Vivienne Westwood

Genius. i only know a little bit about Vivienne Westwood and read a few things. her stuff does seem a little out of this world but then again it what makes her stand out from everyone else. I bet if it wasn't for Vivienne Westwood there wouldn't be a Betsy Johnson. I like this piece because there are many decades in this outfit. I spot the 50s, 60s, 70s,  and 80s. Also i love for the Lion king with the make up. Most of this could be worn out and about by non Hollywood people with the colors and easy clothes to find to best copy it for people who can't afford it. i will defiantly keep an eye on  Vivienne Westwood from now. Its always good to know more designers and have more inspiration.

Andy Goldsworthy

Yes I used this photo on my dress but i loved it so much. i love that its daisies in a shape of sun sort of. this just reminds me of summer and spring two of my favorite seasons that have baseball and no school. i love that it looks like a sun because if one thinks about it, it does look like the sun since it has rays that go all over and some long than others. its also peaceful and makes me smile. I smile because i think of my childhood playing in fields of sunflowers and make crowns out of them.

Yoko Ono

hmmm yoko ono. i've never really seen her performances but i love what she stands for. PEACE. she is carrying on John Lennon's hope for the world. Its wonderful. yes many people may find her to be the reason why the Beatles broke up but i believe she has worked hard to prove people wrong. What i have heard of yoko onos songs i really can't say im a fan. Its like Heavy metal for me, can't understand a word. :/. the one thing that i love that yoko did is the peace light that can be seen from space.

Ana Mendieta

This is remarkable, its being one with nature. I
admire her for being smothered in dirt and mud, its something i would never do this, i like being clean. what i get from this is that one day all of the earth's resources are one day going to be gone and this is a protest saying "you kill a tree, you kill yourself in the long run". When I look at this it makes me think of the show Face-Off on Sci-fi, about the competition of special effects make up artists. one of the challenges was to make a model blend in with a picture and one of the pictures was earthy like this one.

Vanessa Beecroft

 

I love this photo! Not just because I love barbie( don't judge me lol). Also the reason i love this photo is i bet Beecroft was thinking about the cookie cutter girls. They all look the same down to make up and hair styles. I also feel that Beecroft has thing for stewardesses because this looks more like flight attendants than an army. totally reminds of cookie cutters, just look at high schools now days. one girl will sent the look and trends and every one else will. 

I always hated those girls because they thought they were so cool and awesome and the world was there but now they realizing what the real world is and hate it and being treated like crap. sorry for the rant but that's how i feel and think when i look at this picture. Also makes me wanna watch toy story.

Alexander McQueen

Alexander McQueen, a Fashion designer who climbed to the top fast and conquered. Before this class I knew who he was. I love his work, its amazing. His designs are edge and yet classic at all times along with showing off a woman's curves. I hate designers who make dresses that only look good on there 87 lbs models and look terrible on everyone else. McQueen never did that, he always made sure that his designs can look great on everyone. This is my favorite dress of his. I have a top ten list of his dresses, this number two. :)

This dress is just plain beautiful. the bodice is very vintage say about late 1940s but then its updated with the low key hole. Its a very modest dress, Sandra is all covered and showing just a bit a skin, along with simple hair. McQueen is known for making his dresses look effortless on his clients. This dress does look effortless on sandrea but then again she makes everything like that. I was very sadden when I learned about McQueen's death just like the rest of the fashion world and his clients.

Maya Lin

Maya Lin. Using her mind the earths surfaces to create wonderful art.

Ms. Lin is best know for her Vietnam memorial in DC but of course she has done tons more. She has moved to large-scale site-specific installations, intimate studio artworks, architectural works and memorials. Ever since she did the Vietnam memorial she's been tons more work, she wasn't/isn't a one hit wonder artist.  She has been interviewed many times and i grabbed a few for this post. They're very intriguing because she talks like a total artist, she's slightly out there but not and she worked hard for it.

(She reminds of Lane Kim from Gilmore Girls, she worked hard for her band to make it big, Ms. Lin did the same but of course a different kind of art. )

On her website, she says or it says, she only uses earth to make her art. For the Vietnam memorial, she cut open the earth and polished it to make history embedded in the earth. 

I actually saw this myself a few years ago but I couldn't find the pictures, granted i went with a huge group (not an 8th grade trip) so it was super busy. The wall its self is just amazing, it beautiful and I'm so surprised that there isn't sun or water damage to the carvings of the name. Although I do believe that there are people to care for it. You have a chance to see this GO DO IT. It will leave breathless not just by the creation and though of this wall but by all the names too.

Ms. Lin has a fascination with water and here are a few of her landscapes that reflect water.

Storm King Wavefield

Where the Land Meets the Sea

This is her exhibit: Three Ways of Looking at the Earth.

formed entirely from fragments (more than 50,000 pieces) of two-by-four pieces of Sustainable Forestry Initiative certified wood.

  Of course like I said before, she is best known for her memorials so here is one she did for the Civil Rights movement.

And here is the top view of the "table"

Its a time line of all the historical movements through the whole history of America. 

This is her last memorial What is Missing?

  

So that's Maya Lin. her website shows all of her collections if you want to see more, go check it out.

http://www.mayalin.com/