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WHAT ASPECT OF THIS ARCHIVE INTEREST ME?
By choosing this museum, I thought I could understand better my purpose for my creative blog. I desired to see more and choose for a variety of archives, I wanted to see how each of them are collected and arranged to each category.
After three hours spent in this wonderful gallery, where lovers of history, fine art, fashion, abstract art, e.g could find their little space of thinking for a while, i decided that my blog will be about fashion art and how it evolves from past to the early present.
It is very interesting the feeling I had after I found myself in this theme and I thought that my blog will be based on passion.

VISIT TO AN ART GALLERY
WHERE?
Tate Modern, London
What is it?
Museum

16 of November
The story of the face
London
CENTRAL ST MARTINS 1 GRANARY SQUARE, KINGS CROSS, LONDON N1C 4AA
My thoughts
*The Face remains one of the most remarkable examples of a magazine that both reflected its times and led them.
*Amazing people attended to the event.
*Nice outfits all over the room, fact that made my desire for fashion world even bigger.
*In the process it launched the careers of many of today’s leading journalists, photographers, stylists and art directors: Dylan Jones, Julie Burchill, Corinne Day, Neville Brody, Phil Bickers, Robin Derrick to name a few.

V&A Balenciaga: Shaping Fashion

After my interest started to grow, I found out, from a tube advertising ( I guess we see advertising everyday, everywhere, but we choose to really see only the ones that interest us), that Victoria and Albert Museum will hold a fashion exhibition in colaboration with Balenciaga. I thought it might be amazing for me to go and write about it on my blog.
Of course the price was not the cheapest one, but for sure the exhibition deserved all the money.
This exhibition examines the work and legacy of influential Spanish couturier Cristóbal Balenciaga, with over 100 pieces crafted by ‘the master’ of couture, his protégées and contemporary fashion designers working in the same innovative tradition.
Really interesting to find out that the museum held some of the most beautiful pieces of clothes that I have ever seen. Elegance, boudoir, colours, feminity was all over the room 40, (where the exchibition took place).
A long history of fashion from 20th century washed my eyes with pleasure.

The Design Museum of London
I knew that London is a famous city for its museums, but to be honest I did not know that it hides so many museums of fashion,(I should have realised, since is one of the capitals, where Fashion Week takes place).
Anyway, after a long research on my subject area, I found out the existence of "The Design Museum", well it is not fashion the main purpose, but art itself, from home designs, car designs, to clothes designs.There is an interesting place to be, it looks so different from any other museum I have seen before. It seems new ideas are developing in here.

THE DELFINA FOUNDATION
On a cold beautiful morning of a Thursday, we moved our class in a Gallery, somewhere in central of London. A long, but funny way to the destination took us in this place called Delfina Foundation, where we were delighted to have a lovely tour thought the Private Collection: Unperformed Objects, the first UK solo exhibition by South Korean artist Geumhyung Jeong. In her practice as choreographer, dancer and performer, Jeong constantly renegotiates the relationship between the human body and the objects that surround it. She has built up a collection of plain everyday objects upon which she bestows a bizarre, disconcerting life through an intense and risky interaction with her own body to challenge notions of sexuality, technology and the female body.
I have to admit it was a strange feeling while discovering more and more of her collection, with every step I took, I felt like i do not know what I expect to see, but in the same time, curiosity took place in my mind. It was the most strange gallery I have ever been to, but I have been excited in the same time. I love the idea of unkown and discovery, so I believe this little walk was good for my knowledge.
After, we have left the gallery my first though was "Is this even Art?", I have to admit that I did not feel satisfied in the beginning, but I had to contemplate a while about what I have seen, to finally understand that what she did was not necessary art, I guess she did not even wanted to make art, I believe that what she did is called curating, she collected things and put them together, so in the end she had a collection.
In the gallery, these objects are clinically displayed on plinths, under strip lighting. Video monitors show clips of the ‘performed objects’ not present, those modified by Jeong and activated in durational performances where they are first used in intended and routine ways before Jeong’s movements morph into erotic, obsessive, or antagonistic actions. Jeong feeds her own energy back into these inanimate objects, positing the female body as the locus of reproductive responsibility within a gendered, exploitative economy.

First week reading
Do Artifacts have Politics?
There are, however, good reasons technology has of late taken on a special
fascination in its own right for historians, philosophers, and political scien
tists; good reasons the standard models of social science only go so far in ac
counting for what is most interesting and troublesome about the subject. In
another place I have tried to show why so much of modern social and political
thought contains recurring statements of what can be called a theory of tech."
First week reading it was quite accessible to understand, it was a long text to read, but I found it really interesting and I truly discovered new things about what artifacts are.

Second week reading refection- Mapping International Exhibitions
*Every exhibition is a map.
*There is a long history of international exhibitions which encompass three interrelated parts: the promotion of art, the growing development and an expansion of the modernist doctrine.
I have to admit the second reading is one of my favourites, I have an interest for art and everything behind, I always wanted to discover more about it. This week reading I might say truly helped my way of understanding exhibitions.

WHAT IS MY RESEARCH QUESTION?
My archive is created around Fashion Industry, being one of my mains interest, starting this project for Making and Curating, I felt free to let myself choose anything to talk about, but I thought it is going to be funnier and created with pleasure if I choose something I like, so I have decided to go along and find out more about design.
I could say that many discoveries took place in the museums I have been for my research and the thing that I found challenging is the fact that most of the artists are expressing themselves in too many different ways, I did not find the same collection, or a similar one from one artist to another. Than I asked myself What are the differences between them and how are they thinking while they are creating? Why they are not taking inspiration from one another. First of all because some of the collections I have seen are younger or older to the others. However, my research question is How Fashion is influenced by the passing years and how people are interacting with the new trends? More specific, I would like to point to the Balenciaga exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, so my archive will be based on the examination of Balenciaga's work from the 1950s and 1960, as they say the most creative period in his career. To add my personal touch I will add to my archive another decade from his work, the present.

26 October - How to research with Elena Papadaki?
Elena Papadaki is a lovely tutor, I had her last year as well in my Screen Now course. I find this session really helpful, and finally I understand how to make a proper research. We engaged with some group tasks to help us along the final presentation on 25 January. I believe that this session helped me to develop a better view when it comes to research projects and I feel more confident to make a presentation, because the end of the sessions involved a five minutes group presentation on a chosen theme.

How the Fashion Industry is changing over the years and how people are reacting to these changes?
Over the years we had been face to face to a lot of changes in the Fashion World, everything is changing from era to era, from year to year, we are continuing to change styles and we feed ourselves with everything it is knew and in trend.

FASHION IS RECYGLING
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE PICTURE: THE SCARF, THE HIGHT WAIST
PARALLEL PRESENT-PAST

SIMILARITY:
COAT
BLAZER
GLASSES

Art work description

Timelessness will show an extraordinary collection of memorable pieces that represent iconic looks from the past mixed with nowadays trends.
This is not just about the trio's sharing the same passion for fashion, but about the real sense of it: fashion is immortal.
Based on the idea of recycling, old times found the way to come alive to the present, as it is obviously in our everyday outfits. Even if it’s not remarkable in the first touch, keep your eyes on details.
This exhibition will bring alongside history, the parallel of the 50’s and 60’s to nowadays, inviting our guests to think about how fashion evolved through the years.
Personal clothing of the group was used to recreate 8 separate photographs of personalities that marked their own place in the fashion industry, one of them being Audrey Hepburn, a representative of style and elegance.
The artwork will be presented as 8 old portraits and 8 new ones, each of them being well presented on an A2 board and hanged from the ceiling.
As an overall, “Timelessness” is calling not just every fashionable person but everyone who wants to know from which era their clothes and trends are from.
As an enjoyable experience to watch and understand art, this exhibition was made for a large audience, as an answer to the question: Is fashion always coming back?