Leather...

Certain angles, looks, poses and styles really inspire me, and this is when I seem to create my best! I was playing around with the concept "leather" for an AW13 trend and felt inspired to create this image. I love the simplicity of only using one colour and medium to create this piece. I have also created another piece on this theme, but I believe it might be getting used in the British Mode Magazine's up and coming publication so I am not able to post it on my blog at the moment. That piece in my eyes is my best illustration yet, and I cannot wait to share it on my blog.

I have also recently created some illustrations of Paris Fashion Week catwalk looks that can be found on British Mode Magazine's website.

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City by night.

Just seen this shoot and I had to share it on my blog. I love every image and look from this shoot where masculine and feminine is took to both extremes. Editorial "Night Moves" for Interview magazine, styled by Elin Svahn, model-  Hanne Gaby Odiele, photographer- Gregory Harris. 

These images inspire me to take out my lomogrpahy camera or disposable camera and start shooting the city at night.

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A career in Fashion

So today I have been feeling the stress of having finished university. I have been sat at my laptop all day and when not sat at my laptop I have been on my phone looking for job and work placement opportunities. 

I have so much ambition and drive to succeed and I am eager for a placement or job which I can put this energy towards.  

What would my dream job be? Probably to be a creative director or artistic director of a brand, company or magazine. I love conceptual and artistic work, my mother being an artist means I have been surrounded by art my whole life, so creative thinking comes very naturally to me.

Hopefully in the near future you will see blog posts from myself bragging about being offered a work placement or even better, a job. 

Below is a little doodle I did while at my desk today of myself!

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Final Major Project

I honestly do not know where the last three years have gone, uni seems to have whizzed by, yet it seems so long ago that I began my life at Southampton Solent.

I am passionate about fashion illustration and for my Final Major Project I asked "Why isn't fashion illustration used as a main promotion and marketing tool with in the industry?".  It was my aim to prove the point that fashion illustration still provokes emotion and can create a strong impact on its audience. I created briefs which were fulfilled by illustration, these illustrations were then exhibited at Re:So Gallery in Southampton as well as used in a brochure about the project.

All illustrations in the brochure are my own.

Scan the QR Code with a QR Code reader or follow the link below to see my brochure.

http://issuu.com/carolinemjeffery/docs/illustrative_daze

I'V BEEN WAITING LONG ENOUGH

FINALLY got my little mitts on Love magazine. I'v been waiting in suspense for it to be released. I managed to find a store which stocked the Kate Moss cover which was perfect as this is the cover I was after. 

My next few days reading this are going to be amazing, I haven't been this excited about a magazine in a while. 

LOVE

Preview images from Love magazine S/S13. 

This issue hits new stands on 4th of February and I will be the first in the queue to hunt for the Kate Moss cover shoot by Mert & Marcus.

.Long term supermodel Kate Moss shares from cover with up and coming star Cara Delevingne alongside many other personalities in the "The Clean Issue".

I have used these image specifically as I find them rich and inspiring.

Theres something about Cara Delevingne

The girl that is hot on everyones lips at the moment... Cara Delevingne. The world seems to not be able to get enough of this model, and its not hard to see why.

Why do we love Cara Delevingne so much? Her versatile good looks? Her strong and kooky personality? Or maybe her celebrity status, falling in the same cycles as pop stars, Rita Ora, Azealia Banks.

Beyonce for H&M

Beyonce Knowles, super star, labeled hottest woman of 21st century... and its not hard to see why. 

Married with a child and in her 30's, yet with more age she seems to just get hotter and idolised by more.

Here are the pictures from Beyonce's recent editorial and cover picture for GQ magazine that everyone has seen and been talking about.

Vogue has recently posted on the rumour that Beyonce now may be the new face of H&M. Her dancer tweeted from a shoot in the Bahama's last week, "First day of trial in the Bahamas! H&M all set... go.".

Any girl would be out of their mind not to want to look like Beyonce, making her the face of a high street retailer and making her style attainable to the mass public is amazing and exciting news, I know that I would personally buy EVERY ITEM from the collection that she'd be working with. 

.... I hope the rumours are true.