For this new collaboration project we started gathering our ideas as a group, we looked at lots of Palace clothing and decided that the stormy colours stood out the most to us. We choose them as our colour pallet and then began gathering images that related to these colours. Storm also links in to the theme of light through thunder and lightening.
After choosing the colour pallet we talked about the fact that Palace didn’t have a girls section and that there clothes are very male orientated. We decided we wanted to bring in a female.
Baring that in mind I then went and did my own research into what route I wanted to go down from the options that we had on WGSN. I really liked the idea of looking at cellular forms, I feel that it could link into a Palace female range nicely as the shapes are rather elegant and soft. However I do feel that Palace are quite boxy, angular, and don’t tend to go for this kind of pattern so it would be good to try something new.
Since looking at cells I have discovered that dragonfly wings when looked at under a microscope are made up of a similar structure to cells. However they can look more angular so I may take this in to consideration and form some motifs. I think by looking at this also brings in a new angle to my project as I was worried that cells are very much lots of circles and I didn’t want to come to a dead end with them.
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