BLOG 4 Peer Review
For the last section I decided to peer review Maja Bebber’s work, she gave a really insightful perspective on her project, one which differed completely from mine therefore it caught my attention. She discussed her collaboration with fashion brand “Lazy Oaf” and mental health project “Time to Change”. Although our fashion projects differed I found myself relating and understanding to some aspects of her project thanks to my Better Lives knowledge. For example, when she mentioned ‘Lazy Oafs” history as a brand aimed at a specific audience, which she describes as rebellious, non-conforming to the norm, which are ideals which I have studied in my ‘Inside and Outside Fashion’ project as we looked into subculture and what pushes the creation of one, and it usually these ideas of rebellion. I was extremely interested when she stated that she created gifs for her project because as a journalism student this is quite different from my idea of fashion, as I am more used to writing, exploring through academia and research. Also, I was quite impressed when she mentioned that she created these gifs with the Better Lives themes in mind; sustainability, diversity and social responsibility. The idea that the mental health was fundamental to her is really inspiring as I believe that mental health is pivotal in the world of fashion and should be seen as so.
11th May 2020 @ 7:25 am
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1g22IrkNaG8yJrBg869uTfqds4RKtyN5ayO5gTOJu3w8/edit?usp=sharing
After reading over a few of blog posts, I have chosen to peer review Eleanor Renwick’s Blog 2. I like how she clearly states and summarises the 3 main topics and outlines what she aims to do in her blog post. She then proceeds to give a clear definition of her first case study (Diversity) and raises the qualms that people have with this specific topic. In her third paragraph she uses Rihanna’s Fenty Beauty as an example of a company that is promoting diversity and catering to the make-up needs of the under-represented communities within media and society. Eleanor’s fourth paragraph detailing her role as a creative is concise and she is acknowledging her social responsibility however she doesn’t give example of how she could, or has done this in the past. She then addresses and gives examples of how she can be more sustainable in her own practise. She then references an article from Depop and Farfetch then outlines the general argument of the article which I thought showed genuine interest and further research in the topics at hand. Then in her conclusion she summarises her responsibilities and how she is going to bring these new topics with her in the future. Overall, two of the topics discussed had a very good real world examples and explanations with them and her paragraph about Social Responsibility was the only one lacking them. It comes across that she has learnt about the topics throughout Better Lives.