Author: Xinyue Zhang

In this class, we mainly put together the structure of clothes in the form of collage with the two customised shoes we drew in Visual Studio 1 and drew illustrations on this basis. This step was familiar to me after all the previous collages, and it wasn’t difficult to make a costume out of my… Continue reading Visual Studies 2 PPD

In this session, we mainly learnt about how to classify brands and products. At the beginning, I thought my strengths in this workshop is to classify the products, but as the class goes on, I found that I was wrong, especially when we have to classify those sunglasses. When I thought 2 of the sunglasses… Continue reading Business 2 PPD

This session was focusing on using WSGN, a fashion forecasting website, to learn how to create mood boards and analyse the brands that we researched. The key learning points of this workshop for me is how to analyse a brand through its website and other trend forecasting website. We first found one of the hashtags… Continue reading Business 1 PPD

In this lesson, we mainly interviewed one of our peers and create a page of journalism. My friends and I asked each other why we chose LCF，our fashion interest, what is our ambition, why we chose that artist to be the inspiration of the project, how did we create our shoes etc.. It’s happy to… Continue reading Media 2 PPD

This session is mainly about colouring our sketch. We used Pantone Studio to take photos of our Mood board to create the colour story and then colour our Sketch according to the colour story. Since the colours of my mood board were not very rich, I only had the same colours for shooting, so I… Continue reading Design 2 PPD

In this class, we learned about some media majors first, and then mainly took photos of our shoes. I actually struggled for a long time with how to photograph it, and I didn’t want to photograph it in detail as most people do because the shoe was inspired by a costume in a performance art… Continue reading Media 1 PPD

The main content of this class is to extract shapes from the mood board about our research of the research artists prepared in advance for Design 1. The artist I chose was lee Bul, a Korean artist. I saw her work in one of Tate Modern’s galleries. It’s a costume, and she’s doing performance art… Continue reading Design 1 PPD

Before this class, I already had a clear plan for my BA major and learned about all the BA courses I was interested in, so there were not many surprises in this survey. However, the Course Units in Menswear are more detailed than other majors, which shows that menswear is taken seriously, that makes me… Continue reading 5 BA Courses

It’s cheering to see so much encouraging feedback from both tutors and my peers.For my presentation, the tutor commented that my customer profile shows a good selection of images and information that communicates the attitude of my customer choice. The design board has an interesting illustration of a pair of glasses which shows good connections… Continue reading TOOLBOX Feedback

This lesson is mainly about observation drawing. I had drawn the human body in Berryman’s book before, but I needed to sketch a rough shape before I could draw a more accurate figure, and I rarely drew without making a draft in advance, which made the outcome of this course full of uncertainty. We start… Continue reading Visual Studies 1 PPD