Grunge
When I started looking at the grungier side of romance I had to look harder as the all the new collections are for spring so there weren’t so many collections using the harsh dark colours and themes.
There were certain designers that always seem to have querky sort of designs that I checked out and in a lot of ways different collections related to our theme. Those designers were Rodarte, Alexander Mqueen and Gareth Pugh.
Rodartes theme was really cool as it stated that it was to show that someone could be scared but still look beautiful and the way they conveyed that was by ruining lots of fabrics this kind of relates to our theme as the Romance side of the theme is going to seem really beautiful with the colours and fabrics and the grunge side is going to be the opposite and we need to show that by manipulating all the fabrics.
For the grungier side of romance we were trying to find images to reflect ‘lost darkness’ the feeling of falling out of love when you feel alone and your not quite thinking straight. I looked for longer silohettes and bigger shapes to give the feeling of carrying all those memories with you that you just cant seem to let go and rebellious sort of fashion through colour and fabric.
I think the best colours to convey this sort of theme were the deep reds and purples to add some sharpness and colour and the obvious black and grays to give that sense of darkness.
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