Illustration by Howard Tangye
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"I HATE MY COLLECTION": Saint Martins unveiled
Summer 2011. The new chapter of Central Saint Martins history starts. The historic and important college will move from its Soho site and join other branches of Central Saint Martins in a new purpose-built development in King’s Cross.
As it is the end of an era for this legendary institution, I have found it meaningful to make a documentary film about the art college and the old St Martins school building on Charing Cross Road.
~ Monday, October 11 ~
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Illustration by Howard Tangye
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Illustration by Howard Tangye
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Illustration by Howard Tangye
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By Howard Tangye
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Aubrey Beardsley inspired illustration by Howard Tangye
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Illustration by Howard Tangye
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Julie Verhoeven by Howard Tangye
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Howard Tangye, Saint Martins illustratior
Tomorrow is going to be quite busy, we are filming Katharine Hamnett in the morning and then we are going to the house of Saint Martins most influencial illustrator/ tutor Howard Tangye, not only we are going to film him talking about the role Saint Martins played in his life ( graduated from Saint Martins in 1974 and then he came back there to teach, today Howard is in charge of womenswear) but we will also film a life drawing session, which is very very exciting! I will upload some of his illustrations.
p.s. when we were interviweing Julie Verhoeven she said that Howard was the reason for her to apply to Saint Martins..
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~ Friday, June 25 ~
Me: Tell me about your collection
Sorcha: my collection is based on the film “the eternal sunshine of the spotless mind”. Focusing on the films representation of memories, I have played with scale in my silhouette, reflecting the distortion of scale in memories. I have also been inspired by the day of the dead festival, the celebration of death and remembrance have heavily influenced my collection. “How happy is the blameless Vestal’s lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d.” —Eloisa to Abelard, Alexander pope
I looked a lot also at the work of artist Beverly Semmes and chiharu shiota both arts make giant dresses as a medium of art, memory and identity were also recurring themes in both artists work.
I wasn’t dead sure exactly what I wanted to do but I had a vision of long legged awkward over sized people and garments
Me : Lots of CSM students these day are trying to make something very clean and wearable.Why did you choose more theatrical path ?
Sorcha: I went with my gut and made garments that I believed in and that are 100 % me even though I knew it was not the trend to create such teathrical things
Me: Well done though, you are getting so much press/blogs etc because of that! But how long did it take you to make it ? Did you do it on your own ?
Sorcha: We only had eight weeks to actually make our collection, I used Crochet, embroidery/beading, hand knit, machine knit and for my accessories I dipped crochet in a porcelain slip and fired it, Towards the final deadline I was running out of time so for the last week all my amazing friends came and helped without them I would not have been able to make it as embellished as I wished. they were above and beyond AMAZING!
Me : how was your final year experience?
Sorcha: My final year was blood sweat and tears I put my whole self in it and sacrificed a lot throughout the year to put in my all, although it was very very stressful I really enjoyed it, It was so nice to create something from start to finish which was your vision, was a constant roller coaster I felt constant pressure but that was mostly from myself, and constant self doubt, I think I did the best I could for the time I had but I think as a designer you will always have doubts
Me : did you have any disagreements with yr tutors?
Sorcha: Luckily not,but people have different visions so there were a few minor but I think that is normal and necessary!
Me: How do you feel about CSM moving to Kings Cross ?
Sorcha: I have loved every minute at csm, for me the building is like a home, but it is all I have ever known and all I will ever be able to relate to in a physical sense but for the next generation at kings cross that will be all they know and will hopefully create its own history
Me : what is the secret of Saint Martins ?
Sorcha: I think the secret of saint martins is the freedom to create, there are no restrictions only your imagination it doesn’t try and force any kind of uniform to its students and there work, but to embrace what they are
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~ Tuesday, June 15 ~
Interviewing students …
There are so many extraordinary people who went to Saint Martins and who are studying there at the moment. Due to time limits of my film I can not show all of them but what I can do is use this blog as an addition to the film, as a kind of platform where Saint Martins students can talk about their work, their Saint Martins experiences….
Its been almost two weeks since the Central Saint Martins BA show, lots of magazines , newspapers , blogs wrote about it. One can easily find all the pictures from the press show. But none really knows what was behind the collections, all the research, efforts, stress and pressure so I have decided to talk to them and find out ! Besides as you may know not all of the students get to show the collections to the press( not because they are less talented, definitely not, none really knows the secret of the selection), so this will be a unique opportunity to see their collections online.
So I have asked few freshly graduate BA students give me an interview, show me photos of their work and some pages from sketchbooks, its all very excitng. All of these interviews will shortly appear on the blog. I hope you enjoy it !
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