Perfume at the Enchanted Palace, Kensington

Here are a few photos from a recent trip to the Enchanted Palace. This is an exhibition currently on in Kensington. The exhibition consists of the work of various artists who have each designed and created all kinds of installations from knitting and fashion design to sculpture and contemporary art.

The first room you enter is the 'Room of Royal sorrows' the various glass flagons and bottles are metaphorical for collecting the Princess' tears and the room invites you to begin to think about the last time you were upset.

I saw this installation as a great inspiration for my final collection. The concept behind it being the idea of collecting and encapsulating something beautiful resonates with the concept of my collection and I decided to create a few digital print designs from the photographs that I took at the exhibition.

This exhibition was great fun and I would advise everyone to see it. For more information about the tickets etc visit: http://www.hrp.org.uk/KensingtonPalace/stories/palacehighlights/EnchantedPalace

Final Project

As you can see I haven't created a blog post for a long while now. After a period of felling overwhelmed by the amount of work I have to complete for the final part of my degree, I have collated my thoughts and inspirations.

My research begins with the novel Perfume by Patrick Suskind. I began by looking at some of the scents he encounters, in particular the different oils in the perfume shop where his obsession with creating and capturing perfume began

I want to base my collection on the idea of capturing and encapsulating something beautiful and magical.


Thus far I have began to create some print ideas by layering and mixing flowers to create a perfume inspired print. and here are some examples:

This week I aim to work on some silhouette ideas, based on images of flowers that I come across in the descriptions for perfume formulas, so I shall follow up this post with some images from that. 


Finally here are some other images that I aim to play around with this week: