STUDY YOU STUPID BITCH

(Rodarte)

I am a complete schmuck at doing homework. And i'm doing a fashion course, how hard can it be. I'm currently working (or trying to) on my business communication report which requires me to "write a report advising on the trend direction of a designer label, profling the label's detailing customer/market positioning/etc." I then have to focus on two international designers who will influence the companys new range, and ultimately the range that I will design for them. The label I have chosen to design for is Topshop (I've just finished watching Topshops Unique AW11 Runway Show from LFW so expect a post about that soon), the Rodarte picture above however is in reference to my never ending search of the two international designers that inspire me and reflect the very youthful and stylish collections that Topshop represent. This has proven to be a very, very difficult task because Topshop covers almost everything. Finding two designers does simply not suffice. For my report however it will. It seems as though a great deal of my report will reflect the inspiration and resources gathered from these two

I've never written a report as such in my life and the whole thing scares me. There's headings and sub headings and no actual formula given. Ahhhh welcome to uni.

FRIDA LOVE

Fall 2010 Ready-to-Wear
Giambattista Valli - Beauty

Spring 2011 Ready-to-Wear
Nina Ricci - Runway

Fall 2010 Ready-to-Wear
Tommy Hilfiger - Runway

Fall 2010 Ready-to-Wear
3.1 Phillip Lim - Runway

Spring 2010 Ready-to-Wear
Richard Chai Love - Runway


I found these photos from Frida's archive on style.com whilst my attempt at finding the source of this picture below:

Naturally I thought it was by the Rodarte sisters because the make up reminded me of Black Swan, but I could find no such thing. Sigh, i hate this. I love all the pictures and artwork and screen caps found on sharing sites such as tumblr and weheartit but I absolutely hate the ambiguity of it all. Nothing is sourced and it kind of just makes everything seem like one big reblog, thoughtless and careless. I'm not talking about bloggers failing to reblog accurately, I couldn't care less about that. I mean sourcing the actual photos taken, it is so easy to just take and image and post it anywhere but I think it's important to know who/where/why the photo was taken. It gives the photo so much more context, so much more than just being a pretty photo. So many people reblog those printscreens of texts from books (mostly about loneliness and heartache ha) but does anyone ever wonder where they come from? I do. I know most of my links and sources on blogpost are just vague tumblr and weheartit links but I guess that's because it really is hard to find their true natural sources.

Well fuck my life, if anybody knows where this last Frida photo is from please let me know :( I would really like to use wherever it was sourced from as inspiration for my moodboard.