Mood boards for both editorail and catwalk.

 

As you can see on my catwalk mood board the colour scheme is still very much red, the simplicity of the markings of the face and body are going to be minimal and the necklace is going to give the most feeling to the images. The hair is going to be sleek back, maybe into a high long straight sleek ponytail, i havent designed a catwalk look yet. the red lines will indicate the tribe in which ive been looking at.

 

my editorial look is going to be quite full and crazy. the hair is going to be up and messy using techniques in which we have learnt throughout this project. the makeup is going to bold showing a statement of power towards the tribe and using red shows a great feeling. the necklace is going to look perfect for this look. 

Catwalk styling

So after having found my amazing tribal piece of jewelery for my eitorial straight from a tribe. i began to look a what i could use for my catwalk shoot. I felt i really wnated another piece of jewlery not as heavy as the other piece but very bold and red to show power, as i starting to like natural but powerful makeup and hair, so the neck needs to be quite a focus point.

I began to look at many websites where i found this beautiful piece of feather jewerly the colours are beautiiful. at first i thought to myself i cant buy this it cost £55 pounds but then i really thought about my shoot and it would be perfect for it.the colour, the boldness everything about it. There was 1 problem it had to be made and shipped from america. it could take 6 weeks to be delievered. 

I took the chances and made sure my editorail was shot and all work was nearly finished so when this arrived i could do it and the all done. 

(this arrivered just before we broke up for christmas, very lucky)

Breaking down my idea

After looking at images that i have reseached already i began to realise a slight pattern and likeness of the images, so i started looking at more images to back this up ratehr than going slightly away and look and different tribes. I gatehred a few images in the likes of mood boards. 

I really began to look at how i wanted to do the hair and start to think what would look good with the style of makeup in which i wanted to model. i had to really think what would editorial be and what would catwalk be. There two totally different areas and to go over the top on catwalk just wouldnt work and  the editorial needs to be eye catching for when some one is flicking through a magazine or book. 

As you can see some of the styles are really big and messy and others more sleek, a sleek style will defiantly work for the catwalk all off the face to give more focus on the makeup and clothing. and the editorial up and big and messy, will make it stand out from another image.

You can see where from the tribes ive been looking at red is vey much the symbol colour so i began to look at red eyes and how there are many ways to make it look effective. this idea is really begining to pick up on me :).

model mayhem

when looking through model mayhem i came across these inspirational images which really are helping me with a final look.



there all very much editorial based but the inital art is really gathering more ideas into my head.

Primary research

Karen morris-lanz is my best mates mums who expereinced life in a tribe. The mnew meaning in her life by spending a month with the Waorani tribe deep in the Ecuadorian Amazon Jungle. 

Bameno is four days down a river on a dugout canoe from the nearest town, and does not, as yet have a postal address.

 Karen states in a article... "The jungle was are super market. For example, I had taken some biodegradable hair conditioner but it did not work well. My hair soon became dry. Debota my hostess gave me a fruit from the forest that we heated in the fire. Her daughter Yamenca put it on my hair and my hair quickly regained condition. "

    She ended up getting hitched to the tribe's only bachelor and being wooed by the hunter with dead monkeys and birds.
    The mother-of-two had hoped to find new meaning in her life by spending a month with Waorani tribe deep in the Ecuadorian Amazon jungle.
   But they were appalled to find she was unmarried and promptly decided that what was missing in her life was a husband.
   Tribe hunter Ewenginto declared he was "Happy" as soon as he met Karen and set out to impress her so that she would stay and the pair of them wouldn't be lonely any more.
   The tribe elders agreed it was a great idea and threw a wedding party for the unsuspecting Karen and her groom.
   Karen was a little suprised when she realised what was happening, but says it was highly flattering and very moving that the tribe wanted her to stay so much and be part of their lives.
   Her final parting with Ewenginto in the BBC 2 documentary was as tear-jerking as any Hollywood movie romance.

   Ewenginto declared he would be her husband for ever and would always wait for her. "I shall think of you every night," he said sadly as Karen fought unsuccessfully to stop her tears



this was a truely amazing experience to me never mind to karen ... we couldnt wait for her to get home and tell us her storys. her life has totally changed in the way she respects everything and everyone , it turely touched her heart.

this is the man who fell in love with her .

look at the art on the arms and body .... amzing!

keep looking for an update on a real interivew with karen morris.

Scarification

Throughout many tribes in the world scarification is a sign of childhood, in which the face is scarred or as adulthood approaches the abodeman is scarred.

After watching a documentery on this i discovered there were many reasons why they do this, as i truely didnt want to believe to put children and adults through this pain for nothing. They do this to transmit complex messages about identity, or with such permanment markings may empahasize fixed, social, political ad religious roles. Even in some tribes around the world its a mark od someone killing a enemy in battle. 

I find this truely remarkable, but amazingly disgusting with the whole way they do this procedure. Different ways in which scarification occur is through scratching, etching, burning and cutting in the skin. The way in which they look at the body is a living canvas, and is socially valuable towards there family and tribe. 

The crocodile men 

The sepik river tribe ... they resemble the crocodile into the skin using sharp instruments to produce the looks of scales from a crocodile into their body... oouucchhhhh!!!

The meaning behind this ceremoney has deeply spirtual and symbolic connotations. The tribe believe theat the scars are crocodiles teeth that have swallowed the adolescents and morphed them into 'crocodile men'

The event culminates as the tribes celebration of the return of the ancestral crocodiles: legend has it, that when they migrated through the Sepik river, the crocdiles established a human population.

As well as a celebration, the cermony is very important in estabishing discipine and testing the strength of the young males. Their backs, buttocks and chest al recieve multiple lacerations with bamboo sticks, creating scars that when healed from eloids, 'sharply elevated, often round or oval scars due to the rich production of collagen in the dermal layer.

Heres a short video on the procedure of the 'crocdile men'

Experimenting with tattoos

 firstly i ripped images out of magazines and started drawing on them in a tribal design then with Fardel water color cream i painted into it. 

Im very happy with the turnout of this image .. the lines could of been alot neater ... but the more practise the better. The design is free hand.

 I really like the design of this tattoo ... and i think i choose the perfect image to do it on... the drawing i'snt symmetrical .. i thought i had more space than i did.

First hand experience of the Maasai Wariors

This exhibition was truly an inspiration to me ... there culture and the way they live is incredible, throughout the show there did a short drama, and sang a song, after this there was chance to ask them questions.

" what do you use to create the marks on your body and why do you do this"?
"we use clay mixed with water and plants to produce other colors for the makeup, and we do this for a camouflager when hunting ."

After the show they were selling jewelry brought from Kenya which was made and truly smelt like  it was made... i brought a beautiful piece of jewelry in which i hope to use for this project for £15 BARGAIN!

You can see faintly the marks on his arm in no particular way.

I absolutely love this necklace... if they had one on the stall i would of payed a lot of money for it! its beautiful and so much color and detail. 

The oldest member of the tribe to your left and the leader to your right.

This is my purchase from the exhibition ... it actually smells unusual.. but the detail and you can see how it was made.

Thought i'd get a picture with them .... i Love them !! ... you can see the camouflager on the blokes legs to the left of me .

this is a video recorded by me of the show they put on... it was gob smacking ... there voices are like treasure in the ocean ... magical .. unique .. how they make theses noises amazes me.

All in all this was a must see exhibition and i would of been so annoyed at myself if i didn't make it. 

Experimenting with technuiques.

In our practical lessons we have looked and many different ways to mark the body with colour and materials..... i throghly enjoyed this and it really made you think everything is able to be used.

Using a black eyeliner i drew this design free hand... then with a black supra colour i filled in the areas needed. If i had a smaller brush it would of been alot cleaner and the lines more sharp, i alson would use aqua clour next time to stop the shine, for it to set as this will smudge as soon you touch it. i am very happy with the outcome and it shows exactly what is wanted.

This technique was made with transfer from a magazine... using a non shiny magazine cut the image in which you want, place on the area of skin whered you want the image transfered. place on the skin and with cotton wool and acetone nail varnish gently dab and wipe down the image when wet enough peal back the image and you should see the transfer on the back.

now with the supra palete fill ion over the image creating a finished transfer.

this is a very good and helpful stencil to remeber for future refrence for body painting... i didnt have time to finish it but i defiantly will try this again. 

Wodaabe Tribe

Sometimes known as the Bororo, are nomadic herdsmen living in the Republic of Niger and neighboring regions. The festival "geeewol" with it "bridesgroom" parade is when the men make a special effort to enhance their appearance; they can spend hours and hours adorning themselves with paint and makeup to  make themselves look as desirable as they can to the women.

it is a competition to show there physical attractions, they further enhance they facial features with makeup, rolling there eyes and puffing out there cheeks.  

this is one of my favourite tribes, the detail and time put into every male is amazing. why can't they do this every day?? haha

Tribal references in fashion editorial

From French Vogue 2009 these images are eye catching in every sense in the body art and the way in which the image is shoot, love the tattoos and the head dress in the image on the right.

From US Vogue in 2010 "the warrior way". the alpha female of the social jungle.

Tribal references in fashion catwalk

This was a promotion on the catwalk for TEMPTU tribal chic kit. 

2010 spring/summer collection ... the tribal work is truly inspirational and gives such a unique sense on every model it not being the same design on them all.

After going to the library i picked up a few books which are really going to help through this project and get a really good knowledge of the decorated skin in which they create.

"decorated skin a world of survey of body art" by Karl Groning

"world dress" Frances Kennett.

This image is from the decorated skin book and it just blew me away! the pure detail in the body art is just unbelievable. he is a Samo fron the west papua new Guinea around 1969. 

Throughout the next few weeks i'm going to look into many different tribes, how they live, their cosmetic references as a tribe, how and why they would do this, look at how tribes are different in many ways. I'm very excited and enthusiastic towards this project, i feel very happy in what the outcome needs to be and how i am going to achieve this.

Initial research 

After typing into Google African tribes i found the most beautiful images of  children using the natural pigments of soil and rock of their surroundings and Hans Sylvester captured this with so much emotion, every child has a different painting on their faces and this show their expression of their lives.  

this is one of my favorite images i've looked at so far!! .. there isn't so much emotion towards the child and the way in which she is stating herself in the photography, the whole design of the image is beautiful with the leaves as a head dress and the colors on the face really stand out! AMAZING!

Just beautiful! , the flowers used as head bands shows so much elegance.

MY FAVORITE ! .. just look at the color's in which shes used and lines created on the face its kind of like camouflage  and well that head piece is just spectacular .

Too cute!! .. the facial painting just says i'm a little flower :) ... the flower in the mouth just gives color to the image.

OMG! i love the horns!! this is a true tribal image showing off what the surroundings are and how they use this for their daily needs.