmail.co.uk

Hair by Connie Hughes @ Bramhall Hair Studio