Costume ideas (Drafted on 10/10/10)

We've looked into Jose Vander's image, and discovered her style is more individual than other female artists. We used this as an inspiration for our artists image. We want to go for a look that portrays her as original and quirky, and we look at various clothing websites from high street to vintage to find this. We have also looked at current female artists on the market who are of similar genre. The 2nd, 3rd and 4th pictures that had been looked at in a previous lesson reminded us of Lilly Allen's dress in her music video 'the fear'. So we researched more into her image.

 We think that this is a very good dress to represent the image that we are looking for for our artist. It isn't too long (why do we want it to be not long?) and it has an original pattern, something different. It isn't something that someone would usually have the confidence to wear but Lilly has pulled it off.

We then looked into her image as a whole but found that we didn't really like it. She had a more masculine element to her clothing wearing trainers with shorter dresses, she also portrayed herself as the type of person who would do anything just to be noticed by the media industry. For example there were images of her flashing to the camera and wearing provocative clothing which is the kind of sex appeal we want our artist to avoid. 

We then looked further into Kate Nash and found her general image to almost identical to our chosen identity for Jose Vanders. 

The most significant thing about the way that Kate Nash dresses is that she never wears anything that is low cut and/or provocative. She wears the same colour all the way down her body, this makes her stand out more and wears a different colour belt with a dress. The main colours she wears are yellow and red.
We have got a dress in mind with a high cut collar, and is navy with red bows. We plan to find a thin red belt and red heels. We feel that this stands out and connects well with our aim to have bright colours.