Fashion communication 1

What it means to be Northern Soul I have conducted some further research into northern soul, though a lot of it was covered in lectures I have just added a few bits on from lectures and my initial research, about what it means to be northern soul and what came with it, including the friendships, styles and memories. Below are a few bullet pointed extracts from articles that I think show what northern soul was, and is still. I took inspiration from each of the articles these were from in helps with guiding my design making and reasoning through the brief. I have tried to focus my research on quotes and articles that have some link to out concept as I think this helps support our reasoning for choosing the concept and also gives a more experienced perspective of what the concept means. These are from Paul Mason's article written about his experience in the northern soul scene for Vice. "Poor man's speed; coming of age in Wigan's Anarchic northern Soul Scene."...

Drugs in the scene  The inclusion of drugs is explained more in my own words throughout the project in other posts these are just a few sources I found talking about it. Links for these among with other articles I used for research are on a separate  post. A few of my own notes and quotes from an article titled 'The Clubs of Northern Soul' published by Mixmag explaining the place drugs had in the northern soul scene and why they were a big part.  Blue - Drug related Northern Soul was the birth of the crate-digger, the start of modern clubbing as we know it and a fully-formed drug subculture some 20 years before ecstasy arrived in the UK. “What I noticed was that people who came from the north were not buying what was subsequently called funk,” (David Godin, Soul writer). The sound was uptempo and mainly based on the stomping beat personified by the Four Tops’ ‘Can’t Help Myself’ and other Motown productions. This sound was largely fuelled by inc...

Instagram Account I have uploaded some of my favourite images, edits and promotional pieces onto my instagram account as well as on here as a second type of documentation, as well as all 9 of my mood boards. FMC Instagram account

Useful Websites These are links to websites I have taken research and inspiration from through the  project. https://www.pinterest.co.uk/vicky511shepherd/northern-soul-fashion-comms-1/ https://www.pinterest.co.uk/vicky511shepherd/northern-soul-exhibitionpromotion/ https://mixmag.net/feature/the-clubs-of-northern-soul https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/nnqwdq/northern-soul-revival-wigan-casino-paul-mason http://www.underground-england.co.uk/news/king-mojo-club/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Mojo_Club http://www.dazeddigital.com/fashion/article/25076/1/how-northern-soul-sparked-a-fashion-revolution https://www.thoughtco.com/classic-northern-soul-songs-4165260 http://www.anothermag.com/fashion-beauty/7565/vintage-style-northern-soul https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/fashion-blog/2013/oct/09/northern-soul-style-memory-fashion https://mixmag.net/feature/northern-soul https://www.bensherman.co.uk/the-last-word/one/a-patchy-history-o...

Project Management This was the first group project we have done this year, considering this I think we managed our time and work really well.  At the start of the project once deciding on the concept fully we were really quick at organising our shoots and models. We organised bringing the band up from Nottingham and managed to research and plan a shoot in the Peak District within the first week. The second shoot took a bit longer to organise as we had to figure out hiring the location in city hall, as mention in my development post we had a lot of backwards and forwards emailing with the enquiries office and even had to go in to city hall at one point to chase it up, this didn't take too long as we were able to conduct the second shoot only a week after the first. Doing this created new contacts for us both and helped us gain experience in dealing with clients.  During the project the work load was shared out fairly and we both took on as much...

Things the North is famous for I have added a bit of research into what the north is famous for, as this project was all about showing the greatness of Sheffield through northern soul, I thought it fitting to show some other reasons the north gets recognition. Yorkshire Dales/ Peak district Known as God's own country the north, specifically Yorkshire, is know for its amazing countrysides, a feature that makes anyone proud to be from Yorkshire. A place of escape for those that enjoy walking r those that just enjoy experiencing nature at its fullest. Hadrian's Wall The famous roman remains of a wall that ran from coast of the north of England. Now a national heritage site  Stainless steel  Sheffield-born Harry Brearley made his name as a metallurgist when he discovered stainless steel in 1913 whilst working at Firth Brown’s research laboratory. Brearley was the first to realise that adding chromium to molten iron produced a metal that did not rust, gi...