Shuzhe Zhang

So, the last blog is about peer review, I saw lots of other student idea about better lives unit, and when I read their blog, I find we have some common idea and point. Also, they have some idea that I didn’t think before. And I found a blog which from Kun Wang, About the “reflection 2”.in that blog there has some points I also feel same.

In his blog, there has a sentence which get my attention, “In such a fast-changing era, we seem to have forgotten how to slow down and forget the things that are always around us, but we no longer care.”

This sentence makes me very empathetic, because as he said, people often don’t care where these very fashionable items will go in the future, which is also a point I care about very much.

The current social impact leads people to actively want to create some very new things, but when too many people have a deep desire for new things, some things will deteriorate, which will bring some very bad effects to the society, and the environment is the first victim.

As I wrote in the second blog, fast fashion is very popular in the current fashion field. People often want to create more and more fresh clothes and supplies, so a large number of clothes are produced. However, due to the rapid updating, these clothes will be abandoned in a short time, and then designers will constantly create to satisfy the public The demand for “innovative” clothing, but at the same time, people have ignored that it takes more than designer’s energy and creativity to create all these things, but it also consumes the limited resources brought to us by the earth. Too much material for creation has already exceeded the earth’s load, and after such creation, the final outcome of those outdated clothes has been There is no doubt that burning, and filling will cause great and irreversible damage to the environment. I think creation is important, but maybe a more comprehensive consideration will be given to the results.

As the name implies, sustainable development is for the sake of better society and people’s living environment, so as he said, “man is not about nature. Man is a part of nature.” I think it is an important issue that every designer should consider, and also an issue that the society should pay attention to now. For our current students, I think this class has a great impact on me, because I began to pay more attention to the comprehensive creation, not only the impact on people’s culture and history, but also the impact on the earth environment. After all, the environment we live in is the basis of everything. Creation should be around this, take this as the bottom line of design, use more and more A good way is to create new and sustainable works without destroying the ecology. Such works should appear. This should also be a problem that we all should think about, so as to improve the sustainable development of our works.

I choose “make up and breakdown “as my “better lives “class, and the theme about our final project is about fashion mistake.

To be honest, when I knew this topic, I had a lot of ideas in my mind, because the concept of makeup mistakes is a topic that young women are generally concerned about in today’s society. As a student of fashion styling and production, this is also a key point that we must pay attention to every time we make a project.

First of all, I think the starting point of this project is to think about what is wrong with makeup as everyone knows, China now has different American Standard in different countries and regions. For example, in China, people tend to choose a color that is whiter than their own skin. They make themselves look fairer. But the cosmetic mistakes they make at the same time are the use of the foundation color that does not match themselves. Most people think that it’s very important to have a shave. They always want to make their facial features more three-dimensional and their faces smaller. But sometimes the shave color that doesn’t match the skin color or too dark and too bright highlights will make people look strange and make up unclean. Similarly, people are increasingly not satisfied with simple toned eye shadows. They often want to use bold colors, such as exaggerated light as lipstick, eye shadow and blush, which also make their make-up look ugly. So, I choose to start with these common problems around me to make some make-up transformation.

I designed three different make-up.

The first makeup I use black eyeliner to shape the shape of the face, including the shape of the eyebrows, the lips and the nose, also in the eye socket and side face, using the Eyeliner Pen to draw the lines of its shallow shadow with lines, and then draw the eye liner of the make-up itself to be more eye-catching and longer, but I chose the asymmetrical way to make the whole makeup face look cleaner. Interest.

The second make-up I used a lot of bright colors, very bright yellow and red, and the contrast of blue and green. I used a big brush to sweep away such bright colors on my face, creating a lot of color blocks, and echoing each other. But when I used some thoughts in color matching, I would make such color blocks on my face not appear abrupt and ugly but have a harmonious feeling.

The last makeup, I merged the two ideas, using red and yellow, which is suitable for my own skin color, and put it on the face in large areas. Then I made a contrast with the black eyeliner and the white eyeliner, and outlined the lines of my own face with the first makeup. I think this theme is well connected with better lives and sustainable development, and uses some traditional “mistakes” to launch some very different and innovative development.

“better lives “these two simple words means a lot, when I first time join this class, to be honest it is mind me confused. About sustainability, we used to make an project called” sustainability ability” it is a really challenge project, cause I don’t really understand the relationship between fashion and sustainability, but after that project and this class, I think I found the answer.

I choose “make up and breakdown” as my better lives class theme, and in this class, I learned lots of skill about fashion make up, also I learn how to create sustainability fashion style,

And as a fashion styling and production student, the most important things is create different but also amazing style, sometimes we have to create some look relate to society and culture, and if we don’t really under stand the relationship between fashion and sustainability, the result won’t be great.

Through this period of study, I found that it is very important to learn to innovate and speak about some mistakes in the traditional sense as a point of creation. In my course, we learn to enlarge the traditional mistakes in make-up and make a theme of wrong make-up, but such make-up has an unexpected good effect in the end.

So, there are two meanings of a better life in my understanding.

The first is that artistic innovation and understanding make our life more likely. For example, something that seems to be wrong can be transformed into a good fashion with innovative art, which can often promote a culture or remember a history and can be used as a long-term cultural embodiment.

The second is to let some of its own relatively bad things that damage the environment or life and society change. For example, the current fast fashion development is very fast and convenient, but it will also cause a lot of bad environmental impact, which is more extravagant and wasteful. But if you put more experience here when creating, for example, many designers use some very simple and cheap goods Making clothes or furnishings will make the environment better and will not affect the development and innovation of fashion,

These two aspects, I think, are the fashion industry that can create a sustainable future and make the world have a better way of life.

For me, I have also brought a lot of inspiration and inspiration in my later creation.

For example, I will pay more attention to the meaning behind a design and a shape, such as whether his cultural background and the social relations connected are sustainable, and whether this kind of sustainable development has a good impact on people’s lives. Secondly, I will focus on whether some seemingly wrong ways of thinking and creative methods can be changed to develop from different perspectives, which is very important.

Sustainable development of a better life can be said to be a goal of fashion, which has a great impact on my future projects. It also needs more consideration and consideration so as to create better works.

In this section, I watch lots of lecture online, and my favorite two lectures is the lecture 10, Cultural Sustainability, and the lecture 12, Society, those two lectures inspired me a lot.

So, first, let’s talk about my favorite lecture, Cultural Sustainability, the most inspiring me is the sentence at the first” influences people’s values, actions and expectations of themselves “which shows in the power point, It makes me thinks a lot. In different country, fashion means lots of different meaning, but the common point is they all means the development of history.

Sustainability means lots of things, such as new fashion languages, challenging preconceptions, edgy, pushing the boundaries and so on. And all sustainability fashion is related to culture, different country has different fashion, but all of them gives a new identity of fashion.

So, it makes me thinks a lot, and related to the last project we saw some fashion work about radical sustainability, when I did the research, I found that many designers draw inspiration from the cultural evolution and then create. These creations often cause a great sensation. There are two reasons. One is that these creations often cause some cultural disputes, and different people have different understandings about them. The other is that these creations are often very bright and different, It will attract people’s attention. This lecture not only lists many successful applications of fashion designers and brands, but also gives us a deeper understanding of the act of respecting culture.

This lecture not only lists many successful applications of fashion designers and brands, but also gives us a deeper understanding of the act of respecting culture.

In my opinion, the bottom line in any creation is to respect the significance of each culture to the people at that time or one party. Maybe it would be better to find more materials to make ourselves fully understand before we create, because each historical culture is unique, and only when we have a serious experience can we have a better work.

Then, about the second lecture, about society. As we all know, no matter what field the society is in, it is a problem worthy of attention and discussion, and also has a great influence. This lecture is about social problems and life, which makes me have a deeper understanding of the concept of sustainability.

The lecture introduced localism and public thinking as well as the post industrial world, which made me feel a lot. In today’s fashion industry, people are paying more and more attention to environmental protection. Because many creations will affect the environment and the social chain to some extent, I think designers should not only focus on the innovation of key works, but also on the impact and development of society, as described in the lecture when they are creating Products will have a greater impact, and under the same premise, works will be more innovative and practical.

I think fashion can make this society better and guide people’s better life direction to a great extent. The key point of fashion is innovation and correct guidance. Only by combining the two can we have good works.