Fashion and Faith: Mood Boards

Christianity and Homosexuality

The theme for this moodboard is the relationship between Christianity and Homosexuality. I wanted to convey the hateful views on homosexuality holded by some Christians. Homosexuals have been persecuted for many years because of Christian beliefs that Homosexuality is wrong. The colour scheme I have used is quite pale and blue, I did this to create a cold feel. All the sources are secondary that I have gathered from the internet. I have used two pieces from the art duo; Gilbert and George. I chose to use their work as I know they are a gay couple who often publically speak about the corruptness of christianity. I used photoshop to create the mood board. I am happy with how my mood board demonstrates a certain darkness to the relationship between christianity and homosexuality, however I wish I could have the cut the signs out more precisely.
 

 

Ancient Egyptian

 

The theme of my mood board is Ancient Egyptian. I wanted to gather the some of the most recognisable of things from this era to inspire me. The background is heiroglyphics; which is what the egyptians wrote in. Their is a picture of Cleopatra; the last pharaoh of Ancient Egypt, a picture of Tutankhamun, four images of Canopic jars; which were used to hold the mummies organs, an image of a mummified baby, Anubis; god of the underworld, the sphinx, and the eye of horus on a pyramid. I also included a look from the Christian Dior Haute Couture 2004 show as it was heavily influenced by Ancient Egypt. My colour scheme is mostly nudes and golds with a hint of blue, because this is a recognisable Egyptial colour scheme. I used photoshop and the interent to gather and alter these secondary sourcwa. I like this mood board because I feel like it has a lot on it without looking too cluttered.

Fashion and Faith: Gilbert and George

                   Gilbert and George

Gilbert Prousche and George Passmore are two artists, known together as "Gilbert and George". Gilbert was born in Italy and studied art before moving to England. George was born and raised in Plymouth in the UK by his poor single mother. They both met at Saint Martin's school of Art where it was "love at first sight."

Gilbert and George are known for being rather anti-religious; “When we walk to dinner, we pass churches that also have opinions, like the one that says, The bloody death of Jesus was for you. That's quite aggressive, no? Or the worst one, the really horrible one, is ‘I am the way.’ That's horrific, isn' it? Just one person is the only way in life? It's like Hitler.” said George

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some of their work often looks like a stained glass window, such as this piece which was infact made of glass. Not only is it considered blasphemous to put ones self on a stained glass window, but they have also referenced hinduism with the font of the blue writing and the pair of hands at the bottom.

“It’s all religion in the end – that’s the big problem. Inventing evil and sin, and limbo, and hell and purgatory… just to terrorise us forever. Mortal sin? Living with sin? Extraordinary stuff. We don’t believe you have to be religious to behave yourself. We have to sort out a system for ourselves, because religion is something untouchable – a god that invented god to terrorise you.” protests Gilbert

Fashion and Faith: Riccardo Tisci

Riccardo Tisci was born in Taranto, Italy and graduated from Central Saint Martins before becoming creative director of Givenchy. Riccardo is a very religious man and said about his A/W 2011 menswear collection:  ”Religion is a big part of my DNA and this collection was about my Catholic(ism) and every other religion in a way.”

Riccardo Tisci designed this Givenchy menswear Spring/Summer 2013 collection around "the confessions of a young Catholic boy." There were round black and white collars like that of a priest and bomber jackets with images of Madonna and Child. 

Riccardo Tisci is known for being inspired by religion for alot of his work and this is displayed thouroughly in his religious themed issue of visionaire.



“Today, so much fashion, and art and music, involves pleasing the client. So I said right from the beginning that, even though I am at Givenchy, I didn’t want any [fashion] credits in the magazine. The contributors could use vintage clothing, they could use a single piece of fabric, they could do what they wanted. And there are a lot of nudes. In religious painting and sculpture there are a lot of nudes, too – Christ is portrayed nude, angels are portrayed nude. We were all born naked.”

Fashion and Faith: Christian Dior Spring/Summer 2004

This collection for Christian Dior is one of John Galliano's most memorable, and he gathered his inspiration and research whilst travelling on a hot air balloon over Egypt. It is not hard to see what inspired Galliano for the collection with the indulgent amount of gold metallic and beautifully crafted sphinx masks. John Galliano really went to town with the Ancient Egyptian theme and referenced nearly every aspect of their culture and beliefs. There were long chin straps to reference Osiris: god of the afterlife and masks of Anubis: god of the underworld. In this collection, every flash of gold, pyramid shaped sleeve, elongated brow or sparkling scarab beetle belt is an homage to the Dior girl, who wants to channel the beauty and power of an Eyptian goddess.